Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-08-15

hold IL M H.. 'i husbands pocket and
on, . ~ W. oeiore the audience, and cried
,Tnoro mere III. re, is the cause of my woe,
= drm,i nie ,he tears and the life blood of
mn ~ . Wv m wife, And then, looking
In nrd ~ !, ineav'n. She said, ':How long. @
tn ~ , a,,S,: lohs and then, looking down
fno ~. auolehcr, cried. do you wonder
m.i u' strongly ON this subjecto Sisters.
VIII you help me?" And hundreds Of
YOU" '''' WV VIII ieip
Aou stand. some of you, in sucb
Tragedy to-day. You cannot oven ,s,.
nm 10 stop drinking. 1t makes him
ross and he tells You to mind your own
business: is there any relief in such =
case? Not such us is found in tho rim.
a''' Oh comfort ordinarily given IN
such cases. But there is n rrlicf that
u ", ., IN mamma from the throne of God.
VII, li1 up your laceratcd soul i'm PRAYER.
q, you VIII get omnipotent comfort! |
uo hot Know in what words the soothing
lhhuehcc may come, but know that for
especial grief there is especial deliver
allee; give you two or three passages:
orv them on. Take that which best fits
your soul: ''Whom the Lord lovcth He
shastcheth. 'All things work together
iof good to those who love Cod"
weeping may endure for night. but
Joy cometh in the morning. know
lhere are those who, when they try to
COMFORT people. always bring the same
staie sentiment about the usefulness of
trlal. Instead of bringing up a new
plaster Tor new wound. and fresh
mama Tor fresh hunger. they rummage
thelr havcrsack to find some crumb of
oid consolation, when from horizon to
horizon the ground is white with the new
fallen mamma of Gods help not five min
uteS old.
But after fourteen thousand six hun
dred consecutive days of falling mama
sundays eXcepted-the mama ceased.
some OF them were glad of it. You
Know they had complained to their
leader, and wondered that they had to
eat mamma instead of onions. Now
the fare is changed. Those people
in that army under 40 years of age
had never seen a cornfield, and now
when they hear the leaves rustling and
see the tasscls waving and the pillows
OF green flowing over the plain as the
wind tonched them, it must have been
new and lively sensation. ''Corn!'
cried the old man as he opened an ear.
"Corn!' cried the children as they
counted the shining grains. "Corn!'
shouted the vanguard of the host as they
burst open the granarics of the af-
frighted population, the granarics that
had been left in the possession of the
victorious Israclites. Then the fire was
klndlcd and the ears of corn were thrust
intoit, and. fresh and crisp and. tender, were
devoured of the hungry Victors; and
bread was prepared, and many things
that can be made out of flour RECALLED the
appetites that had been sharpencd by the
long march. ''And the mama ceased on
the morrow after they had eaten of the
old corn of the land.''
Blessed be God, we stand in Just such
a field to-day, the luxuriant grain com
ing above the girdle, the air full of the
odors of the ripe old corn of the Gospel
Canaan. "Oh!'' you say, 'thc fare is too
plain.' Then 1 remember you will soon
get tired of a fanciful diet, While was
in Paris liked for while the rare and
excellent cookery; but l soon wished 1
was home again and had the plain fare of
my native land. So it is fact that we
soon weary of the sirups, and the Gus
tards, and the whipped foam:of fanciful
religionists, and we cry, "Give us plain
bread made out of the old corn of the Cos
pei of Canaan" This is the only food
that can quell the souls hunger.
But you say corn is of but little prac-
teal use unless it is threshed and ground
and baked. answer, this gospel corn
has gone through that process. When
on Calvary all the hoofs of human scorn
came down on the heart of Christ, and all
the fails of satanic fury beat him long
and fast, was not the corn thrcshed ?
When the mills of Gods indignation
against sin caught Christ between the
upper and neither rollers, was not the corn
ground? When Jesus descended into hell,
and the flames of the lost world wrapped
Him all about, was not the corn baked?
Oh, yes! Christ is ready, His pardon all
ready, His peace all ready, everything
ready in Christ. Are you ready for
Him?
You say, "That is such simple Cos
pcll'' l knowit is. You say you thought
religion was strange mixture of clabor-
ate compounds. No; it is so plain that
any abecedaran may understand it. In its
simplicity is its power. If you could this
morning realize that Christ died to save
from sin and death and hell not only your
minister and your neighbor and your
father or your child, but you, it would
make this hour like the judgment day for
agitations, and, no longer able to keep
your seat, you would leap up crying,
..For me! for mc!'' God grant that you,
my brother, may see this gospel with your
own eyes, and hear with your own ears,
and feel with your own heart that you are
lost soul, but that Christ comes for your
extrication. Can you not take that truth
and digest it, and make it a part of your
immortal life? 1t is only bread.
You have noticed that invalids cannot
take all kinds of food. The food that
| will do for one will not do for another.
| There are kinds of food which will pro-
ducc, in case of invalidism, very speedy
death. But you have noticed that all
| persons, however weak they may be. can
take bread. Oh, soul sick with sin, in
valid in your transgrcssions, l thint 1his
gospei will af.rec with you! 1 think t
yo, cannot take anything else you can
take this! Lost-found! Sunken-
raised! neutrality-suspicious.! Cast
out-invited in! That is the old corn OF
the Gospel.
notice in regard to this article OF
food you take it three times day. 1t
is on your table morning, noon, and
night; and if it is forgotten you say,