The Red Cloud chief., 1892-04-01
old proverh Storms to purify the air.

and January just as important As May
and June. 1 tell you we need the
storms of life as much as we do the
sunshine. There are more men ruined
by prosperity than by adversely.
One OF tie swiftest transatlantic voy-
ages made last summer by our swiftest
steamer was made because she had q
stormy wind abaft, chasing her from
New York to Liverpool. But to those
going in the opposite direction the
storm was a buffeting and n hindrance.
1T IS a bad thing to have a storm ahead,
pushing us back; but if we be Gods
children and aiming toward Heaven.
the storms of life will only chase us
he's sooner into the harbor. 1 am so
glad to believe that the monsoons, and
typhoons,. and mistrals and siroccos of
the land and sea are not unclaimed
maniacs let loose upon the earth, but
are under divine supervision!
am so glad that the God of even
stars is also the God Of Orionl 1t was
out of Dante's suffering came the
sublime Divina Commedia, and out of
John Millions blindness came Paradise
Lost, and out of a miserable infidel at
tack came the Bridgewater Treatise in
favor of Christianity and out of David's
exile came the songs of consolation,
and out of the sufferings of Christ came
the possibility of the worlds redemp-
ton, and out Of your bereaven.on ont, your
persecution, your poverties, your mis-
fortunes, may yet come an external
heaven.
We have a nice little world here that
we stick to. as though losing hat We
lose all. We are afraid of falling of
this little raft of a world. We are
afraid that some meteoric i~conoclast
will some night smash around it, and
are disappointed when we find that it
~revolves around the sun instead of the
u revolving around it What a fuss
we make about this little bit Of q
world, its existence only a short time
between two spasns, the paroxysm by
which it was hurled from chaos into
order, and the paroxysm Of its demo-
lition.
And l am so glad that so many texts
call US to look off to other worlds,
many of them larger and grander and
more Respondent. Look there" says
Job. lat Nazareth and Arcturus and
his sons" "Look there" saws St
John. ''at the moon under Christ's
feetr." Look there" says Joshua, lat
the sun standing still above Gibeon"
Look there" says Amos, the herds
man. 'at the seven stars and Orion!'
Don't let us be so sad about those who
shove off from this world under Christly
pilotage. Don't let us be so agitated
about our own going off this little
barge or sloop or canal boat of a world
to get on some Great Eastern" of the
heavens. Don't let us persist in want
ing to stay in this barn, this shell, this
clubhouse of a world, when all the
palaces already occupied by
many of our best friends are swinging !
wide open their gates to let us in.
When l read, ''In my Fathers house
are many mansions" / do not know
but that each world is a room. and az
many rooms as there are worlds, stel-
ar stairs. stellar galleries, stellar hall.
ways, stellar windows, stellar domeS. |
How our departed friends must pity us
shut up in these crampei apartments |
tired if we walk fifteen miles, when
hey some morning, by one stroke of
wing, can make circuit of the whole
system and be back in time for
Perhaps yonder twinkiing
constellation is the residences of the
martyrs; that group of twelve lumi- !
,aries is the celestial home of the
Perhaps that steep of light
S the dwelling place of angels cher
ibic, seraphic, archangelic. A man
ion with as many rooms as worlds,
md all their windows illuminated fCy
iestivity.
O, how this widens and lifts and
our expectation! How lit
lie it makes the present, and how stu
,endous it makes the future! How il
consoles us about our pious dead, who
of being boxed up under the
round have the range of as manv
ooms as there are worlds, and well
ONE everywhere. for it is the Fathers
louse, in which there are many map
ions! On, Lord God of the seven starr
nd Orion, how can / endure the trans
,ort, the ecstasy, OF such a vision! /
must obey my text and seek Him. /
will seek Him. l seek Him now, for I
to mind that it is not the material
inverse that is most valuable, but the
piritual, and that each of us has a soul
worth more than all the worlds which
inspired herdsman saw from his
on the hills of Tekoa-
I had studied it before, but the
athedral of Cologne, Germany, never
impressed me as it did the last time I
it. 1t is admittedly the grandest
iothic structure in the world, its
laid in 124s, only eight or
inc years ago completed More than
90 years in building. All Europe
aXed for its construction Its chapel
{ the Magi with precious stones
nough to purchase a kingdom As / ,
TODD outside. looking at the double
ange of flying buttresses and the
orest of pinnacles. higher and higher
nd higher, until / almost reeled from !
.izziness, I exclaimed: "Great dox-
logy in stone! Frozen prayer of many
But while standing there I saw a 8
DOR man enter and put down his pack ,
nd kneel beside his burden on the I