Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-02-10

az thar hats to him as he passed down the
street The week his financial prospects
MARA under discussion people just touched
tba,r bats without auywise ben ling the rim.
The veal, thet he was pronounced lnsoVlenV
neonle lust iolted their heals as they pas'e1,
| ,ot f;n1inu their hats at all, and the week
the sheriff sold him out all his friends were
looking in the store win lows as they went
down past him.
Now, while the world goes away fro n
man when he is in financial distress, Tue re-
l,o;on of Christ CO uss to him and saws
won ara sick AMI your sickness IS 70 De
moral notification; vju are bereaved; 1o1
wanted in some way to take your Iami'y 70
heaven, and He must begin somewhere, an
60 He took the one that was most oeauuiu'
and was most ready to 60" do not say
that religion explains everything IN tnls ne
but do say it lays down certain principles
which are gran1ly consolatory. fou kno"
business men often Telegraph III ciPneiS.
! Tbe merchant in San Francisco telegrapns
r, the merchant in New York certain infor-
nation in ciphers which no other man III
that line Of business can understand, ou1
The merchant id San Francisco has the KEY
I'd the cipher, and the merchant in New YORK
! has the kew to the cipher, AMI on tnat III
for nation Transmitted there ara enterprises
Involving hunirads OF thousands OF ooliarS'
Now the providenc,s OF life 50 nstimss
seem to be a san ssle5s rig marble, my;tssl"
ous cipher, but God has key ID that cipher,
an the Christian key to that cipher, a11,
though he may hardly be able to spell out the
meaning, he gets enou gh OF the meaning to
understand that it is for the best. Now is
there not sunshine in that? Is there n?t
pleasure iu that3 Far beyond laughter, it
Is nearer the fountain OF tears than boistec-
Gus demonstration. HIVE you never cried
for Joy? There are tearS which are eternai
rapture in distillatfon,
There are hun ireds Of people in this house
who are walking day by day in the sublime
satisfaction that all is for the best, all things
working together for COOL for their soul.
How man can get along through this lie
without the explanation is to me a mystery.
What is that child gone forever Ara you
never to get it bacS? Is your property gone
torevers Is youc soul to be bruiss 4 and to
be tried forever? Have you no explanation,
no Christian explanation, all | yet not
maniac? But when you have the religion OF
Jesus Christ in your SOUL it explains every
thing so far as it is best for you to uu Ter.
stand. You LOOK off in life, and your soul
is full of thanksgiving to 0ot tlat you are
SO much better off than you might be.
A man passed down the street without
any SHOES AMI saidi IT have no shoes. Isn't
it a hardship that have no shoes? Other pao-
pie have shoes; no shoes, no shoes, until he
saw man who had no feet. Then he
learned a lesson. You ought to thank God
for what He does, instead of grumbliny for
what He does not. God arranges all the
weather in this world-the spiritual
weather, the moral weather as well as the
natural weather. sWhat kind of weather
will it be to.day?' said some one to farmer.
The farmer replied, ut will be such weather
as like "lNhat do you mean by that"
sskeI the other. ''Well," said the farmer,
lit viii be such weather as pleasss the Lord,
and what pleases the Lord pleases me-"
Ga, the sunshinel thu sunshine of Chris
tian ex olauationl Here is some one ben nag
over the grave OF the dead. What is going
to be the consolation? The howerS YOU
strew upon the tom }? Oh, mol The SER
VICES read at the graveY On, no. the
chief consolation on tnat grave Is what falls
from the throne of God, Sunshine, glorl-
Gus sunshine. Resurrection sunshine.
Agaiu [ find great deal OF the sunshine
uf this Bible aud OF our religion in the
rlimacteric joys that are to come. man
wno gets W AMI goes out from con-
cert right after the opening voluntary
has been p'ayed' and before tne prlms
donna sings, or before the orchestra
be ,in., has better iIea of that concert
taan that man has who supposes that the
chief Joys of religion are In this world. we
here have only the first note OF the eternal
orchestra. We shall in that world have the
iov of discovery, We will in five minutes
catch up with the astronomers the geolo.
glsts. the scientists the philosophers OF all
ages, VINO so far surpassed Us In this worlf:
Wecan afford to adjourn astronomy ana
geology and many Of the sciences 10 the next
world, because we shall there nave better APP
paratus ami better opportunity.
must study these sciences SO far as to
helm me in nv work, but beyond that
must give myeelf to saving my own soul
and saving the souls of others knowing that
in one fash OF eternity we viii eaten 1t all.
Oh what an observatory in which to stuty
astronomy heaven will be, not by power OF
telescope, but by supernatural vision; an1
II there be something doubtful i00OJ,OOJ
miles away. by one stroke or the wing you
are there by another stroke of the wing
Won are hack again, and all in less time than
tell YOU. catching it all in one fash OF
eternity.
Aud geology What place that will be
10 study geology, when the world is being
picked to D .ecss as easily as a schoolgirl in
botanical lessons pulls the leaf from the
corollai What place to study architecture,
amid the thrones and the palaces and the
cathedrals-St. Marks and st. Paurs rook-
cries in comparison.
Sometimes you wish you could make the
tour of the whole earth. going around as
others have gone but you have not the time;
you haze not the means. You will make
that tour yet during one musical pause in
the eternal anthem. l say these things for
the comfort of those people who are abridged
in their opportunities those people TO
whom life is humdrum, who toll and work,
and toll ind work, and aspire after knowl-
edge, but have no time to get It, and say:
'If had the opportunities which other peo-
ple have. how [ would Gil my mind and soul
with grand thoughtsp Be not discouraged,
my friends. You are going to the university
vet Death will only matriculate you Into
the royal college of the universe.
What sublime thing it was that DR..
.Thornwel of South Carolina, uttered in his
last diving moments! As he looked up he
said, at opens; it expands: it expands"
Or as Mr. Topady, the author of Rock o.
Ages" in his last moment, or during his last
hours looked up and said, rs though ne saw
something supernatural. "Lightp AMI then
as he came on nearer the dying moment,
his countenance more luminous, he cried,
"Iightw and at the very moment OF his de-
parture lifted both han Is, something su )sr-
natural in his countenance as he crleJ,
'Lightp Only another name for sunshine.
Besides that we shall have all the pleasures
of association. We will go right up in The
front OF God without any fright. All our
sins gone there will be nothing to he fright
ened about. There our OLD Christian friends
will troop AROUND us. Just as now one Of
your SICK friends goes away to Florida, the
land of flowers, or to the south OF Franle,
and you do not see him for long while, a1d
after a while YOU meet HIM, and the holl0vS
under the eyes are all filed. and the appetite