Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-05-30


water springs' It Is no stagnant pond
scummed over with malaria, but springs of
water leaping from the Rock of Ages .ake
up one cup Of that spring water, and across
the top of the chalice win Goat the delicate
shadows of the heavenly wall. the yellow of
jasper the green Of emerald, the blue Of sar-
donyx, the fire OF jacinth
l wish / could make you understand the
Joy religion Is TO some of us. II makes man
happy while he lives. and glad when he
dies With two feet upon a chair and
bursting with dropsies, 1 heard an old
man in the poorhouse cry out: "Bless the
Lord, oh my soulr | looked around
and said: What has this man got to thank
God for?' II makes the lame man leap
like the hart. and tho dumb sing They say
that the old Puritan religion is a juiceless and
joyless religion but member reading Of
Dr. Goodwin, the celebrated Puritan, who in
his last moments said: q Is this dying Why,
my bow abides in strength | am swallowed
up in God. " =" Her ways are ways of pleasant
ness, and all her paths are peace" Oh, you
who have been trying to satisfy yourselves
with the !" south land of this world do you
not feel that you would, this morning, like
to have access to the neither springs of
spiritual comfortS Would you not like to
have Jesus Christ bend over your cradle and
bless your table and heal your wounds and
strcw flowers of consolation all up and down
the graves of your deadf
TITS religion that can give
Sweetest pleasures while live;
It's religion can supply
Sweetest comfort when die
But have something better to tell you,
suggested by this text Ii seems that old
father Caleb on the wedding day of his tlaugh-
ter wanted to make her just as happy as pos
siblc. Though Othniel was taking her away.
and his heart WAS almost broken because she
was going, yet he gives her a 'tsouth land"
not only that but the neither springs; not
only that, but the upper springs. o God my
Father / thank Thee that Thou hast given me
south land" in this world, and the neither
springs of spiritual comfort in this world;
but, more than all, / thank Thee for the
upper springs in heaven.
II is very fortunate we cannot see heaven
until we get into it. Oh Christian man, IL
s'you could see what place it is, we would
never get You back again to the office or store
or shop, and the duties you ought TO perform
would go neglected lam glad shall not see
that world until enter it. Suppose we were
allowed TO 60 on an excursion into that good
land with the idea Of returning When we got
there, and heard the song, and looked at
their raptured faces, and mingled in the SUI
pernal society, we would cry out ''Let us
stay We are coming here anyhow. Why
take the trouble of going back again 10 that
old worldg We arc here now; let us stay
And it would take angelic violence TO put
us out of that world, IL once We got
bAtlc. Dul ItcopAc WIZ G2ALllOl
ford to pay for an entertainment some
times come around it and look through the
door ajar, or through the openings in the
fence, so we come end look through the
crevices in that good land which God has pro-
vided for us. We can just catch n glimpse of
it. We come near enough to hear the
rumbling of the eternal orchestra, though
not near enough to know who blows
the cornet or who fingers the harp
My soul spreads out both wings and claps
them in triumph at the thought of those
upper springs One of them breaks from
beneath the throne; another breaks forth
from beneath the altar of the temple; an
other at the door Of ''thc house Of many
mansions Upper springs of gladnessl Up
per springs Of light Upper springs of Lowell
1t is no fancy of mine. "The Lamb which is
in the midst of the throne shall load them TO
living fountains of water" Oh, Savior de
vine roll in upon our souls one OF those an
ticipated rapturesl Pour around the roots of
the parched tongue one drop of that liquid
lifel Toss before our vision those fountains
of God, rainbowed with eternal victory.
Hear it. They are never sick there. not 50
mucn as a headache or twlngo rheumatic,
or thrust neuralgia The inhabieant never
says: 81 am sick They are never tire there.
Flight TO farthest world is only the play of a
holiday. They never sin there. II IS as easy
for them 10 be holy as it Is for US TO sin. They
never die there. You might go through all
one place where the ground was broken for
a grave. The eyesight Of the redeemed Is
never blurred with tears There is health In
every cheek. There is spring in every foot.
There is majesty on every brow. There
Is joy in every heart. There is hosanna
on every lin. How they must pity
us rs they look over and down and see
us and say: poor things away down IN that
world" And when some Christian is hurled
into fatal accident, they cry; Good he Is
comingr' And when we stand around the
couch OF some loved one Whose strength is
going away) and we shake our heads fore
bodingly, they cry: 81 am glad he is worse;
he has been down there long enough. There,
he is dead Come home' Come homer
Oh, If we could only get our ideas about that
future world UNFINISHED our thought OF trans
fer from here to there would be as pleasant TO
MS as il was to q little child that was dying.
She said "Papa, when viii go homey"
And he said To-day, Florence" To-
daye So soong am so glad !"
/ wish could stimulate you with these
thoughts oh Christian man, to the highest
possible exhilaration. The day OF your de
iiverance is coming, is coming. II isrolling
ON with the shining wheels Of the day, and
the let wheels OF the night. Every thump OF
fine heart is only hammer stroke striking on
another chain Of clay. Better sconr tne decS
and coil the rope, the harbor Is only SIX nslles
away. Jesus will come down in the MAR
rows, to meet YOU Now is your saiveton
nearer than when you believed.
Unforgiven man, unpardoned man wiz
Won not to-day make choice between snese
two nortions' between the south land OF
this world, which slopes to the desert and
this glorious land which thy rather ollers
thee running with eternal water courses.
Why let your tongue be consumed with thirst
when there are the neither springs and tne
upper springs, comfort here and glory mere
afterf -. .h.. +ha
Let me tell you, my dear brother, tnat .ne
silliest and wickedest thing man ever ooe ss
is to reject Jesus Christ Inc los On Tue -
L \ mistake that cannot be corrected. IL Is
a downfall that knows no allevianon, II IS
ruin that is remedies: it is sickness snas
ms no Inedicament: il is a grave INTO wnlcn
10 - INIT never comes out Therefore,
putting my hand on your shoulder as - one
brother puts his hand ON the snouioel a y -
brother. 1 say this day. be manly anu SUI
render your heart 10 Christ. nou na 49,. 49, =.
long enough serving the world a nov Yo oos have
s;s ,,, o,ouo-I, 70 carry these burdens Yet
Je M Christ put His shoulder under your