Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-04-07
TIE GRAND CENTRAL DEPOT OF THE
MILLENNIUM.

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you to be alert A want you TO be
watching all these wonders unrolling
from the heavens and the earth. God
has classified them, whether calami- ;
tous or pleasing. The divine purposes
are harnessed in traces that cannot
break, and in girths that cannot slip,
and in buckles that cannot loosen, and
are driven by rcins they must answer.
| preach 20 fatalism. \ swarthy en-.
gineer at one Of the depots in Dakota
said: When will you get on the loco.
motive and take a ride with usf
Well" | said, ''now if that suits
yoat' So ] got on one side the To-
romos We, and a Methodist minister,
who was also invited, got on the other
side, and between us were the engineer
and the stoker. The train started. The
engineer had his hand OH the agitated
pulse of the great engine. The stoker
shoveled in the coal and shut the door
with a loud clang. A vast plain slip
ped under us and the hills swept by,
and that great monster on which We
rode trembled and bounded and snort
ed and ragged as il hurled us On. !
said 10 the Methodist minister on the
other side the locomotive; My bro
ther, why should Presbyterians and
Methodists quarrel about the DEGREES
and free agencyl You see that track,
that firm track, that iron track that is
the decree. You see this engineers
arm1 That is free agency. How beauti.
fully they work together. They are
going 10 take us through. We could
not do without the track, and we could
not do without the engineer. So ! re-
ioice day by day. Work for us all to
do, and we may turn the crank of the
Christian machinery this way or that,
for we are free agents; but there is the
track laid so long ago no II remem-
bers il, laid by the hand Of Almighty
God in sockets that no terrestrial or
satanic pressure a ever affect. And
along that track the a of the worlds
redemption will roll and roll TO the
Grand Central depot of the millennium.
| have no anxiety about the track. !
am only afraid that for our Incidence
God will discharge US and get some
other stoker and some other engineer.
The train is going through with us or
without US. So, my brethren, watch
all the events that are going by. II
things seem to turn out right, give
wings 10 your JOY. II things seem 10
turn out wrong, throw out he anchor
of faith and hold fast.
There is a house in London where
Peter the Great of Russia lived awhile
when he was moving through the land
incognito and in workman's dress,
that he might learn the wants of the
people. 4 stranger was visiting at
that house recently, and saw in a dark
attic an old box, and he said TO the
owner of the house, What's in that
boXf' The owner said, II don't know;
that box was there when | got the
house and il was there when my faith
er got il. We haven't had any curl
osity TO look at it; | guess there's
nothing in it," We'll" said the
stranger, IN give you two pounds
for it." well, done" The two
pounds are paid, and recently the con.
tents of that box were sold TO the car
of Russia for fifty thousand dollars.
In it the lathing maching OF Peter the
Great, his private letters and docu-
ments Of value beyond all monetary
consideration. And here are the events
that seem very Insignificant and un.
important, but they incase treasures of
divine providence and eternities of
meaning which after a while God will
demonstrate before the ages as being
of ~stupendous value. As near as / can
tell from what / see, there must be a
God somewhere about.
When Ttans play quoits they pitch
mountains; but who owns these gi-
gantic forces you have been reading
about the last two monthsl Whose
hand is on the throttle valve of the
volcanoesi Whose foot suddenly
planted on the footstool makes the
continents quiveri Godl Godl He
looketh upon the mountains and they
tremble. He toucheth the hills and
they smoke. Godi Godl must be
at peace with him. Through the Lord
Jesus Christ this God is mine and he
is yours. | put the earthquake that
shook Palestine at the cruciixion
against all the down BOOKINGS Of the
centuries. This God on our side, we
may challenge all the centuries Of
time and all the cycles Of eternity.
THINGS THAT NAY CONE TO PASS.
Those Of us who are in mid-life may
well thank God bal we have seer 50
many wondrous things; but there arc
people here today who will see the
Twentieth century. Things obscure 70
us will be plain 10 you yet. The TWEEN
ticth century will be as far ahead of the
Nineteenth as the Nineteenth is ahead
Of tile Eighteenth, and as you carl
cature the habits and customs and ig-
norance Of the past, others will carl
cature This age. Some of you may
live 10 see the shimmering veil be-
tween the material and the spiritual
world lifted. Magnetism, a word with
Which we cover up our Ignorance,
VIII yet he an explored realm.
Electricity, the fiery courser Of
the sky, that Benjamin Franklin
lassOed and Morse and Bell and
Edison have tried 20 control, will be-
come completely manageable, and
locomotlon will be swiItencd, and
aworld Of practical knowledge thrown
IN upon the race. Whether we depart
IN tins century, or whether we see the
open gates OF a more wonderful cen.
fury, we will SEQ these things. II does
not make much difference where we
stand, but the higher the standpoint
the larger the prospect. We viii see