The Globe-republican., 1894-06-01

are AmalelSit;sh diseases. that some
times come down upon ones home.
making as devastating work as the day
when Ziklag took fire. There are
| families you represent broken up. No
battering ram smote in the door. no
/ iconoclast crumbled the statues. no
flame leaped amid the curtains; but so
far as all the joy and merriment that
once belonged to that house
are concerned. the home has
departed. Armed diseases came
down upon the quietness of
, the scene-scarlet fevers. or pleurisies-
or consumptions, or underlined disor-
ders came and seized upon some MEM
bers of that family, and carried them
! away. Ziklag in ashes. And you go
about, sometimes weeping and some
times enraged. wanting to get back
your loved ones as much as David and
his men wanted to reconstruct
their households. Ziklag in ashes!
Some of you went off from home. You
counted the days of your absence.
Every day seemed as long as a week
Oh. how glad you were when the time
came for you to GO aboard the steam
boat or the rail car and start for home.
/ You arrived. You went up the street
where your dwelling was. and in the
night you put your hand on the door
bell. and. behold. it was draped with
| the signal of bereavement. and You
( found that Amalekitish Death. which
/ has devastated thousand other house
holds. had blasted yours. You go
about weeping amidst the desolation
of your once happy home. thinking Of
! the bright eyes closed. and the noble
hearts stopped. and the gentle hands
folded. and you weep until you have
no more power to weep. Zlklag In
ashes.
Why these long shadows of bereave-
ment across this audience? Why is it
/ that in almost every assemblage black
! is the predominant color Of the APP
parel? Is it because you do not like
saffron or brown or violet? Oh no.
You say: The world is not so bright
to Us as once it was and there is d
story of silent voices. and of still feet.
and of loved ones gone. and when you
look over the hills. expecting only
beauty and loveliness. you find only
devastation and woe. Ziklag in ashes.
preach this serman to-day, because
l want to rally you. as David rallied his
men, for the recovery of the loved and
the lost. l want not only to win
Heaven. but want all this congrega-
ton to go along with me. 1 feel that
somehow l have a responsibility in
your arriving at that great city. Do
you really want to enjoy the COM
partnership of your loved ones who have
/ gone? Are you. as anxious to join
! them as David and his men were to join
their families? Then am here, in the
name of God. to say that you may, and
| to tell you how.
l remark. in the first place. if you
want to join your loved ones in glory.
| YOU must travel the same way they
went. No sooner had the half-dead
| Egyptian been resuscitated than
| he pointed the way the captors
and the captives had gone. and David
and his men followed after. So our
Christian friends have gone into an
other country. and if we want to reach
their companionship we must take the
same road. They repented: we must
repent. They prayed: we must pray.
| They trusted in Christ: we must trust
in Christ. They lived religious life:
we must live religious life. They had
their faults. but as they were like US in
deficiencies. we ought to be like them
in taking supernal Christ to make
up for the deficits. Had it not been
for Jesus, they would have all persisted:
but Christ confronted them and said:
Il am the way" and they took it.
! 1 have also to say to you that the
path that these captives trod was a
troubled path. and that David and his
men had to 60 over the same difficult
way. While these captives were being
! taken off, they said: oh! we are so
tired; we are so sick: we are so hungry
But the men who had charge of them
said: stop this crying. Go onr' David
and his men also found it hard way.
| They had to travel it. Our friends
have gone into glory, and it is through
much tribulation that we are to enter
! into the kingdom How our loved ones
used to have to struggle! Did you ever
ucdH tAC oAu pVcpiC- SSolCu W ehC
evening stand, talk over their
early trials, their hardships. the acct
dents, the burials. the disappointments,
the empty -four barrel when there were
so many hungry ones to feed, the sick
ness almost unto death, where the next
dose of morphine decided between
CHASTITY bereavement and an unbroken
home circle? Oh. yes! it was trouble
that whitened their hair. 1t was trou-
bic that shook the cup in their hands.
It was trouble that washed the luster
from their eyes with the rain of tears
until they needed spectacles. 1t was
trouble that made the cane necessity
for their journey. Do you ever re-
member seeing your old mother sit
ting, on some rainy day. looking out of
the window, her elbow on the window
sill, her hand to her brow-looking out,
not seeing the falling shower at all
you well knew she was looking into
the distant past, until the apron came
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