The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-05-31


I dollars and impsnitent in his sins and says
/ You're pauper.n Il comes TO a woman Of
fsirest cheek who has never repsnted and
SAYS: You're sinner It CONES 70 man
/ hiding himself on his independence and says:
You're bound hand and foot by the devil"
1 It comes to our entire race and says: You're
q ruin, CHASTITY ruin, an nliInitable ruin
I Siltan sometimes says 70 me: why
/ do you preach that truthi Why
d. you preach gospel with
usnis hearts 50 that you make than feel all
rilshtl Why don't you preach q hunRni-
arian gospel with no repentance in it, say
Ing nothing about the ruin, talking all the
behind me, Satan-n would rather
lelld five souls the right way than
twenty thousand the wrong way.
Tie redemption Of the gospel is per-
felt farce IL there is no ruin. THE whole
need not 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, list him be accursed.n
II ere must be the midnight ride over the
ruins before Jerusalem can be built. There
must be the clicking Of the hoofs before there
can be the ringing Of the trowels.
Again Ny subject gives me e specimen
Of busy and triumphant sadness II there
WIS any man in the world who had q right
to nope and give up everything as lost, it
was Nehemiah. You say: "Hs was a cup
beiirer in the palace Of Shushan, and it was
q grand place. So it was. The hall Of that
pa ace Was two hundred feet square,
and the roof lowered over thirty-siE
marble pillars, each pillar sixty fest high;
and the intense blue Of the sky, and
ths deep green of the forest foliage, and
the white Of the driven snow, all hung
trembling in the upholstery. But, my
friends, you know very well that fine archi-
lecture viii not put down homesickness.
Yet Nehemiah did not give up. Then when !
you sse him going among these desc
lated streets and by these dismantlsl |
towers. and by the torn up grave Of his |
father. you would suppose that he would |
have been dishsartened, and that he would |
have dismounted from his horse and gone to /
his room and said: "Woe is mel Ny fathers
grave is torn up. The Temple IS dishonorsd.
the walls are broken down. Ihave no money
with which to rebuild. wish l had neve
BEEN born ! wish | were dead Not so says !
Nehemiah Although he had q grief so
intense that it excited the c0mmsntary Of his /
King, yet that pennies, expatriated |
Nehemiah rouses himself up to rebuild the /
city. He gets his permission of absence. He /
Jerusalem By night on horseback he rides /
through the ruins. BE oYercoT1es the most |
6srocious opposition Be arouse 5ne piety |
and patriotism Of the people, and in less than
two months, namsly, in ffty-tuo days,
Jerusalsm was rebuilt That's what l call
busy and triumphant sadness.
My friends, the whole temptation is with |
you, whsn you have trouble. TO do Just the /
opposite 10 the behavior Of Nehemiah, and
that is 70 give up. You say; 81 have lost
my child and can never smile again. You
say: 4 havs lost my property, and l nsYer
can repair my fortunes" You say: 81 have
fallen into sin, and I never can start
again for a new life" II Satan can
make you form that resolution, and
make you keep it, he has ruined you.
IL 49, -. rMa~E 80
arouse YOU, to animate you, TO prope you.
The blacksmith does not thrust the iron into
the forge and then blow away with the bel
lows, and then bring the hot iron out on the
anvil and beat with stroke altar stroke to
ruin the iron, but to prepare it for
Of Nehemiah would rouse up all
broken-hsarted people to rebuild. Whippsd
betrayed, shipTrecked, imprisoned Paul
went right on. The Italian martyr
Aigerius sits in his dungeon writing letter.
and he dates it "From the delectable orchard
OF the LeOnine prison That is what l call
triumphant sadness. knew mother who
buried her baby on Friday and on Sabbath
appeared in the house OF God and said:
''Siys ms a class; give me Sabbath school
class 7 have no child now left ms,
and l would like to have a class Of little
children. Give me real poor children
Give me a class OF the back street
That l say, is beautiful. That is tri-
umphant sadness. At 3 o'clock this after
noon in beautiful pzrlor in Philadslphia-
a parlor pictured and statuetted-thsre will
be from ten TO twenty destitute children Of
ihe strest 1t has been so every Sabbath
afternoon at 3 o'clock for many years Those
destitute children receive religious instruc-
ton, concluding with cakes and sandwiches.
