The Globe-republican., 1894-02-23
worship, mention the grandest life

worship, l mention the grandest lif
that was ever lived. That ship of igh
} was launched from the heavens nearl
1900 years ago, angelic hosts chanting
and from the wharves the ship epran,
into the toughest sea that ever tossed
Its billows were made up of the wrath
OF men and devils, Herodic and San
hedrimic prosecutions stirring the deeI
with red wrath, and all the hurricane:
OF woe smote it, until on the rocks O.
GOlgOtha that life struck with a re
sound of agony that appalled, the earth
and the heavens But in the wake Oi
that life what phosphorescence OF
smiles on the cheek of souls pardoned
and lives reformed and nations re-
| deemed, The millennium itself is only
one roll of that irradiated wave of glad
| ness and benediction In the sublimest
of all senses it may be said of Him: ''He
I maketh a path to shine after Him"
But, mark you. that the phosphores-
cence has a glow that the night mo-
nopolizes. and l ask you not only what
kind of influence you are going to
leave in the world as you pass through
/ it. but what light are you going to
throw across the worlds night of sin
and sorrow? People who are sailing
on smooth seas and at noon do not
need much sympathy, but what are
you going to do for people in the night
of misfortune? Will you drop on them
shadow. or will you kindle for them
phosphorescence? At this moment there
are more people crying than laughing;
more people on the round world
this moment .hungry than well fed;
more households bereft than homes
unbroken. What are you going to do
about it? WELL" says yonder soul. 81
would like to do something toward
illumining the great ocean of human
wretchedness, but l cannot do much"
Can you do as much as one of the phos-
phori in the middle of the Atlantic
ocean, creatures smaller than the point
of sharp pin? ''Oh, yes you say.
Then do that. Shine. Stand before
the looking-glass and experiment to
see if you cannot get that scovl out of
your forehead; that peevish look out of
your lips. Shine! Let your light SO
shine before men that others seeing
your good works may glorify your
Father which is in Heaven
Make one person happy every day,
and do that for twenty years and you
will have made 1900 harpy. You
know man who has lost all his |
property by an unfortunate invest
ment, or by putting his name on the
back of friends note? After you
have taken a brief nap, which every
man and woman is entitled to on Sun
day afternoon, go and cheer up that
man.. You can, if God helps you, say
that will do him good after
both of you have been dead
thousand years. Shine! You know
Of a family with bad boy who has
run away from home. Go before
night and tell that father and mother
he parable of the prodigal son, and
that some of the illustrious and useful
men now in the church and state had a
lilly passage in their lives and ran
way from home Oh, for DISPOSITION
20 charged with sweetness and light
hat we cannot help but shine! Re-
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ashing the ocean into fury, you can be
me of the phosphori. doing your part
oward making path of phosphores-
,ence.
Then l will tell you what impression
'ou will leave when you pass through
his life and after you are gone. will
ell you to your face and not leave it to
he minister who Otiiciates at your OBJ
equies. The failure in all eulogium of
he departed is that they cannot hear
t. All hear it except the one most in
crested. This. in substance, is what
or some one else will say of you on
uch an occasion: 1--WE gather for of
ices of respect to this departed one 1t
5 impossible to tell how many tears he
viped away; how many burdens he
fitted: or how many souls he was un-
er God instrumental in saving. His ,,
ntience will never cease We are all ..
e:ter for having known him. That !.
illOw of flowers on the casket was
resented by his Sabbath school class,
IL of whom he brought to Christ That
ross of flowers at the head was pre-
ented by the orphan asylum which he
efriended. Those three single flowers :
-one was sent by poor woman for =
'hom he bought a ton of coal, and one
7as by waif of the street whom he
escued through the midnight mission,
nd the other was from a prison cell
,hich he had often visited to encour- ,
ge repentance in a young man who
ad done wrong. Those three loose :
overs mean quite as much as the ,
ostly garlands now breathing their
roma through their saddened home,
rowded with sympathizers. Blessed :
re the dead who die in the Lord: they =
est from their labor, and their works do
blow them" Or if it should be the
lore solemn burial at sea, let it be .
fter the sun has gone down. and the
aptain has read the appropriate litur. ::
y, and the ships bell has tolled, and u
on are let down from the stern of the
essel into the resplendent phosphor. =
scence at the wake of the ship Then =
t some one say in the words of my
,xt: He maketh a path to shine after :.
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