Milford chronicle., 1889-04-05
lvst Or M9uat caIvary 70 proclaim unIver-


and love and peace Morning of a day in
which there shall be no chains to break, no
sorrows TO assuage, no despotism to shatter,
no woes 1ocompassionate. Christ, descend
Scared temple, take the crownl Bruised
hand, take the scepterl Wounded foot, step
the thronel "Thine is the kingdom
TEE GRAND CENTRAL DEPOT OF THE AlILLEN-
MUM
These things 1 say because want you to
be alert | want you to be watching all
these wonders unrolling from the heavens
and the earth God has classified them,
whether calamitous or pleasing The divine
purposes are harnessed in traces that cannot
break, and in girths that cannot slip, and in
buckles that cannot loosen, and are driven
by reins they must answer 1 preach no
fatalism. A swarthy engineer at one Of tho
depots in Dakota said "When VIII YOU get
on the locomotive and take a ride with usg'
"Well, l said ''now if TINT suits YOU So
I got on one side the locomotive, and Aletho-
dist minister, who was also invited, got on
the other side, and between US were the en-
gineer and the stoker The train started
The engineer had his hand on the agitated
pulse Of the great engine The stoker
shoveled in the coal and shut the door with
loud clang A vast plain slipped under
us and the hills swept by, and that great mon
ster on which werodo trembled and bounded
and snorted and ragged as it hurled us on.
said to the Methodist minister on the other
side the locomotives My brother, why
should Presbyterians and Methodists quarrel
about the DEGREES and free agency You see
thatuack, that firm track, that iron track;
that is the decree. You see this engineers
arml That is free agency. How beautifully
Al 20 "a y
us through We could not do without the
track, and we could not do without the en-
gineern So / rejoice day by day. Work
for us al TO do, and we may turn the crank
Of the Christian machinery this way or that,
for we are free agents; but there is the track
laid so long ago no one remembers it, laid by
the hand Of Almighty God in sockets that no
terrestrial or satanic pressure can ever af-
feet And along that track the car Of the
worlds redemption will roll and roll to the
Grand Central depot OF the millennium.
have no anxiety about the track. 1 am only
afraid thatfor our indolenco God viii dis
charge us and get some other stoker and
some other engineer. The train is going
through with US or without u.s. So, my breth
ren, watch all the events that are going BY
/ II things seem to turn out right, give wings
to Your joy If things seem to turn out
wrong, throw out the anchor of faith and
hold fast
There is a house in London where Peter the
I Great Of Russia lived awhile when he was
moving through the land incognito and In
1 workman's dress, that he might learn the
/ wants of the people. A stranger was visiting
/ at that house recently, and saw In dark at
/ tic an old box, and he said to the owner OF
1 the house, whats in that boxp The owner
said, 81 don't know; that box was there when
I / got the house and it was there when my
/ father got it. We haven't had any curiosity
to look at it; / guess thnSe's nothing In it,
"Weu, - said the stranger, am give you two
pounds for it," "Well, done.n The two
! pounds are paid, and recently the contents OF
that box were sold 10 the czar Of Russia fol
fifty thousand dollars. In it the lathing ma
chine of Peter the Great, his private letter.
and documents Of value beyond all monetary
consideration. And here are the events that
seem very Insignificant and uuimportant
but they incase treasures Of divine provi
dence and eternities Of meaning which aftei
a while God win demonstrate before the age
as being of stupeaa9us Yaiao AS near as
can tell from whatI see there must be Coo
somewhere about.
When Titans play quoits they pitch noun
tains: but who owns these gigantic force
you have been reading about the last two
monthsl Whose hand is on the throttle valve
of the volcanoes2 Whose foot suddenly
planted on the footstool makes the continent
auiverl God Godl He looketh upon th'
mountains and they tremble He touchetl
the hills and they smoke. Godl Godl
must be at peace with him. Through tn
Lord Jesus Christ this God is mine and he
yours put the earthquake that shook Pal
estine at the crucifxion against all the dow
rockings of the centuries. This God on oui
side, we may challenge all the centuries o
time and all the cycles Of eternity.
THINGS THAT MAY COME TO PASS.
Those of US who are in mid-life may wei
thank Cod that we have seen SO many won
drous things; but there are people here toda.
who viii see the Twentieth century. Thing
obscure to US win be plain to you yet. Tn
Twentieth century viii be as far ahead Of tn
Nineteenth as the Nineteenth is ahead Of tn
Eighteenth, and as you caIicature the habit
, and customs and ignorance of the past, other
will caricature this age. Some of you ma.
live to see the shimmeriug veil between In
, material and the spiritual world lifted. Mag
petism. word with which we cover up on
Ignorance, will yet be an explored realm
+ Electricity, the fiery coGrser Of the sky, tina
BENJAMIN Franklin lassoed and Morse an'
Bell and Edison have tried to control, vii
become completely manageable, and 10
comotion viii DO swiftened, and worl
I of practical knowledge thrown in upon th
race. Whether we depart in this century, o
whether we see the open gates of NOR
! wonderful century, we viii see these things
It does not make much difference where W
: stand, but the higher the standpoint tn
larger the prospect. We viii see them iron
heaven if we DO not see them from earth.
YVES at Fire Island, Long Island, and l wen
- up in the cupola from which they telegrap
to.New York the approach of vessels noun
before they come into port There is an open
j., ing in the wall, and the operator puts his tel
! escope through that opening and looks on
and sees vessels far out at sea. While l wa
, talking with him he went up and looked out
. He said: 1--WE arc expecting the Arizona to
! nightm | said: SIS it possible you know al
those vesselsg Do you know them as you know
. a mans faceq He said: eyes, never nlakel
: mistake: before l can see the hulks, oftel
/. know them by the masts; know them all,
n have watched them so long Oh what
: grand thing it is to have ships tele8raphe
! and heralded long before they come to porl
/, that friends may come down to the whaf
: and welcome their long absent loved one
{ So today we take our stand in the wate
! tower and we look off and through the gla'
:. of inspiration or Providence we look oil an
= sec a whole feet of ships coming in Iha
: is the ship of Peace flag with one star
Bethlehem feating above the top gallant
4 That is the ship Of the church, mark OF sa
. wave high up on the smoke stack, shown
= She has had rough weather, but the Captai
- of salvation commands her and all is well wit
Z her. The ship of Heaven, mightiest era
= ever launched, millions Of passengers vaitin
Il for millions more, prophets and apostles On
= martyrs in the cabin, conquerors at the toi
: Of the mast, while from the rigging ham
(. are waving this way as they knew US, and y
!, wave back again, for they are ours; the
went out from our own households. Our
!. HALL HALT Put Of the black and put on Z
{, white. Stop toliing the funeral bell and I'll
I the wedding anthem. Shut up the hear
1 and take the chariot Now, the ship com
4 around the great kaadlaud Soon she W