How do know that that har b. going on
for " yf7r~ knew Z G II -
t. - no.ils IiI alpha
where l was called TO comfort a great sor-
row They had a splendid boy and
be had been drowned at Long Branch y
Tbs fnther and mother almost idolised
the boy, and lie sob and Shrek of that
father and mosher as they hung over the
coffin resound in my ears to-day. There
seemed to be no use of praying, for when
knet down to pray, the outcry in the room
drowned out al the pray. But the Lord
get their trouble. II you should go on the
snoWiest winter afternoon into Laurel Hill
you would find monument with the word
Walter inscribed upon It, and = wreath of
fresh flowers around the name. l think there
has not been an hour ali these yeqerica. ter
or summer. when thers was not ~
fresh ir,wars around WaltSv firm =
Dut the Christian mother wiz
flowers there, having no child during
afternoons others ten or twet m
ones Of the street. That is bed Texas
3 what call busy ana trump u :
Here is a man who has lost his PoFe at
does not 60 10 hard drinking. fbop vel
destroy his own life. He CONT 'iie'n ~,
Harness me for Christian : a fur AM
moneys gone. 1 have nc mes
On earth. / want treasures iforeign n u.
have voice and heart to serye, 1t c
say that that man has failed. lelnDef, z
failed-he has triumphsd. Ohaction III
could persuade all the people wbl 00UiOH'
kind OF trouble never to give ups. Fine &
would look at the midnight rider
nHH hat 10
might cut to pisces y woolsooaass
disco fragments and hars and
srials. Givs upl Who is goisscouetive M.
whsa on the the bosom Of God he Rave ali
OF giving up. Are you borlty Iown with
poverty little child -xS and hold
ing her dead mothel,aS fhand in
the darkness Of a tenedIent house,
and some one coming in, the lit
tie glri looked up, while holding Ter dead
4nothsr's hand, and said. "Oh, do wish that
God bad made moro light for poor folks
Ny dsar, God will be your light, God will be
your lhsltsr, God will be your bome Are
you borne down with the bsrsavements of
lifsl Is the house lonely now that
the Ct ID 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 cemstsry-so much more
are than on the larger graves, and the old
Isxton said: 'Sir, yeu know that of such is
he kingdom OF heaven and l think the
Saviour is pleased when he seas so
much white clover growing around
these little graves" But when the minister
Jr.rsei the Old sexton for more sat &c
. Wer, the old sexton said ''SIr, a-out
.hess larger graves, don't know who are the
1ords saints and who are not; but you know.
III, it is clean different with the BARNS
Oh, il you have had keen, tender, indie
'cribaole sorrow that comes from the loss
u child, do not give up. The old SEX
on WIS right lis all we'll with the BARNS.
Jr, if you have sinned. if you have sinned
until you have been cast
'ut by the church, sinned until you have
zen cast out by society. do not give up. {
'erhaps there may be in this house one that I
'ouid truthfully utter the lamentation Of
.-ather: [
once HGs pure as the snow. but fell 7
Hes IKE snowflake, from heaven 10 he'll
re.l, 70 De trapped as llth In the street. !
5ell 70 De scohed A., spit on and beat
FrAyinE, curstng wishing to die,
sehlng my fozl 70 wheeYer would buy
DetllnE in shame for 9 morsei Of bread
hatlng the living and fearing The dead
DO not give up. One like unto the Son of j.,
iod comes 20 you to-day. saying: go and
n no mora Uhilo he cries out 70 your as n
ATLANTIS; LIST him that is without sin cast /
no first stone at her. Obi there Is no reason .
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