News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-28

/ The redemption OF the gospel Is a per-
feet farce if thsre is no ruin '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 the apostle, let him be accursed u
/ There must be the midnight ride over the
must be the clicking of the hoofs before there
can be the ringing of the trowels.
Again. My subject gives me a specimen
/ of busy and triumphant sadness. If there
| was any man in the world who had a right
TO NOPE and give up every thing lost, it
vas Nehemiah. You say: He was cup
bearer in the palace of Shushon. and it was
gran place" So it was. The hall of that
palace was two hundred feet square,
and the roof hoverel over thirty-six
marble pillars, zach pillar sixty feet high;
md the intense blue of the sky, and
the deep green of the forest foliage, and
hs white of the driven snow, all hung
/ trembling in the upholstery. But, my
/ friends you know very well that fine archi-
tscture will not put down homesickness.
IeS Nehemiah did not give up. Then when
you see him going among these desc
atel streets, and by these dismantled
towers and by tue torn up grave of his
father, you would suppose that he would
ave been disheartenad, AMI that he would
rave dismounted from his horse and gone to
MS room ami said: "Wos is mel My fathers
crave is torn up. Tie Temple is dishonored
The walls are broken down. Ihaye no money
With which to rebuild / wish l had new
zen born. | wish | were dealn Not so says
Nehemiah. Although he had a grief 81
intense that it excited the commentary of hi
<ing, yet that penniiess, expatriated
Nehemiah rouses hims If up to rebuild TIL
city. He gets his permission of absence. H,
Jerusalem. By night on horseback he rides
through the ruins. He oysrcomss the most
esrocious opposition He arousss the piety
and patriotism of the people, and in less than
two months, namely, in fifty-two days,
jerusalem was rebuilt. That's what | call
busy and triumphant sadness.
My friends, the whole temptation is with
you, when you have trouble. to do just the
opposite to tbs behavior of Nehemiah, and
that is to give up. You say: II have lost
my chitl 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 a new lifen Ii Satan can
make you form that resolution, and
make You keep it, ho has ruined you.
trouse YOU, TO animate you. to propsl you.
The blacksmith does not thrust the iron into
he forge and thcn blow away with the bel
lows and then bring the hot iron ont on the
anvil and beat with stroke after stroke TO
ruin the iron, but to prepare it for
of Nehemiah would rouse up ali
broken hearted people to rebuild. Whippsd
betrayed, shipwrecksd, imprisoned Paul
went right on. The Italian martyr
and he dates it From the delectable orchard
Of the I.eonine prison. That is what l call
triumphant sadness. / knew a mothar who
',uried her baby on Friday and on Sabbath
appeared i'll the house of God and said:
tive me class; give me Sabbath school
and 1 would like to have a class OF little
children. Give me real poor children.
Give me c'ass of tho back street
That. l say, is beautiful. That is tri-
Imphant sa lness. At o'clock this after
noon, in a beautiful parlor in Philadelphia -
parlor pictured and statuette There will
30 from ten to twenty deStituts children of
lho street.. 1t has bsen 50 every Sabbath
afternoon at 3 O'Clock for many years Those
destitute children receive religious instruc-
ton, concluding with cakes AMI sandwiches
How do [ know that that has BEEN going Oh
for many years, l knew it in this way.
That was the first home in Philadelphia
where / was called to comfort a great sor-
row. Tney 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 cars to day. There
seemed TO be no use of praying, for when
kcSlt down to pray, the outcry in the room
drowned out all the pray. But the Lord
coinforte3 that sorrow. They did not for
get their trouble. If you should go on the
-uowiest winter afternoon into Laurel Hill
you would find monument with the word
Walter" inscribed upon it, and a wreath of I
fresh flowers around the name. / think there Z
has not been an hour all these years, wints;.
or summer, when there was not wrcat
fresh flowers around Walters
5uJ the Christian mother who sends those
flowers there, having no child left, Sabbath
afternoons others ten or twenty of the los.
ones of the street. That is beautiful. That
Here is a man who has lost his property. He
does not go to hard drinking. He does nos
destroy his own life. He comes and says:
Harness me for Christian work. My
on earth L want treasures in heaven /
have voice and hsart to serve Col" You
say that that man has failed lie has not
failed-he has triumphel. Oh, 1 wish /
could persuade all the people who have any
kind OF trouble never to give up. | wish they
would look at the midnight rider of the text,
and that the four hoofs of that
beast on which Nehemiah roda
G Gis mt CUT cut to pieces al! your
trials. Give up! Who is going to give up,
when on the bosom of God he can have ali
his troubles hushed' Give up! Never think
of giving up. Arc you borne down with
poverty. A little child was found hold
ing her deal mothers hand in
the darkness of a tenement house,
aud soma one coming in, the lit
tie girl looked up, while holding her dead
mothers hand, and said: "Oh, do wish that
God had made moro light for poor folks"
My dear, God viii be your light, God will DO
your shelter, Go will be your home Are
you borne down with the bereavements of
life! is the house lonsly now that
the child is gone. Do not give up. Think of
what the old sexton said when the minister
asked him why he put so much care on the
little graves in the cemetery-so much more
care than On the larger graves, and the old
sexton said: "Sir, you know that of such is
the kingdom OF heaven and [ think the
much white clover growing around
thesa little graves" But when the minister
pressed the old sexton for q moro satisrac-
tory answer, the old sexton said: ''Sir, about
these larger graves don't know who are the
Lords saints and who are not; but you know,
sir, it is clean different with the barnsn
Oh, il you have had keen, tender, indie
Scribable sorrow that comes from the loss
OF child, do not give mp The old sex
ton was right. 1t is all well with the BARNS
DR. if you have sinned, if you have sinned
grlevous'y-siunei until you have been cast
out by the church, sinned until you have
bean cast out by society, do not give I'D.
Perhaps there may be in this house one that
could truthfully utter the lamentation of
another:
Once [ was pure as the snow, but fell
Eel like snowflake, rom heaven to hell
zen, TO he trampled as filth in the street
Feii 10 be seoffed at, spit on and beat;
Praying. cursing wishing to die,
Selling my soul to whoever would buy,
Dealing in shame for morsd of bread,
Hating the living and fearing the dead.
Do not givs up. One like unto the Son OF
TO COMES to you to-day, saying: $50 and
'in no moro" while he cries out to your as
ATLANTIS: LET him that is without sin cast
,hs first stone at her" Obi there is no reason
why any one in this house, by reason
)f any trouble or sin. should give up.
Are you a foreigner, and in strange land!
Sehenl an was an exile. Are You psnniless2
Nehemiah was poor. Are you homesickl
Nehemiah was hOmesick. Are you broken
hearted! Nehemiah was broken hearted
But lust ses him in tho text rid
ng along the sacrile gel grave OF his
ather. AMI by tho dragon we'll. and
through the fish gate, and by the Kings !
,ool, in AMI out i'll AMI out the moonlight |
alling on the broken masonry which throws |
l long shadow at which the horse SHES, and
1t the same time that moonlight kindling up |
he features Of this man till you see not
MY the mark of sal "reminiscences,
,ut tho courage, the hope, the enthu.
iasm of n man who knows that Jerusalem
will BE- rebuiIdcd. Ip;ck you up to-day out
II your SINS ami out Of your sorrow, and
,us You against the warm heart of Christ.
The eternal Col is thy refuge. and under
heath are the everlasting arms"
THERE ar now two living ex-Pres1-
Tents, Rutherford B. Hayes and Gro