Milford chronicle., 1892-04-15

ty or thirty years to geos -cetion. We tax
Christian work, and in the aiU,atlv re
life we take ten or twenty years for the
lpradual closing Of active work, and that
Lsaves only so little time between opening
and stopping work that all we accomplish
is s,Slittle an angel Of God needs to exert
himself to see it all.
THE GOSPEL OF USEFULNESS.
Nearly everything see around, beneath
and above in the natural world suggests
useful SERVED If there is nothing in the
Bible that inspires you to usefulness, go
ont and study the world around you this
springtime, ana learn the great lesson OF
usefulness. "What art thou doing up
there. little star? Why not shut thine
ewes and sleeE. for who cares for thy shin
mgr" NO" saith the star, Il will not
sleep. l guide the sailor on the sea. /
cheer the traveller among the mountains.
help tip the dew with light. Through
the window of the poor mans cabin | cast
a beam of hope, and the child on her moth
er's lap asks in glee whittier / come and
what do and whence go. To CLEAN and
glitter. God set me here. Away l have no
time to sleep"
The snowflake comes struggling down.
"Frail, tickle wanderer, why contest thou
bereY" Il am no idle wanderer," responds
the snowflake. High up in the air was
horn. the child of the rain and the cold,
and ut the divine behest / come, and l am
no straggler, for God tells me where to put
NV crystal heel. To help cover the roots
the grain and grass, to cleanse the air, to
make sportsmen more happy and the ingle
fire more bright, l come. Though 50 light
am that you toss me from your muller
and crush me under your foot, / am doing
INV hest to fulfill what ! was made for.
Clothed in white / come on heavenly
mission, and, when my work is done and
God shall call, in morning vapor shall go
hack. drawn by the fiery courses Of the
sun"
"ybat doest thou, insignificant grass
blade under my feet;" Il am doing a
work. - says the grass blade, ''as best can.
help to make up the soft beauty OF field
and lawn. am satisfied, If, with millions
of others no bigger than /, we can give
pasture to fiOcks and herds. am wonder
fully made. He who feeds the ravens gives
me substance from the soil and breath
from the air. and he who clothes the lilies
Of the field rewards me with this coat Of
green"
"For what, lonely cloud, goest thou
across the heavensY Through the bright
mir voice drops from afar, saying; up
and down this sapphire floor / pace to
teach men that like me they are passing
away. ! gather up the waters from lake
and sea, and then, when the thunders toll,
refresh the earth, making the dry ground
to LAUGH with harvests OF wheat and fields
of corn. [ catch the frown of the storm
and the hues of the rainbow, At evening
ride on the western slopes I will pitch my
rent. and over me shall dash the saffron,
and the purple, and the fire Of the sunset.
A pillar of cloud like me led the chosen
across the desert, and surrounded by such
as / the Judge Of Heaven and Earth will
al last descend, for Behold he cometh
with cioudsr
Oh. my friends, if everything in the imam
innate world be useful, let us immortal men
and won. II be useful, and in that respect
Ike like he palm tree. But must not be
temorad sy \, hat David says of that green
shaft Of Palestine, that living and glorious
pillar in the eastern gardens rs seen IN
olIen rimcs-tht palm tree; must not be
tenDted by what the Old Testament says
If it. TO lessen NY emphasis of what John,
che evangelist, says of it in my text.
Notice thsu It was "a beautiful and lawful
robbery OF the palm tree that helped make
mn Christ's triumph on tie road to Jeru-
salem that Palm Sunday. The long broad,
green leaves that were strewn under the
fect of the colt and in the way of Christ
were torn of from the trees. Whata pity,
some one might say, that those stately and
| graceful trees should be despoiled. The
san oozed out ct the places where the
branches broke. The glory Of the palm
tree was appropriately sacrificed for the
Saviour's triumphal procession. so it al
wnvs was, so it always viii be in this
world-no worthy triumph Of any sort
without the tearing down Of something
else.
mont must have two architects Frustrated,
rbe enc slain by his tolls and the other for
a lifetime invalided. The greatest pictures
of the world had, in their richest coloringi
| the blood of the artists who made them.
Tbe mjpltiest oratOrios that ever rolled
| tbrough the churches had, in their pathos,
| tbe silrhs and groans Of the composers,
who wore their lives cut in writing the
harmony. American Independence was
triumphant, but it moved ON over the lie
I less forms Of tens Of thousands OF men who
fell at Bunker Hin and Yorktown and the
battles between which were the hemor-
rhages of the nation.
THE KINGDOM o. GOD ADVANCES.
Tbe kingdom Of God advances in all the
earth but it must be over the lives Of mis-
| sionaries who die of malaria in the jungles
OF Christian workers who preach and pray
and toll and die in the service. The Saviour
triumphs in all direetions-but beauty and
] strength must be torn down from the palm
trees of Christian herOism and conservation
ind thrown in his pathway.
70 what better use could those pain
trees on the southern shoulder OF Mount
/ Olivet and clear down into the valley o.
iethsemane put their branches than u
surrender them for the making of Christie
| Journey toward Jerusalem the more PIC
rnresoue, the more memorable and Tn
more triumphant And to what better us'
could we put our lives than into the sacrl
fee for Christ and his cause and the nap
piness OF our fellow creaturesg SNAIL w
not be willing TO be torn down that rght
eousness shall have triumphant way
| Christ was torn down for u.s. Can we no
afford to be torn down for him! II Chfls
could suffer so much for us, can we no
suffer 9 little for Christ? II he can anof'
on Palm Sunday 20 btafei W vet
carry cross, can we not AFFORD rev
leaves from our branches to make emerald
his ways
The process is going on every nlohiens u
MI directions. What makes that fathc
| have such hard work to find tie hymn e
3avg lie puts on lis spectacles and hold
me book close up, and then holds it far OF
ana is not quite sure whether the humble
Of the hymn is 100 or 100, and the finger
with which he turns the leaves are yer:
clumsy. lie stoops a good deal althougi
once lac was STRAIGHT MS an arrow, aad bi
EYES were Le.n Us a hawks, and The han'
he offered to his bride on the marriage ga,
was If goodly shape and rs God made ~
Twill til sou what is the matter Fort
years ago be resolved lis family shoui
nave no need and lis children should 3
yell educated and safer none OF the disad
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