The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-08-07

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hour! but they are always asleep when
the sun Is going down! Job had plenty
of friends when he was the richest
MN in U; but when his property went
and the trials came, then there were
none so much that pestered as Eliphaz,
the Temanite, and Biidad, the Schultz.
and ZoPhar, the Naamathite-
In this world, SO full of heartlessness
and hypocrisy, how thrilling it is 70
find some friend as faithful in days of
adversely as in days Of prosperity!
David had such friend in Hushai; the
Jews had such a friend in MOrdecai,
who never forgot their cause; Paul had
such friend in OpesiPhorus, who visit
ed him in jail; Christ had such in the
Marys, who adhered to Him on 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
go; thy people shall be my people, and
thy God my God; where thou diest viii
die, and there viii I be buried; the
Lord do so to me, and more also, if
aught but death part thee and me"
Again, learn from this subject that
paths which open in hardship and dark
ness often come out in places OF joy.
When Ruth started from Moab toward
Jerusalem, to go along with her mother
in-Iaw, suppose the people said: ''Oh,
what a foolish creature to go away
from her fathers to go off with a poor
old woman toward the land of Judea!
They won't live to get across the desert
They will be drowned in the sea, or the
jacIzals of the wilderness will destroy
them" It was very dark morning
when Ruth started off with Naomi; but
behold her in my text in the harvest
field of BOaz, to be afianced to one of
the lords of the land, and become one
ir.fA he Of -Taer7e CyF1V.ief
| the Lord of glory. And SO it often is
! that a path which starts very darllly
ends very brightly. When you started
out for Heaven, o, how dark was the
hour of convictiOn-how Sinai thun-
dered, and devils tOrmented, and the
| darkness thiclxened 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 har
vest field of Gods mercy; you began tC
CLEAN in the fields of divine promise
and you had more sheaves than yOT
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 ending in the pardon, and the
hope and the triumph of the Gospel!
So, very often in our worldly business
or in our spiritual career we start of
on very dark path. We must go. Tn
flesh may shrink back, but there is
voice within, or a voice from above
saying: You must Cos" and we hav
| to drink the gall, and we have to carr,
the cross, and we have to traverse tn
desert, and we are pounded and failei
of misrep presentation and abuse, and W.
have to urge our way through ten thou
sand obstacles that have to be slain b.
our own right arm. We have to for
l the river, we have to climb the mount
ain, we have to storm the castle; but
} blessed be God, the day of rest an
2 reward will come. On the tip-to
of the captured battlements we vii
shout the victory; if not in this worlC
| then in that world where there is n
l gall to drink, no burdens to carry, n
l battles to fight. How do I know it
l Know it! I know it because God say
: so: They shall hunger no more
: | neither thirst any more, neither sha-
the sun light on them, nor any hea
for the Lamb which is in the midst c
l the throne shall lead them to Twin
fountains of water and God shall wip
all tears from their eyes"
1t was very hard for Noah to endu1
the SOOTHING of the people in his day
. while he was trying to build the arl
: and was every morning quizzed aboI
l
practical use, but when the delug
came, and the top of the mountain
e disappeared like the backs OF sea mo-
! sters, and the elements, dashed up
d fury, clapped their hands over
e drowned world, then Noah in the al
3 rejoiced in his own safety and in Il
safety of his family and looked out {
q the wreck of a ruined earth
Christ, bounded of prosecutors, d
MED a pillow, worse maltreated ths
the thieves on either side of the eros
= human hate smacIzing its lips in sat
- faction after it had been draining 3
last drop of blood, the sheeted de-
= bursting from the sePulehres at Z
cruci6xion- Tell me, o, Gethssma
and GolgOtha! We're there ever dark
times than those? Like the bOOmh
Il of the midnight sea against the roc
n the surges of Christ's anguish be
- against the gates of eternity, to
y echoed back by all the thrones
:, Heaven and all the dungeons OF he
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