The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-08-04

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| hear and the panther and the hyena, viii
| He not clothe His own children? Come, then,
! this morning. and get the key of the infinite
| storehouse, Come and get the key OF the IN
| finite wardrobe. Here they are-all tne
KEYS. ''All are yours"
| So all the vicissitudes of this lite, SO TAR as
| they have any religious profit, are IN tne
right of the Christian. LII you should s9ana
among the Allegheny Mountains, especially
near what is called the Horseshoe" you
would find a train of cars almost doubling
on itself and sitting in the back car you see
a locomotive coming as you look out OF the
window and YOU think it is another tram
when il is only the front of the train In
which Won are riding; and sometimes you
can hardly tell whether tho train Is gong
toward Pittsburg or toward fnladelpnia,
but it is on TIL track, AMI 1t VIII reach uhe
depot for which it started, and all the pas
sengers will be discharged at tne rlsn'
place. Now there are great many sharp
curves in life Sometimes we seem to be
,ojnc- this way AMI sometimes we seem to be
GOING that way, but if we are Christians We
are on the right track and we are gong 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 straight H 1l
Oh. no. 1t changes its track every little
while. Now YOU saw, "rhis vessel, instead
of Going to Glasgow, must be gong to
Hayre. or it is going to Hamburg, or 1T Is 60
inc to Marseilles" No, no. 1t IS gong 10
GLASGOW. And in this voyage OF life we
often have to change our tack. One storm
blows us this way, and another storr- pio"s
us that way: but He who hollis the Winds III
His fist will bring us into haven OF ever
lasting rest Just at the right time. 10 not
worry then If you have to change TACK.
one of the bast things that ever happened
to Paul was being thro wn oil his horse. One
If tine best things that ever happened to
.Joseph was being thrown into tne pit: Ih9
,osing of his plvsical eyeslght hslpei John
Milton to see the battle OF the angels. Che
of the best things That ever happene' 10
Iqnatius was being thrown to the via peastS
in the Coliseum. and while eighty Thousand
naonla we're ieering at his religion he
wake up to the tiercest of all the lions ami
looked him in the eye, as much as to say,
Here l am. ready to be devourei for
Christ's sake"
All things work together for your good.
If you walk the desert, the mama will fall
and the sea will part If the feverlsh torch
of sickness is kiudled over your pillow, by
its light you can read the promises. 1t the
waves of trouble dash high above your
girdle 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 glove, or shoe, or a
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
ont 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 a vessel that goes along the coast;
it hugs the coast. The captain OF that
vessel seems CHIEFLY anxious to keep the
paint on MS 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 vessel that went
across the sea VITA vast pro luct aud c)mes
in VITA vast importation sails patched,
masts splcel, pumps all working to keep
cut the water: it has come through the
hurricane which has sunk twenty steamers.
the bronzel men are cheering among the
rigging. Now the en-of-war anchored in
the harbor boom forth their welcome
through the portfolios.
So there are some Christians who are hav
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 midnight bur
to the right OF them, storm
20 the left OF them, storm all the way-when
they come up the harbor OF heaven, all the
will turn out to greet them, and
bid them hail ami welcome.
| go 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 Owls
all Oh this side Now, | am going to show
you that he owns all on the other side
Death is not a ruffian that comes down to
burn us out of house and home, destroying
the house OF the tabernacle, so that we
should be homeless forever Oh, no! He is
only a black messenger who comes to tell us
it is time o move, to tell us to get out of
this hut and go ~ into the palace.
The Christian owns all heaven. "All are
yours" Its palaces Of beauty, its towers of
strength, its castles OF love. He will not
walk in The eternal city as a foreigner in a
strange city, but as farmer walks over his
own premises. "All are yours" All tho
mansions yours. Angels your companions.
Trees of life your shade. Hills of glory your
lookout. Thrones OF heaven the place
where you will shout the triumph. Jesus is
yours. God is yours. You look up into the
face OF God and say, "My Father" You
look up into the face of Jesus and say, 'My
brother"
Walk out upon the battlenents of heaven
and look off upon tue city OF the sun. No
tears. No sorrow No death. No smoke of toll
ing warehouse curling on the air. No voice
of blasphemy thrilling through that bright,
clear Sabbath morning. No din of strife jar
ring the air. Then take out your deed an
remember that from throne to throne, and
from wall to wall, and from horizon to hori-
soa "All are yours"
Then get up into the temple of the sun
worshipers in white, each with a palm
branch, and from high gallery of that tenn
pie look down the thousands of thousands,
and the ten thousand times ten thousand,
and the one hundred and 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 voice saying, "All are
yours
See the great procession marching around
the throne Of Col. Martyrs who went up
on wings of flame. Invalids who went up
from couches of distress. Toilers who went
up from the workhouse, and the factory,
and the mine. All the suffering and tn
bruised chill iren OF God. See the chariots OF
salvation; in them those who were more
than conquerors. See them marching aroun /
about the throne of God forever and for
ever, ana know that "tll are yoars"
0 We who have pains Of body that exhaust
your strength and wear out your patience,
! hold before you this morning the land OF
eternal health and of imperishable beauty,
and all is yoursp o ye who have hard
work to get your daily bread, hard WORK to