The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-08-06
TABERNACLE SERMON.
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Dents we Will shout the victory; II not /
In this world, then in that world where |
there IL no gall to drink, no burdens TO 1
carry, no battles To fight. How do
know it2 Know It'll 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 shall lead them to
living fountains of water, and God
shall wipe all tears from their eyes"
SoAH AND THE sCoFFERs.
1t was very hard for Noah to endure
the scofflng Of the people In bis day
while be was trying to build the ark,
and was every morning quizzed about
bis old boat that would never be of any
practical use; but when the deluge
come, and the tops of the mountains
disappeared ike the backs OF sea mon
sters, and tie 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 ruined earth.
Christ bounded of prosecutors, de-
MED q pillow, worse Inaltreoted than
the thieves on either side of the cross,
human hate smacking its lips In salts
faction after It had been draining his
last drop of blood, the sheeted dead
bursting from the sepulcbers at his cru
ciflxion. Tel me, o Gethsemane and
6olgothal were there ever darker times
than those2 Like the booming of the
midnight sea against the rocks, the
surges of Chrlst's anguish beat against
the gates of eternity, to be echoed back
by all the thrones of heaven and all
the dungeons of bell.
But the day of reward comes for
Christ; all the pomp and dominion OF
this world are to lie hung on his throne,
uncrowned heads are to bow before
him on whose heed are many crowns
and all the celestial worship is to come
|, up at his feet, like the humming of the
forest, like the rushing of the waters,
like the laundering of the seas, while
all heaven, rising on their thrones, beat
time with their scepters: "Hallelujah,
for the Lord God olnnipotent reignethl
Hallelujah, the kingdoms of this world
have 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 insignif-
cant may be momentous. Can you i'm
agine anything more unimportant than
the coming of poor woman from Moab
, to Judea2 Can you imagine anything
more trivial than the fact that this Ruth
5 Just happened to alight-as they say
Just happened to alight on that field Of
: Boat Yet all ages, all generations,
have an interest In the fact that she
was to become an ancestress Of the Lord
Jesus Christ, and ell nations and king
. doms must look at that one little Incl
: dent with thrill of unspeakable and
eternal satisfaction. So it Is In your
5 history and In mine: events that you
thought of no importance at all have
been of very great moment. That
casual conversation, that accidental
meeting-you did not think of 1t aeain
for long while; but how it changed
all the current of your lifel
THE BEGINNING OF MINsTRELsY.
IL Iteee--@I h. IS .v-i..4tUI c<,,ICc
:. that Jubal invented rude Instruments
:, of music, calling them harp and organ
y but they were the introduction of al
= the worlds minstrelsy. And as yor
hear the vibration of stringed instru
n ment, even after the fingers have beer
q taken away fromit so all music now o
10 Lutte and drum and cornet is only the Ion,
continued strains of JubaPs harp ant
V Jubals organ. 1t seemed to be mat
5. ter of very little Importance that Tuba
re Cain learned the uses of copper ant
.e iron, but that rude foundry of ancien
h days has its echo in the rattle of Blu
j. mingham machinery and the roar an
bang of factories on the Merrlmac
Of Again, l see In my subject an Illus
IN tration of tho beauty of female indus
l. try. Behold Ruth toiling In the hal
' vest field under the hot sun, or at moo
u taking plain bread with the reapers c
n. eating the parched corn which Boa
~ handed to her The customs of 81
10 ciety, of course, have changed, an
ro without the hardships and exposure
which Ruth was subjected every int
Hgent woman will fnd something to d.
know there is a sickly sentimentalit
on this subject. In some families thel
are persons of no practical service
household or community; and thong
III, there are 50 many woes all aroun
ed about them In the world they spen
their time languishing over a new pa
Ii. tern or bursting into tears at midnigl
III over the story of some lover who sh,
as himselfl They would not deign ,
ce, look at Ruth carrying back the barle
on her way home to her mother-in- lay
We Naomi
All this fastidiousness may seem
lc- do very well while they are under Il
MS shelter of their fathers house; b.
when the sharp winter of misfortul
yer comes, what of these butterfies2 Pc
;th sons under indulgent parentage IN;
~" get upon themselves habits ofindolenc
1o but when they como out into practic
nor life their soul will recon with disgu
arc and chagrin. They viii feel in ths
Isle hearts what the poet 80 severely sat
lied when he said:
ey. Folks are 80 awkward, things 80 impoltte.
70 They're elegantly panied from morn TIL mig
Through that gate of Incidence h
ro- many men and women have marche
'th, useless on earth, to destroyed eter
in ty! Spinola said to Sir Horace We
to "Of what did your brother diel" &c
having nothing to do" was the answ
" "Ah," said Splnola, that's enough
Kill any general of us.a Oh, can it
49, possible In this world, where there is
, No much suffering to be alleviated,