The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-08
AT ST. MARKS PARISH.
The Church Crowded-Sermon by
Rector.

The Church Crowded-Sermon by the
Rector.
ST. Marks church was so crowded for
yesterday mornings service that it was
necessary TO put chairs in the sisles. The
surpliced choir did exceilently in its sing
ing, giving general satisfaction. The rec
tor, Rev. d. C. Garrett, preached an elo
quent sermon from the last verse in the
book OF Daniel as a text:
But go thou thy way till the end be; for thou
shalt rest and stand in thy lot at the end of the
days.
When these words were written the prophet
Daniel had come to the end OF a long and event.
iul lie. He had lived 50 years,
large part of which had been
spent in captivity in Babylon. He had seen
many visions that have been recorded in the
wonderful book that bears MS name. This last
vision recorded in the c.osing chapter was of
man clothed in linen stan ling upon the waters
of river. And one said 10 this man, "How long
shall it be 70 the end of these wonders" And
the answer was, when he shall have accom-
plished To scatter the power of the holy people,
all these things shall be finished"
Then Daniel, understanding not. asked again
what would be the end OF these things. The re-
ply came, go thy way, Daniel, for the words are
closed up and sealed till the time of the end"
and then the words givsn in the text.
Many have tried to interpret the vision, seek
ing to find exactly what was meant by the
scattering of the power of the holy
people. Some have thought that it
referred to the overthrow OF the temporal power
OF Israel and others have fixed the event al
other periods.
But the words seem true of all time, and carry
q lesson even to us today. The river is q type of
the great river OF time that is flowing in forever
and ever, bearing US slong In its current, while
the man clothed in linen stands for the ever
blessed Son OF God. We, as we see the current
of time and the wonders OF these latter days,
ask ourselves and we appeal TO God to know
what shall be the end of things. We want to
learn the outcome of the inidelity aud OF the
agnosticism, of the socialism. ol the new theories
and the old ones in philosophy, of the strife BE-
tween classes, of the bitterness, of the pride OF
the hatred and the injustice. of the grinding of
the poor. and the envy toward the rich, we ask
in impatience: "What will be the end of these
things? And the reply comes as it did in the
days OF old, go thou thy way till the end be-
We know that the words are closed up and
sealed till the time of the end, and ts at in His
own day the Lord will reveal all. In His hand
is the outcome OF all, and we need not trouble
ourselves. To us the injunction is to go our
way. and to do our several duties that lie
mex US.
called the way of the Lord, and the path OF
peace; and the injunction to follow it is not
only In regard to our general anxiety for the
welfare of society and the world at large, bat in
regard to our private, personal troubles. There
is many man worrying about his inan-
cial matters: his business does not go
as he would like To have it; reyerses
come 10 him; he is unable to provide for his
family as he would like, and he says: What
shall be the end of these things?" There are
mothers who wish t. give their children greater
advantages in the way OF education and travel,
10 give them wider outlook over life and a
greater share in its pleasures, but the path
seems blocked, the way is dark and the outlook
gloomy. aud so these women ask, as do the men,
"What shall be the end of these thngs?'
Indeed, the world is fun of tortured troubled
souls, fnl Of disquiet aad unrest; but to all
bowed down beneath the weight of woe the
same answer comes from the God who is change
less yesterday. today and forever, go thou tiny
way till the end be- Tor thou shalt rest and stand
in thy lot at the end OF the days
This answer prom ses the one thing for which
the world longs-rest. This escape from the
WEAKNESS and toll is the hope of every suffering
soul. But rest is not death. not a total Cessation
from life and sensation. The true rest is the
activity OF the SOL III the field best fitted for Its
endeavors. Such blessed rest as this which
shall endure 10 al eternity, is the promise held
out to us. For every heart weary aud heavy
laden, for every soul asking for the end, is
promised this heaven of rest