Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-11-12


~ NV 10 send message to your friends?'
res l would. Tell them that on,,
i"sV night the love Of Jesus came rrSl,
ing INTO my soul like the surges of IN,
sea, and had to cry out: 'Stop Lord
~ Is enoughl Stop Lord-enouohp {,
'"o Joys oI shls Christian religion
vanity of Sinful Pleasures.
just pass over from those tame iov.
~ winch you are indulging-joys o.
Onis world-into the raptures of the pos
pei Inc world cannot satisfy Won: vor
nave found out-Alexander longing 70,
other worlds to conquer and vet drown.
eu IN his own bottle, Byron whipped
py dlsquletudes around the world. Vol.
talre cursing his own soul while all tbe
streets of Paris We're applauding him
henry IL consuming with hatred against
poor Thomas a Beckett, all illustrations
OF the fact that this world cannot make
man happy. The very man who poi.
soned the pommel of the saddle ON
which Queen Elizabeth rode shouted in
the street, "Nod save the queenp' One
moment the world applauds. and the
next moment the world anathematizes
On, come over into this greater iov.
this sublime solace, this magnificent
beatitude. The night after the battle of
Shiloh there were thousands of wound.
ed ON the field, and the ambulances had
not come. One Christian soldier, lying
there a-dying under the starlight, be.
gan to sing:
There is land of pure delight
And when he came to the next line
there were scores of voices uniting:
Where saints immortal reign.
The song was caught up all over the
field among the wounded until it was
said that there were at least 1000
wounded men uniting their voices as
they came to the verse:
There everlasting spring abides
And never whitening flowers.
Death, like narrow stream, divides
That heavenly land from ours.
oh, it is great religion to live by,
and it is a great religion to die by.
There is only one heart throb between
you and that religion this moment. Just
look into the face of your pardoning
God and surrender yourself for time
and for eternity, and he is yours, and
heaven is yours, and all is yours Some
If you, like the young man of the text,
nave gone astray. l know not the his
;ory, but you know it--you know it.
The Circle of Safety.
When a young man went forth into
ife, the legend says, his guardian angel
vent forth with him, and getting him
nto field the guardian angel swept a
circle clear around where the young
nan stood. 1t was circle of virtue and
lonor, and he must not step beyond that
circle. Armed foes came down, but
we're obliged to halt at the circle. They |
,ould not pass. But one day temptress,
with diamonded hand, stretched forth |
md crossed that circle with the hand,
md the tempted soul took it, and by
hat one fell grip was brought beyond
ihe circle and died.
Some of you have stepped beyond that
,ircle. Would you not like this day, by |
he grace of God, to step back? This, ! |
ay to you, is your hour of salvation.
There was in the closing hours of Queen
Anne what is called the clock scene,
Flat down on the pillow, in helpless
ickness, she could not move her head
II move her hand. She was waiting for
he hour when the ministers of state
hould gather in angry contest, and
Worried and worn out by the coming
lour, and in momentafy absence of the
lurse, in the power-the strange power
which delirium sometimes gives one
he arose and stood IN front of the
lock, and stood there watching the
lock when the nurse returned. The
urse said, "Do you see anything pecul'
ar about that clock7" She made no an,
wer, but soon died. There il a clock
Gene in every history. If some OF you
yould rise from the bed Of lethargy and
ome out of your delirium Of sin and
,ok on the clock Of your destiny this
Ioment, you would see and hear some
ling you have not seen or heard be-
,re and every tick Of the minute, and
very eAIohb VI lib HoHif hih bfNA9 ]
wing Of the pendulum, would say,
Now, now, now, now" Oh, como
ome 20 your Fathers houseI Come
ome, OH prodigal, from the wilder
essl Come home come homel
The Divine Justice,
But / notice that when the prodigal
anne there was tho fathers JOY He
id not greet him with any formal
How do you DOR Iie did not como
ut and say you arc unfit 70 ep'ef
10 out and wash in tho trough BY tho
,ell, and then you can come in' We
ave had enough trouble with you "
N, mol when the proprietor Of that es'
lts proclaimed festival, it was ana ont
urst Of fathers love and q fathers
ly Hod Is your father
! have not much sympathy WIN mar
esoripu0u of God / sometimes hear, ~
lough he were q Turkish sullan-hara
nd unsympatheuo aud listening not %
he cry VI bis subjects A man toid mo
% saw iu one ot tho eastern lands y
ing riding along, aud two men ~efe
IA alteration, aud ono charged the ON
y with having eaten his rice And l4u
ing said, ''qhep slay the man ana "
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