Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-03
in Europe standing rs it now is.

nations OF the earth are tired OF ha, e
their kings born to them. and they
wonld after q while elect their kings,
and there would be m Italian republic
and German republic and Russian
republic and IN Austrian republic, and
out of the cracks and crevices and
chasms of that conclusion would come
resurrection for all Europe. Stagnation
is beautiful; conclusion is Messianic.
Notice also what the angel did with
the stone after he had rolled it away
from the mouth of the Saviour's maus-
oleum. The book says he rolled away
the stone from the door and sat upon it.
All of us ministers have preached a SER
mon about the angels rolling away the
stone, but we did not remark upon the
sublime fact that he sat upon it. Why?
Certainly not because he was tired. The
angels are fatigueless race, and TINT
around that tomb and carried 1t away
and not been besweated.. He set upon
it, think, to show you and,to show me
that we may make every earthly obstacle
throne of triumph. The young men
who get their education easy seldom
amount to much. Those who had to
struggle for it come out atop. There is
no end of the story of studying by pine
knot lights and reading while the mules
of the towpath were resting, and of go
ing hungry and patched and barefoot
and submitting to nil kinds of privation
to get scholastic advantages. But the
day of graduation came and they took
the diplomas with hand nervous from
and put their academic degree in the
pocket Of threadbare coat. Then start
ing for another career of hardship, they
entered profession or q business where
they found plenty of disbursement
and no help. Yet saying: Il 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 discouraging start and their COM
plete success was q rock OF fifty tons,
but by resolution, nerved and muscular
lied aud re- enforced by Almighty God.
they threw their arms around the OBJ
natural wrestler rolled back the stone.
and, having become more than con-
auerors, they sat upon it. Men and wo-
men are good and great and useful just
in proportion as they had to overcome
obstacles. You can count upon the
fingers of your one hand all the great
singers, great orators, great poets, great
patriots and great Christians who never
had a struggle. That angel that made q
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 inter-
esting chapter in all his angelic life
time. o, men and women with obstacles
in the why. l tell you that those OBJ
\ OF 81 hot
after while sit on. Is the obstacle in
your way sickness? Conquer it by ac-
complishing more for God during your
invalidism than many accomplish who
have never known an ailment. Are you
persecuted? By your unrightness and
courage compel the world to acknowl-
edge your moral heroism. Is it poverty?
Conquer it by being happy in the com
partnership of your Lord and Master, who
in all his live owned but sixty-two cents,
and that he got from fish's mouth and
Immediately paid it all out in taxes to the
Roman assessors; and who would have
been buried in a potter's field had not
Joseph of Armathea contributed q place,
head during his life had borrowed
pillow for the last slumber. There is
no throne that you are sure to keep ex-
cept that which you make out of van
quished obstacles. An ungrateful re-
public at the ballot box denied Horace
Greeley the highest place at the national
capital, but could not keep him from
rising from the steps of a New York
printing Office, on which he sat one
chilly morning waiting for the boss
printer to come that he might get job,
until he mounted the highest throne of
American journalism. He rolled back
the stone and sat upon it. A poor or
phan boy, picking up chips at Richmond,
and invited to come on board his vessel,
drops the chips and starts right away and
is tossed from port to port, and home
less and friendless. wanders one day
along fremont street, Boston, and sees
Park Street Church open. and speaking
of it afterward on great occasion and
using sailors vernacular, as was usual
with him, he says: II put in, up helm,
unfurled sail, and made for the gallery
and scud under bare poles to the corner
pew. Then l hove to and came to an
Choir.
The old man, DIR. Griffin, was just
naming his text. Pretty soon he I'M
furled the mainsail, raised the topsail,
ran up the pennants to free breeze, and
l tell you the old Gospel ship never
ooAASN AootS p1oSPSAouSAy' AO ooAs
spray few in every direction, but more
especially did it RIM down my cheeks,
Satan had to strike sail, his guns were
dismounted or spiked, his various crafts
by which he led sinners captive were all
beached, and the captain Of the Lords
hosts rode forth, conquering and to con-
quer." Before that sailor boy was pow
erty, but he conquered it; and orphan
age, but he conquered it; and ignorance,
but he conquered it; and the scott of the
world, but he conquered it; and he rose
till every sailors bethel in the world
blessed him and great anniversary plat
forms invited him, and Daniel Webster
and Charles Dickens and Frederika
Bremen and poets and orators and SEN
ators sat electrified at his feet, and his
gospelized influence will go on until
the last jack tar is converted and the
sea shall give up its dead. All the OBJ
stacles of his life seemed gathered into
one great bowlder, but Edward r. Tay-
Tor, the world renowned sailors
preacher, rolled back the stone and sat
upon it.
Yet do not make tine mistake that many
do of sitting on it before, it is rolled
away. 1t is bound to go if you only tug
away at it. If not before, then l think