The southern argus., 1891-08-06

Y, these beautiful sun flowers tina
spread out their odor in the mornin
hour! but they are always asleep whe
the sun is going down! Job had plent
Of friends when he was the riches
man in W; but when his property wen
and the trials came, then there wer
none SO much that pestered as Eliphaz
the Temanite, and Bildad, the Schultz
and Zophar, the Naamathite.
Life often seems to be a mere game
where the successful player pulls dow1
all the other men into his own lap
Let suspicious arise about a man.
character, and he becomes like banl
IN panic, and all the imputations rush
on him and break down in day thai
character which in due time would
have had strength to defend itself
There are regulations that have beer
half century in building, which &c
down under some moral exposure, as q
vast temple is consumed by the touch
OF sulphurous match. A hog can up
root century plant.
In this world, so full of heartlessness
and hypocrisy, how thrilling it is to
find some friend as faithful in DAYS of
adversely as in days of prosperity
David had such friend in Hushai; the
Jews had such friend in Mordecai,
who never forgot their cause; Paul had
such Q friend in Onesiphorus, 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.
VINO cried out: "Entreat me not to
leave thee, or to return from following
a1ter thee, for whittier thou goest will
go; thy people shall be my people, and
thy God my God; where thou diest will
-dle, and there will l 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 ioy.
When Ruth started from Moab toward
Jerusalem, to go along with her mother
ln-law, | suppose the people said 'Oh,
what q foolish creature to go awav
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
Jackals Of the wilderness will DESTROY
them" 1t was a very dark morning
when Ruth started off with Naomi: but
behold her in my text in the harvest
neld 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 path which starts very darlly |
ENDS very brightly. When you started |
ont for Heaven, o, how dark was the
hour Of confederation Sinai thun-
1ered, and devils tormented, and the
darkness thickened! All the sins of
your life bounced upon you, and it was
me darkest hour you ever saw when
Tou first found out your sins.
After awhile you went into the har-
7est field Of Gods mercy; you began to
'lean in the fields of divine promise,
M you had more sheaves than YOU
ould carry, as the voice of God ad-
ressed You saying: blessed is the
nan whose transgressions are forgiven
M whose sins are covered" A very
ark starting in conviction, a verv
right ending in the pardon, and the
ope and the triumph of the Gospel.
So, very often in our worldly business
n our spiritual career we start off ,
= very dark path. We must go. The
esh may shrink back, but there is a ,
Dice within, or a voice from above,
aging: You must go;' and we have /;
drink the gall, and we have to carry :
le cross, and we have to traverse the
esert, and we are pounded and failed
misrepresentation and abuse. and we :
ave to urge our way through ten thou 9
ma obstacles that have to be slain by /.
IT own right arm. We have to ford :.
le river, we have to climb the mount :,
n, we have to storm the castle; but, !
essed be God, the day of rest and i
ward will come. On the tip-top .
the captured battlements we will =
out the victory; if not in this world, s
en- in that world where there is no =
ii to drink, no burdens to carry, no y
titles to fight. How do | know if? =
now it! ! know it because God saws =
They shall hunger no more. ;,
lther thirst any more, neither shall
sun light on them, nor any heat, II
T the Lamb which is in the midst of ~
g throne shall lead them to living :.
lntains Of water and God shall wipe !,
tears from their eyes" h
It was very hard for Noah to endure =,
soothing Of the people in his day, 81
lile he was trying to build the ark, St
was every morning quizzed about m
old boat that would never be of anv m
lctical use, but when the deluge ar
ne, and the top of the mountains ar
like the backs of sea mon ar
RS, and the elements, dashed up in tn
y, clapped their hands over a
'wned world, then Noah in the ark W.
DICED in his own safety and in the Al
ETY. Of his family and looked out on nh
wreck of a ruined earth. IL,
hrist bounded of prosecutors, de- oh
1 pillow, worse maltreated than he
thieves on either side of the cross, ro
nan hate smacking its lips in salts ar
ion after it had been draining His bu
drop of blood, the sheeted dead SD
sting from the sepulchres at His of
cifxion. Tell me, o, Gethsemane ers
Golgotha! were there ever darker an