The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-30

shall be M4..
into cave of wild Doe-.-
tiles, than into the grave. unles.
with me. VIII you tell me that am to be
carried out from my bright home and put
away in the darkness? | cannot bear dark
ness, At the first coming of the evening l
must have the gas lit, and the further o5 in
life get, the more l like to have my friend
about me. And am to be put off for thou
sands OF years IN a dark place, with no one to
speak to? When the holidays come, and the
gifts are distributed, shall add no JOY TO the
"MerFy Christmas" or the Happy New
1ear?' All, do not point down TO tho
hole in the ground, the grave, and
call it beautiful place; unless there be some
supernatural Illumination, l shudder haek
from it. NJ whole nature revolts at il, But
now this glorious lamp is lifted above the
grave, and all its darkness is gone and the
way is clear. l look into it now without q
shudder. Now ny anxiety is not about
death; my anxiety is that may live Alright,
for know that my life is consistent when I
come TO the last hour and this voice is SILENT
and these eyes are closed, and these hands
with which beg for your eternal salvation
to-day are folded over the still heart. that
then shall only begin live. What power.
is there IN anything to chill me in the last
hour ii Christ wraps around me tho skirt of
His own garment? What darkness can fall
upon my eyelids then, amid the heavenly
day break? o, death, l will not fear thee
then! Back to the cavern OF darkness, thou
robGeT OF all heearth. Fly, thou despoiler of
families. With this battle axe new them in
twain from helmet to sandal, the voice of
Christ sounding all over the earth and
through the heavens: 80, death, / will be
thy plague. o, grave. will be thy destrue-
tion."
To be saved is to wake up in the presence
of fChrist. You know when Jesus was upon
earth how happy he made every house he
went into, and when he brings US up to his
house how great our Glee. His voice has
moro music in it than is to be heard in all
the oratorios of eternity. Talk not about
| banks deshed with effiorescenee. Jesus is
the chief bloom of heaven. We shall see the
very face that heamed with symathy in
Bethany, and take the very hand That drop
ped its blood from the short beams of the
| cross. o, want to stand in eternity with
| him. Toward that harhor | steer. TCward
| that goal run. l shall.be satisfied when
awake in his likeness. Oh, broken hearted
men and women, how sweet it will be in
that good land to pour all your hardships,
and bereavments, and losses into the loving
ear Of Christ, and then have him explain
why 1t was best for you to be sick, and why
| it was best for you to be widowed, and why
| 1T was best for you to be Prosecuted, and
why it was best for you to be tried, and have
him point to an elevation proportionate to
yaNr disquietude here, saying: "You suf-
iered with me on earth. come up now and
/
Some one went into house where there
had been good deal of trouble and said to
the woman there: "You seem to be lonely"
"fes, she said, II am lonely" How
many in the family?" Only myself's
Hove you had any nychildrenP" chad seven
childred" Where are they2 "Gone." "All
i gomez" "An." "An dead?" "AlI" Then
she breathed a long sigh into the loneliness,
and said 90, sir, l have been a good moths
eF to the grave" And so there are hearts
here that are utterly broken down hy the
bereayements oflite. point you to-day to
the eternal balm of heaven. Arc there anv
here that / am missing this morninGf
., you poor waiting maidl you hearts sor-
row poured in no human ear, lonely and sadl
how glad You will be when Christ shall dis
band oil yaur sorrows and crown you queen
unto God and the lamb foreverI o, aged
men and women, fed by his love and warmed
by his grace for three score years and tenl
will not your decrepitude change for the leap
oi heart when you come to look face tofnee
upon him whom, having not seen, you love?
Y, that will be the Good Shepherd, not out in
the night and watching to keep off the wolves.
but with the lambs reclining on the sun lit
NIL. 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
altar, the bride leaning upon his arm while he
looks down into her face and says Behold,
thou art fair, my lovel Behold, thou art
fair,"