Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-09-29
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Christ in the bible, Here is a man who
studies the bible as a historian. Well,
II you come AS u historian, you will find
in this book how the world was made,
how the seas He'd TO their places, how
empires were established, how nation
fought with nation, javelin ringing
against harbegcon, until the earth was
CHASTITY with the dead You will see
the coronation Of princes, the triumph
of conquerors, aud the world turned
upside down and back again and down
again, cleft and Scared with great
agonies of earthquake, and tempest,
and battle, II IL wonderful history,
putting To the blush all others in the
accuracy OF its recital, and in the stu
peudous events il records, Homer and
rhucydides, and Glbb,n could make
great stories out of little events; but
1t took II Moses to tell how the heavens
and the earth were made in one chap
ter, and to give the history Of thou.
sands of years upon two leaves.
There are others who come To the
bible merely Us antiquarians you
come AS an antiquarian You will find "A
great many odd things in the bible;
peculiarities of manner and custom,
marriage and burial; pcculiaritics OF
dress, TUNES, sandals, crisping pins,
amulets and girdlcs, and tinlSling orna.
mcnts, II you come To look ut mill,
tary arrangements, you will find
coats of mail, and javclns and
| engines Of war, aud circumvnlla.
ton and encnmpmcnts, II you
look for peculiar musical instruments,
you will find psaltcrics, and shigi,
onoths, and rams horns The anti
quarian will find In the bible curiosi-
ties in Agriculture. and in commerce,
and in art, and IN religion, that win
keep him absorbed great while
There are those who come To this bible
us You would to II cabinet of curiositieS,
aud you pick up this and say, "Whatg
strange sword this isl and what u
peculiar hat this Isl and "What an
unloolScd-for lamp that isl" and the
| bible To such becomes u british
Museum
Then there are others who find moth
ing in the bible but the poetry, Woll,
IL you come us u poet, you will iiud In
this book faultlcss rhythm, and bold
imagery, and startling antithesis, and
rnpturous lyric, and sweet pastoral,
and instructive narrative and devo-
| tionul psalm; thoughts expressed in
style moro solemn than that of Mont.
gomcry, more bold than that of Milton,
more terrible than that of Dante, more
natural than that OF Wordsworth, moro
| impassioned than that OF Pollock, more
| tender than that of Cowper more
weird than that of Spenser This
great poem brings all the gems OF
| the earth into its eoronet, and il
weaves the flames of Judgment in its
| garland, and pours eternal harmonies
in It's rhythm Everything this book
touches It makes beautiful, from the
| floor, and the daughters of Major fill
| ing the trough for the camcls, and the
| iish-pools of lleshbon, up TO the Psalm.
list praising God with diapason OF
storm and whirlwind, and job leading
| forth Orion, Arcturus and the Pleiadcs,
IL Is u wonderful poem; and q
great many people read II as they
do Thomas Moore's ''Lalla
RoolSh, and Walter SCOTS Lady u
the Lake, = and Tennyson's Charge oi
the Light brigade" They sit down.
and are so absorbed in looking ut the
shells on the shore that they forget ia
| look oil on the great ocean of Gods
mercy and salvation,
! remark again, Christ Is everything
to the Christian in time Of trouble.
Who has escaped trouble? We must all
stoop down and drink out Of the bitter
| lake. The moss has no time TO grow
| on the buckets that come up out OF the
hearts well, dripping with tears, Great
trials arc upon our track MS certain as
| greyhound pack on the scent of deer.
| From our hearts In every direction
| there are thousand chords reaching
| out binding us 10 loved ones, and ever
and anon some of these tcndrils snap.
| The winds that cross this sea OF life
are not all abaft. The clouds that
cross our sky are not feathery and
nfar, ~raying like ilocks of sheep
|
sombre and cleaning with terror, they
| wrap the mountains In fire, and come
down baying with their thunders
through every gorge. The richest
fruits of blessing have u prickly she'll.
Life here is not lying at anchor; it is
wcathering gale. II is not sleeping
in d soldiers tent with our arms
stacked, IL is a bayonet-charge. We
stumble over grave-stones, and we drive
on with our wheel deep in the old rut
Of graves Trouble has wrinlsled your
brow, and IL has frosted your head.
! Falling in this battle of life, is there
no angel to bind our wounds? Hath
| God made this world with SO many
things To hurt and none TO heal?
For this snate-bite Of sorrow, is there
no herb growing by all the brooks to
heal the poison? Blessed be God that
in the gospel we find the antidote!
| Christ has bottled an ocean of tears.
How many thorns he hath plucked out
OF human agony oh, he knows too
| well what it is To carry a cross, not to
| help MS carry ours lie knows too
well WHdt u - W cllIlb tut uiuuubdius
not to help us up the steep He knows
| too well what 1t is To be prosecuted,
not TO help those who are imposed
upon. He knows too well what it is
to be sick, not to help those who suf-
fer. Ay, he knows too well what it is
TO die, not to help us in our last ex-
trcmity. Blessed Jesus, thou knowest
it all. Seeing thy wounded side, and
thy wounded hand, and thy wounded
feet, and thy wounded brow, we are
sure thou knowest it all. Oh!
when those into whose bosom we used
to breathe our sorrows are snatched
| from us, blessed be God the heart of
Jesus still beats; and when all other
| lights go out and the world gets dark,
then we see coming out from behind .
cloud something SO bright and cheering,
we know it to be the morning star OF
the souls delivorance. The hand of care
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