Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-21

OF their inpsrtinence and rebellion under
his throne, and while they are splitting in his
face and stabbing at his heart he takes them
up in his arms and kisses their in furiated
brow and cheek, saying: ''Of such is the
kingdom of heaven"
The other kind of sermon never want to
fire and torture and thunder-cloud, and with
red-hot pitchfork tossing the human race
into paroNysms of infinite agony. The
sermon that am now preaching believes IN
God OF loving, kindly warning, the Gou OF
spring and winter, the God of the Pleiades
and Orion.
You must remember that the winteris just
as important as the spring. Let one winter
pass without frost to kill vegetation and ice
to bind the rivers and snow to enrlch our
fields, and then you will have to enlarge
your hospitals and your cemeteries "A
green Christmas makes a fat graveyard.
We Need Winter in Earthly Affairs.
] tell you we need the storms of life as
much as we do the sunshine. There are
more men ruined by prosperity than by ad-
versity. If We had our own way in life, be-
fore this we would have been impersona-
tions of selfishness and worldliness and dis
gusting sin, and puffed up until we would
have been like Julius Caesar, who was made
by sycophants to believe that he was divine,
and the freckIes on his face were as the stars
OF the armament.
One of the swiftest transatlantic voyages
made last summer by our swfftest steamer
was because she had a stormy wind abaft,
chasing her from, New York to Liverpool.
But to those going in the opposite direction
the storm was a bu1fetlng and hlndrance.
1t is a bad thing to havea storm ahead, push
ing us back; but if we be Gods children and
aiming toward heaven, the storms of life
will only chase us the sooner into the har-
Dor. / am so glad to believe that the mon
soons, and typhoons, and mistrals, and siroc-
cos of the land and sea are not unclaimed
maniacs let loose upon the earth, but are un-
der divine supervision! l am so glad that
the God of the seven Stars is also the God of
Orion.
Oh, what a mercy it is that the text and all
up and down the Bible God induces us to
look out toward other words! Bible astron-
omy in Genesis, in Joshua, in Job, in the
Psalms, in the prophets, major and minor,
in st. Johns Apocalypse, practically saying,
"Worlds! worlds! worlds! Get ready for
them
Our Love of the Present World.
We have nice little world here that we
stick to, as though losing that we lose all.
We are afraid of falling off this little raft of
a world. We are afraid that some meteor
ic iconoclast will some night smash it, and
we want everything to revolve around it,
and are disappointed when we find that it
revolves around the sun instead of the sun
revolving around it. What fuss we make
about this little bit of world, its existence
only short time between two spasms, the
psroNysm by which it was hurled from
chaos into order, and the paroxysm of its
demolition.
And am glad that so many texts call us
to look Off to other worlds, many of them |
larger and grander and more resplendent- |
Don't let us be SO agitated about our own 60 |
ing of this little barge or sloop OF canal boat
OF world to get on some ''Great Eastern" OF |
the heavens. Don't let us persist in want |
ing to stay in this barn. this shed, this out |
house of world, when all the Kings pal |
aces already occupied by many of our best |
friends are swinging wide open their gates |
to let us in,
many mansions" do not know but that |
each world is a room, and as many rooms as |
there are worlds, stellar stars, stellar CALLER
les, stellar Railways, stellar windows, stellar /
domes. How our departed friends must pity |
US shut up in these cramped apartments, |
morning. by one stroke of wing, can make |
circuit of the whole stellar system and be |
back i'll time for mathis.
1t Broadens Our Finite Vision.
Oh, how this widens and lifts and stimu- |
lates our expectation! How little it makes |
the present ana how stupendous it makes |
the future, How it consoles US about our |
pious dead, who instead of being boxed up |
and under the ground have the range of as |
many rooms as there are worlds, and well |
come everywhere, for it is the Fathers |
house. in which there are many mansions. |
Oh, Lord God OF the Seven Stars and Orion, |
how can / endure the transport, the ectaSy,
Of such visioni / must obey my text and |
seek Him! / will seek him. seek Him now; |
for l call to mind that it is not the material |
universe that is most valuable, but the |
spiritual, and that each of MS has a soul |
worth more than all the worlds which the |
inspired herdsman saw from his booth on |
the hills of Tekoa.