Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-05-02

success was rock OF fifty tons but by i-eso-
luton, neryed and muscularized and re-en-
forced by Almighty God, they threw their.
! arms around the obstacle and with Tho
strength of supernatural wrestler rolled
back the stone, and, having become more
than conquerors, they sat upon If
Men and women are good and
| great and useful just in propor-
uon as they mad to overcome obstacles You
can count upon your fingers of your one hand
all the great singers, great orators. great
poets great patriots and great Christians
who never had struggle. That angel that
made 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 spealxs
of that wrestle with the rock as the most in
teresting chapter in all his angelic lifetime.
O men and women with obstacles in the way
tell you that those obstacles are only thrones
that you may after while sit on. is the OBJ
stacle in your way sickness? Conquer ii by
accomplishing more for God during your in
validism than many accomplish who have
never known an ailment Are you perse-
cuted? BY your uprightness and courage
compel the world to acknowledge your moral
heroism. Is it poverty? Conquer it by be-
ing happy in the companionship of the Lord
and Master who in all His life owned but
sixty-two cents, and that He got from fishs
mouth and Immediately paid it all out
i'll taxes 20 the Roman assessor, and
who would have been buried in pot
ter's field had not Joseph of Arimathea con
tIibuted place for He who had not where
lay His head during His life had borrowed
pillow for the last slumber. There is no
throne that you are sure to keep except
that which you make out Of vanquished
obstacles. An ungrateful Republic 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 New York printing office on which he
sat one chilly morning waiting for the boss
printer to come that he might get job, I'M
til he mounted the highest throne of
American journalism. He rolled back
the stone aud sat upon it. A poor orphan
boy, picking up chips at Richmond,
Va, accosted by 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 friend
less, wanders one day along fremont street
Boston, and secs Park Street Church open
and, speaking of it afterward ON great oc-
casion and using sailors vernacular, as was
usual with him, he says: II put in, j up
helm, unfurled sail and made for the gallery
and scud under bare poles to the corner pew.
Then hove to and came TO anchor.
''The old man, DIR. Griffin, was Just naming
his text. Pretty soon he unfurled the main
sail, raised the topsail, ran up the pennants
TO free breeze and tell YOU the old gospel
ship never sailed more prosperously The
salt spray flew in every direction but more
especially did it run down my checks
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's hosts rode forth, conquering and
10 conquer Before that sailor boy was
poverty, but he conqueredlt; and orphnnage,
but he conquered it, and ignorance, but he
conquered IL; md the scon of the world, but
l. 4 l. A..
ors' bethel in the world blessed him and great
anniversary platforms invited him. and
Daniel Webster and Charles Dickens and
Frederika Bremen, and poets and orators,
and senators sat electrified at his feet, and
his gospelizing influence will go ON until the
last jack tar is converted and the sea shall
give up its dead. All the obstacles of his life
seemed gathered into one great bowlder, but
Edward T. Taylor, the world-renowned sail
ors' preacher, rolled back the stone and sat
upon il.
Yet do not make the mistake thaiemany
do Of sitting ON it before il is rolled away.
IL is bound TO 60 II you only tug
away at it, If not before, then / think
about II O'Clock noon Of resurrection
day you will see something worth seeing.
The general impression IS that the
resurrection viii take place in the morning.
The ascent TO the skies viii hardly occur
Immediately. IL will take some hours 70 form
the procession sllyward and we viii all want
20 take a look at this world before we leave
it forever and sec the surroundings of the
couch where our bodies have long been sleep
ing. On that Easter morning the marble
whether II lay fiat upon your grave on stood
up in monument, will have to be jostled
and shaken and rolled aside by the
angel of resurrection, and while waiting lor
your kindred TO gather and the procession 10
form your resurrected body may sit in holy
triumph upon that chiseled stone which
@ alt
On that day what a fragile thing viii be
Aberdeen granite and column of basalt
and the mortar which will rattle
out of the wall of vaults that have been scaled
thousand years and the Tai built for
queen in India, a sepulcher two hundred and
seventy-fiye feet high and made of jasper
and cornelinn and turquois and lapis-lazuli
and amethyst and onyx and sapphire and
diamond aud which shall that day rain into
glittering dust ON groves of banyan and
bamboo and palm. And all under what
power? Ponderous crowbars wieldcl
asunder the grantee No. Gathering ram
swung against the walls Of cemeteries Nc.
Dynamite drilled under the foundations Of |
cenotaph and abbey? No. IL viii be done BY /
music Nothing but music sweet but all 4
penetrating music. The trumpet shall sound.
You say that is fgurative; how do you know I
But. whether literal or flgnrative, It means /
music anyhow. The trumpet that stirring, in.
cisive mighty instrument with natural
COMPASS from G. below the stall 10 + above 4
blown above Sinai when the law was gwen, I
blown around Jericho when the walls tumbled, 4
blown when Gideon discounted the Midian-
ties. blown when the ancient lsraelites were
Gathered for worship 20 be blown Tor tn
raising Of the dead in the last great Easter
The mother, who, when the child must be
awakened. kisses its eyes awake, docs we'll
But the trumpet, which when the dead are
10 he aroused kisses the ear awake, does
better. Be not surprised il the dead are %
be awakened by music. why, that Is tic
1yav now we raise the dead. Take the stats
Tics. II YOU can, of the millions Of souls that
have been raised from the death Of au, s'n 6v
hymns, by psalms by soies, y ars' IN,
tr,,m1,etS Under God what hosts
have been resurrected by Ira ,,-l p; san an
kew. bv Thomas Hastings by Nihiam ~
p,a,,,bs,.v Inv Lowell Mason. by motheriy
mllabies. bv church doxologies, by oratorlos
n We raise the dead now by muse nc hos
surprised that ON the last day the oeau 1ie "
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