Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-12-26

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You have harp all strung for sweetes
accord, and some great agony crusbe,
it. There is a little voice hushed II
the household. Blue eye closed. Colo,
dashed out of the cheek. The foot still
Instead Of the quick feet in the hall. the
heavy tread of those who march to the
grave. Oh, what are people to do amid
all these sorrows? Some sit down and
mourn. Some bite their lip until the
blood comes. Some wiring their pale
hands. Some fall on their faces. Some
lie on their backs helpless and look up
into what seems to them an Implying
heaven. Some pull their hair down over
their eyes and look through with a
tend' glare. Some, with both hands,
press their hot brain and want to die
and cry, % God, y Godl" Long night,
bitter night, stupendous night of the
world 8 suffering! Some know not which
way to turn. But not SO the Christian
man. He looks up toward the heavens.
He sees bright appearance In the heav-
ems. Can it be only flashing meteor?
Can 1t be only falling starr Can it be
only a delusionH Nay, nay. The longer
he looks the more distinct it becomes,
until after awhile he cries out, "A star
"a morning star, star of comfort,
star of grace, a star of peace, the star Of
the Redeemer!" Peace for all trouble.
Balm for all wounds. Life for all dead.
Now Jesus, the great heart healer,
comes into our home. Peace! Peace
that passeth all understanding. We
look up through our tears. We are COM
forted. 1t is the morning star of the
Redeemor. WHO broke off that flow
err" said one servant in the garden to
another. WHO broke off that fowerp"
And the other servant said, 1.-The mas
ter" Nothing more was said, for if the
master had not right to break off
flower to wear over his heart or to set
in the vase in the mansion, who has a
right to touch the flower? And when
Christ comes down into our garden to
gather lilies, shall we fight him backS
Shall we talk as though he had no right
to Gomez If any one in all the universe
has right to that which is beautiful
in our homes, then our master has, and
he will take it, and he will wear it over
his heart, or he will set it in the vase Of
the palace eternal. THE Lord gave,
and the Lord hath taken away; blessed
be the name of the Lord" Peace, trou-
bled soul! | put the balm on your
wounded heart tonight. Tho morning
star, the morning star of the Redeemer.
Again, Christ heralds the dawn OF
glory. 1t is night in China,
hight in India, night in Siberia, night
'or the vast majority OF the world 8
population. But it seems to me there
re some intimations of the morning.
All Spain is to be brought under the
influence of the gospel. What is that
light | see breaking over the top of the
oyreneesp The morning! Yea, all Italy
hall receive the gospel. She shall nave
Ter schools and her colleges and her
churches. Her vast population shall
surrender themselves to Christ. What
is that light l see breaking over the top
of the Alps? The morning. All lndla
shall come to God. Her idols shall be
cast down. Her juggernauts shall be
broken. Her temples of lniqulty snail
be demolished. What is that light l
see breaking over the top OF the lima
layasP The morning. The empurpleo
clouds shall gild the path of the con-
ouering day. The Hottentot Will come
out of his mud hovel to look at the
dawn; the Chinaman will come up on
the granite cliffs, the Norwegian VIII
get up on the rocks, and all the peacn
of heaven will be crowded with celes'
tial inhabitants come out to see the sun
rise over the ocean of the world
agony. Thy shall come from the east
and from the west, from the north, anC
from the south, and sit down IN th'
KINGDOM of God. These sweltered uh
der tropical suns. These shlvereu uh
der Icolandic temperature. Ihese piuck
ed the vineyards in Italy. These PACK
ed the teaboxes in China. These wer'
aborie1nes lifting up their dusky race
in the dawn. And the wind snail wal
II. and every mountain shall neco'he
TRANSPORTATION, and the sea will becom
the walking place of him who troa th u
wave cliffs of stormy Tiberias' ana IN
song of Joy shall rise toward heayeI
and tbe great sky will become a souno
inc hoard which shall strike back IN
shout of salvation to the eartn unVll
rebounds again to the throne OF the "A, "A.
mighty. and the morning star Oh ~ ,iII' :
tian hope will become the full suhouf'
of lnillennial glory. a. sou,o
AGAIN Christ heralds the dawn
heaven upon every Christians gym
niiIow suppose you have notic9
thot the characteristics OF peopIe
their healthy days are very apt 70 -
their characteristics in their dying uay ,
, The diving words of ambitious ma NapDr;r S,,;r
I,,are nr :. Head of the army. Ihe uyii
rords w of poetic Lord Byron were,
, woio' % .Iaen 10 now" The dying words
affectionate Lord Nelson were ", "
1ne Hardy" The dying words Oh W :.
taire were. as he saw one whom ne ~, :"
," "nsed 10 he Jesus in the ROOM SIu ~
hat nat wretch" But have noticed III 1n
tSa t dv4ng words of Christians aiwa y,
saoon neace. Generally the pam 70, 70
: gone, and there is great al. q " The
Q tn SrotSsrs told me of his mother IN - !
o pr piC momept: "She looked up ana pa =;