The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-04-04

,ollars and impentent in his sins and SAYS:
YOU'RE pauper,n 1t comes to a woman of
iairest check who has never repented, and
says; "You're sinner" IL comes to q man
prlding himself on his Independence and says:
"Youre bound hand and foot by the devil
1t comes to our entire race and says; "You're
ruin, CHASTITY ruin, an illimitable ruin
Satan sometimes says to me: "Why
do you preach that TRUTH Why
don't you preach GOSPEL with
no repentance IN it' why don't you natter
mons hearts so that you mako them feel all
right Why don't you preach humani,
tartan gospel with no repentance in it, say,
ing nothing about the ruin, talking all tina
time about redemptionp | say: Meet thee
iehind me, Satan.n would rather
lead five souls the right way than
twenty thousand the wrong way.
The redemption Of tho gospel Is per-
feet farce IL there is no ruin. 1.-THE whole
need not a physician, but they that are sick,
IF any one, though he be an angel from
heaven, preach by any other gospel than
this" says tho apostle yet him be accursed.n
There must be the midnight ride over the
ruins before Jerusalem can be built. There
must be the clicking of the hoofs before there
can be the ringing of the trowels.
Again. My subject gives me specimen
OF busy and triumphant sadness II there
was any man in the world who had right
10 nope and give up everything as lost, it
was Nehemiah You say: He was cup.
bearer in the palace Of Shushan. and it vas
gram place" So it was. The hall of that
palace was two hundred feet square.
and the roof hovered over thirty-six
n marble s6sp pillars each Je pillar *. fee, high
the deep green of the forest foliage, and
the white of the driven snow, all hung
trembling in the upholstery But, my
friends, you know very well that fine archi-
tecturs will not put down inconsistencies.
Yet Nehemiah did not give up. Then when
lated streets, and by these dismantlsd
towers, and by the torn up grave of his
father, you would suppose that he would
have been dsheartensd, and that he would
have dismounted from his horse and gone to
his room and said: Woe is mel My fathers
grave is torn up. The Temple dishonored.
The walls are broken down. Ihave no money
with which to rebuild wish l had neve
besn born. l wish were dead" Not so says
Nehemiah. Although he had a grief so
intense that ii eNcited the commentary of his
King, yet that penniiess, expatriated
Nehemiah rouses himself up to rebuild the
city. He gets HE permission of absence. He
gets his passports. He hastens away to
Jerusalem. By night on horseback he rides
through the ruins. He overcomes the most
rsrocioIs opposition lie arousos the piety
and patriotism of tho people, AMI in less than
two months namely, in tifty-two days,
Jerusalem was rebuilt That's what | call
busy ami triumphant sadness.
My friends, the who.e temptation is with
you, when you have trouble. to do Just the
opposite to the behavior OF Nehemiah, and
that is to give up. You say: 81 have lost
my child and can never smile again. You
say: 81 have lost my property, aud | never
can repair my fortunes You say: 81 have
fallen into sin, and l never can start
again for new life" If Satan can
make you form that resolution and
make you keep it, he has ruined you.
Trouble is not sent TO crush you, but to
arouse you to animate you, to propal you.
The blacksmith does not thrust the iron into
the forge and then blow away with the bel
lows, and then bring the hot iron out on the
anvil and beat with stroke after stroke to
ruin the iron, but to prepare it for
better use. Oh, that the Lord God
of Nehemiah would rouse up all
broken hearted people to rebuild Whipped,
betrayed, shipwrecked, imprisoned Paul
went right on. The Italian martyr
Agerius sits in his dungeon writing q letter,
and he dates it From the delectabe orchard
OF the Leonne prison. That is what | cali
triumphant sadness. knew mother who
buried her baby on Friday aud on Sabbath
appeared in the house of God and said:
Give me class; give me a Sabbath school
class. | have no child now left me,
and would like to have a class of little
children. Give me real poor children
That, | say, is beautiful That is tri-
umphant sadness. At 3 o'clock this after
noon, in a beautiful parlor in Philadelphia
parlor pictured and statuetted-there will
be from ten to twenty destitute children of
tho street. 1t has been so every Sabbath
afternoon at 3 o'clock for many years Those
destitute children receive religious nstruc-
ton, concluding with cakes and sandwiches.
How do | know that that has been going OF
for manv vears' knew it in this wav
1naU was the trst home i'll Philadelphia
where was called to comfort a great sor.
row. They had a splendid boy and
he had been drowned at Long Branch.
The father and mother almost idolizsd
the boy, and the sob and shrek of that
father and mother as they hung over the
coffin resound in my ears to-day. There
seemed to be no use of praying, for when
knet down to pray, the cutlery in the room
drowned out all the pray. But the Lord
comfortet thai sorrow. They did not for.
get their trouble. II you should go on the
snowiest winter afternoon into Laurel Hill
you would find monument with the word
"Weiter' inscribed upon it, and a wreath Of
fresh flowers around the name think there
has not been en hour all these years, white,
or summer, when thero was not a wreath OF
fresh flowers around Walters name
But the Christian mother who sends thos.
flowers there, having no child left, Sabbath
afternoons others ten Or twenty of the lost
ones Of the street. That is beautiful. Tha,
is what l call busy and trium ohant sadness
Here is a man who has lost his property. Ht
does not 20 to hard drinking. He does no,
"Harnsss me for Christian work. MY
moneys gone. have no treasures
on earth. | want treasures in heaven
have voice and heart TO serve Col You
say that that man nas failed. He has no
failed-he has triumphed. Oh, I wish
could persuade all the people who have On,
kind Of trouble never to give up. wish 5he,
would look at the midnight rider Of the text
and that the four hoofs of tina
beast on which Nehemiah rod
might cut to pieces all you
discouragements and harishins anC
trials. Give up! Who Is going to give up
when on the bosom Of God lie can have al
his troubles hushede Give up! Never thin
OF giving up. Are you borne down will
| poverty little child was found hold
ing her dead mothers hard j,
ths darkness OF tenement house
4 and soma one coming in, the lit
tie girl looked up, while holding hsr dea'
mothers hand, and said: ooh, l do wish tina
! God had made moro light for poor folks
! My dear, God viii be your light, God will b
| your shelter Col will he your home. Ar
| you borne down with the bereavements o
life! Is the house lonely now tina
the child is gone. Do not give up. Think o
what the old sexton said when the ministe
asked him why he put SO much care on til
little graves in the cemetery-so much NOR
care than on the larger graves and the oil
sexton said: "Sir, you know that of such j
the kingdom of heaven and | thin, tn
| Saviour is pleased when He sees s
much white clover growing aroun
these little graves" But when The ministe
pressed the, old sexton for a more satisfac
tory answer, the old sexton said: 'Sir abou
these larger graves, | don't know who are tn
Lords saints and who are not; but you know
sir, it is clean different with the BARNS
| Oh, il you have had keen, tender, indo
scribabls sorrow that comes from the los
Of a child, do not give up. The old sex
ton was right. 1t is all well with the BARNS
/ Or, if you have snned. il you have SHINE,
griavously-sinned until you have been cas-
out by the church. sinned until you hav
been cast out by society. do not give up
Perhaps there may be in this house one 5ha
could truthfully utter the lamentation 0
another:
once was pure "a the snow ont rerI-
rel ike snowflake, from helyen to hell
rel, 10 De uamped as filth in the street.
Fell TO be scofed at, spit on and beat
Prayins, cursiDg, wishing to die,
Selling my -oul 10 whoever would buy
Dealing in shame for morsel OF bread
Hating the living and fearing the de ad
Do not give M One like INTO tho Sor =