Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-14

50 long shall SEQ Thee Jesus Of my choice:
jesus OF my song; Jesus ofmy triumph-for,
ever aud foreyer-face to facer'
The idea Of my texts is just as true when
applied to Gods providence Who has not
como to some pass in life thoroughly mex
Plcable' You say: what does this mean,
what Is God going to do with mo nowi He
tolls mo that oil things work together for
good. This does not look like itn You con-
tinue to study the dispensation, and after a
while guess about what God means. 'tHe
means TO teach mo this. think He means TO
teach me that. Perhaps 1t is to humble my
prize. Perhaps it is to make mo feel moro
dependent. Perhaps to teach me the ,,ncer-
tainty OF life:" But after all, it is only a
guess-a looking through tho glass. darfsly.
The Bible assures us there shall be n satisfac-
tory unfolding. What do thou knowcst
You will know why God took to Himself That
only child. Next door there was a household
OF seven children. Why not take enc from
that group, instead of your Only one, Why
single out the dwelling in which there was
why did God give you child at all, il He
meant TO take it away Why fill tho cup Of
your glodness trimming, il He meant to dash
1t dowrs Why allow all the tendrils Of Your
heart to wind around that object, and then
when every fibre OF your own life seemed 10
be interlocked with the child's life, with
strong hand to fear you rpart, until you fall
bleeding and crushed, your dwelling desolate,
your hopes blasted, your heart broken? Do
you suppose that God will explain that? Yea
10 will make it palmer than any mathemat-
icai problem--as plain rs that two and two
mako four. In tho light OF the throne you
will see that it was right-all right Gust
md true arc all Thy ways, Thou King of
Saints.n
Here is n man who cannot get on in tho
world. lie always seems to buy at tho
wrong time and to sell at tho worst disad-
vantage. He tries this enterprise, and fails;
that business, and is disappointed Tho man
next door to him has n lucrative trade, but
ne lacks customers. A new prospect opens.
His income is increased. But that year his
family aro sick; and tho profits arc expended
in trying to cure tho ailments. Ho gets n
discouraged look. Becomes faithless as to
success. Begins to expect disasters Others
M y ~ Tor something to turn up; no waits for
much EDUCATION and character, got on twice
MS well. Ito sometimes guesscs rs TO what it
all means. Ho says: perhaps riches would
spoil mo- Perhaps poverty is necessary 10
Keep me humble. Perhaps might if things
wero otherwise, be tempted into dissipa.
tons" But there is no complete solution of
INC mystery. He sees through glass; darl:-
~, md must wait for higher unfoldinp
WIZ there be an explanation? Yes; God
VIII take that man in tho lighto Tie throne.
ton You remember the fqiiing OF that
great enterprise. This is the cxplamation.n
AMI you will answer: ut is all rightm
see, every day, profound mysteries of
frovidcnce There is 10 question we ask
oftener than Why? There frc hundreds Of
graves that need to be explained Hospitals
Tor the blind and lame, nSylums for the idio-
tic and insane, almshouscS for tho destitute
anu world of pain and misfortune that de-
mand more than human solution. All! God
from tho throne no dark mystery can live
IhnSs now utterly inscrutnble will be il
lummed ms plainly as though the answer
were written on the jasper wall, or sounded
in tho temple anthem. Bartimciis will thnn,
God that ho was blind: aud Lazarus that ho
was covered with sores; and Joseph TINT la
was cast into tho pit; and Daniel that he
denned with lions; and Paul that he was
humpbackcd; md David that he was driven
from Jerusalen; and tho sewing-woman that
sho could get only few pence for making
garment; and that invalid that for twenty
years he could not lift his head from the pill
low; and TINT widow that she had such hard
work to earn bread for her children. You
know that III song different voices carry
different parts. Tho sweet and oyerwhelni-
ing part of the hallelujah of heaven will not
be carried by those who rode in high places,
and gave sumptuous entertainments: but
pauper children will sing it. beggars will
sing it, redeemed hod-carriers will sing it,
those who were once the ofrscouring of earth
will sing it. Tho hallelujah will be all tho
grander FOR earth's weeping eyes, and aching
heads, and exhausted hands, and scourged
backs, and martyrcd ngonies.
Again: The thought of my texts is true
when applied to tho enjoyment of the right
eous in heaven. think we have but little
idea OF the number of the righteous in heav-
eli. Intldels say: "Your heaven will be n
very small place compared with the world of
the lost; for, according to your teaching, the
majority OF men will be DESTROYED Ideny
the charge. l suppose that the multitude OF
the finally lost, rs compared with the multi
tudc of the finally saved, will be n handful.
suppose that the few sick people in the hos
pitals OF our great cities, as compared with
tho hundreds of thousands of well pcople
would not be smaller than the number OF
those who shall be cast ont in suffering, COM
pared with those who shall have upon them
the health of heaven. For we are to remem-
Der that we are living in only the beginning
of tho Christian dispensation, and that this
whole world is to lie populated and redeemed.
md that ages of light and love are to How
oil. IL this be so, the multitudes of the saved
will be in vast majority. Take all the con-
gregatlons that have assembled for worship
throughout Christendom Put them together
and they would make but small audience
compared with tile thousand and tens of
thousands, and ten thousand times ten thou
sand, and the hundred and forty and four
thousand that shall stand around the
throne. Those flashed up to heaven in
martyr fires; those tossed for many years
ul'oii liic ltlNsiiltl toicu; lnOSc fought III the
armies of liberty, and rose as they fell;
those tumblcd from high scaTolding, or
slipped from the mast, or were washed off
into tho sea. They came up from Corinth.
from I.aodicea, from the Red Sea bank and
G ,i.1 f,, wave, from Egyptian brick
thousands of years ago slept the last sleep,
and these are this moment having their eyes
closed, and their limbs stretched out for the
sepulcher.
a General expecting an attack from the
enemy stands on a hill end locks through a
field glass, aid sees, in tho great distance,
ninititudcs approaching, but has no idea of
their numbers. He says: 81 cannot tell any
thing about them. 1 merely know that there
are n great number" And SO John, without
attempting to count, says: "a great multi
tude that no man can number" We arc
told that heaven is place of happiness; but
what do we know about happiness! Happi-
ness in this world is only half fiedged thing;
{. fiowery path. with a serpent kissing across
it; a broken pitcher from which the water
has dropped before we could drink it; thrill
OF exhilarntion, followed by disastrous re.
heaven, tho Bible takes us To n river Wa