Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-05-30
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| that weep now, for ye shall laugh. " Weshall
| not spend all eternity psalm singing, but
sometimes in review OF the past, rs Christ
says we shall laugh. There is nothing
wrong In laughter. IL all depends on what
you laugh at, and when you laugh, and
how YOU laugh Nothing it seems viii
more thoroughly kindle our heavenly hilar-
tiles after we have got inside the pearly
gate than 10 see how in this world we got
scared at things which ought not to have
frightened us at all. How often we work our
selves up into great stew about nothingl
The Red sea before may DO deep, and the
Egyptian cavalry behind us may be we'll
mounted, but II we trust the Lord we will
10 through no more hurt by the water than
when In boyhood we rolled our garments to
the knee and barefoot crossed the meadow
brook on the old homestead The oddsmay
seem to be all against you, but / guess 1t
will be all right with you il you have God
on your side and all tho angelic, cherubic,
seraphic and archhngelic Kingdoms, "If
God be for you, who can be against your
Lay hold Of the Lord in prayer, and you
will go free, as did Richard Cecil with
600 OF missionary money in his saddle
bags, and the highwaymen grabbed his
horse by the bride and told him TO deliver,
and he prayed God for safety, and sudden
IL one Of the robbers said: "Mr. Cecil,
once heard you preach. Boys, let the gen
tleman go"
MIRIAM AND THE TIMBREL.
But let me eHtieise Miriam a little for
the instrument OF music she employed In
the divine service on the sandy beach. Why
not take some other Instrument The harp
was a sacred instrument. Why did she not
take THAR Tho cymbal was a sacred in
strument. Why did she not take thstS
The trumpet was a sacred instrument.
Why did she not take thatY Amid TINT
great host there must have been musical
instruments more used in religious service.
No. She took that which she liked the best
and on which she could best express her
graduation over "A nations rescue, first
through the retreat of the waves OF the
Red sea, and then through the clGpping of
the hands Of their destruction So with
draw my criticism OF Miriam. Let every
one take her or his best mode OF divine
worship and celebration. My idea OF heav.
en- is that IL is a place where we can do as
We please and have everything we want
OF course wo will do nothing wrong and
want nothing harmful.
How much Of the material and physical
will finally make up the heavenly world
know not, but think Gabriel will have his
trumpet, and David his harp. and Handel
his organ, and Tbslberg his piano, and the
great Norwegian performer his violin, and
Miriam her timbrel, aud as cannot make
music on any OF them i think will move
around among all of them and listen. But
there are our friends OF the Scotch Cove
nanter church, who do not like musical in
struments ut all in divine worship, and they
need not have them.
tell Duncan ard Mcleod and Bruce
they need never hear In heaven single
string thrum or single organ roll. We
shall all do us we please in that radiant place
II through the pardoning and sanctifyinC
grace Of Christ we ever get there. What a
day it will be when we stand on the beach
Of heaven and look back on the Red sea Of
this worlds sin and trouble and celebrate
the fact that we have got through, and rot
over, and got up, our sins and our troubles
attempting to follow gone clear down under
the waves. Oh, crimson floods, roll over
them and drown them, and drown them
foreyerl
THR GREATEST OF ALL JUDmEEs.
What celebration it will be-our resur-
rected bodies standing on the beach, whose
pebbles arc amethyst and emerald and
agate and diamondsl What shakinn of
handsl What a talking over old tines
What jubileei What an opportunity to
visit In this world we have so little time
for that. am looking forward to eternal
socialities To be with God and never sin
against him. To be with Christ and for
ever feel his love. To walk together ia
robes Of white with those with whom on
earth we walked together In black raiment
OF mourning. To gather up the members
OF Our scattered families and embrace them
with no embarrassment, though all heaven
be looking on.
mine in Scotland caved in and caught
amid the rocks young man who in a few
days was to have been united in holy iugr.
rlage, No one could get heart to tell his
ahianced OF the death Of her beloved, but
some ono made her believe that he had
changed his mind about the marriage and
willfully disappeared, Fifty years passed
on, when one day the miners, delying In
the earth, suddenly came on the body of
that young man, which had all those Years
been Kept from the cir and looked lust az
1t was the day Of the calamity. Strong.
manly, noble youth he sat there lookint, re-
on the day he died. But no one recognized
the silent form.
Alter awhile they called the Oldest in
habitants TO come and see il any one could
recognize him, A woman, with bent form
and her hair snowy white with years came
last, and looking upon the silent form that
had been 70 completely preserved Raye
bitter cry and fell into long swoon II
was the one to whom half Il century before
she was to have been welded. looking Then
lust as when in the days OF their youth
their affections had COMMUNICATED. Biit ths
emotion Of her soul was too great for NOR.
tai endurance, aud two days after tbosa
who so years before were TO have ioipcJ
hands in wedloek were at last married IN |
the tomb, and side by side they wuit for
the resurrection.
My friends, we shall come at last pnon |
thoseo our loved oneswho lon; ago halted
IN the Journey of life. They viii be as fair |
and besutiiul-yen, fairer and more benuti. |
iul than when we parted from them n |
may be old age looking upon childhood os
youth. Oh my Lord, how we have misssj
them Separated for 10 years or 30 yca,s NJ
90 years, but together at the last. to-cthsr
at the last Just think OF it. WIN h no.
be gloriousl Miriam's song again anne
PIRATE, for death, riding on the male bnrso
with his four hoofs on all our hearts shall
have been forever diseomforted.
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