Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-07-23

walkesl up 10 the fiercsst Of ali the lions and
looked him ID the eye, as much as to say.
Here ! au,s ready to Be devoured for
All things work together for your good
II you walk thedessrt, this mama will fall
and the sea will part. If thu feverish torch
of sickness Is kindied over your pillow. by
its light you can read the promises. Il the
waves Of trouble dash high above your
girdIe, across the blast and across the surge
you can hear the promise When thou pass
eth through the waters will be with thee
You never owned a glove. or a shoe. or a
hat, or a 4 coat more certainly than you own
all the frets and annoyauces and exaspera-
tons OF this life. and they are bound 10 work
OUT your present and your eternal good.
They are tue saws, the hammers the files by
which you are to be hewn and cut and
smoothed for your eternal well being
Here is a vessel that goes along the coast;
it hugs this coast. The captain OF that
vessel seems Chiefly anxious to keep the
sails from being torn. When that vessel
comes to port. nobody looks on it with any
interest. But here Is a vessel that went
across the sea with vast product and comes
in with vast importation sails patched
masts s2licet. pumps all working TO keep
cut the water: il has come through the
hurricane which has sunk twenty steamers.
rigging Now the men-of-war anchored in
the hsrbor boom forth their welcome
through the portfolios.
So there are SONS Christians who are hav-
ing an easy time. 1t seems to them smooth
sailing all ths way When they get into
heaven there will be no excitement there
will be very few people who will ever find
out they are there; but those Christians who
have gone through 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 harbor o. heaven, all tbs
redesmed will turn out to greet them. and
bid them hail AMI welcome.
l 90 further, and tell you that the
Christian owns not Only this word, but he
owns the next world. No chasm to be
leaped, no desert to be crossed. There is the
wall; there is the gate Of heaven. He owns
all on this side. Now, 4 am g,sy to show
you that he owns all on the other 81 de.
Death is not a ruiian that comes down to
hurn us out of house and home, destroying
the house o. the tabernacle. SO thar we
should be homeless forever. Oh, mol He is
only biacz messenger who comes to tell US
it is time o move, to tell US to get out of
this hut aud go up into the palace.
The Christian owns all heaven. III are
yours Its palaces OF beauty, its towers of
strength, its CASTLES OF love. He viii not
walk in the eternal city as foreigner in a
strange city, but as farmer walks over his
own premises "All are yours" All the
mansions yours. Angels your companions.
Trees OF life your shade. Bills of glory your
lookout. thrones of heaven the placs
waere you will shout the triumph Jesus is
yours. God is yours. You look up into the
1acs of God and say, my Father" You
look up into the face Of Jesus and say, MY
brother
Walk out upon the battlements of heaven
and look off upon the city of the sun. No
tears. No sorrow. No death. No smoke OF toll
ing warehouse curling on the air. No voics
of blasphemy thrilling through that bright
clear Sabbath morning. No din of strife jar
ring the air. Then take out your deed and
remember that from throne to throne. and
from wal to wall, and from horizon to hori-
son "Au are yours"
Then get up into the temple of the SUI,
worshipers in white, each with palm
branch, and from high gallery of that tenn
pie lool down the thousands of thousands
and the ten thousand times ten thousand,
and the one hundred ami forty and four
thousand, and the great multitude that no
man can number" and louder than the rush
of the wheels, louder than the tramp Of the
redeemed, hear a voice saying, "All are
yoursf
See the great procession marching around
the throne OF Col. Martyrs who went up
on wings of fame. Inyalids who went up
from couches of distress. Toilers who went
up from the workhouse, ana the 1actory,
and the mine All the suffering and the
bruised children of God. See tbs caariots OF
salvation; in them those who were more
than conquerors See them marching arouni
about the throne of God forever and for
ever, AMI know that 'all are yours"
o ye who have pains of body that exhaust
your strength and wear out your patisnce,
hold before you this morning tn, land OF
eternal health and of impsrishable beauty,
and 'sall is yoursw o ye who have hard
work to get your daily bread, hard WORK to
shelter your children from the storm, l lift
before you the vision of that land where they
never hunger, ami they nsver thirst, and
God feeds them, and robes cover them, and
the warmth of eternal love fills them, and all
that is yours
Oh. if there be any present wlo are yet
enemies of the Cross of Christ, besseci
them at once to be reconcilei to God Re-
member if you are not found among that
white robsd army who follow the Saviour in
HIS victorious march, your part must be
with those concerning whom it is said, The
Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven I'M
flaming fire, taking vengeance on tnose that
know not Goi and obey not the Gospel of
cur Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be punished;
with everlasting destruction from the pres
ence OF the Lord and from the glory of His
power when He shall come to be glorifiei in
His saints, and to be admired in all them
that believe"