Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-11-10

or laboring under great stress OF
weather--now changing from star
board tack TO larboard, and then from
larboard to starboard-look above the
topgallants, and your heart shall beat
like a war drum as the streamers float
on the wind. The sign OF the cross
will make you patient, and the crown
will make you glad.
Before you gain port you will smell
the land breezes of heaven, and Christ.
the pilot, will meet you as you come
into the Narrows of Death, and fasten
to you, and say; when thou passest
through the waters / will be with thee;
and through the rivers, they shall not
overflow thee" Are you ready for
such a voyage1 Make up your minds.
The gang planks are lifting. The bell
rings. All aboard for Heavenl This
world is not your rest. The chatiinch
is the silliest bird in all the earth for
trying to make its nest on the rocking
billow. Oh, how / wish that as | en-
bark for the Holy Land in the east, all
TO whom | preach by tongue or type
would embark for heavenl What you
all most need is God, and you need
him now. Some of you | leave in
trouble. Things are going very rough
with you. You have had a hard strug-
gle with poverty, or sickness, or per
secution, or bereavement Light after
light has gone out, and it is so dark
hat you can hardly see any blessing
left. May that Jesus who comforted
the widow of Main and raised the de-
ceased to life, with his gentle hand of
sympathy wipe away your tearsl All
is well.
STRENGTH OUT OF WEAKNESS.
When David was fleeing through
the wilderness, pursued by his own
son, he was being prepared to become
the sweet singer of Israel. The pit
and the dungeon We're the best schools
at which Joseph ever graduated. The
hurricane that upset the tent and
killed Jobs children prepared the
man of IZ TO write the magnificent
poem that has astounded the ages.
There is no way 10 get the wheat out
of the straw but To thresh it. There
is no way TO purify the gold but TO
burn it, Look at the people who have
always had it their own way. They
are proud, Disseminated, useless and
unhappy. II you want to find cheer.
full folks, go among those who have
been purified by the fire. After RIOS.
SIM had rendered William Tell" the
five hundredth time, a company Of
musicians came under his window in
Paris and serenaded him. They put
upon his brow a golden crown OF lau.
rel leaves. But amidst all the APP
plause and enthusiasm, RoSsini turned
TO a friend and said Il would give all
this brilliant scene for a few day of
youth and love" Contrast the mel
ancholy feeling Of Rossini. who had
everything that this world could give
him, TO the joyful experience of Isaac
Watts, whose misfortunes were innu-
merable, when he says:
The Hill of Zion yields
4 Thousand sacred sweets
Before we reach the heavenly fields
or walk the golden streets
Then let our songs abound,
And every tear he dry;
We're marching through lmmanueis
ground,
To fairer worlds on high.
ENDURE BADNESS AS GOOD SOLDIERS.
1t is prosperity hat kills and trouble
that saves. While the lsraelites were
on the march, amidst great privations
: and hardships, they behaved well.
! After awhile they prayed for meat,
and the sky darkened with a large
flock of quails, and these quails fell
in great multitudes all about them
and the lsraelites ate and ate, and
stuffed themselves until they died.
OH my friends, it is not hardship, or
trial, or starvation that Injuries the
soul, but abundant supply. 1t is not
the vulture of trouble that eats up the
Christians life; it is the quailsi it is
J the Quails!
| l cannot leave you until once more
| confess my faith in the Saviour
whom l have preached. He is my all
in all. / owe more to the grace Of
God than most men. With this ar,
dent temperament, if l had gone over,
board l would have gone to the very
depths. You know / can do nothing
by halves.
o 10 grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained 10 be!
| think all will be well. Do not be
worried about me. / know that my
Redecmer liveth, and if any fatality
should befall me, l think | should 90
straight. / have been most un,
worthy, and would be sorry to think
that any II of my friends had been
as unworthy a Christian as myself.
But God las helped a great many
through, and | hope he will help mC
through. IL is a long account oil
shortcomings, but if he is going 10 rut
any Of it out, | think he will rub it al.
out.
And now give us CforI go not alone.
your benediction. When you send
letters 10 a friend in a distant land
you say via such a city, or via such Q
steamer. When you send your goot
wishes 10 us, send them via the thron,
Of God. We shall not travel out Of
the reach Of your prayers.
There Is q scene where spirits dwell,
Where friend holds Intercourse with friend;
Though sundered far, by faith we meet
Around one common mercy seat
And now, may the blessing of Goo
come down upon your bodies and upon
your souls, your fathers and mothers
your companions, your children, YOU
brothers and sisters and your friends
May you be blessed in your bushes.
and in your pleasures, in your joy