Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-08-19


which you are riding; and sometimes you
can hardly tell whether ths train is going
toward Pittsburg or toward Philadelphia,
but 1t Is on the track, aui it will rsael tbs
depot Tor which 1t startei, aud all thu pat
sengers will be discharged ut the riget,
place. Now there arc a great may snar,
curves IN lie. sometimes We seem TO be
going this way and sometimes we seem to I've
going that way, but IL we are Christians we
AFRO on the right track and We arc going tt
come out at the right place. Do not get
worried, then, about the sharp curve.
A sailing vessel starts from Now York for
Glasgow. Does it go in q straight lineYf
oh, no. 1t changes its track every little
while. Now you say. "rhis vessel Instead
OF going TO Glasgow, must be going to
Havre, or it Is gcing to Hamburg, or it is go
Glasgow. And in this voyage OF life wo
often have to change our tack. Ono storm
blows us this way, and another storr. blows
us that way; but He who hollis the winds in
His fist will bring Us into n haven OF ever
lasting rest just at the right time. Do not
worry, then, IL you have to change tack.
One OF the best things that ever happened
| to Paul was being thrown Off his horse. Ono
| OF tho best things that ever happened to
Joseph was being thrown into the pit. Tho
losing of his physical eyesight helpei John
Milton to see tho battle of the angels. One
| OF the best things that ever happened to
ignatius was being thrown to the wild beasts
In the Coliseum, and while eighty thousand
| people were jeering at his religion he
-waised up Lo Ins iinrcsst OF all the nons and
looked him In the eye, as much as to say,
| Christ's sake"
All things work together for your cool.
IL yon walk the desert, the mamma will fall
and the sea will part If this foverish torch
OF OF sickness Is kindled over your pillow, by
Its light you can read the promises. IL the
waves OF trouble dash high abovs your
! girdle, across the blast ana across tho surge
You can hear the promise, "When thou pass
eth through the waters will be with thee"
Hou never owned II glove, or "a shoe, or n
hat, or IA coat moro certainly than vol, oyv n
all the trets anu annoyances and exaspara.
tions OF this life, aud they are bound to work
out your present and your eternal good.
They are tue saws the hammers. the files by
winch you are to be hewn aud cut and
smoothet for your eternal we'll being.
;. Here IS Il vessel that goes along tho coast;
1t hugs the coast the captain of that
iaHx SSns se sfe 81 ths
| sails from being torn. When that vessel
comes to port nobody looks On 1t with any
interest. But hero Is vessel that went
across the sea with vast product and comes
in with vast importation sails patched,
masts splicet, pumps all working to keep
| out the wnter: it has como through the
hurricane which has sunk twenty steamers.
The bronzed mon are cheering among tho
| rigging. Now the men, of-war anchored in
| the barbor boom forth their welcome
| through the portfolios
| so there nre some Ch istians who nro hay
ing an easy time. 1t seems to them smooth
sailing ali the way. When they got into
heaven there will be no excitement, there
will he very few people who will ever find
out they are there; but those Christians who
have gone through a hundred midnight hur-
ricanes-storm TO the right OF them storm
TO the left OF them, storm all the way-when
they come up the harhor OF heaven, all tho
redeemed will turn out TO greet them, and
| bid them hail ana welcome.
go further, and tell You That the
Christian owns not Only this word, but he
owns the next world. No chasni to be
leapej. no desert to DO crossed. There is the
wall; there is tho gate OF heaven. He owns
all on this side Now, am G,ing to show
you that ho owns all OH tho other side.
burn us out OF house and home, destroy ing
the house OF the tabernacle so that w0
should be homeless forever. Oh, mol He Is
only black messenger who comes TO tell us
it Is time o move, to tell US To get out OF
this hut and so up into the palace.
Tho Christian owns all heaven. "All are
yours" Its palaces OF beauty, its towers of
strength, its castles OF love- He viii not
strange city, but as n farmer wnlis over his
own premises. "All aro yours" All tho
mansions yours. Angels your companions.
Trees of life your shade. Hills of glory your
lookout. thrones OF heaven the place
where you will shout the triumph. jesus Is
yours. God is yours. You look up into the
fnce of God and say, "My Father" You
look up into the faco of Jesus and say, "My
brother"
Walk out upon the battements OF heaven
and look or upon tho city of tho sun. No
tear. No sorrow No death. No smoke OF toll
ing warehouse curling on the mir. No voice
OF blnsphemy thrilling through that bright.
clear Sabbath morning. No din Of strife jar
ring tho mir. Then take out your deed and
remember that from throne to throne, md
from wall to wall, and from horizon to hori-
son "All are yours"
Then get up into the temple of the sun,
branch. and from high gallery OF that tenn
pie look down the thousands Of thousands
and the ten thousand times ten thousand,
md the ono hundred and forty and four
thousand, and the great "multitu1e that no
man can number, and louder than the rush
OF tho wheels, louder than the tramp OF tho
redeemed, hear voice saying, "All are
yoursr'
See the great procession marching around
the throne OF God Martyrs who won't up
on wings Of flame. Invalids who went up
from couches of distress. Tolers who went
up from the worlthouse, and the factory,
and the mine. All the suffering and the
bruised children or God. See tho charlotS' OF
salvation; in them those who were moro
than conquerors. See them marching around
about the throne of God forever and for
ever, and know that "all arc yours"
o ye who have pains OF body that exhaust
your uIli Wetr your pttituco
hold before you this morning tn, land of
eternal health and of imperishablo beauty.
and 'all is yoursp o ye who have hard
work to get your daily bread, hard WORK to
shelter Your children from the storm, lift
before you the vision OF that lanl where they
never hunger, anil they never thirst. and
God feeds them, aud robes cover them, and
the warmth of eternal love fills them, an1 all
that is yours!
Oh. IL there be any present wac are yet
| Of ha nf |
them at once to be reconcied to God Re-
member IL you are not found among that
white robed army who follow the Saviour In
His victorious march, your part must be
with those concerning whom il ii said, "The
Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven in
flaming fire, taking vengeance on those that
know not God and obey' not the Gospel OF
our Lord Jesus Christ who shnll be punished
with everlasting destruction from tho pres
ence of the Lord and from the glory Of His
power when He shall come to be glorifed in
His saints. and TO be admired in all them
that believe.n