Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-10-09

hnar,. YOUR lungs, your hanos, your ieo''
rour body, your mind, your soul. your
life. YOUR death, your time, your etern,ey
for God, feeling in your soul, NO thls
end was born"
II NAV be helpful to some il 1 recite
nv own experience in this regard.
STARTED for tho law without asking any
divine direction. consulted my own
tastes. liked lawyers and courtrooms
and Judges and juries, and revcled IN
hearing the Frelinghuysens ana tue
Rradleys of the New Jersey bar, ana IS
assistant to the county clerk, at 10 years
of age, searched titles, naturallZed LOT
eipners. recorded deeds, received the
confession Of judgments, swore witnesses
and iuries and grand juries. But after
while I felt call to the Gospel min
istry and entered it, and felt some sat
isfaction in the work. But one summer,
when l was resting at Sharon Springs,
and while seated in the park OF that VII
lago, I said to myself, III l nave an
especial work to do in the world ought
to find it out now and with that de-
termination prayed as had nevet be-
fore prayed, and got the divine direction,
and wrote it down in my memorandum
book, and saw my life work than as
plainly as see it now.
oh. do not be satisfied with general
directions. Get specific directions. do
not shoot at random. Take aim and
fire Concentrate Napoleon's success
in battle came from his theory OF break
ing through the enemy's ranks 81 one
point, not trying to meet the whole line
of the enemy's force by similar force.
One reason why he lost Waterloo was be-
IA IL &c nj
and spread his force out over = wide
range. Oh, Christian man, oh, Christian
woman, break through somewhere. Not
a general engagement for God, Nit
particular engagement, and made ir an
swcr to prayer. If there are sixteen
hundred million people in the wctld,
then there ore sixteen hundred milton
different missions to fulfill, different
styles of work to do, different orbits in
which to revolve, and If you do not get
the divine direction there are at least
fifteen hundred and ninety-nine million
possibilities that you will make mis-
take. On yonr knees before God get thc
matter settled so that you can firmly
say, "To this end was born"
And now l come to the climacterlc con-
sideration. AS near as l can tell, you
were built for a happy eternity, all tho
disasters which have happened to your
nature to be overcome by the blood OF
the Lamb if you will heartily accept
rejoiced at the increase in human
observe, about ten years longer than
they used to. The modern doctors do
not bleed their patients on all occasions
<ha Tn
times II . man had fever they bled him.
he had rheumatism they bled him, and X
the matter they bled him. Olden time
phlebotomy was deaths coadjutor. All
this has changed.
about ut eight wears of age, conclude
that life insurance companies will have
to change their table of risks, and
than they used to do when he was
60, and no more premium at SO than
when he was 40. By the advance
ment of medical science and the wider
acquaintance with the laws of health,
and the fact that people know better
how to take care of themselves, human
life Is prolonged. But do you realize
what, after all, is the brevity of our
earthly state? In the times when peo-
pie lived seven and eight hundred years,
the patriarch Jacob said that his years
were few.
The world does very we'll for a little
while, eighty, or hundred or a hun
dred and fifty years, and l think that
human longevity may yet be improved
up to that prolongation, for now there
is so little room between our cradle and
our grave we cannot accomplish much,
but who would want to dwell in this
world for all eternity! Some think this
earth will finally be turned into a
heaven. Perhaps it may, but it would
have to undergo radical repairs, and
through Examinations and evolutions and
revolutions and transformations infinite,
to make it desirable for eternal resi-
dence.
All the cast winds would have to be-
come west winds, and all the winters
changed to springtides, and the volcanoes
eXtinguished, and the oceans chained to
their beds, and the cpidemics forbidden
entrance, and the world so fixed IN that
l think it would take more to repair this
old world than to make an entirely new
one. But must say do not care where
Heaven is if we can only get there,
whether gardenizcd American, or an
emparadised Europe, or a world central
to the whole universe. ''To this end
was born" If each one of us could saw
that we would go with faces shining and
hopes exhilarant amid earth's worst mis-
fortunes and trials. Only little while
and then the rapture. Only little
while and then the reunion. Only a little
while and then the TRANSPORTATION.
In the Seventeenth century all Europe
was threatened with a wave of Asiatic
barbarism, and Vienna was especially
besieged. The King and his court had
fled, and nothing could save the city
from being overwhelmed unless the King
OF Poland, John Sobiesk, to whom they
had sent for hclp, should, with his army
come down for the relief; and from every
roof and tower the Inhabitants of Vienna:
watched and waited and hoped, until ON
the morning of September II the rising
sun threw an unusual and unparalleled
brilliancy. 1t was the reflection on tue
swords and shields and helmets of John
Sobieski AND his army coming down over
the hills to the rescue: and that day. not
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