The Penn's Grove record., 1893-06-16

think so? Some oil you are making your
selves ridiculous in the sight OF the angels.
Here is O naval architect, and he draws out
the plan OF a ship OF many thousand tons.
MANY workmen are engaged on it for a long
while. The ship is done, and some day, with
the flags up and the air gorgeous with bunt-
ing. that vessel Is launched for Southampton.
AZ that time a lad six years of age comes
running down the dock with atoy boat which
he has made with his own j~ackknife, and he
saws: "Here, my boat is better than yours.
Just look at this tbboom and these weather
cross lack braces" and he drops his little
boat beside the great ship, andthere is a roar
Of laughter on the docks.
All, my friends, that great ship is your life
as God planned it-vast, million tonned,
pecan destined, eternity bound. That little
boat is your life as you are trying to hew it
out and fashion it and launch it. All, do not
Try to be a rival of the great Jehovah. God
Is always right, and in nine cases out OF ten
you are wrong. He sends justine hardships,
Just the bankruptcies, just the cross that 1t
Is best for you to have. He knows what kind
Of grain YOU are, and He sends the right kind
of thrashing machine. 1t will be a rod or
staff or iron wheel Just according as you are
6tehes or cummin or corn.
Again, nv subject teaches US that God,
keeps trial on us until we let go. The farmer.
shouts s'whoa 7" to his horses as soon as the.
grain has dropped from the stalk. The far
mer comes with his fork and losses up the
straw, and he sees tina the straw has let go'
the grain and the grain is thoroughly
thrashed. So God. Shifting rod and turn
ing wheel both cease as soon as we let 90.
We hold on to this world with its pleasures
and riches and emoluments, and our knucklesI
are so firmly set that it seems as II we could
hold on forever. God comes along with
some thrashing trouble and beats us loose.
We started under the delusion that this was
q great world. We learned out of our geog-
raphy that 1t was so many thousand miles
In diameter and SO many thousand miles in.
circumference, and we said, "Oh, my, what
a world p Troubles came in after life, and
this trouble sliced off one part Of the world,
and that trouble sliced off another part OF the
world, and it has got to be a smaller world
and in some OF your estimations a very in
significant world, and it Is depreelattng all
the time as a spiritual property. Ten per
,ent. off, fifty per cent. of, and there are
those here who would not give ten cents for
this world-for the entire world-as a soul
possession. :
We thought that friendship was a grand
hing. In school we used to write composi-
ions about friendship, and perhaps We
made our graduating speech on commenced
nent day on friendship. Oh, it was a charmed
hing. But does 1t mean as much to you as
t used TOP You have gone on in life, and
,ne friend has betrayed you. and another
friend has misinterpreted you, and another
friend has neglected you, n friendship
zones now sometimes to mean to you merely
mother ak to grindl
So with money, We thought II u man had
l competency he was safe for all the future,
out we have learned that a mortgage may be
defeated by an unknown previous incum-
France that signing your name on the back
If O note may be your business death war;
ant that a new tariff may change the cur7
.ent of trade that a man may be rich to-day
and poor tomorrow. And God, by all these
it'll we hold on. God smites us with a staff,
,ut we hold on. And He strikes Us with a
:od, but we hold on. And Hesends over US
he iron wheel of misfortune, but We hold on,
There are men who keep their grip on this
world undl the last moment who suggest to
ne the condition and conduct of the poor In-
liam in the boat in the Niagara rapids cont
ng on toward the fall. Seeingth that he could
lot escape, q moment or two before he got
% the verge of the plunge he lifted a wind
bottle and drank It off and then tossed the
bottle into the air. So there are men who
,lutch the world, and they go down through
he rapids of temptation n sin. and they
hold on 70 the very last moment of life drink
ng to their eternal damnation as they go
over and go down.
Oh, let goi Let go The best fortunes ara
n heaven. There are no absconding cashiers
rom that bank, no failing in promises TO pay.
Set your affections on things above, not on
hing on the earth. Let go! Depend upon
L that God will keep upon you the staff, or
he rod, or the iron wheel until you do letgo.
Another thing my text teaches us is that
Christian sorrow is going to have a sure
terminus. Ny text says ''Bread corn Is
bruised because he will not be ever thrashins
t." Blessed be God for that. Pound away,
0 iail. Turn on, o wheel? Your work wiz
oon be done. H will not be ever thrash
ing it." Now the Christian has almost as
much use in the organ for the stop tremulant
IS he has for he trumpet. Blu after awhile
he will put the last dirge into the portfolio
forever. So much Of us as Is wheat will be
separated from so much as is chat. and there
will be no need Of pounding.
They never cry in heaven because tney
have nothing to cry about. There are no
friends all round about you. There are no
tears Of poverty because each one sits at the
Kings table and has his own chariot OF sal
walton and free access to the wardrobe where
princes get their array. No tears OF sickness,
for there are no pneumonias on the air, and
no malarial exhalations from the rolling
river of life, and no crutch for the lame llmD,
and no splint for the broken arm, but the
pulses throbbing wlththe health of the eternal
God in a climate like our June before the
blossoms fall. or our gorgeous October be-
fore the leaves scatter.
In that land the souls will talk over the
different modes of thrashing. Oh, the story
Of the staff that struck the fitches, and the
rod that beat the cummin, n the iron
wheel that went over the cornl Daniel Will
describe the lions, and Jonah leviathans,
and Paul the elmwood whips with Thlch
he was scourged, and Eve will tell now
aromatic Eden was the day she left II; anu
John Rogers will tell of the smart OF name,
and Elijah of the fiery team that wheeled
him up the sky sleeps, and Christ OF thf
numbness and paroxysm and hemorrhage'
OF the awful erucinxion. There they are be-
fore the throne of God. On one elevatioh
all those who were struck of the staff. on
higher elevation all those who were struck
of the rod. On q highest elevation, and
amid the highest attitudes of heaven, az
those who were under the wheel. he VIII!
not ever be thrashing 1t.
Oh, my hearers, is there not enough salve
in this text to make a plaster large enough
to heal all your wounds2 When a child Is
hurt, the mother is very apt to say to II,
Now, it will soon feel better" And thls Is
what God says when He unbosoms all the
trouble In the hush OF this great promise
weeping may endure for a night put Joy
cometh in the morning." You may leay,
your poeser handkerchief sopping wet WIN
tears on your death pillow, but you Will So
up absolutely sorrowless. They will wear
black you will wear white. Expresses iof
them, palms for you.
You will say SIS 1t possible that l am
here? Is this heaven? Am / so pure now 1
Will never do anything wrong2 Am | so Wen
that l will never again be sick? Are these
companionships so firm that they will never
again be broken2 Is that Nary Is that
John? Is that my loved n l put away lnto
darkness? Can it be that these are the faces
of those who lay so wan and emaciated inthe
back room on that awful night dyingf VI
how radiant they are. Look at them' HOW
radiant they are!
why, how unlike this place Is from wnas
Thought when / left the world below, MIN
listers drew pictures of this land, but now
tame compared with the reality They tod
me on earth that death was sunset. No, no
1t is sunrise2 Glorious sunrisel l see tne
light now purpling the hills, and the CLOUDS
Name with the coming day
Ihen the gates Of heaven will be opeheu,
and the entranced soul, with the aeuteness
and power of the celestial vision, Will ioOK
ten thousands Of miles down upon the pah-
nered procession-a river of shimmerlhg
splendor-and will cry out. ''Who are they!
And the angel of God standing close oy VIII
say, Don't you know who they aref NO.