Arizona republican., 1892-11-27

every star, of every crazed brain cured, of every blind man come to sunlight, of every coin in a tishs mouth, of every loaf that got to be five loaves, of every wrathful sea pacified, of every pulseless arm stretched forth in graduation; ask it of his mother, of Augustus, of Herod, of the Syroph9nician woman, of the damsel that woke up from the death sleep, of Joseph, who had him buried, of the angel posted as sentinel at his tomb, of the dumb earth that shook and groaned and thundered when he died.
 THE BIBLE IS A STAFF.
 A missionary in France offered Bible in an humble dwelling. The man took it, tore out dozen pages and with them began to light his pipe. Some years after the missionary happened in the same house. The family had just lost their son in the Crimean war, and his Bible had been sent back home. The mission ary took 1t up and saw that it was the very same Bible that he had left in the house and from which the leaves had been torn. The dying soldier had writ ten on one of the leaves of the Bible, Rejected and scoffed at, but finally be- ieved in and saved" The Bible may be used to light the pipe of witticism by some, but for us it is a staff in life, pillow in death and our joy for eternity.
 Walk all up and down this Bible do- mainl Try every path. Plunge in at the prophecies and come out at the epistles. Go with the patriarchs until you meet the evangelists. Rummage and ransack, as children who are not satisfied when they come to a new house until they know what is in every room and into what every door opens. Open every jewel casket. Examine the sky. lights, Forever be asking questions. Put to higher use than was intended the oriental proverb, Hold all the skirts of thy mantle extended when heaven is raining gold"
 Passing from Bonn to Coblentz on the Rhine, the scenery is comparatively tame. But from Coblentz to Mayence it is enchanting. You sit on deck and feel as if this last flash of beauty must exhaust the scene; but in a moment there is turn of the river, which GOV CTS up the former view with more lux uriant vineyards, and more defiant cas- ties. and bolder bluffs, vine wreathed, and grapes so ripe that if the hills be OuChed they would bleed their rich life away into the bowls of Bingen and ' Hockheimer. Here and there there are streams of water melting into the river, like smaller joys swallowed in the bosom of great gladness.
 And when night begins to throw its black mantle over the shoulder of the hills, and you are approaching disem- barkation at Mayence, the lights along the shore fairly bewitch the scene with | their beauty, giving one thrill that he feels but once, yet that lasts him for ever. So this river of Gods Word is not a straight stream, but winding splen- ! dor-at every turn new wonders to at tract, still riper vintage pressing to the | brink and crowded with castles of | strength-Stolzenfel and Johannisber- ger as nothing compared with the strong | tower into which the righteous run and are saved-and our decentralization at last in the evening amid the lights that gleam from the shore of heaven. The | trouble is that the vast majority of Bi- ble voyagers stop at Coblentz, where the chief glories begin.
 A BoUNDLEss SEA.
 l The sea of Gods Word is not like Gen nesaret, twelve miles by six, but bound 1 less, and in any one direction you can sail on forever. Why then confine your ! self to short psalm or to a few verses | of an epistle? The largest fish are not near the shore. Hoist all sail to the winds of heaven. Take hold of both oars and pull away. Belike some of the whalers that went out from New Bed ford or PortsI ,S1th to be gone for two ] or three years, 7 'ea, calculate on life | time voyage. x>2do not want to land | until you land in heaven. Sail away | o ye mariners, for eternity! Launch | out into the deep!
 The text is appropriate to all Chris tians of shallow experience. Doubts and ! fears have in our day been almost elected to the parliament of Christian graces l Some consider it bad sign not to have any doubts. Doubts and fears are not signs of health, but testers and carbun- ! cles. You have a valuable house or farm. It is suggested that the title is not good. You employ counsel. You have the deeds examined. You search the record for mortgages, judgments and liens. You are not satisfied until you have q certificate, signed by the i great seal of the state, assuring you that the title is good. Yet how many leave their title to heaven an undecided mat ter! Why do you not go to the records and find out? Give yourself no rest, day or night, until you can read your title clear to mansions in the skies.
 1 Christian character is to come up to higher standards. We have now to hunt through our library to find one Robert M'Cheyne, or one Edward Pay son, or one Harlan Page. The time will come when we will find half a dozen of them sitting in the same seat with us. ! The grace of God can make a great deal better men than those have mentioned. Christians seem afraid they will get | ba4aro1oy hv Croino too far They do