Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-04-14

| not shut thine eyes anu sieTp, u 49,
cares for thy shining" mo- sa,.n . .no
star, 81 will not sleep. RuIue w.
sailor on the sea. cheer the tI1soiea
a a'nono tho mountains, / help tip the
da,,, With light. Through the window
| of tho moor mans cabin cast beam OF
| hone and the child on her mothers L
oslrs in plee whether / come and Wh"t
do and whence | go. TO CLEAN ana
GLITTER God sent me here. Away!
have no time to sleep.
..Vhat doest thou, insignificant grass
under nv feet?" II am doing work.
saws the grass blade, las best can. 1
holm to make up the soft beauty OF Heiu
and lawn. am satisfied. ii with MIL
| lions of others no bigger than |, We can
Give nasture to flocks and herds am
wonderf1lty made He who feeds the
ravens gives me substance from the sou
and breath from the air, ana lie VINO
clothes the lilies OF the field rewards me
with this coat Of green.
.For what, lonely cloud, goest thou
ac,oss the Heavens?" Through the
bright air voice drops from altar, say
ing: sup ano down this sapphire moor
I nnce to teach men that like me they
are passing away. | gather up INC
waters from lake and sea, ana theh'
when the thunders toll, refresh inc
earth, making the dry ground TO lauSh
| with haryests of wheat and fields OF corn.
catch the frown Of the storm ana inc
hues of the rainbow. AT evening tiae on
the western slopes will pitch my tent,
and over me shall dash the saffron anu
| the nurple. and the fire of the sunset ~
nillar Of cloud like me led the chosen
| across the desert, and surrounded
| , T JnIu
earth will at last descend, for, Behold
He cometh with clouds!"
Oh, nv friends, If everything in tho
! inanimate world be useful, let us I'M
| mortal men and women be useful, and III
| that respect be like the palm tree. But
/ must not be tempted by what DAVID
saws of that green shaft OF Palestine,
| that living and glorious pillar In the
Eastern gardens, as seen in olden times
the palm tree; l must not DC tempted
by what the Old Testament says of 1T, to
lessen my emphasis of what John, the
evangelist, says Of it in my text.
Notice that it was a beautiful and law
tut robbery OF the palm tree that helped
make up Christ's triumph on the road to
Jerusalem that Palm Sunday. Inc long,
broad, green leaves that were streWn
under the feet Of the colt and in the way
Of Christ were torn off from the trees.
What pity, some one might say, that
those stately and graceful trees should
be despoilcd. The sap oozed out at the
places where the branches broke. The
glory Of the palm tree was appropriately
sacrificed for the Saviours triumphal
procession. So it always was, so 1t al
ways will be in this world-no worthy
triumph Of any sort without the tearing
down of something else.
Brooklyn bridge, the glory of our
continent, must have two architects
prostrated, the one slain by his tolls and
the other for lifetime invalided. The
greatest pictures OF the world had, in
their richest coloring, the blood Of the
artists who made them, The mightiest
oratoros that ever rolled through the
churches had. in their pathos, the signs
and groans of the composers, who wore
their lives out in writing tho harmony.
| American independence was triumphant,
but it moved on over the lifeless forms
OF tens Of thousands Of men who fell at
Bunker Hill and YORKTOWN and the
battles between which were the hemOr-
rhages of the nation.
The Kingdom of God advances in all
the earth, but it must be over the lives
Of missionaries who die OF malaria in
the jungles or Christian workers who
preach and pray and toll and die in the
service. The Saviour triumphs IN all
directions-but beauty and strength
must be torn down from the palm trees
of Christian heroism and conservation
and thrown in his pathway.
TO what better use could those palm
trees on tho southern shoulder of Mount
Olivet and clear down into the Valley of
Gethsemane put their branches than to
surrender them for the making Of Christ's
! journey toward Jerusalem the more PFC
tureSque, the more memorable and the
more triumphant? And to what better
use could we put our lives than into the
sacrifice for Christ and His cause and
the happiness of our fellow creatures?
Shall we not be willing to bc torn down
that Righteousness shall have triumphant
way? Christ was torn down for u.s. Can
we not afford to be torn down for Him?
If Christ could suffer so much for us
can we not suffer little for Christ? If
He can afford on Palm Sunday to travel
to Jerusalem to carry a cross, can we
not afford o few leaves from our branches
to make emerald His way?
What makes that mother look so much
older than she really is? You say she
ought not yet to have one gray line in
her hair. The truth is the family was
not always as we'll off as now. The
married pair had hard struggle at the
start. Examine the tips of the forefnger
and thumb Of her right hand, and they
VIII tell yol the story Of the needle that
was piled day in and day out. Yea, look
at both her hands, and they will tell the
story OF the time when she did her own
work, her own mending and scrubbing
and washing
YEA look into the face and read the
story OF scarlet fevers and groups and
midnight watchings. when none but God
and herself in that house were awake
and then the burials and the LONELINESS
aftcrward. which was more exhaustinp
than the preceding watching had been.
ana no one now to put to bed How fair
she once was, and as graceful as the
palm tree, but all the branches of her
strength and beauty were long ago torn
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