The Penn's Grove record., 1889-05-11

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republic, and an Australian republic
and out of the cracks and chasms O
that conclusion would come resurrec
ton for all Europe. Stagnation i
dreadful; conclusion is Messlanic.
Notice also
! WHAT THE ANGEL DID WITH TIL
STONE
after he had rolled it away from tn
mouth of the Saviour's mausoleum
The Book says he rolled away the ston'
from the door, and sat upon it. AL
of us ministers have preached a sermon
about the angels rolling away th,
stone, but we did not remark upon thu
sublime fact that he sat upon 1t. Why
Certainly not because he was tired
The angels are a fatigueless race, ant
that one could have shouldered ever,
rock around that tomb, and carried II
away, aud not been besweated
He sat upon 1t, / think, to show you
and to show me that we may make every
earthly obstacle a throne of triumph,
The young men who get their education
easy seldom amount to much. Those
who had to struggle for 1t CONF
out atop. There is no end of the story
of studying by pine-knot lights, and
reading while the mules of the tow.
path were resting, and Of going hungry
and patched and barefoot, and submit.
ting to all kinds of privation to gel
scholastic advantages. But the day Of
graduation came. and they took the
diplomas with a hand nervous from
night study, and pale from lack Of food,
and put their academic degrees in the
pocket of a threadbare coat. Then
starting for another career OF hardship,
they entered a profession or a business
where they found
PLENTY OF DIsHEARTMENT
and no help. Yet saying, ~ will sue
coed; God help me, for no one else
will. , they went on and up until the
world was compelled to acknowledge
and admire them. The fact was that
the obstacle between their discourage
ing start and their complete success
was a rock of fifty tons, but by resolu.
ton, nerved and muscularIZed and
reinforced by Almighty God, they
threw their arms around the obstacle
and with the strength of a supernat-
ural wrestler rolled back the stone.
and, having become more than con.
querors. they sat upon it. Men and
women are good and great and useful
Just In proportion as they had to over
come obstacles. You can count upon
the fingers of your mi hand all the
great singers. great orators, great poets,
great patriots, and great Christians
who never had a struggle. That angle
that made a throne OF the bowlder at
Christ's tomb went back to heaven ,
and | warrant that, having been born
in heaven and always had an easy time,
he now speaks of that wrestle with the
rock as the most interesting chapter in
all his angelic lifetime. Oh men and
women with obstacles in the way, I tell
you that those.
OBSTACLES ARE ONLY THRONES
that you may after a while sit on. Is
the obstacle in your way sicknessp
Conquer it by accomplishing more for
God during your invalidism than many
accomplish who have known an
ailment. Are you p~ersecuted2 BY
your uprightness ard courage compel
the world to acknowledge your moral
heroism. Ia it poverty Conquer 1T
by being happy In the companiOnshlp
of your Lord and Master, who in all
His life owned but slxty-two cents,
and that He got from a lish's mouth
and Immediately paid 1t all out In taxes
to the Roman assessor, and who would
have been buried In a potter's field had
not Joseph Of Arimathea contributed a
place; for He who had not whe.e to lay
His head during HIS life had a hor-
RIVED pillow for thu last slumber.
There is III throne that you are sure to
keep ex ept that which you make out
of vanquished obstacles.
An ungrateful republic at the ballot.
box defeated Horace Greeley the high
est place at the national capital, but
could not keep him from rising from
the steps of a New York printing-ofice
on which he sat one chilly morning
waiting for the boss Printers TO come
that he .a.git get a job, until he
mounted the highest throne of Ameri-
can journalism. He rolled back the
stone and sat upon it.
A POOR ORPHAN BOY,
picking up chips at Richmond, Va,
accosted by q passing sea captain, and
invited to come on board his vessel
drops the chips and starts right away,
and is tossed from port to port. and
homeless and frIendless, wahders one
day along fremont street, Boston, and
sees Park Street Church open, and
speaking OF it afterward on u great
occasion and using sailors' vernacular,
As was usual with him, he says: II put
in, | up helm, unfurled sail, aud made
for the gallery, and scud under bare
poles to the corner pew. Then | hove
to and came TO anchor. The old man,
DR.. Griffin, was just naming his text.
Pretty soon, he unfurled the mainsau,
raised the topsail, ran up the pennants
to free breeze, and | tell you the old
gospel ship v sailed mc-e prosper
ously. The salt spray Aew in every
dire stlGn, but more especially, did II
run down my cheeks. satan had to
strike sail, his guns were di,mounted
or spiked, his various crafts by which
he led sinners captive, were Gil
beached, and the captain Of the Lords
hosts rode fes.h, c~onquering and tC
conguer."' Before that sailor boy was
poverty, but
lie CONQUERED.
it; and o~rphanage, but he cJnquere9 It;
and ignorance, but he Conquered it
and the scott a. the world, but he con
qaeFed il; and he rose till every sailors
Bethel In the world blessed him, ant
great anniversary platforms .ayItet
him, and Daniel Webster and Charlie!
Dickens, and Frederika Bremen, ani
poets and orators and senators sat cleo
trined at his feet, and his gospelizinl
influence will 60 on untIl the last Jacl
tar ic converted and the sea shall Civ,
up Its dead. AL the obstaolea of hi
life seemed gathered into one grea,
bowlder, but Edward T. Taylor, thu
world-renowned sailors preacher
rolled back the stone and sat upon IL,
Yet do not make the mistake tina
many do OF sitting on it before it i
rolled away. 1t is bound to &C II yol
only tug away at It. IL not before
then about IL O'Clock noon OF
RESURRECTION DAY
Won will see somathinu wnrtb oaaino,