The Forrest City times., 1890-05-10

clear above Eddystone lighthouse Do not charge upon God all these troubles of tho world. As long as tho world atuck to God, God stuck to tho world; but the earth seeded from his government and hence all thcse outragos, and all those woes. God Is good. For many hundreds of yearA He has been coaxing the world to come back to him; but the mora he has coaxed. tho more violent men have been in their resist euco and they have stepped back and stop ped back until they hnve dropped into ruin
 Try this God, ye who have had tho blood hounds after you, and who had thought that God had forgotten you. Try Him, and soc if He will not help. Try Him and ses II He will not pardon. Try Him, and see if He will not save Tho flowers of spring have no bloom so sweet as the towering of Christs affections. The sun hath no warmth compared with tho glow of His heart Tho waters havo no refreshment like the fountains that will slake the thirst of thy soul. At tho moment tho reindeer stands with his lip and nostril thrust in the cool mountain torrent the hunter may bs coming through the thicket Without crack ing a stick under his foot, he comes close by the stag, aims his gun, draws tho trigger, and the poor thing rears in It's death agony and falls back ward. its anlers crashing on the rocks; but the panung heart that drinks from the water brooks of Gods promise shall never bs fatally wounded, and shall never die.
 This world is poor portion for your soul, oh business man. An eastern king had graven on his tomb two fingers, repro scented as sounding upon each other with Q snap, and under them tho motto; "All is not worth that" Apicius Cnlius hanged himself because his steward informed him that he had only eighty thousand pounds sterling left All of this worlds riches make but small inheritance for . soul
 Robespierre attempted to win the sp- plause of the world but when he was dying a woman came rushing through the crowd crying to him. "Murderer of my kindred, descend to hell covered with tho curses of every mother in Frauce'' Many who have expected the plaudits of the world have died under it's anathema maranatha.
 Oh. find your peace In God. Make one strong pull for heaven. No half way work will do 1t There some times comes time on shipboari when everything must be sacrificed to save the passengers. The cargo Is nothing, the rigging nothing. The captain puts the trumpets to his lips and shouts:
 
 have been tossed and driven. and you have, in your effort to keep the world, well niga lost your soul. Until you have decided this matter let everything olse go. Overheard with ali those other anxietics and burdens You will have to drop tho sails of your pride and cut away tho masts With one earnest cry for help put your cause into tho hand of Him who helped Paul out Of the breakers Of Melta and who, above the sliriil blast of the wrathiest tempest that over blackened tho sky or shook thu ocean, can hear the faintest implo-ation for mercy.
 shall go homo to- day feeling that some Of you, who have considered your case as hopeless, will take heart again, and that, with a bIoodred earnestness. such as you have never experienced before you will start for tho good land of tho gospel--at last to look pack saying: What a great risk l ranl Almost lost, but savedl Just got through and no morel Escaped by tho skin Of my teethf