Milford chronicle., 1891-05-08

pared with America All VN5ut
acclaim in Berlin be louder than that IN
Brooklyn Soft. long drawn ont music u
appropriate for the drawing room and ef'-
propriate for the concert, but St. John
gives an idea Of the s0norous and resonant
congregational singing appropriate Tor
churches when, in listening to the temple
service Of heaven, he says; Il heard greas
voice, as the VOICE Of great muitittide, ana
as the voice of many waters, and IS the
voice Of mighty thunderings. Haheiulah'
for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
Join with me in a crusade, giving me not
only your hearts but the mighty uplifting
Of YOUR voices, and l believe we can.
through Christ's grace, sing fifty thousand
souls into the kingdom OF Christ. An AZ
gument they can laugh at, a sermon they
may talk down, but q vast audience JOIN.
ing in one anthem is irresistible. Would
that Queen Balkis would drive all her
spice laden drOmedaries into our church
music. Neither was there any such spice
as the Queen OF Shebs gave King Solo
mon"
Now. I want to impress this audience
with the fact that religion is sweetness and
perfume and spikenard and saffron and
cinnamon and eassia and frankinoense,
and all Sweet spices together. "Oh," you
say. II have not looked At it IS such
thought il was q nuisance; il had Tor me 9
repulsion; held my breath as though Il
were unalodoE; 1 have been appalled, At its
advance; have said, If I have any religion
at all. / want 70 have just as little OF It as
is possible 70 get through with" Oh, Whaf
a mistake you have made, my brother. The
religion OF Christ IS a present and eVeriass-
ing redOlenoa. Il cOunteraets all trouble.
Just put it on the stand beside the pillow
OF sickness. It catches In she curtains and
perfumes the sitting air. It swsetens she
cup OF bitter medicine. and throws glow
on tho gloom Of the turned lattice. Il Is
balm for the aching side, and q soft ban
dage for the temple stang with pain.
It lifted Samuel Rutherford into rev
slrv Of spiritual delight while be was in
physical agonies. It helped Richard BaH-
ter until, in the midst Of such q complica-
ton OF diseases IS perhaps no other man
ever suffered, he wrote ''The Saints Ever
lasting Rest" And It poured light upon
John BunyRnis dungeon-the light OF the
shining gate of thu shining city. And It Is
GOOD for Rheumatism, and for neuralgia
and for low spirits, and for consumption
IL "a the catholicon for all disorders. Yes,
Il will heal all your SorrOWs.
ALL Rave HAD SORROW.
WHY did you look so sad today when
Won came in? Alasl for the loneliness and
The hesrtbreak, and the load that Is never
lifted from your soul Some Of you go
about feeling like Macaulay when he wrote,
''If had another month of such days a.
I have been spending, would be impa-
tient to get down into my little nArroW
crib in the ground like q weary factory
child" And there have been times in
vour life when you wished you could ges
out Of this life. You have sid, ''oh, how
sweet to nv lips would be the dust Of the
valIevn and wished you could pull over
Won in your last slumbeR the eoVeriet Of
syreen grass and daisies You have said
HOh. how beautifully quiet It must be IN
thu tomb. / wish was there" SEQ AL
around about me WidoWhaod and orphan
age and chidlessneas; sadness. disappoant-
rSent. parplexity. II could ask al those
to rise in this audianca who have Ie.t no
sorrow and hsan buhebad BY no disap-
pointment-if / could ask all such 20 rise,
how many would nse3 Not one.
A widowed mother with her htthe child
went west, hoping 70 get better wages
there, and she was taken sick and asa,
The overseer of the poor got her body and
put it in a box, and put 1t in wagon, and
started down the street toward tho eelne-
terry at full tr0t. The little eiild--the only
child-ran after 1t through the Streets
bare headed, crying, Bring me back my
mOtherl bling me back my moshert' And
It was said that as the people looked on
and saw heC crying after that which lay IN
the box In the wagon-all she loved on
earth-it is said the whole village WAS In
tears And that IS what great many OF
YOU are doing-ehasing thu dead. I'eaR
Lord. is tharenoAppeas eEnens Tor al TINS sof-
row that / see about met Yes, the Thought
Of resurrection and reunion fnr beyond
This scene Of struggle and teaEs. They
ahsll hunger no more, neither thirst any
more. neither shall the sun light Oy them,
nor any heat; for thu Lamb which Is = the
midst OF the throne shRll lend them 70 nv
ing fountains Of water, and God shall wipe
away all tears from their eyes.
Across the couchas Of your sick and
across the graves Of your dad ming thus
shower OF sweet spices. oIleen Baikis'
driving up to the pillared poEtteO OF the
bonse Of cedar, carried no such pnngeney
Of perfume as exhales today from the
Lords garden Il IS peace. IL Is sweae-
ness. II Is comfort. Il Is infinite satasfnc-
ton. this Gospel command 70 you. Soue
one could not understand Why Al Old Ger
man Christian scholar used 20 he always 80
calm and happy and hopatul When Be
had 80 many trials and sieknasses and AL
penta. A man secrcted himself in the
house. He said, II mean TO watch this old
neh0lAr and CHRISTIAN" aud he SAY tbs Old
Christian man 20 20 his room and sit down
ON the chair beside the stand and open Tie
Bible and begin 70 read. He road on and
On. chapter after chapter, hour after ho0I'
until his face was all aglow with the It'd
inRs from heaven, and when tbs clock
struck twelve he aross aud shut his Bible,
and said: "BIeassd Lord, We are on the
same old terms yet. Good night Good
night"
on. YOU sin parched and you trouble
pounded. here Is comfort, here is satisfAc-
ton. win you come and get ite I cannot
tell you what the Lord offers you hereafter
80 well as can tell you now 1T doth not
vet appear what we shall b." Have you
rad OF the Tai Mahal in India, in some
respects the most majestic building on
earthg Twenty thousand men were twenty
years In building it. 1t cost about sixteen
millions Of dollars The walls are OF mar
BILE, inlaid with canadian from Bagdadi
and turquOis from Thibet, and Jaspei
from the Punjaub, and amethyst from
Persia, and all manner Of precious stones
A traveller says that it seems TO him hkl
the shining Of an enchanted castle Of bur
nished silver. The walls are two hundred
and forty-five feet high, and from the tor
Of these springs a dome thirty moEe fee'
high, that dome containing the most won
derful echo the world has ever known, 50
that ever and anon travellers standing BE-
low with flutes aud drums and harps are
testing that echo, and the sounds from b
low strike up, and then come down. as II
were, the voices Of angels all around about
the building. There is around It q garden
Of talnarind and hanyan and palm and al
the floral glories Of the EAnsacired earth.
But that Is only tomb Of dad en-.
press, and Il Is tame compared with The
grandeufs wIliei God has builded for youl
living and ifnn1ortai spirit. oh, home q
the blessed Foundations OF goldi Archie.
Of victoryl Capstohes Of praiset And
dome ia which there arc eehoing and 70
echoing the hsllelujahs Of the ages. And