Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-03-24

dome OF night striking the midnight, and tn
sun. with brazen tongue tolling the hour Q
| noon.
The widest comet hes chain OF law thai
II cannot break. The thistle down fyinI
before the schoolboy's breath Is controlet
BY the same law that controls the sun ant
the planets. The rossbush in your window
is governed by the same principle tba
governs the tree of the universe on which
the stars are ripening fruits and on which
God will one day put His hand and shak,
down the fruits-a perfect universe. NJ
astronomy has ever proposed an amend
| ment.
II God makes a Bible, it Is a complete
| Bible. Standing amid the dreadful and dec
! lighttul truths you seem to be In the midst
| OF an orchestra where the wailings ovei
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 twalks-sometimes in
the darkness Of prophecy, again in the
| splendors with which He walks on Galies.
| In this book apostle answers TO prophet,
| Paul to Isaiah. Revelation to Genests-glori.
Gus light turning midnight sorrow into ths
midnoon joy, dispensing every aog, hushing
every tempest. Take this book; IL is the kiss
! OF God upon the soul OF lost man. Perfect
Bible complete Biblel No man has ever
proposed anv Improvement.
| God provided a Saviour. He is a con.
| plete Saviour-God- od-rnan-iivinity and
humanity united In thu Same person. He
set up the starry pillars OF the universe and
the towers of light He planted the csdars
and the heavenly Lebanon. He struck out
of the rock the rivers OF life, singing under
the trees, singing under the thrones. He
quarried the sardonyx and crystal and the
topaz of the heavenly wall. Hs put down
the jasper for the foundation and heaped up
the amethyst for the capital and swung the
II gates which are 12pearls. In one instant
He thought out q universe and yet He be-
came chilli crying for His mother. feeling
along the sides Of the manger, learning to
walk.
Omnipotence sheathed In the muscle and
nesh OF a chfld's arm; omuiscience strung In
the optic nerve Of a childs eye: infinite
love beating in child's heart; a great God
appearing in the form of child year old,
5years old, Is years old While all the
heavens were ascribing to Him glory and
honor and power on earth, men said, 'W no
is this fellowr While all the heavenly
hosts, with folded wing about their faces,
bowed down before Him crying. "holy,
hoy" on earth, they denounced Him as
blasphemer and a sot Rocked in a boat on
Gennesaret and yet He it Is that undirke |
the lightning from the storm cloud and dis
mastei Lebanon OF its forests and holds the
five oceans on the tip OF HIS finger as the
leaf holds the raindrop.
Oh, the complete Saviour, rubbing His
hand over the place where we have the pain,
yet the stars OF heaven the aiorning 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 a stalk,
every verse a stem, every word IA rose. A
complete Saviour a complete Bible, a COM
plete universe, complete Jordanic passage
Every thing that God does is complete.
Again, learn from this Jordsnic passage
that between us aud every Canaan Of sue
Cess and prosperity there Is a river that
must be passed "Oh, how l would like
to have some OF those Craps on the other
sideF' said some OF the lsraelitas to Joshua.
We'll" says Joshua, why don't you cross
over and get themY' There Is a river Of
difficulty between us and everyt thing that is
worth knowing. That which costs nothing
is worth nothing.
God didn't intend this world for an easy
parlor through which we are to be drawn
in a rocking chair, but we are to work our
passage, climb mastS fight battles, scale
mountains and ford rivers. God makes
everything valuable difficult to get at for
the same reason that He put the gold down
in the mine and the pearl clear down in the
sea-to make US dig aud dive for them. We
acknowledge this principle in worldly things;
oh, that we were only wise enough to ac-
knowledge IL in religious thingsl
You have scores of illustrations under
your own observation where men have had
the hardest lot and been trodden under foot
and yet after awhile had IL eisy. Now their
homes blossom AMI bloom with PICTURES
and carpets that made foreign looms laugh
now embrace their feet; the sunni winds
lift the tapestry about the window gorgeous
enough for q Turkish sultan; impatient
steeds paw and neigh at the door. their car
riages moving through the sea OF New York
life a very wave OF splendor.
Who is itf Why, it Is boy who came to
New York with a dollar in his pocket and
all his estate slung over his shoulder in a
cotton handkerchief. All that silver on the
dancing span is petrified sweat drops; that
beautiful dress is the faded calico over
which God put His hand Of perfection, turning
it to Turkish satin or Italian silk; those dia-
monds are the tears which suffering froze as
they fell. Oh, there is q river OF difficulty
between us aud every earthly achievement.
You know that You admit that.
You know this is 30 with regard to the
acquisition of knowledge. The ancieuts
used to say that Vulcan struck Jupiter on
the head and the goddess Of wisdom jumped
out illustrating the truth that wisdom
comes by hard knocks. There was river
Of difficulty between Shakespeare, the boy,
holding the horse at the door OF the London
theatre. and that Shakespeare, the great
dramatist winning the applause of all au-
diences by his tragedies. There was river
between Benjamin Franklin, with loaf OF
bread under his arm. walking the streets Of
Philadelphia, and that same Ben amin
Franklin, the philosopher. just outside of
Boston Aging kite in the thunderstorm.
An idler was cured OF his bad habit by
looking through the window, 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; the
man who looked at him through the window
was Lockhart his illustrious biographer
afterward. Lord Mansfield, pursued by the
press and by the populare, because Of a GER
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 the face OF the mob and said,
'Sirs when ones last end comes, IL cannot
come too soon II he falls In defense Of law
and the liberty OF his country"
And 80 there ia my friends tug, a tus-
sic, a trial, a push, an anxiety, through
which every man must 60 before he comes
10 WORLDLY suCCoSt auI WOTiuly hCultV6uent-
You admit 1t. Now be wise enough to ap
ply 1t in religion. Eminent Christian char
acter Is only gained by the Jordanic
passage, no man Just happened to get good.
Why does that man know 30 much about
the ScripturesP He was studying the Bible
while you were reading novel. He was on
fire with the sublimities OF the Bible while
you we're sound asleep; by tug, tussle, push
Ing and running in the Christian life that
man got 30 strong for God; In q hundred
Solferinos he learned how to fight: In hun.
dred shipwrecks he learned how to SWIM
Tears over sin, tears over zion's desolation
tears over the impenitent, tears over the
graves made, are the Jordan which that
man had passed. Sorrow pales the cheek,
and fades the eye, and wrinkles the brow,
and withers the hands. There are mourn
ing garments In the wardrobe, and there are
deaths in every family record; all around are
the relics of the dead.