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! Secondly, remark that the right to full
temporal support is In the Christians
name. 1t is great affair to feed tn.
world. just think Of the fact that this
| morning sixteen hundred millions of oul
| race breakfasted at Gods table. The com
missary department of hundred Thousand
men in an army will engage scores of PEG
| ple but just think Of q commissary de
| partment Of world Think of the gath
ering up from the rice swamps. and tbs
tea fields, and the orchards, and the fish
eries No one but God could tell how
many bushels it would take to feed five
continents.
Then to clothe all these people-hoH
many furs must be captured and how
much fax broken, and how much cotton
picked. just think of the infinite ward
robe where sixteen hundred millions OF
people get their clothesl God spreads the
table first of all for his children. OF course
that would be very selfish man who
would not allow other people to come and
sit at his table sometimes, but first of al
the right is given to Christian people, and
therefore it is extreme folly for them evel
to fret about food or raiment.
Who fed the whales sporting off Cape
Hatteras this morningP Out of whose
hand did the cormorant pick its foodi
Whose loom wove the butterhy's wingi
Who hears the hawks cryP If God takes
care of a walrus, and a Siberian dog, and q
wasp, will he not take care of your Will
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 childreni
Come, then, this morning and get the key
of the infinite storehouse. Come and get
the 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
rs they have any religious profit, are in
the right of the Christian. If you should
stand among the Allegheny mountains
especially near what is called the "Horse.
shoe" you would find 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 it
will reach the depot for which it started
and all the passengers will be discharged
at the right place. Now there are great
many sharp curves in life
Sometimes we seem to be going this
way and sometimes we seem to be going
that way, but if we are Christians we are
on the right track and we are going to
come out at the right place. Do not get
worried, then, about the sharp curve A
sailing vessel starts from New York for
Glasgow. Does it go in a straight line?
Oh, no. 1t changes its tack every little
while. Now you say, "Thfs vessel instead
of going to Glasgow must be going to
Havre, or it is going to Hamburg, or it is
going to Marseilles" No, no. 1t is goint
to Glasgow. And in this voyage of life we
often have to change our tack. One storm
blows us this way and another storm
blows us thGt way, but he who holds the
winds in his fist will bring us into haven
of everlasting rest just at the right time.
Do not worry, then. if you have to change
tack.
TEMPORAL LOSS AND ETERNAL GAIN
One of the best things that ever hap
pened to Paul was being thrown off his
horse. One of the best things that ever
happened to Joseph was being thrown into
hiN PlN' nv lcolllS VI lis pLy SlCdl eye
sight helped John Milton to see the battle
of the angels. One of the best things that
ever happened to Ignatius was being
thrown to the wild beasts in the Coliseum,
and while eighty thousand people were
jeering at his religion ne walked up to the
6ercest Of all the lions and looked him in
the eye, as much as to say, "Here | am,
ready to be devoured for Christ's sake"
A II tbinSru VII f1u
If you walk the desert the mama will fall
and the sea will part.
If the feverish torch Of sickness is kin
died over your pillow, by'its light you can
read the promises If the waves of trouble
dash high above your girdle, across the
blast and across the surge you can hear
the promise, "When thou passest through
the waters, will be with thee" You
never owned n glove, or shoe, or hat
or coat more certainly than you own all
the frets and annoyances and exaspera-
tions of this life, and they are bound to
work out your present and your eternal
good They are the saws, the hammers,
the files by which you are to be hewn and
cut and smoothed for your eternal well
being.
Here is II vessel that goes along the
coast; it hugs the coast. The captain of
that vessel seems chiefly anxious to keep
the paint on his ship from being marred
or 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 prod
uct and comes in with vast Importation
sails patched, masts spliced, pumps all
working to keep out the water; it has
come through the hurricane which has
sunk twenty steamers. The bronzed men
are cheering among the rigging. Now the
men-of- war anchored in the harbor boom
forth their welcome through the portfolios.
SO there are some Christians who are hay
ing an easy time. 1t seems to them smooth
sailing all the 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 mid
night hurricanes-storm to the right of
chem, storm to the left Of them, storm all
the way-when they come up the harbor
of heaven all the redeemed will turn out
to greet them and bid them hail and well
come.
THE PROMISE OF BOTH WORLDS
go further and tell you that the Chris
tian owns not only this world, 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 am going to show you
that he owns all on the other side. Death
is not a ruflian that comes down to burn
us out of house and home, destroying the
house of the tabernacle 50 that we should
10 homeless forever. Oh, mol He is only
black messenger who comes to tell us it
Is time to move; to tell us to get out OF
this hut and 20 up into the palace The
Christian owns all heaven. "All are