The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1892-05-26

sword and he marked the wrist OF that |
child with n deep cut. It must have been n /
great exigencv to make a father do that.
Years OF absence passed on and after |
awhile the parents returned, and their first |
anxiety was 20 find their lost child, They |
looked up and down the land, examining the |
| wrists OF the young people, when lol after |
awhile the father found a maiden with scar
| upon her wrist. She knew him not but he |
knew her Aud oh. the Joy of the reunion
SO IL is now. "whom the Lord loveth He
chnsteneth." He cutteth, He mnrketh aud
| when He comes TO claim His own the Lord
will know them that are His; know them by
the scar of their trouble, know them by the
| stroke OF their desolation.
oh, IL is good that the Lord sometimes
halts us. David slys, at is good that have
been afflicted. Before was afflicted went
astray, but now have I kept Thy word.' In
deed, we must all soon stop. Scientists have
| lm-roved human longevity, but none OF them
have proposed to make terrene life perpetual.
But the Gospel makes death a Seah between
two beatitudes-between dying triumph
on the one side OF the grave and celestial es-
cort ON the other side of the grave. Going
out of this life to the unprepared is great
horror.
"Give me more laudanum," said dying
Mirabeau: give Inc more laudonum TINT
may not think of eternity and what Is 20
come.n And dying Hobbies said, IL leave
|
great perhaps" It was the discord OF an in
iiiel's life breaking down into the jargon Of
despair; but the Gospel makes tho death OF
the Christian Seah between redemption
and enthronement. almost well, said dy-
ing Richard Baxter 'almoSt WELL" "Piay
those notes over again-those notes which
} have been SO great delight AMI solace to
me, said the dying Christian Mozlrs. "Nonc
but Christ, none but Christ" exclaimed dy-
ing Lambert
Richard Cameron. the Scotch covenantcr.
went into the battle three times praying !:
"L.ord, spare the green and take the rips.
This is the day have longed for This Is
the day shall get my crown. Come, let us
! fight IL to the last. ForwardP SO you SEQ
there is only a short pause Selah OF inter-
Q mission, between dying consultations on the
? one side and overstopping raptures on the
, other.
Mynesh shall slumbcr in the ground
Till the last trumpets joyful sound;
Q Then burst the chains with sweet surprise,
I And In my Saviouts image rise.
Inext speak of the Seah OF emphasis.
{ Ewald, the German orientalisG AMI thcolp-
t gan, says that this word means u nscenl;
o and wherever you find IL, he says, you must
y look after the incubation OF the voc, and
&. YOU mustput more force into your uttsrauc9.
L 1t is a Selah OF emphasis. All my friends,
J, you and need to correct our emphasis. w,
s put too much emphasis on the world and moi
Is enough on God aud the next world. People
!. ant the things OF the next are not worthy
N OF our consideration.
h The first need for some Of us Is TO chang,
!, our emphasis. Look at wretchedness on
! throne. Napoleon, while yet emperor o
is France, sat down detected, his hands owe
e. his face. A lad came in with n tray Of ZOO
IN and said, Eat II will do you good" Tn
cd emperor looked up AMI said, "You are from
le the countryT The lad replied, YES
l." "Your father has cottage and n few acre
50 - A. 4. A.w. H.
sh said the detected emperor Ahl Nspolco
never put the emphasis in the right plac
nj until ho was expiring mt st. Helena.
oif ON the other hand, look at Satisfaction
~ amid the worst earthly disadvantage. "
d, never saw until was blind" said Chris
st tian man. ~ never knew what content
nd ment was while had my eyesight as kno'
what content is now that l have lost IN
IN eyesight. affirm, though few would crcdi
m it, that 1 would not exchange my preSer
at position and circumstances for mycircun
at stances before lost my eyesight." Tha
alt man put the emphasis in the right placl
We want to put less stress upon this worl
OF aud more stress upon our God as our eve'
'at lasting portion.
d IN the Losu at all I mes; We people =,
v1your neart before Him. God Is a refug
@--a,gs seiah" blessed be the Lord
"a iaiiy loads us with benefits, even The Go
.nr
' count, when He writeth up the people. a..
,,o tins man was born there. Selah." LIT ii
,' ,9 world have its honors, and its riches ana \
nu ~ pomp. Let me have the Lord for INV ngb
Ia my peace, my fortress, my pardon, my hon
DC my heaven. NOf'
yb What sinners value resign.
ees Lord! lis enough that Thou art mine
~ shah behold Thy blissful face,
III anu stana complete Ia righteousness.
"a This world is all an empty show,
nd Dut tne bright world TO which 90
n iihth JOYS eubstant ttal and sincere.
~ "hen shall wake and dnd me there.
Oglorious hour! O blest abode,
10 shall be near and Ike my God
'b And sin and sense no more control
ri Ihe endless pleasures Of my soul.
~ But when speak of tho Selah of emphas
4 must notice 1t IL n startling a dramati
~ emphasis. 1t has in it the Hark, the His
~ ~ OF the drama. That wakening aud arousin
h elhPnus's we VINO preach, or instruct nee
- 70 use more frequently. The sleepies
- audiences in the world are religion
y audiences.
q You Sabbath-school teachers ought I,
- =, have more OF the dramatic element in you,
y instructions. BY graphic Scripture scsne h,
!, anecdote, by descriptive gesture. bv IN
y 70 personation urge your classes to right action
~ we want In all our schools an colleges AMI
prayer meetings, and in all our attempts al
= reform, and IN all our churches TO have les,
70 dramatic.
: Fitty essays about the sorrows of the moo,
. could not affect me as little drama of acct
y :. dent and suffering saw one slippery morn
y Ing In the streets of Philadelphia. Just
ahead OF me was lad, wretched in apparel,
a ms lhlo anputated at the knee; from the
. pallor OF the boys cheek the amputation not
!, long before: He had a package of broken
FOOD under his arm-fooi he had beggei /
supposed, at the doors. AS he passed on
= over the slippery, pavement cautiously and
fcarerully, 1 steadiei him until his crutch
slipped and he fell. helped him up as well
) as l could, gathered up the fragments of the
package as well as | could, put them under
one arm and the crutca under the other
arm; but when saw the blooi run down
Fifty essays about the suffering of the moor
couii not touch one like that little drama of
accident and suffering.
Oh we want in all our different deoart.