Sharp County record., 1890-11-27

mean by that? mean, you do your
duty toward God and toward your chi'e,
and you will find him after awhile IN
the kingdom OF Christ Will you say
~ do not have any way Of influencing
my child" | answer you have the
most tire emendous line of influence open
right before you. As you write IA let
ter, and there are two or three
routes by which it may go, but you
want it to go the quickest route,
and you put on it "via Southampton,
or "via San Francisco" or via Mar
seilles," put on your wishes about your
child, via the throne OF God" HOW
long will such good wish take 10 ge'
to its destinationP Not quite as long as
tho millionth part Of second, VIII
prove it. The promise is: Before they
call / will answer" That means al
your first motion toward such prayerful
exercise the blessing will come and Il
the prayer be made at ten o'clock at
night it will be answered five minutes
before ten. Before they call | Will
answer"
But we must hurry on, for the mule
teers and baggagemen have been Or
dered to pitch our tents for tonight al
Bethel. 1t is already getting so dark
that we have to give up all idea OF
guiding the horses and leave them to
their own sagacitv. We ride down
amid mud cabins and into rayines where
the horses leap from depth to depth
rocks below rocks, rocks under rocks
Whoa! Whoa! We dismount in this
place, memorable for many things IN
Bible history, the two more prominent
a theological seminary, where OF old
they made ministers, and for Jacobs
dream. The students Of this
Bethel Theological Seminary were
called Sons of the Prophets" y" Here
the young men were fitted for the min
istry, and those of us who ever had the
advantage Of such institutions Will
everlastlngly be grateful, and in the
calendar of saints, which l read with
especial affection, are the doctors OF
divinity who blessed me with their
care / thank God that from these
theological seminaries there is now
coming forth magnificent crop OF
young ministers, who are taking the
pulpits in all parts of the land. / hail
their coming and tell these young
brothers to shake off the SOM
nolence OF centuries, and get
out from under the dusty
shelves of theological discussions which
have no practical bearing on this age,
which needs to get rid of its sins and
have its sorrows comforted. Many OF
our pulpits are dying of humdrum.
People do not go to church because they
can not endure the technicalites and
profound explanations of nothing, and
sermons about the eternal generation
of the Son." and the difference between
sublapsarianism and supralapsarism,
and about who M~lchisideck wasn't.
There ought to be as much difference
between the modes of presenting truth
now and in olden time, as between a
lightning express rail-train and a
canal boat Years ago, l went up
to the door of q factory in
New England. On the outside door
| / saw the words: "No admit
tance." went in and came to another
door over which were written the Words
mo admittance OF course l went in,
and came to the third door inscribed
with the words mo admittance." Hav-
ing entered this, l found the people in
side making pins, useful pins and moth.
ing but pins! So over the outside door
of many Of the churches has been prac-
tically written the words, mo admit
tance" Some have entered, and have
come to tho inside door and found the
words, mo admittance." But persist
ing, they have come inside, and found
us sounding out our little niceties of be-
lief, pointing out our little difference OF
theological sentiment--making pins!
But most distinguished was Bethel
for that famous dream which Jacob had,
his head on collection Of stones. He
had no trouble in this rocky region in
finding rocky pillow, There is hardly
any thing else but stone. Yet the peo.
Pile of those lands have way Of draw
ing their outer garment up over thoir
head and face, and such pillow sup.
pose Jacob had under his head. The
plural was used in the Bible story,
and you will find it was not a pillow
OF stone, but Of stones, / suppose,
so that II one proved to be of un-
even surface he would turn over in the
night and take another stone, for with
such o hard bolster he would often
change in tho night, Well, that night
God built in Jacobs dream long
splendid ladder, the feet Of 1t on either
side Of the tired pilgrims pillow, and
the top Of 1t mortised in the sky And
bright immortals came out from tho
castles OF amber and gold and put their
shining feet on the shining rungs Of the
ladder, and they kept coming down and
going up, procession both ways,
| suppose they had wings, for tho
Bible almost always peports them as
having wings, but this was ladder on
which they used hands and feot to en-.
courage all those OF US who have no
wings to climb, and encouraging us to