The Globe-republican., 1892-07-25

sounds after awhile. and he will mingle
them in one great harmony, and the
Mendelssohns, and the BeethOvens, and
the MOzarts OF the earth will join their
voices and their musical instruments,
and soft south wind and loud lunged
euroclydon will sweep the great organ
pipes, and you shall see Gods hand
striking the keys and Gods foot tramp
ing the pedals in the great oratorio of
the ages!
So all artistic and literary advantages
are in the Christians right do not
care on whose wall the picture hangs or
on whose pedestal the sculpture stands,
it belongs to Christians. The Bierstadts
and the churches are all working for us
'All are yours" The Luxembourg, the
Louvre, all the galleries of Naples and
Rome and Venice-they are all to come
into the possession of the church Of
Jesus Christ. We may not now have
them on our walls, but the time will
come when the writ of ejectment will be
served and the church will possess every
thing. All parks, all ish-ponds all
cOlOrS, all harveSts-all. ''all are yours. :"
Secondly. / remark that the right to
full temporal support is in the Chris
tian's name. 1t is a great affair to feed,
the world. Just think of the fact that
this morning sixteen hundred millions OF
our race breakfasted at Gods table.
The commissary department of hum
dred thousand men in an army will en-
gage scores of people; but just think of a
cOmmissary department of world!
Think of the gathering up from the rice
swamps, and the tea fields, and the
orchards. and the fisheries! No one but
God could tell how many bushels it would
take to feed five continents.
Then to clothe all these people-how
many furs must be captured, and how
much flax broken, and how much cotton
picked. Just think of the infinite ward
robe where sixteen hundred millions of
people get their clothes! God spreads
the table first of all for His children.
OF course that would be very sefish
man who would not allow other people
to come and sit at his table sometimes,
but first Of all the right is given to Chris
tian people, and therefore it is extreme
folly for them ever to fret about food
or raiment.
Who fed the whales sporting off Cape
Hatteras this morning? Ont OF whose
hand did the cormorant pick its food?
Whose loom wove the butterfly's wing?
Who hears the hawks cry? If God
takes care of a walrus, and Siberian
dog, and a wasp, will he not take care of
you? VIII father have more regard
for reptiles than tor his sons and daugh-
tiers? If God clothes the grizzly bear.
and the panther, and the hyena, will he
not clOthe his own children? Come.
then, this morning and get the key of
the infinite Storchouse. Come and get
the key of the infinite wardrobe Here
they are-all the keys "AlI are yours. "
So all the vicissitudes of this life, so
far as they have any religious profit, are
in the right of the christian. If you
should stand among the Allegheny
mountains, especially near what is called
the Horseshoe, you would find train of
cars almost doubling on itself, and sit
ting In the back car you see a locomotive
coming as you look out of the window,
and you think it is another train when
it is only the front of the train in which
you are riding. and sometimes you can
hardly tell whether the train is going
toward Pittsburgh or toward Phila-
delphia, but it is on the track and it will
all the passengers will be discharged
at the right place. Now there are
great many sharp curves in life.
Sometimes we seem to be going this
way and sometimes we seem to be going
that way, but if we are Christians we
are on the right track and we are going
to come out at the right place. Do not
get worried, then, about the sharp curve.
IL
for Glasgow. Does it go in g straight
line? Oh, no. 1t changes its tack every
little while. Now YOU say. This vessel
instead of gowing to Glasgow must be
going to Havre, or it is going to Ham, |
burg, or it is going to Marseilles.;' No,
no. 1t is going to Glasgow. And in this |
voyage of life we often have to change |
our tack One storm blows us this way
and another storm blows US that way. /
but he who holds the winds in his fist |
will bring us into haven of everlasting |
rest just at the right time. Do not worry,
then, if Won have to change tack.
One of the best things that ever hap |
pened to Paul was being thrown off his |
horse. One of the best things that ever |
happened to Joseph was being thrown |
into the pit The losing of his physical /
eyesight helped John Milton to see the |
battle of the angels. One Of the best |
things that ever happened to Ignatius |
vas being thrown TO the wild beasts in
he Coliseum. and while so, 600 people
we're jeering at his religion he walked up
o the fierceSt of all the lions and looked
lin in the eye. as much as to say, Here
am, ready to be devoured for Christ's
AXE" All things work together for
our good. If you walk the desert the
mamma will fall and the sea will part.
If. the feversh torch of sickness is
,indled over your pillow, bv its light you
an read the promises. If the waves of
rouble dash high above your gridle,
lcross the blast and across the surge you
AN hear the promise, when thou
,assest through the waters, l will be
With thee Ion never owned glove,
II shoe or hat. or a coat more GER
ainly than you own all the trets and
and eXaSperatiOns of this
lie. and they are bound to work out
our eternal good. They are the saws,
he hammers, the files by which you are
o be hewn and cut and smoothed for