The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-03-14
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occurrence in Christ's H;nistry. My text
brings US to a wedding nat village. It IS
a wedding III common hfesWp pl1n people
having pledged each other, nd and heart,
and their friends having dae in for
eongratulation. The joy not the
less because there IS no pretenslon.
In each other they find all the Iture they
want The daisy in the cup on q table may
mean as much as a score of artic garlands
fresh from the dollhouse. Whe daughter
goes off from home with nothinbut a PLAIN
fathers blessing and a plain Dther's love, I
she is missed as much as thOugsshe were a
Princess. IL seems hard afterthe parents
have sheltered her for eighteen ears, that IN
n few short months her affection should have
been carried off by another; bu mother re-
members how it was in her owl case when
she was young, and so she bracesnp until the
wedding has passed, and the bsaqueters are
gone, and she has a good cry allalonec
! Well, we are to-day at the wedding IN
/ Cana Of Galilee. Jesus and His mother
/ have been invited. 1t is evide1t that there
are more people there than wsro expected
4 Either some people have come who were not
! invited or more invitations have been sent
| out than it was supposed would be accepted:
4 OF course there is not enough supply oil
wine. You know that there IS nothing
more embarrassing to housekeeper than
scant supply. Jesus sees the embarrass
ment, and He comes up Immediately to re-
/ lieve it. He sees standing six water pots.
/ He orders the servants to fill them with wa
/ ter then waves His hand over the water,
and Immediately it is wine-real VINE.
/ Taste of it, and see for yourselves;
no logwood in it no strychnine in it, but first
rate wine. l WI = now be diverted 10 the
question 50 oft "a ,,;;s,c,,ssed ip my own eoun
try, whether It 2 drink VINE I7l3 a mn
describing the Scene as it W. Y men you
makes wine He makes the very best |l I
and one hundred and thirty gallons OF -
standing around in these water pots-wine
so good that the ruler of the feast tastes it
and says: why, this is really better than
anything we have hadi Thou hast kept the
good wine until now.n Beautiful miraclel A
prize was offered to the person who should
write the best essay about the miracle in Cana.
Long manuscripts were presented in the COM
petition, but the poet won the prize by just
this one line descript1T re of the miracle.
The unconscious water saw its God, and blushed.
We learn from this miracle, in the first
place, that Christ has sympathy with house
keepers. You might have thought that Jesus
would have said: Il cannot be bothered with
this household deficiency of wine. It is not
for me, Lord of heaven, of earth, to become
caterer to this feast. | have vaster things
than this to attend tor Not so said Jesus
The wine gave out and Jesus, by miraculous
power, came to the rescue Does there ever
come scant supply in your household? Have
you TO make a very close calculatiOns
Is it hard work for you to carry on things
decently and respectfully? If so, don't SIT
down and cry. Don't go out and fret; but
90 to Him who stood in the house in
Cana of Galilee. Pray in the parlorl Pray
I in the kitchen? Let there be no room in all
! your house mconsecrated by the voice of
prayer. If you have a microscope, put under
Z It one drop of water, and see the insects
floating about; and when you see that God
makes them, and cares for them, and feeds
them, come to the conclusion that He will
take care Of you and feed you, oh, We of little
faith
A boy asked if he might sweep the snow
from the steps of a house. The lady of the
household said: YES; you seem very poor. F"
He says: u am very poor She says:
4 ''Don't you sometimes get discouraged, and
I feel that God is going to let you starvee'
! The lad looked up in the woman's face and
said: DO you think God viii let me starve
when trust Him, and then do the best camp
I Enough theology for older peoplel Trust
in God and do the best you can Amidst all the
worriments of housekeeping, go to Him; He
will help you control your temper, ard super
wise your domestics, and entertain your
guests, and manage your home economies.
nervous, and exhausted with the cares Of
housekeeping. l commend you to the Lord
I Jesus Christ as the best adviser and most
{ efficient aid-the Lord Jesus who performed
1 His first miracle to relieve housekeeper.
l learn also from this miracle that Christ
/ does things in abundance. I think a small
! supply of wine would have made up for the
I deficiency. think certainly they must have
I had enough for half OF the guests. One gal
| lon of wine will do; certainly five gallons
Z will be enough: Certainly ION Put Jesus
goes on, and He gives them tsl4. gallons,
and forty gallons, and fifty gallons, and sew
enty gallons and one hundred gallons, and
one hundred and thirty gallons of the very
best wine.
1t is just like Him, doing everything on the
largest and most generous scale. Does Christ
our Creator, go forth to make leaves? HC
makes them by the whole forest full; notched
like the fern, or silyered like the aspen. OF
broad like the palm; thickets in the tropics
Oregon forests Does He 90 forth to make
fowersi He makes plenty of them; they
flame from the hedge, they hang from tn
( top of the grapevine in blossoms, they roll il
the blue wave of the violets, they toss thei
I white surf into the spirea-en0ugh for every
{ childis hand a flower enough to make fol
I every brow chaplet, enough with beauty Il
cover up the ghastliness of all the graves
I Does He go forth to create water2 He pour
itout, not by the cupful, but bya river full
{ a lake full, an ocean full pouring it out un
til all the earth has enough to drink, and
I enough with which to wash
Does Jesus, our Lord, provide redemption.
It is not little salvation for this one, little
1 for that, and little for the other. but
enough for "Whosoever will, let him
come" Each man an ocean full for himself.
I Promises for the young promises for the
/ old, promises for the lowly, promises for the
blind, for the halt, for the outcast for the
{ abandoned Pardon for ALL comfort for all,
mercy for all, heaven for all; not merely a
cupful of Gospel supply, but one hundred
/ and thirty gallons. Ay, the tears of cody
I repentance are all gathered up into Gods
/ bottle, and some day, standing before the
I throne, we will lift our cup of delight and ask
that it be filed with the wine of heaven; and
1 Jesus, from that bottle of tears, viii begin to
! pour in the cup, and we will cry: stop,
Jesus, we do not want to drink our own
/ tearsF and Jesus will say: Know We not
/ that the tears of earth are the wine of
heayen| Sorrow may endure, but joy COM
/ eth in the morning.
remark further, Jesus does not shadow
/ the joys of others with His own griefs He
7 might have sat down in that wedding and
said: 81 have so much trouble, so much
I poverty, such persecution, and the cross
/ is conn., :, shall not rejoice, and the gloom
| Of My face and of My sorrows shall be cast
over all this group So said MT Jesus. He
said to Himself: ''Here are two persons
starting out in married life. Let it be joy
/ full occasion. 1 will hide My own griefs. l
viii kindle their joy" There are many not
so wise as that know a household
where there are many little chill
/ 1ren, where for TO years the mu
sical instrument has been Kept shut because
there has been trouble in the house. Ala.
! f. tho fcii.si p1-zat= zayin5s we viii
have nc Christmas tree this coming holiday
because there has been trouble in the house
Hush that laughing up stairs. How can
There be any joy when there has been so
much trouble p And so they make every
thing consistently doiefel, and send their
sons and daughters to ruin with the gloom
they throw around them.
On, my dear friends, do you not know those
children will have trouble enough of their
own after whilel Be glad they cannot ap-
preclate all yours. Keep back the cup Of
bitterness from your daughters lips. When
your head is down in the grass of the tomb.
poverty may come to her, betrayal to her.
bereavement to her. Keep back the sorrows