Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-09-19
SUNDAYS SERMON.
ONE OF REV. DIR. rALMAGE's
STERLING DISCOURsEs.
s~bject. "The Sunrise"
:, nThe dav Is at hand. n-Romans

S,eta, bronzed and ycalr spirits lighted hail
VOC home again with the words of Gehazi to
5hr Shunanmite: SIS it well with thee, is
= well with thy hesband? is it well with the
.aildp On some faces see the mark of re
cant grief, but al along the track of tears
sae the story of resurrection and reunion
when all tears arc done; the deep blowing of
the keel, followed by the flash Of the phos-
phoresence-
Now that Asve asked you in regard 60
your welfare, you naturally ask how 1 am.
Very we'll thank you. Whether it was the
hracing air of the Colorado mountains H.
OO0 feet above the level of the sea, or the
tonic atmosphere OF the Pacific coast, or a
hath in the surf Of Long Island beach, or
whether it is the Joy of standing in this great
group of warm hearted friends, OF whether
Il is new appreciation of the goodness of
God, ! cannot tell | simply know | am
grandly and gloriously and inerpres-
sibly happy. 1t was said THAT John
Mofatt. the great Methodist preacher,
occasionally got fast N his sermOn, and to
extricate himself would cry "Hallelujahp' |
am in no ssIch predicament to-day. but / am
full of the same rhapsodic ejaculation. Start
ing out this morning on a new ecclesiastical
wear want to give you the key note'of my
next twelve months ministry. want toset
il 20 the tune of Antioch, Ariel and Corona
ton Some time ago we had a new stop put
in this organ-a new trumpet stpp-and
want 10 put new trurnPet stopinto my SER
mons.
in all our Christian work YOU. and Iwant
more Of the element of glRdness That man
bns no right TO say that Christ never laughed.
Do YOU suppose that BE was glumat the we'd
ding in Cana of Galilee? Do you suppose
Christ was unreSponslve when the children
oambered over His knee and shoulder at His
own iHvitationi Do you suppose that the
evangelist meant nothing when he said Of
AN - H. .fr.ff IT
believe that the Divine Christ who pours
all the water over the rocks at Vernai
Fails Yosemite, does not believe in the
Suarkle and gallop and tumultuous joy
and rushing raptures of human lfes |
believe not only that the morning laughs and
that the mountains lGugh, and that the seas
laugh and that the cascades laugh. but that
Christ laughed. Moreover, take laugh and
.atear into an alembic, and assay them, and test
them, and analyze them. and you will often
find as much of the palre gold of religion in
laugh as in tear. Deep spiritual JOY always
shows itself in facial illumination. John
Wesley said he was sure of "a good religious
impression being produced because of what
he calls the great laughter he saw among the
people Goddess msrrin1ent is blasphemy
anywhere but expression of Christian JOY is
appropriate everywhere
moreover. the outasok of the world ought
to stir us to gladness. Astronomers recently
disturbed many people by telling them that
there is danger of stellar collision. We have
been told through the papers by these as
tronomers that there are worlds coming very
near together, and that we shall have
plaques and wars and tGmults and perhaps
the worlds destruction. Do not be scared
If you have ever stood alta railroad center.
where ten or twenty or thirty rail
tracks cross each other, ana seen
that by the movement of the switch one or
two inches the trainshoots this way and that,
without collidinS, ttsen you may understand
how fifty worlds may come within an inch
of disaster, and that anch be as good as mill
ion miles, If human switohtender can
shoot the trains this way and that without
harm, cannot the Hand that for thousands
Of years has upheld theuniverse keep our lit
tie world out of harBils Ayayl Christian geo
loeists tell us that TINS ,worldwas million OF
wears in building Well, nov, l DO
not think God would take millions OF years
10 build a house which WAS to last only SIX
thousand years. There is nothing IN the
world or outside the world, terrestlai or
astronomical to excite dismay. wish that
some stout Gospel breaze might scatter all
the malaria of human foreboding- The sun
rose this morning at about hatt-Past ,, ana
think that is Just about the hour in the
worlds history The day is at hand
The first ray of the dawn l-see IN the
gradual substitution of diplomatic skin TOT
human DutCOerY. Ailtuidi OtfN Afa7h
five wears there haEe been anternatonal
differences which would have brought a
shock of arms in any other day, but whlch
we're peacefully adjusted, the pen taking the
place of the sword.
That Alabama question ~ ANY oener
age of the world would have caused
war between the United States ana
ENGLAND How WINS it ssettledF by
menlof-war off the Narrows or on the
Merseys By the Gulf Stream of the ocean
crossed by gulf stream of human Dloodf
By the pathway of nations incarnadined! NO
A few wise men go into asquset room at Ven-
eva, talk the matter over, aud telegraph 70
Washington and to London; 'sAii seltlea.
Peace. Peace England pays ito'the Onlteo
States the amount awarded-pays really
more than she ought to haWelpaih. But, sun
all that Alabama broil is settled--Settied ior-
ever. Arbitration instead of battle
So, the quarrel eight or nine years ago
sbout. the Canadian fisheries in any other age
would. have caused war between the United
States and England England said: Fay
ne for the invasion of my Canadian nsner-
ies'' The United States said twill not pay
anythiug.n Well. the two nRtlons say
guess we had better leave the whole mattef
IA a commission.n The commission IS aP-
pointed and the commissio@ examines Vl1
afsir, and the commission reports, anu pay
we 0urht nav we must pay NE 10 Noe
pound of powder burned, not a cartridge D,e
ten off no one hart 50 mnrk as Dy Dne
scratch of pin. Arbitration ansteau oi
battle
So the Somoan controversy IN any 0unel
age would have bra1ght Germany ana !, 1n e
United States in bloody collision But All Is
settled Arbitration instead OF hSiale.
France viii never egain, | think. 1hfousn
peccadille .cf ambassador, bring on q bat.le
with other nations She sees that Nsn, ~
punishment. of Sedan, allotted out the f,encn
Empire. and the only aEpirant OF that lilfone
who had any right of expectation nlss -, a
war that has not even the dignity oa as'. ny
respectable. What is that blush ON elis
cheek of England to-dagss What = lhs t ,a
that England xvould like ito tear QUIZ ~ a,el
historyy The Zulu war. Down Win ''''e
sword and alp with the treaty.
We in this country might better nave ~.
sled our sectional difficulties by arpilr Aassu
than by the thrust of the sword fnA.anf
ahropy said TO the North: PAY down 4 81 -
a1in amount Of money for the purchase OF -
slaves. and LET all those born sSter a eeIl1ln
tire be born free Philanthropy at the sAll.s
tine said to the South: you sell the save
and get rid of GAis great natl0nsa contest al,n
trouble The North replied. - won l P,.S
s cent The South replied: = won se.n
War WAR; A million dead men ana a,, 2 r ne