Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-12-27

and Jesus said; 80 wanderer, como home.
have seen all thy sorrows. In this, the hour
Of thy extremity, offer thee pardon and
everlasting litem
Trouble came. You were almost torn to
pieces by that trouble. You braced yourself
up against it, You said 81 will be Stole
and will not care" but before you had got
through making the resolution il broke down
under you. You felt that all your resources
were gone, and then Jesus came. TN the
fourth watch OF tho night" the Bible says,
"Jesus came walking on tho sea-" Why did
he not come in the first watchl or in
the second watch' or in the third watchl
do not know. lie came in the fourth, and
gave deliverance to his disciples. Jesus in
the last extremity!
wonder if it will be so in our very last ex-
trcmity. We shall fall suddenly sick, and
doctors will come, but in vain. We will try
the auodynes, and the stimuants, and the
bathings, but all in vain. Something will
say: "You must 60" No one to hold us
back, but the hands Of eternity stretched out
to pull us on. What theni Jesus will come
to us, and as we say Lord Jesus, / am
afraid of that water, cannot wade through
to the other side" he will say: Take hold
of my arm" and we will take hold of his arm,
and then he will put his foot in the surf of
the wave, taking us on down deeper, deeper,
deeper, and our soul will cry: "All thy waves
and pillows have gone over me-" They cover
the feet, come to the knee, pass the girdle,
and come to the head, and our soul cries out:
Lord Jesus Christ, cannot hold thine arm
any longer!n Then Jesus will turn around,
throw both his arms about us, and set us on
the beach far beyond the tossing of the bill
low Jesus in the last extremity
4 GRANDER WEDDING.
That wedding scene is gone now. The wed.
ding ring has been lost, the taniards have
been broken, the house is down; but Jesus in
vitos us to a granier wedding, You know
the Bible says that the church is tho Lambs
wife; and the Lord will after awhile come to
fetch her home. There will be cleaning OF
torches in the sky, and the trumpets of God
will raviSh the air with their music and
jesus will stretch out his hand, and the
church, robed in white, will put aside her
veil and look up into the face of her Lord
the king, and the bridegroom will say
to the bride: Thou hast been faithful
through all these years! The mansion
is ready Come home Thou art fair,
my loven and then he shall put upon
her brow the crown of dominion, and the
table will be spread and it will reach across
the skies, and the mighty ones Of heaven will
come in, garlandcd with beauty and striking
their cymbalS; and the bridegroom and bride
will stand ut the head of the table, and the
bauqueters, looking up, will wonder and ad-
mire, and say; That is Jesus, the bride
groOml But the scar on his brow is covered
with the coronet, and the stab in his side is
covered with a rohe!' and THAT is the
bride! the WEAKNESS of her earthly woe lost
in the flush of this wedding triumph
There will be wine enough at that we'd
ding; not coming up from the poisoned watts
of earth, but the vineyards of God will press
their ripcst clusters, and the cups and the
tankards will blush to the brim with the heav-
emily vintage and then all the banqueters will
| drink standing. Esther having come up
| from the bacchnnalan reyelry of AhaSuerus,
| where thousand lords toasted, will be there.
| And the queen of Sheba, from the banquet of
! Solomon, will be there. And the mother of
Jesus, from the wedding in Cana, will be
there. And they all will agree that the
earthly feasting was poor compared with
! that. Then, lifting their chalices in that holy
| light, they shall cry to the lord of the feast:
''Thou hast kept the good wine until now"