Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-31

81. pauIs. John Bunyan, unable to pre-
se SCI :, IT IN ordinary PHYSIOLOGY, takes
az .u;.t me fascination of allegory. Handel,
WIN ordinary music unable to reach the
nelght OF the theme, rouses it up in an
olatorio. oh, there is no life on earth
SO happy as a really Christian life. do
not mean asham Christian life, but real
christian life. Where there is q thorn,
mere Is whole garland of roses. Where
mere is one groan, there are three dox-
oiogies. Where there is one day of
CLOUD, there is whole season of sun
shlne. lake the humblest Christian man
1 Ina; you know-angels of God canopy
MN with their white wings; the light
nings of Heaven are his armed allies:
the Lord is his Shepherd, picking out
1or him green pastures by still waters;
If he walk forth, Heaven is his body
guard; if he lie down to sleep, ladders
OF light, angel blossoming, are let into
MS dreams; if he be thirsty, the poten-
tates of Heaven are his cup bearers; if
he sit down to food, his plain table
blooms into the Kings banquet. Men
say: Look at that old fellow with the
Worn out coat;" the angels of God cry:
Lift up, your heads, .yee,, everlasting
gates, and let him come I'M" Fastidious
people cry: Get off my front steps,"
| e.
you blessed of my Father, inherit she
kingdom!" When he comes to die,
though he may be carried out in pine
box to the potter's field, to that potter's
field the chariots of Christ will come
down, and the cavalcade will crowd all
the boulevards of Heaven.
bless Christ for the present salts
faction of religion. It makes man all
right with reference to the past; it makes
a man all right with reference to the
future. Oh these neither springs of
comfort! They are perennial. The
foundation of God standeth sure having
this seal, The Lord knoweth them that
are his" "The mountains shall depart
and the hills be removed, but my kind
ness shall not depart from thee, neither
shall the covenant of my peace be re-
moved, saith the Lord, who hath mercy
upon them" Oh, cluster of diamonds
set in FURNISHED gold! Oh. neither
springs of comfort bursting through all
the valleys of trial and tribulation!
When you see, you of the world, what
satisfaction there is on earth in religion,
do you not thirst after it as he daughter
of Caleb thirsted after the water springs?
1t is no stagnant pond, scummed over
with malaria, but springs of water leap
ing from the Rock of Ages! Take up
oue GU " VI luaG 3 pIluS Water, tut aCfOsS
the top of the chalice will float the deli
cate shadows of the Heavenly wall, the
yellow of jasper, the green of emerald,
the blue OF sardonyX, the fire of jacinth
wish could make you understand
the JOY religion is to some of us. 1t
makes man happy while he lives, and
glad when he dies. With two feet upon
a chair and bursting with dropsies,
heard an old man in the poor house cry
out: BLESS the Lord, oh my soulw I
looked around and said: What has this
man got to thank God for?" 1t makes
the lame man leap like the hart, and the
dumb sing. They say that the old Puri-
tan religion is q juiceless and ioyless
religion; but l remember reading of Dr..
Goodwin, the celebrated Puritan, who
in his last moments said: rs this dy-
ing? Why, my bow abides in strength
1 am swallowed up in God" Her ways
are ways Of pleasantness, and all he1
paths are peace" Oh, you who have
been trying to satisfy yourselves witt
the south land" of this world, do yor
not feel that you would, this morning
like to have access to the neither springs
of spiritual comfort? Would you no
like to have Jesus Christ bend over you
cradle and bless your table and hea
your wounds, and strew flowers of con
ISOLATION all up and down the graves o.
your dead?
Ills religion that can give
Sweetest pleasures while we live;
| Ills religion can supply
| Sweetest comfort when we die.
But have something better to tel
you, suggested by this text. 1t seem
. that old father Caleb on the weddin;
day of his daughter wanted to make he
just as happy as possible. Thong!
Othniel was taking her away, and hi
heart was almost broken because sh
} was going, yet he gave her "soutl
land;" not only that, but the nethe
, springs; not only that, but the uppe
springs. God, my Father, thank the
that thou hast given me south land
in this world, and the neither springs O
spiritual comfort in this world; but
more than all, thank thee for the up
per springs in Heaven.
, It is very fortunate we cannot SCI
Heaven until we get into it. Oh, Chris
tian man, if you could see what place
it is, we would never get you back agal1
to the office or store or shop, and thu
duties you ought to perform would g
neglected. am glad I shall not SCI
that world until enter it. Suppose W.
, that good land with the idea of return.
r ing. When we got there, and heard thu
, song, and looked at their raptured faces
, and mingled in the supernal society, WI
would cry out: Let us stay! We ar
r coming here anyhow. Why take tn
r trouble of going back again to that ole
7 world? We are here now; let us stay.
, And it would take angelic violence t.
+ put us out of that world, if once we go
. there. But as people who cannot atfort
? to pay for an entertainment sometime
f come around it and look through
. the door ajar, or through the opening
1 in the fence, SO we come and loo]
3 through the crevices in that good lan'
Y which God has provided for US: We cal
? Just catch glimpse of it. We com
r near enough to hear the rumbling o
the eternal orchestra, though not nea
a enough to know who blows the corne
t or who fingers the harp. My soul spread
8 out both wings and claps them in tri
4 umph at the thought of those uppe
: springs. One of them breaks from be
r meath the throne; another breaks fortl
Q from beneath the altar Of the temple
another at the door of the house o
9 many mansions" Upper. springs o
. gladness! Upper springs. OF light! up