The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-03-16

ponderous laws the wetRhte aud mighty
swinging pendulum, the stars In the gssst
dome OF night striking the midnight and the
suu. with braxsn tongue. tolling the hour Of
noon.
The widest comet hes chain Of law that
| it cannot break. The thistle down flying
before the schooiboy's breath Is controlled
by the same law that controls the sun and
the planets. The rosebush In your window
is governed by the same principle that
governs the tree Of the universe on which
the stars are ripening fruits. and on which
God will one day put His hand and shake
down the fruits-a perfect universe. No
| astronomy has ever proposed an amend
ment
IL God makes q Bible, Il Is a complete
Bible. Standing amid the dreadful and des
| lightfui truths, you seem to be In the midst
| OF an orchestra where the wailings over
sins, and the rejoicings over pardon, and the
martial strains OF victory make the chorus
like an anthem OF eternity. This book
seems to you the ocean OF truth, on every
wave Of which Christ walks--sometimes in
the darkness OF prophecy. again in the
splcndors with which He walks on Gslilee.
| In this book apostle answers to prophet
Paul to Issisb. Revelation to Genesis--- zlori-
Gus light. turning midnight sorrow into the
midnoon joy. -dispersing every dog, hushing
every tempest. Take this book; IL Is the kiss
OF God upon toe soul OF lost man. Perfect
Bible. complete Bibel No man has ever
proposed any Improvement.
God provided a Saviour. He IL a CON.
pets Saviour --tiod- d-man-- iivinity and
! humanity united in the same person. He
sat up the starry. pillars o; the universe aud
| the towers of light. He planted the cedars
and the heavenly Lebanoo. He struck out
OF the rock the rivers OF life, singing under
| the trees, singing under the thrones. He
! quarried the sardonyx aud CRYSTAL and the
topaz Of the heavenly wall. Hs put down
the Jasper for the foundation and heaped up
| the amethyst for the capital aud swung the
| 1. gates which are l2pesrls. In one instant
He thought out universe, and yet He be.
came a chilli crying for His mother. feeling
along the sides OF the manger, learning TO
walk.
Omnpotence sheathed in the muscle and
| flesh OF child's arm; omuisciencs strung In
the optic nerve OF a childs eye: infinite
love beating in n childs heart n great God
! appearing in the form OF q child year old,
years old, 10 years old White all the
heavens were ascribing 20 Him glory and
honor aud power on earto, men said, who
| is this fellow While all the heavenly
hosts, with folde1 wing about their faces.
bowed down before Him crying, ".toiy.
holy" on earth. they denounced Him as a
blssphemer and sot. Rocked in boat on
Gennesaret. and yet He IL is that uadirke |
the lightning from the storm cloud aud dis
| mastei Lebanon OF its forests and holds the
| five oceans on the tip OF His finger as the
! leaf holds the raludrop.
| Oh. the complete Saviour, rubbing His
hand over the place whore VIZ have the pain,
| yet the stars OF heaven the adorning gems
OF His right hand. Holding US in His arms
when we take our last view OF our dead. Sit
| ting down with us ON the tombstone, and
while we plant roses there He planting con
ISOLATION in our heart, every chapter n stalk.
every verso "A stem, every word rose a
complete Saviour, n complete Bible. com
| plete universe, a complete Jortanic passage.
| Everything that God does is complete.
Again, | learn from this Jorianic passage
| that between us aud every Canaan OF sue
cess aud prosperity there is river that
must be passed. ''Oh. how | would like
to have some OF those grapss on the other
side - said some OF the lsraelites TO Joshua.
We'll" says Joshus, why don't you cross
! over aud get themg' There is a river OF
difficulty between US aud everything that Is
worth knowing. That which costs nothing
| Is worth nothing.
God didn'tint.nd this world for an easy
'parlor, through which we are to bs drawn
in rocking chair, but we are "a work our
| passage, climb mssts, fight battles, scale
mountains aud ford rivers. God makes
everything yaluabe diffic:.l 70 get at, for
| the same reason that He put the gold down
in the mine and the pearl clear down In tho
sea-to make us dig and dive for them. We
acknowledge this principle in worldly things.
oh, that we were only wise enough to ac-
| knowledge il in religious things
You have scores of illustrations under
! your own observation where men nave had
! the hardest lot and been trodden under foot,
and yet after awhile had IL easy. Now their
! homes blossom and bloom with pictures,
| and carpets that made foreign looms laugh
now embrace their feet; the sum ner winds
| lift the tapestry about the window gorg sou,
| punnph for N lurxiSl sllltan. lmDaItpnL
steeds paw aud neigh at the door, their car
! riages moving throuS'' the sea OF New Hork
life very wave of spiendor.
| Who Is IL; Why. 1t is boy who came to
New York with dollar In his pocket aud
all his estate slung over his shoulder in
cotton handkerchief. All that silver on the
dancing span is petriiled sweat drops: that
beautiful dress is tue faded calico over
which God put His hand OF perfection. turning
/ 10 TO Turkish satin or Italian silk; those dia-
monds are the tears which suh sriug frozi as
they fell. On there is a river OF ditiiculty
/ between us aud every earthly achievement
| You know that. You admit that.
/ You know this Is 50 with regard to the
acquisition OF knowledge. The ancients
used 10 say that Vulcan struck Jupiter on
the head aud the goddess Ut wisdom Jumped
out illustrating the truth that wisdom
comes by hard Rnocks. There was river
] OF difficulty between Slak espeare, the boy,
]
theatre. and that Shakespeare, the great
draniatist, winning the appleuse OF all au'
diences by his tragedies. There was river
between Benjamin Franklin, with u loaf OF
bread under his arm. walking the streets OF
/ Philadelphia, and tnat same Ben amin
Franklin, the philosopher just outside OF
| Boston flying kite iu the Thunderstorm.
/ An idler was cured OK his bad habit by
| looking through the win low, night after
night, at "A man who seemed sitting at his
desk turning off one sheet OF writing after
another until almost the dawn OF the morn.
ing. The man sitting there writing until
morning was Industrious Walter Scott; / he
mau who looked a HIM through the window
was Locknart, his i,IustriouS biographer
afterward. Lord Mansfield. pursued by the
press aud by the populaee, because OF car
| tain line of duty, went on to discharge the
! duty and while the mob were around him
demanding the taking of his life he shook
! his fist in this face or ths mob and said.
''Sirs when ones last end comes, it cannot
come too soon II he falls in defense OF law
and the liberty OF his country"
And so there is, my friends, tug, a tns-.
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