Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-08-29

Z career. No man ought 10 thlhh Oh slti-
dertaling to go back into Moab after
having come within sight Oh Bethlehem,
unless he have a heart that cannot De
made to quake, and n SIRE foot that
will not slip among infinite perils, and
an arm that can drive beck the Son OF
God. who stands in the center OF the
broad road spreading out his arms and
shouting into the ear of the Thought
less pilgrim. Stop stop"
THE SINNERS BURDEr HEAVIER THAN
THE CROSS.
We talk about taking up the cross
and following Jesus, but that cross Is
not half so heavy as the burden which
the sinner carries 1t is a very solemn
thing to be Christian, but it is a more
solemn thing not to be Christian
There are multitudes who, afraid OF
the self denials of the Christian, rush
into the harder self denials of the I'M
believer. No yoke but Christ's, how
ever tight and gallingl Orpah goes
back to her idolatries, but she re-
turns weeping; and all who follow her
will find the same sorrows. Just in
proportion as gospel advantages have
been numerous will be the disturbance
of the heart that viii not come to
Christ
The Bible says in regard TO the place
where Christ was buried: ''In the midst
OF the garden there was sepulcher;'
and In the midst of the most fiowery
enioyments of the unpardoned there is
a chilliness of death. Although they
may pull out the arrows that strike
their soul from the Almighty's CULVER,
there remain a sting and a smarting.
If men wrench themselves away from
Christ they will bear the mark of his
hand by which he would have rescued
them. The pleasures of the world
may give temporary relief from the up
braidings of conscience, but are like
Supplying drugs that dull the pain only
temporarily.
Ahab has great kingdom and you
would think he ought to be happy with
his courtiers and chariots and palaces
yet he goes to bed sick because Naboth
will not sell him his vineyard. Hannah
is prime minister of the greatest nation
in the world, and yet one poor man
who will not bow the head makes him
utterly miserable. Herod monopolizes
the most of the worlds honor, and yet
is thrown into rage because they say
a little child is born in Bethlehem who
may after while dispute his authority
Byron conquered the world with his
pen and yet said that he felt more un
happiness from the criticism of the
most illiterate reader than he expert
enced pleasure from the praise of all
the talented.
A LESSON FROM sHENsToNE's LIFE.
In the last century in England lived
the immortal Shenstone. Portions of
his life were given to- the writing of
poetry, but this was not evidently the
field for which nature had equipped
him. His name will lever be forgotten,
because of the home which he adorned
and beautifed until there probably
never has been SO bright a spot since
the Garden of Eden as what he loved
to call 1.-THE Leasowes =" In addition to
the marvels which nature had wrought
he added the perfection of art. Arbor
and terrace and slope and rustic tenn
pie and reservoir and urn and fountain
here had tfeir browning Oak and
yew and hazel put on their glory of
verdure. What the greenness of deep
grass and the foam of cascade and the
glitter of still lake could give of beauty
were added. No life was more diligent
and no soul more ingenious than those
of Shenstone, and all that genius and
diligence were directed to the adorn
ment of that treasured spot. What
more could one want to make home
happy2
Yet there is one man who sits signing
in those bowers, and casting gloomy
looks upon those parks, and the mirth
of leaping waterfalls makes no melody
in his ear. 1t is Shenstone, the owner
OF the Leasowes. II have lost nv road
to happiness, says the respondent
man. Il am angry and envious and
detected and frantic, and disregard all
present things, just as it becomes a
mailman to do" My friends, there is
no solid happiness in anything but re-
hg1on. care not how bright home
Orpah has in Moab, when she turns
away from duty she turns away from
peace. Amid the bacchanalia of Bel.
shazzar's feast and the glitter of chal
ices there always will come out a hand
writing on the wall fearfully ominous.
IekeI"-weighed in the balances and
found wanting. When you can reau
harvests off bare rocks, and gather
balm out of nightshade, and make sun.
light sleep in the heart of sepulchers.
and build firm house on a rocking
billow, then can an unpardoned SOM
Ind firm enjoyment amid its trans
sressions. Then can Orpah 60 back To
Moab without weeping.
FAMILIES DIVIDED BY RELIGION.
Again, this subject teaches that a
choice and the want of it fire.
luently divide families. Ruth and
orpah and Naomi were tenderly Mt
'ached. They were all widows, and
heir life had been consecrated bv a
Baptism of tears. In the fire of trial
heir affections had been forged. To
sether they were so pleasantly united
you can hardly imagine them separated.
Yet fatal line is drawn dividing them
rom each other, perhaps forever
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