The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-18
oh, for this love let rocks and hills
Their lasting silence break;
And all harmonious human tongues
Tho Snrinilr'S prnist.S SD,sak


Their lasting silence break:
And all harmonious human tongues
The Saviour's praises speak.
Now, will you accept that fathers
kiss The Holy Spirit comes you
with his arousing, melting, alarming,
inviting, vivlfying influence. Hearer,
what creates in thee that unrest 1t Is
the Holy Ghost. What influence now
tells thee that it is time to fly, that to-
morrow may be too late; that there
is one door, one road, one cross, one
sacrifice, one Jesus? 1t is the Holy
Ghost
My most urgent word is to those who,
like the young man of my text, are a
great way off, and they will start for
home, and they will get home. They
will yet preach the gospel, and on com
munion days carry around the conse-
Grated bread, acceptable to everybody
because of their holy life and their con-
secrated behavior. The Lord is going
TO save you. Your home has got to
be rebuilt Your. physical health has
got to be restored Your worldly bust
ness has got to be reconstructed. The
Church of God is going to rejoice over
your discipleship. You are not gospel
hardened. You have not heard or
read many sermons during the last few
wears. You do not weep, but the
shower is not far Off You sigl and
you have noticed that there is alwy. q
sigh in the wind before the rain falls
There are those who would give any
thing if they could find relief in tears.
They say: "Oh, my wasted life! Oh,
the bitter past Oh, the graves over
Which Ihavc stumbled. Whittier shall
l fly Alas for the future! Every
thing is darll-so dark, SO dark. God
help me. God pity me- Thank the
Lord for that last utterance. You have
begun to pray, and when a man begins
to petition, that sets all heaven flying
this way, and God steps in and beats
back the hounds Of temptation to their
kennel. and around about the poor
wounded soul puts the covers of his
pardoning mercy. Hank. hear some
thing fall. What was that' 1t is the
bars of the fence around the sheepfold.
The shepherd lets them down, and the
hunted sheep of the mountain bound
in; some Of them their fleece torn with
+bo Jt,, erarenent shows that
tlle 'ne ten Southern States b,,;I.
lain9 SIX o new railroads and an anDr.
THAI Gloo.5 miles, and in 1850 fb
for d states built ninety-siy new ra
aggregating 1,777.7 milas Il =
crease In the number of now ,
1T c croae 1nan 100 per ceut., and I
sreenIe grease s IN the n9wheeE. nssGia
beautiful piece of the Emerald isle in
its fresh spring raiment The sunny
slopes were jeweled with elyiowers,
and death was framed in marvellous
forms of life. Birds sang in the trees
and sported on the greensward, and If
any one thinks that it is q lonely thing
to be crumbling into dust he needed
but O brief visit to this beautiful city
of the dead to learn his mistake.
Wandering through the devious ways
I came, In far of corner, upon the
spectacle of loves young dream. Shell
tered behind massive tomb that was
covered over with the chaste chlselings
of Italian genius 1 came upon dusky
pair of wooers from the land OF the
spaghetti.
They were very young and very hap
DIV. Spread out before them was u
banquet. Real Italian bologna with
the taste of the garlic in it, and dark
hued bread; q small bottle of chianti,
some young onion shoots and won
derful store Of macaroni [ noticed
among the viands. His strong, young
arms that erst turned the crank of the
barrel organ, or perhaps welded the
broom of the street cleaning brigade,
were around her supple waist, and as
he whispered soft nothings into her
shell like ear they ate macaroni to-
gether.
And the way of the eating was this He
would take up long string of the same,
and, placing one end in her mouth and
the other in bis, they would eat toward
each other until their warm lips met in
a resounding kiss. It was pretty
sight, and was glad to see that the
store of macaroni WIS large.
And so he wooed and won her.
Shocking Not at all. Did the sleep
ing dust below sleep less soundly be-
cause this little onion scented pastoral
was being enacted above it9 trow not,
and when 1 saw guardian of the place
coming TIT WY [ considered it my
duty to hasten to him and draw
him away on the pretext of showing
me the way TO certain place, lest his
unsympethetic eyes might see the sight
and drive them away from their bliee
full luncheon.-NewY York Herald.