Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-11-04


precautions established here will MAKE
next summer unusually healtnful. Ch0,era
never starts from where it stopper
the season before, but always starts in the
filth Of Asia, and IL il starts next summer il
will start there again-it will not start froE4
New York quarantine. But it is evident to
me that the dnger OF Col is in this cholera
scare, and that He is pointing this Nation
to something higher and better. IL has
been demonstrated as never before that We
are in the hands of God. He allowed the
plague to come to our very gates and then
halted it.
The quarantine was right AMI necessary
but, oh, how easily the plague could have
leaped the barriers lifted against it Thanks
to the president OF the United States, and
thanks TO the health officers aud thanks
TO the Thirteenth regimeut, ana thanxs t.
national health. but more than all, ar
higher than all, thanks to God! Out o.
that solemnity We ought TO pass up &c
something better than anything that has
ever yet characterized US as a nation.
We ought to quit our national sins,
our Sabbath breaking, and our drunken
ness and our impurities, and our CorruD-
tons Of all sorts as people. The ten tency
js in self graduation at our pros 2erity IL
forget the mercy OK God that has kept Us
from being blotted OUT for our crimes, and
that still multIDlies our TEMPORAL prosper
tiles Forward and upward! See you not
the finger of Col in this protecting mercy?
If we love the Lord and trust Him-and
you may all love Him AMI trust Him from
this moment Olive no more understand
the good things ahead of US than the child
at school stuoying his A B can under
stand what that has to do with his reading
John Ruskin'S ''Seven Lamps of Arcditec-
ture," or Dante's ''Divina Commedia-" The
satisfactions and joys We have as vet had
are like the music a hoy makes with his
frS fho violin red with
what was evoked fro his great orchestra
by my dear and illustriOuS and transcend
ent but now departed friend, Patrick Gill
more when he lifted his baton aud all the
strings vibrated, and all the trumpets
pealed forth, and all the flutes caroled, aud
all the drums rolled, and a 1 the hoOfs of the
cavalry charge. which he i-litated, were in
full beat. Look ahead. The finger OF God
points forward.
''Oh, but" says some one, 81 am getting
old, and have a touch % rheumatism In
that foot. and believe something is the mat
ter with my heart, and [ cannot stand
much as I used to-" Well I congratulate
you, for that shows you are getting nearer
to the time when you are going to enter i'm
mortal youth and be strong enough to hurl
off the battiements Of heaven any bandit who
ny unheard OF burg. AIRY might break into the
Golden City. But" says some one, II feel
so lonely. The most Of my friends are gone.
and the beraavements OF life have multiplied
until this world CQaG was once 50 To
me has lost its charm"
congratulate you, for when you go thers
will be fewer here to hold you back a11
more there to pull you in. Look aheaft
The finger of God is pointing forward. We
sit here in church, and by hymn and prayer
and sermon and Christian association we
try to get into a frame Of mind that will be
acceptable to God and pleasant to ourselves.
But what stupid thing it all is COM
pared with what it will be wnen wa have
gone beyond psalmbook and sermon and
Bible, and we stand, our last imDer.
lection gone, in the presence OF that charm
of the universe-the blessed Christ--ani
have Him look in our face and say: II have
been watching you and sympathizing with
you and helping you all these years, and
now you are mere. Go where you please and
never know a sorrow and never shed tear
There is your mother now-she is coming to
greet you-and there is your father, and
there are your children. Sit down under
this tree Of life, and on the banks Of this
river talk it all over"
tell you there will be mora Joy in one
minute of that than in fifty years Of earthly
exultation. Look ahead Look at the finest
house on earth, aud know that you will have
a finer one in heaven. Look up the healthiest
person you can find. and know YOU will yet
De nealUnIer. LOOK up the one VINO mas the
best eyesight of any one you have ever heard
of, and know you will have better vision.
Listen to the sweetest prima donna that
ever trod the platform. and know that in
heaven you will lift more enrapturing song
than ever enchanted earthly au itorium.
NY friends, | do not know how we are go
ing TO stand 1T mean the full thrush OF
that sptendor. Last summer [ saw Mos
COW, in some respects the most splendid city
under the sun. The emperor afterward
asked me ii had seen it, for Moscow is the
pride of Russia. told him yes, aud that
had seen Moscow burn. I will tell you
wnat l meant. After examining nine hun
dred brass canuons which were picked out
of the snow after Napoleon retreated
from Moscow, each cannon deep
cut with the letter IN" [ assembled a tower
OF some two hundred and fifty feet just be-
fore sunset and on each platform there were
bells, large and small, and I climbed up
among the bells and then as 1 reached the
top all the bells underneath me began to
ring, and they were joined by the bells OF
fourteen hundred towers and domes and tur-
rets.
Some of the bells sent out faint tinkle OF
sound, q sweet tintinnabula ton that seemed
to bubble ia the air, and others thundere1
forth boom after boom, boom after boom,
until it seemed to shake the earth and fill
the heavens-sounds so weird SO sweet, so
awful, so grand. so charming, SO ire
nendous, 50 SOFT, so ripping. so re-
verberating they seemed to wreathe
and whirI and rise and sink aud
ourS5 and roll AMI mount and die
When Napoleon saw Moscow burn, it
could not have been more brilliant tnan
'vnen ( saw all the fourteen hundred turrets
afame with the sunset, roofs OF gold AMI
walls OF malachite, and architecture OF ali
colors miugling the brown OF autu mai for
asts and tne blue Of summer heavens, and
he condagration of morning skies, and the
green of rich meadows, ana the foam OF
tossing seas.
The mingling OF so many colors with 80