Democratic messenger., 1892-07-23

/ 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, il belongs la Christians. The
BicrstadtS and the churches are all
working for ~. '..All ar yours" The
i Luxcmbourgs. the Louvre. all the gal
leries uf Naples and Rome and Venice
they are ail - come into the posses
sion of the church "f Jesus Christ We
may not now have them on our walls.
i but the time VIII come when the writ Of
( cjcctncnt viii ir served and the church
will possess everything. All parks. all
/ fishponds. all colors. all harvesis-all
''all are yours"
TDoD AND CLOTHING.
/ Secondly, remark that the right 10
/ full temporal support Is in the Chris
tian's name. II IS Il great affair to feed
the world. just think of the fact that
this morning sixteen hundred millions
of our race hrcakfasied nj Gods table.
The comnnissary department Of hum
dred Thousand men in any army will en-
gage scores Of people. hut just think Of
a coninis>ary department of world.
Think of the gathering up from the rice
swamps. AMI the tea fields. and the or
chard>. anl the fisheries. No one but
God could tell how many bushels il
would take to feed five continents.
Then. To clothe all these people how
many furs must be captured aud how
much flax broken aud how much cotton
picked. just think of the infinite ward
robe where sixteen hundred millions q
people get their clothes. God spread
the table first of all Cor his children. Of
course that would bc Il very selfish man
who would not allow other people to
come and sit ut the table sometimes:
but first cf all. the right is given to
Christian people. and therefore ii is ex-
! treme folly for them ever To fret about
/ food or raim"at
Who fed the whales sporting off Cape
Hatteras this morning: Ont of whose
hand did the cormoyant pick its food:
Whose loom wove tn" buitcrily'S wing?
/ Who hears the hawks cry: If God takes
care of walrus. ana Siberian dog
and Il wasp. will lie not take care of YOU:
W lAl st lAAitIA llstA i4AfAt lt'-Hli ItIt-
tiles than for his sons and daughters?
/ If God clothes the grizzly bear. and the
| panther. and the hyena. Will he not
clothc his own children: Come. then,
this morning. and get the key of the in
finite storehousc. Come and get the
/ key of the infinite wardrobe Here they
are-all the keys. ".\ll are YOURS"
So all the vicissiiudcs If this life. so
far as they have any religious profit. are
i'll the right of the Christian. If Won
should stand among the Alleghany
mountains. pecially y near what is called
/ the "iIorSesnne. you would find train
of cars almost louhlius on itself. and
sitting III the back ear you see locomo-
! tive coming - Nou look ont Of the win
dow. and you think il is another train
when il Is oaly the front of the train in
which yoa are riding. and sometimes
you can hardly tell whether the train is
going toward Pitishurg or toward Phil
adelphia. !sut ii Is on the track, and il
! will reach the depot for which il started,
and all the Passengers will he discharged
at the right place. Now there are u
great many sharp curves in life. Some
times W" seem 10 be going this way and
sometimes we seem TO hc going that
way. bnt If we are Christians we are on
the right track and we are going 10 come
ont at the right place. Do not get wor-
ried. then. about the sharp curve.
| y sailing vessel starts from New York
for Glasgow. Does i, 20 in a straight
/ line: Oh. no. 1t changes its tack every
1 little while. Now yOu say. This YES
sci. instead Of going Ia Glasgow. must
be going To lIavre, or il is going to Ham
burg. or it is going To Marseilles" No,
no. Ii is gcing To- Glasgow. And III
! this voyage of life we often have to
change our tack. Onc STERN blows us
this way. and another storm blows US
tina; way: hut he who holds the winds
in his fist will bring rs i:ao a haven Of
everlasting rest Just ut the right time.
Do not worry, then. if You have TO
change tack
PAUIS LUCKY ACCIDENT.
One of the best things that ever hap
pcned Ia Paul was being thrown of his
morse. Onc If the best Things that ever
happened 10 Joseph WAS being thrown
into the pit. The losing of his physical
eyesisht helped john Milton to see the
battle Of the angels. one of the best
things that ever happened to lgnatius
was being thruw;i To- the wild beasts III
the Coliseum. and while eighty thou
sand people were jeering nj his religion
he walked up TO the ficrcest Of all the
lions and lop.srd him in the eye. rs much
rs 10 say. "lIcrc am. ready TO be de
voured for Chrisi's sake
All things work together for your
good. If YOU walk the desert. the mamma
will fall and the sea will part. If the
feverish torch of sickness is kindled over
your pillow, by lis light yen can read
dash high above your girdlc. across the
blast and across the surge Won can hear
the promise. When thou lassest
through the waters will be with thee. -
Iou never Owned a glove, or a shoe, or
a hat. or a coat more certainly than Won
own all the frcts and annoyanccS and
exasperationS Of this life, and they are
bound to work ont your present and
your eternal good. They are the saws.
! iit iitIiiitI~, iiit HTS ~ WUittl Nbh are
10 bc hewn and cut and smooihcd for
"onr eternal well being
Here is vessel that goes along the
coast; it hugs the coast. The captain
of that vessel seems chiefly anxious 10
keep the paint on his ship from being
marreI or the sails from being torn.
/ When tina; vessel comes to port, nobody
looks on il with amy interest. But here
! is a vessel that went across the sea with
vast product and comes in with vast i'm
poriatiom SAILS patched, maSts Spliccd,
pumps all working to keep ont the
water; ii has come through the hurri-
cane which has sank twenty steamers.
The Js1lzcd men are cheering among
the rigging. Now the mcn-of-war an
chorcd i'll the harbor boom forth their
welcome through the portfolios
So there are some CHRISTIANS who are
having an easy time. Ii seems to them