Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-07-28


organ pipes. and you shall see Gods hani
striking the keys and Gods foot tramping
the pedals in the great oratorio of the ages
So all artistic and literary advantages
are in the Christians right do not care
ON whose wall the picture hangs or on
whose pedestal the sculpture stands, u be-
longs to Christians. The Bierstadts and
the churches are all working for us. All
are yours" The Luxembourgs, the Louvre,
all the galleries of Naples and Rome and
Venice-they are all to come into the pos
session of the church of Jesus Christ. We
may not now have them ON our walls, but
the time win come when the writ OF eject
ment will be served and the church Will
possess everything. All parks, all fish
ponds, all colors, ali harvests-all, ''all are
yours"
Secondly, remark that the right to full
temporal support is in the Christians
name. 1t is a great affair to feed the
world. Just think of the fact that this
morning sixteen hundred millions OF our
race breakeasted at Gods table. The COM
missary department of hundred Thousand
men in an army will engage scores of peo-
pie; but just think Of a commissary de
partment of world Think OF the gath
ering up from the rice swamps. and the
tea fields, and the orchards, and the fish
eriesl No one but God could tell how
many bushels it would take to feed five
continents.
Then to clothe all these people-how
many furs must be captured, and how
much fax broken, and how much cotton
picked just think of the infinite ward
robe where sixteen hundred millions OF
people get their clothesi God spreads the
table first Of all for his children. OF course
that would be a very selfish man who
would not allow other people 10 come and
sit at his table sometimes, but first Of all
the right is given TO Christian people, and
therefore it is extreme folly for them ever
to fret about food or raiment.
Who fed the whales sporting off Cape
Hatteras this morning? Out OF whose
hand did the cormorant pick its foodf
Whose loom wove the butterflys wingS
Who hears the hawks cryi II God takes
care of a walrus, and Siberian dog, and a
wasp, will he not take care of your VIII
father have more regard for reptiles than
for his sons and daughterss II God clothes
the grizzly bear, and the panther, and the
hyena, will be not clothe his own children'
Come, then, this morning and get the key
of the infinite storehouse. Come and get
I
they are-all the keys. "All are yours"
THE PILOT OF LIES VOYAGE.
So all the vicissitudes Of this life, so far
as they have any religious profit, are in
the right of the Christian. If you should
stand among the Allegheny mountains,
especially near what is called the Horse
shoe" you would find train of cars al
most doubling on itself, and sitting in the
back car you see locomotive coming as
you look ont of the window, and you think
it is another train when it is only the front
OF the train in which you are riding, and
sometimes you can hardly tell whether the
ltrain is going toward Pittsburg or toward
Philadelphia, but il is on the track and it
will reach the depot for which it started
and all the passengers will be discharged
at the right place. Now there are a great
many sharp curves in life.
Sometimes we seem to be going this
way and sometimes we seem TO be going
that way, but il we are Christians we are
on the right track and we are going 70
come out at the right place. Do not get
worried, then. about the sharp curve. A
sailing vessel starts from New York for
Glasgow. Does it 90 in a straight liner
Oh, no. 1t changes its tack every little
while. Now you say, This vessel instead
of going to Glasgow must be going to
Havre or it is going TO Hamburg, or it i
going TO Marseillesn No no. IL is going
to Glasgow And in this voyage of life we
often have TO change our tack. One storm
blows us this way and another storm
blows us that way, but he who holds the
, winds ia his fist will bring us into haven
of everlasting rest just at the right time
Do not worry, then, if you have to change
, tack
TEMPORAL LOSS AND ETERNAL GAIN.
, One of the best things that ever hap
/ pened to Paul was being thrown of hi:
, horse. One of the best things that evel
happened to Joseph was being thrown int
the pit. The losing of his physical eye
! sight helped John Milton to see the 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 ne walked up TO th'
. fiercest of all the lions and looked him IL
3 the eye, as much as to say, Here am
ready to be devoured for Christ's sake.
5 All things work together for your good
. II YOU walk the desert the mamma will fal
5 and the sea will part.
If the feverish torch of sickness is kin
: OieQ over NOuE pilAoof ~ 10 Atae ~ ~
! read the promises. II the waves of trouble
e dash high above your girdle, across th'
. blast and across the surge you can heal
t the promise, when thou passest through
Q the waters, will be with thee" YoI
Q never owned glove, or a shoe, or a hat
e or coat more certainly than you own al
> the frets and annoyances and exaspera
c tions of this life, and they are bound Il
. work out your present and your eterna
good They are the saws, the hammers
Q the files 10y which you are TO be hewn an'
s cut and smoothed for your eternal wei
J, being.
/ Here is vessel that goes along tn
e coast: it hugs the coast. The captain o
? that vessel seems chiefly anxious to keel
2 the paint on his ship from being mares
It or the sails from being torn. When tina
e vessel comes to port nobody looks on
@ with any interest. But here is vesse
i that went across the sea with vast prod
e uct and comes in with vast Importation
&C sails patched, masts spliced, pumps al