Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1891-08-07


when his property went and the trial.
came, then there were none so much that
, pestered as Eliphaz the Temanite, ana
| Bildad the Shuttle and Iophar the Mann
athte
Life often seems to be mere game
where the successful player pulls down all
the other men into his own lap. Let sus-
! picions ariss about a mans character and
| he becomes like bank in panic and all
/ the imputations rush on him and break
! down in day that character which in due
/ time would have had strength to defend
/ itself There are regulations that have
I been half a century in building which &c
( down under some moral exposure as 3
/ vast temple is consumed by the touch of g
sulphurous match A hog can uproot 3
( century plant
J In this world, so full OF heartlessness ana
/ hypocrisy, how thrilling it is to find somt
I friend as faithful 10 days Of adversely as IL
days OF prosperity David had such a
| friend in Hushai; the Jews had such &
| friend in Mordecai, who never forgot theiI
cause; Paul had such friend In Onesiph.
orus, who visited him in Jail; Christ had
such in the Marys, who adhered TO him OIL
/ the cross. Naomi had such a one in Ruth
who cried out. "Entreat me not to leave
thee, or TO return from following after
thee; for whittier thou gOest, will 90; and
where thou odgest will lodge; thy PEG
pie shall be my people, and thy God my
God; where thou diest will die, and there
will be buriedi the Lord do so to me and
more also if aught but death part thee
and me. -
FROM DARKNESS TO DAY.
Again learn from this subject that
L L
often come out in pieces of joy When
Ruth started from Noah toward Jerusalem.
to go along with her mother-in-law, / sup
pose the people said: "Oh, what a foolish
creature to go away from her fathers
house, to go OFF with a poor old woman
toward the land Of Judeal They won't
live to get across the desert. They will be
drowned in the sea, or the jackals OF the
wilderness will destroy them" 1t WAS
very dark morning when Ruth started of
with Naomi; but behold her in my text in
the harvest field of Boaz, to be affianced to
one of the lords Of the land, and become
one Of the grandmothers of Jesus Christ,
the Lord of glory And so it often is that
g. path which starts very darkly ends very
brightly
When you started out for heaven, oh
how dark was the hour of conviction-hOw
Sinai Numbered and devils t0rmented and
the darkness thickenedl All the sins OF
your life bounced upon you, and It was the
darkest hour you ever saw when you first
found out your sins. After awhile you
went into the harvest field Of Gods mercy,
you began to CLEAN in the fields of divine
promise, and you had more sheaves than
you could carry as the voice of God ad
dressed you, saying BLESSED Is the man
whose transgressions are forgiven and
whose sins are covered" A very dark
starting in conviction, a very bright end
ing in the pardon and the hope and the I
triumph of the Gospel
So, very often in our worldly business OF |
in our spiritual career we start off on
very dark path We must 60. The flesh |
may shrink back, but there. is a voice I
within, or a voice from above saving,
you must GO" and we hSve to drink the I
gall, and we have to carry the cross, and !
we have to traverse the desert and we are |
pounded and failed Of misrepresentation |
and abuse, ard we have TO edge our way /
through ten thousand obstacles that have /
to be slain by our own right arm. We 1
have to ford the river, we have to climb /
the mountain, we have to storm the CASTLE |
but, blessed be God, the day of rest and re. !
ward will come. On the tiptOp of tho /
captured battlemepts we will shout the /
victory; if not in this world, then in that /
world where there is no gall to drink, nc
burdens to carry, no battles to fight. How |
do ! know it? Know itl / know it because !
God says so-"They shall hunger no more, /
neither thirst any more, neither shall the !
sun light on them, nor any heat, for the
Lamb which is in the midst of the throne
~ -
water, and God shall wipe all tears from
their eyes"
1t was very hard for Noah to endure the
soothing of the people in his day, while he
was trying TO build the ark, and was every
quizzed about his old boat that
would never be of any practical use. But
when the deluge came, and the tops of the
mountains disappeared like the backs OF
sea monsters, and the elements, dashed up
in fury, clapped their hands over drowned
world, then Noah in the ark rejoiced in his
own safety and in the safety Of his family,
and looked out on the wreck of a ruined
earth
THE sUFFERlNGs OF JESUS.
Christ, bounded of prosecutors, denied
pillow, worse maltreated than the thieves
on either side Of the cross, human hate
smacking its lips in satisfaction after il
had been draining his last drop of blood
the sheeted dead bursting from the sepul
cheers at his crucifxion Tell me, 0 Geth
semane and Golgothal were there ever
darker times than those? Like the boom
ing of the midnight sea against the rock,
the surges of Christ's anguish beat against
the gates Of eternity, to be echoed back by
all the thrones of heaven and all the dun
geons of hell
But the day of reward comes for Christ;
all the pomp and dominion of this world
IRE to be hung on his throne. uncrowned
heads are to bow before him on whose head
are many crowns, and all the celestial
worship is to come up at his feet like the
numming of the forest like the rushing Of
.he waters, like the laundering of the seas,
while all heaven, rising on their thrones,
beat time with their scepters "HallelujRh,
'or the Lord God omnipotent reignethl
IIalleluiah, the kingdoms of this world
nave become the kingdoms of our Lord
Jesus Christi
That song OF love, now low and far,
Ere long shall swell from star to star;
That light, the breaking day which tips
The golden spired Apocalypse.
Again, / learn from my subject that
events which seem to be most insiglif (
ant may be momentous. Can you mag I
ne anything more unimportant than the
coming OF poor woman from Moab to
Iudea2 Can you imagine anything more
rival than the fact that this Ruth just
to alight-as they say-just hap |
,ened to alight on that field Of Boazi Yet
III ages, all generations, have an interest
n the fact that she was to become an an
,estress of the Lord Jesus Christ, and all
nations and kingdoms must look at that [
me little incident with thrill Of unspeak /
lble and eternal satisfaction So it is in
FOUR history and in mine: events that you
thought of no Importance at all have been /
# very great moment. That casual con ,
rersation, that accidental meeting-you I
lid not think of it again for a long while ,
)ut how it changed all the current of your ,
ifei
1t seemed to be Of no Importance that ,
Jubal invented rude instruments Of music,
.alling them harp and organ, but they
we're the introduction of all the worlds
And as you hear the vibra, !
ion Of a stringod instrument. even after