Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-07-21


organ pipes, and you shall see Gods hand
striking the keys and Gods foot tramping
the pedals in the great oratorio OF theagesl
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, II be.
LONGS to Christians The Bierstadts and
the churches are all working for us. "Au
are yours" The Luxembourgs, the Louvre.
ali the galleries Of Naples aud Rome and
Ventce--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 will come when the writ Of eject
ment will be served and the church will
possess everything. All parks, all fish
ponds all colors, all 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 breakfasted at Gods table. The com
missary department of n hundred thousand
men in an army will engage scores of peo-
pie; but just think of a conmissary de-
partment of a world Think Of tho gath
erinQ 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 flax broken, and how much cotton
picked. Just think Of the infinite ward
robe where sixteen hundred millions of
people get their clothes God spreads the
p olI for 10 obi
that would he very selfish man who
would not allow other people to 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 raimeut.
Who fed the whales sporting off Cape
Hatteras this morning? Out of whose
hand did the cormOrant pick its food ?
Whose loom wove the butterhy's wing?
Who hears the hawks cry? If God takes
care of u walrus, aud a Siberian dog, and n
wasp, will he not take care of your Will
n father have more regard for reptiles than
for his sons and daughters? If God clothes
the grizzly bear. and the panther, and the
hyena, will he not clothe his own children?
Come, then, this morning aud get the key
of the infinite s;Orchousc. Come and get
he key of the infinite wardrobe. Here
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. II you should
stand among the Allegheny mountains
especially near what Is called the Horse.
| shoe" you would find q train of cars al
! most doubling on itself, and sitting in the
| back car you see locomotive coming as
| you look out 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
train is going toward Pittsburg or toward
! Philadelphia, but it is on the track and ii
will reach the depot for which it started
and all the passengers will DO discharged
at che right place Now there are great
many sharp curves in life.
Sometimes we seem to be going this
way and sometimes we seem TO bo goinc
that way, but if we are Christians we are
on the right track and we arc going t.
come out at the right place. Do not ge
worried, then, about the sharp curve.
| sailing vessel starts from New York fo
Glasgow Does it go in a straight line
| Oh, no. 1t changes its tack every littl
while. Now you say, This vessel insteac
| Of going to Glasgow must be going t.
Havre, or it is going to Hamburg, or it i
going to Marseilles." No, no 1t is goinj
to Glasgow. And in this voyage of life W
often have to change our tack One storm
blows us this way and another storm
blows us that way, but he who holds tn
winds in his fist will bring us into "a have
of everlasting rest just at the right time
Do not worry, then. if you have to chang
tack.
TEMPORAL LOSS AND ETERNAL GAIN.
One Of the best things that ever har
peued to Paul was being thrown of hi
horse. One Of the best things that eve
happened to Joseph was being thrown int
the pit. The losing of his physical eye
sight helped John Milton to see the battl
of the angels One Of the best things tina
ever happened to Ignatius was bein
thrown to the wild beasts in the Coliseum
and while eighty thousand people wer
jeeIing at his religion ne walked up to tn
tercest of all the lions and looked him i
the eye, as much as to say, Here l an
ready to be devoured for Christs sake.
All things work together for your gooC
II you walk the desert the mamma will ia
and the sea will part
If The feverish torch of sickness is kir
died over your pillow, by its light you Gu
read tho promises. II the waves of troubI
, dash high above your girdle, across rh
blast and across the surge you can Leu
the promise, When thou passest throug
, the waters, l will be with thee" 70
, never owned glove, or shoe, or a Ia
; or coat more certainly than you own a
) the frets and annoyances and exasper,
D tiors Of this life, and they are bound
L work out your present and your eterni
good They are the saws. the hammer
e the files by Which you are to be hewn an
; cut and smoothed for your eternal we
. briug,
Here is "A vessel that goes along II
t coaust, IL hugs the coast. The captain
y that vessel seems chiefly anxious to ket
? the paint on his ship from being MARE
t or the sails from being torn. When thi
t vessel comes 70 port nobody looks on
0 with any interest. But here is vess
+ that went across the sea with vast pro-
t uct and comes in with vast importation
9 sails patched, masts sphced, pumps Il
|, working to keep out the water; il HI
5 come through the hurricane which lii
d sunk twenty steamers. The hronZed MI
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