The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-01-25

800 WI
lars? Less than that. One dollar
Less than that. One farthing? Les
h a that. without money and with
out price" No money to pay. No jour
ney to take. No pcnance to suffer
Only just one decisive action of tn,
soull
shalt be saved.
Shall try to tell you what it is to bt
saved? can not tell you. No man, NJ
angel can tell you. But | can him at it
For my text brings me up to this point
h shalt be saved" 1t means a hap
Ply life here, and a peaceful death and 9
blissful eternity. 1t is a grand thing to
go to sleep at night. and to get up in
tLem morning, and to do business all day
feeling that all is right between my
heart and God. No accident, no sick.
ness, no persecution, no peril, no sword
can do me any permanent damage.
am u forgiven child Of God, and lie Is
bound to see me through. The mount.
aims may depart, the earth may burn,
the light of the stars may be blown out
by the blast of the Judgment hurricane;
but life and death, things present and
things to come, are mine. Yea, further
than that-it means a peaceful death.
Mrs. Hemans. Mrs. ~Sigourney, DIR.
Young and almost all the poets have
said handsome things about death.
There is nothing beautiful about it.
When we stand by the white and rigid
features Of those we love, and they give
NJ answering pressure of the hand, and
no returning kiss of the lip, we do not
want any body poetizing around about
u 4. Death is.slaathsospeness Apdtraie>
night a9astA ssxlfn Sfethc heart
until fbe III ana tcprl
tH H&<t torture unless Christ be
5asz I confess TO you to an in
finite fear, a consuming horror, OF
death unless Christ shall be with mo. |
would rather go down into a cave of
wild beasts or u Jungle of reptiles than
into a grave, unless Christ goes with
me. VIII you tell me that | am to DO
carried out from my bright home and
put away In the darkness? | can not
bear darkness. At the first coming OF
the evening | must have the gas lit, and
the further on in life | get the more l
like to have my friends around about
me. And am to be put off for thous-
ands of years in q dark place, with no
one to speak to? When the holidays
come and the gifts are distributed, shall
/ add no Joy to the merry Christmas"
or the Happy New Year,"
All, do not point down to the hole in
the ground. the grave, and call 1t a
beautiful place; unless there be some
supernatural illumination, I shudder
back from 1t. But now this glorious
lamp Is lifted above the grave, and all
the darkness Is gone, and the way is
clear. / look into it now without a sin
gle shudder. Now my anxiety Is not
about death; my anxiety Is that l may
live Alright, for I know that my life is
consistent when l come to the last
hour, and this voice Is silent, and
these eyes are closed, and these hands
with which l beg for your eternal sal
walton to-day are folded oyer the still
heart, that then I shall only begin to
live. What power is there in any thing
to chill me In the last hour II Christ
wraps around me the skirt Of his own
garment What darkness can fall upon
my eyelids then, amid the Heavenly
Jay UTcuhG III, i VIA NV iCbi ShVV
then. Back to the cavern of darkness.
thou robber of all on earth. Fly. thou
despoiler Of families. With this battle
axe / hew thee in twain from helmet to
sandal, the voice of Christ sounding
all over earth, and through the heavens;
10 death, ! will be thy plague. ograve,
] will be thy destruction"
To be saved Is to wake up in the pres
ence of Christ. You know VIII n Jesus
was upon earth how happy He made
every house He vent into, and when He
brings Us up to His house how great our
glee. His voice has more music in 1t
than Is to be heard in all the oratorios
Of eternity. Talk not about banks
dashed with effiorescence Jesus Is the
chief bloom OF Heaven. We shall see
the very face that beamed sympathy in
Bethany, and take the very hand that
dropped It's blood from the short beam Of
the cross. o, | want to stand in eternity
with Him. Toward the harbor Isteer. To-
ward that goal | run | shall be salts
fed when ] awake in His likeness. Oh,
broken-hearted men and women, how
sweet 1t will be in that good land to pour
all your hardships, and bereavements,
and losses into the living ear OF Christ,
and then have Him Explain why 1T was
best for you to be widowed, and why 1t
was best for you to be tried. and have
Him point TO an elevation proportionate
to your disquietude here, saying: "You
suffered with me on earth, come up now
and be gloriied with me in Heaven"
Some went into a house where there
had been a good deal Of trouble and said
to the woman there:
"You seem to be lonely"
eyes" she said, ~ am lonely"
slow many in the family?"
"only myself"
"Have you had any children2"
81 had seven children"
"Where are they?"
aGone."
"All gomez"
"All." Then she breathed o long
sigh into the loneliness, and said: 20,
SIR, ] have been q good mother to the
grave"
And so there are hearts here that are
utterly broken down by the bereave.
ments Of life. / point you to-day TO the
W 11A DoAAh vi AOeNC EAO bcA III
here that l am missing this morning.
o, you poor waiting maid! your hearts
sorrow poured In no human ear, lonely
and sad! how glad you will be when
Christ shall disband all your sor.
rows and crown you Queen unto God
and the Lamb foreverl o, aged men
and women, fed by His love and warmed
by His grace for three score years and
ten! will not your decrepitude change
for the leap OF a hart when you come To
look face to face upon Him whom, hav.
ing not seen, you Iovep ., that will
be tho Good Shepherd, not out
in the night and watching to
keep of the wolves, but with
the lambs reclining IN the sun-lit hill,
That will be the Captain of our saliva
ton, not amid the roar. and crash, and
boom OF battle, but amid His disbanded
troops keeping victorious festivity.
That will be the Bridegroom OF the
/ Church coming from afar, the Bride
leaning upon His arm while lie looks
down into her face and says: Behold,
thou art fair, my love! Behold, thou art
fart"
A F~cathered Walt from Florida.
! Charles Kellogg recently shot a very
peculiar-looking bird near his grist-mill
on the outskirts Of Great Darlington,
Mass. No one seemed to know to what
species 1t belonged, and 1t was sent to a
naturalist in Boston, who writes as fol-