The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1889-12-25

up against Il. You said. III win be Stole
and will not care" but before you had got
through making the resolution IL broke down
under you. You felt that all your resources
were gone, and then Jesus came. I'm the
fourth watch of the night,n the Bible says,
Jesus came walking on the sea-" Why did
he not come In the first watchl or in
the second watchl or in the third watchl l
do not know. lie camo la the fourth, and
gave delverance 10 his disciples Jesus in
the last extremity
wonder II IL will be 30 In our very last ex-
tremity. We shall fall suddenly sick, and
doctors will come, but in vain We will try
the anodynes and the stimulants, and the
bathings, but all In vain. Something will
say; "You must CO." No one TO hold us
back, but the hands OF eternity stretched out
TO pull us on. What theni Jesus will come
to us, and as we say Lord Jesus, am
afraid Of that water cannot wade through
to the other SIDE" he will say: take hold
Of my arm;" and we will take hold of his arm,
and then he will put his foot in the surf of
the wave, taking us on down deeper, deeper,
deeper, and our soul will cry; "All thy waves
and pillows have gone over me-" They cover
the feet, come TO the knee, pass tho girdle,
and come To the head, and our soul cries out;
Lord Jesus Christ, | cannot hold thine arm
any longerl" Then Jesus will turn around,
throw both his arms about us, and set us on
the beach, far beyond the tossing of the bill
low. Jesus in the last extremity
A GRANDER WEDDING.
That wedding scene Is gone now. The we'd
ding ring has been lost, the tankarcls have
been broken, the house is down; but Jesus in
vites us TO grander wedding. You know
fba hot he oh, (, II 4,
wife; and the Lord will after awhile come to
fetch her home There will be cleaning of
torches in the sky, and the trumpets of God
will ravish the air with their music; aud
Jesus will stretch out his hand, and the
church, robed in white, will put aside her
veil and look up into the face of her Lord
the king, and the bridegroom will say
to the bride; "Thou hast been faithful
through all these yearsl The mansion
is readyl Come homel Thou art fair,
my Lowell" and then he shall put upon
her brow the crown of dominion, and the
table will be spread and it will reach across
the skies, and the mighty ones Of heaven will
come in, garlanded with beauty and striking
their cymbals; and the bridegroom and bride
will stand at the head of the table, and the
bauqueters, looking up, will wonder and ad
mire, and say: THAT is Jesus, the bride
grooml But the scar on his brow Is covered
with the coronet, and the stab in his side is
covered with a robe" and THAT Is the
bride! the WEAKNESS of her earthly woe lost
In the flush Of this wedding triumph"
There will be wine enough at that we'd
ding; not coming up from the poisoned watts
of earth, but the vineyards OF God will press
their ripcst clusters, and the cups and the
tankards will blush to the brim with the heav-
emily vintage, and then all the banqueters will
drink standing. Esther having come up
from the bacchanalian revelry Of Ahasuerus,
where thousand lords feasted, will be there.
And the queen of Sheba, from the banquet Of
Solomon, will be there And the mother of
Jesus, from the wedding in Cana, will DO
there. And they all will agree that the
earthly feAsting was poor compared with
that Then, lifting their chalices in that holy
light they shall cry to the lord of the feast
Thou hast kept the good wine until now"