The Russellville Democrat., 1890-01-02
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 in the hour of extremityl
 You mourn over your sins. lou could not find the way out You sat down and said: God will not be mercifal: He has cast me oH;r but in that, the darkest hour of your history, light b7oike from the throne, and Jesus said: 70 wander CT, come home l have seen all thy sorrows In this, she hour of thy ex- tremity, I offer thee pardon and ever lasting lifelv
 Trouble came. You were almost torn to pieces by that trouble You braced yourself ID against it. You said: I will Dc stoic. and will not care;" but before yon had got through making tho resolution it broke down under you. You felt that all your resources were gone, and then Jesus came. ..In the fourth watch of the night. tho Bible says, Jesus came walking on the sea. Why did He not come in she first watch7 or in the second watch? o, in the third watch? I do not know. He came in the fourth and gave delives anee to His disciples. Jesus in the last extremityi
 I wonder if it will be so in sur very last extremity. We shall fall suddenly sick; and doctors will come, but t@ vain. We will try the anodynes and thA stim- ulants and the bathings but all ia vain Something will say: '.Yon rrrtt 20. No one to hold us back. but the lands of eternity stretched out to pull Is on. What then? Jesus will come to us. and as we say, Lord Jesus. l am afraid of +ba+ x.-a t.ar. ,a .,.4 ,,,ala s1 1~.,,4.4. .. the other side, Tile will say, sTake hold of my arm;' and vie win take hold oi His arm and then He will put His foot in the surf of the wave, taking us all down deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper, and cur soul will cry: All thy waves. and bil- lows have gone over me" They coves the feet come to the knee, pass the girdle and come to the head. and our souls cry out: Lord Jesus Christ. I can not hold Thine arm any longer.s Then Jesus will turn around, throw both His arms about us, and set us on tt-e beach, far beyond the tossing billowa Jesus in the last extremity
 That wedding scene is gone now. The wedding ring has been lost, she tank ards have been broken, the House ia down; but Jesus invites US to grander wedding. You know the Bible hays that the church is the Lambs wifo and the Lord will, after. awhile, come to fetch her home. There will be glefming of torches in the sky, and the tru npets of God will ravish the air with Eeir mu- sic, and Jesus will stretch out lis hand, and the church, robed in white, will put aside her vail, and look up into he face of her Lord the King, and tbI bride groom will say to the bride: Thou hast been faithful through all these years! The mansion if readyl Come home, Thou art fair, my lover and then He shall pu, upon her brow the crown of dominitn, and the table will be spread. and 1t will reach across the skies, and the suighty ones of Heaven will come in. gae'anded with beauty and striking their cysnbals; and the bridegroom and bride will stand at the head of the table, and the ban queters, looking up. will wonder and ad- mire and say: That is Jesus the bridegroom? But the scar on His brow is covered with the coronet, and the stab in His side is covered with a robe,'' and That is the bridei The weariness of her earthly woe lost in the flush of this wedding triumph,p
 There will be wine enough at that wedding: not coming up from the poi soned vats of earth, but the vineyards of God will press their ripest clusters, and the cups and the tankards will blush to the brim with the Heavenly vintage, and then all the banqueters will drink standing. Esther having come up from the bacchanalian revelry of Ahasuerus, where thousand lords feasted, 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 ef the feast:
 Thou ast keptthe good wine until now.