Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-29


are building up some great enterprise.
You have built the foundation-the
wall-you are just about to put on the
capstone, when everything is de-
molished. You have harp all strung
for sweetest accord, and some great
agony brushes it. There is a little
voice hushed in the household. Blue
eye closed! Color 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 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 fiend's
glare Some with both hands press
their hot brain, and want to die, and
cry: "Oh God! Oh God!' Long night,
bitter night, stupendous night of the
worlds suffering! Some know not
which way to turn. But not so the
Christian man. He looks up toward the
heavens. He sees a bright appearance
in the heavens. Can it be only a flash
ing meteor? Can it be only
falling star? Can it be only a de-
fusion? Nay, nay. The longer he
looks, the more distinct it becomes,
until, after q while, he cries out: "A
star! morning star! star of comfort
a star of grace 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 under
standing. We look up through our
tears. We are comforted! 1t is the
morning star of the Redeemer 'Who
broke off that flower?" said one serv-
ant in the garden to another "Who
broke off that flower?" and the
other servant said, The master"
Nothing more was said, for if the
master had not a 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 back?
Snail we talk as though he had no
right to come? II any one in all the
universe bas right to that which is
beautiful in our homes, then our Mas
ter 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, troubled soul! Iput the
balm on your wounded heart tonight.
The morning star, the morning star of
the Redeemer
Again. Christ heralds the dawn of
millennial glory. 1t is night in Chira,
night in India. night in Siberia, night
for the vast majority Of the worlds
population. But il seems to me there
are some intimations of the morning.
All Spain is TO be brought under the
influence of the gospel. What is the
light ! see breaking over the top of
the Pyrenees? The morning Yea.
all Italy shall receive the gospel. She
shall have her schools and her col
lcges and her churches; her vast pop
ulation shall surrender themselves TO
Christ. What is that light / see break
ing over the top of the Alps? The morn
ing. All India shall come to God. Her
idols shall be cast down. Her Jugger-
nauts shall be broken. Her temples
of iniquity shall be demolished. What
is that light | see breaking over the
top of the Himalayas? The morning
The empurpled clouds shall gild the
path of the conGuering day The Hot
tentot will come out of his mud howell
to look at the dawn; the Chinaman
will come up on the granite cliffs, the
Norwegian will get up on the rocks,
and all the beach of heaven will be
crowded with celestial inhabitants
come out to see the sun rise over the
ocean of the worlds agony They
shall come from the east, and from
the west, from the north, and from
the south, and sit down in the
kingdom of God. These sweltered
under tropical suns. These shivered
under Icelandic temperature. These
pluclSed the vineyards in Italy These
packed the tea boxes in China. These
were aborigines lifting up their duslSy
faces in the dawn. And the wind
shall watt it, and every mountain
shall become a TRANSPORTATION, and
the sea will become the walking
place of him who trod the wave cliffs
of stormy Tiberias, and the song of
JOY shall raise toward heaven, and the
great sky will become a sounding
board which shall strike back the shout
of salvation to the earth until it re-
bounds again to the throne of the
Almighty, and the morning star of
Christian hope will become the full
sunburst of millennial glory.
Again, Christ heralds the dawn of
heaven upon every Christians dying
pillow. | suppose you have noticed
that the characteristics of people in
their healthy days are very apt to be
their characteristics in their dying
days. The dying words of ambitious
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