The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-10-26

~ vas uOtnlnR lne HHlIGT VIII
your eyes; it was your soul bubbling over
tell you that it is impossible to sit fo
years around the same church fireside an,
: not have sympathy in common. Somehow
you feel that you would like these peopl
on the other side of the aisle. about whor
you know but little. prospered and par
doned and blessed and saved. You fee
e as If you are in the same boat. and yov
want to glide up the same harbor an
want to disembark at the same wharf. l
you put gold and iron and lead and Yin,
in sufiic ent heat they will melt into q con
, glomerate mass; and l really feel that las
Sabbath's fire has fused us all, grosser anC
finer natures, into one. 1t seems as IL w,
all had our hands on a wire connected
with an electric battery; and when thi.
church sorrow started it thrilled through
the whole circle. and we all felt the shock
The Oldest man and the youngest child
could join hands in this misfortune
Grandfather said: II expected from these
affairs to be buried; :" and one of the chill.
dren last Sabbath cried: 'Grandpa, that
place was next to our house" Yea, we
are supported and confident in this time
by the cross of Christ. That Is used &c
the fire. On the dark day when Jesus
died, the lightning struck it from above.
and the flames of hell dashed ur
against 1t from beneath. That
fearful, painful, tender, blessed cross
SIM stands. On 1t we hang
all our hopes; beneath 1t we put down ali
cur sins; in the light of it we expect to
a the rest of our pilgrimage. Within
slght OF such a sacrifice, who can feel he
mas IL hard! In the sight of such a SYM
Dol VINO can be discouraged, however
great the darkness that may come down
upon him! Jesus lives! The loving, patient,
sympathizing, mighty Jesusi 1t shall not
De told on earth, or in hell, or in Heaven,
mat three Hebrew children had not
the Son OF God beside them in the fire. and
that a whole church was forsaken by the
LORD when they went through a furnace
about two hundred feet wide.
Lord Jesus shall we take out of Thy
rhand the flowers aud the fruits, and the
brightness and the joys, and then turn
away because Thou dost give us one cup
OF bitterness to drink? o. no, Jesus, we
VIII drink 1t dry. But how 1t is changedl
Blessed Jesus. what hast Thou put into
the cup to sweeten il? Why, it has be-
come the wine of Heaven, and our souls
grow strong.
1 come now, and pl, CO both of my feet
deep down into the blackened ashes Of our
consumed church, and | cry out with an
eh1h L lSIU SllC6 J0e
day OF my SOULS emancipation. Victory
victory ! through our Lord Jesus Christi"
Your harps, We trembling saints,
Down from the willows take,
Loud to the praise OF love divine
Bid every string awake.
We are also reinforced by the catholicity
that l have already referred to. We are
In the academy to-day, not b cause we
have no other place to go. Last Sabbath
morning at nine O'Clock we had but one
church; now we a about thirty, all at
our disposal. Their pastors and their
trustees SAYS: "You may take our main
audience rooms, you may take our lecture
rooms. you may take our church parlors.
you may baptise in our baptistries. and
sit in our anxious seats" OF IL there he
any larger hearted ministers or larger
hearted churches anywhere thar in Brook
lyn, tell me where they are, that l NAV 90
and see them before / die. The millennium
has come. People keep wondering when
1t is coming. 1t has come. The lion and
the lamb lie down together. and the
tiger eats straw like an OK. 1 should
Ike to have seen two of the old
time bigots, with their swords, fighting
through that great fire on Schermerhorn,,
street last Sabbath. l am sure the swords
would have melted and they who welded
them would have learned war no more. l
can never say a word against any other
denomination Of Christians. 1 thank God
1 never have been tempted to do it. 1 can
not be a sectarian. 1 have been told l
ought to be and l nave tried to be. but I
have not enough material in me to make
such a structure. Every time | get the
things most done there comes a fire or
something else aud all is gone. The angels
OF God shake out on this air t'Glorv tn
God in the highest and on earth peace. )
good will toward men," do not know
but l see on the horizon the first CLEAN of
the morning which shall unite all demon.
nations in one organization. distinguished /
only by the locality as in apostolic times,
1t was then the Church of Thy atira, and
the Church of Thessalonica, and the
Church or Antioch, and the Church of
So l do not know but that in
the future history, and not far off either.
1t may be simply a distinction of locality.
and not Of creed, as the Church of New
York, the Church of Brooklyn, the Church
OF Boston, the Church of Charleston. the
Church of Madras, the Church of Con.
stantinople, the Church of America.
MY dear brethren, we can not afford to
be severely divided. Standing in front of
the great foes of our common Christianity.
want to put on the whole armor of God
march down in solid column, shoulder
to shoulder one commander one tri-
umphl
The trumpet gives a martial strain
o Israel! grid thee for the fight;
Arise, the combat to maintain;
Arise and put thy foes to flight.
We also feel reinforced by the thought
hat we are on the way to a Heaven that
can never burn down. Fires NAV sweep
through other cities-but l an glad to
'hdL ~ N " Jerusait N IS %ireproof.
There wlll be no engines rus hing through
hose afffeta; there will be no temples
'~olfsnuled "a ttat clty. Coming to the
f60fa Of That Church, we will find them
,pe1hrasppaht With soBgs, and not cries
II fire. q, my dear brother and sisteri II
mis- shor lanoN OF life comes up so
'oon TO that blessed place, what is the
use OF our worryingf 1 have felt a good
many times this last week like Father
the sailor preacher. He got in a
sentence while he was preaching one
lay and lost himself and could not find
lis way out of the sentence. He stopped
md said: Brethren. l have lost the
OF this sentence and things
ire generally mixed up, but 1 am bound,
or the kingdom anyhow"
And during this last week, when I saw
he rushing to and fro and the excitement
said to myself: Il do not know just
where we shall start again, but i am
for the kingdom anyhow.D l do
lot want to go just yet. l want to be a
pastor OF this people until | am about
lghty"nine years Of age, but l have
thought that there are such
s'ories ahead that I may be persuaded to
70 little earlier-for instance at eightv-
wo or eighty three-but | really think ,
hat IL we could have an appreciation of I
God has in reserve for us we would (
TO go, stepping right out of the
academy of Music into the glories of the
kies.
Alb! that is a good land. Why, they
ell me hat In that land they never have 4
heartache. They tell me that a man
night walk five hundred years in that
and never see a tear or hear a sigh. n
hey tell me that our friends who lave {
eft us and gone there, their feet are radi- e
Mt as the sun, and that they take bold &
the hand of Jesus Familiarity, and that [
ney open that hand and see in the palm
It a healed wound that must have been {
cry cruel before it was healed. And 4
ley tell me there is no winter there, and q
nat they never get hungry or cold, and {
lat the sewing girl never wades through f
sno" bank to her daily toll, and that Il
40 clock never strikes twelve for the O
light but only twelve for the day. q
See that light in the window. wonder o
no set 1t there. 'Ol" you say, s'my fl
lther that went into glory must have set Il
lat light In the window" No; guess v
gain. MY mother who died fifteen c
ears ago in Jesus, l think, must have b
that light there" No; guess again. Il
GU say: 'My darling little child, that y
ST qnmmar I mt oyuou for tho II