Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-09-13

the assaults of the people. Hap
Ply when he got his first law
yers brief; exultant when he
triumphed over his first political rival
YET sitting on the very top of all that
TINS word offers of praise. he exclaims
NO rest. no rest.'' The very world
that now applauds will soon hiss That
world said of the great Webster;
what statesman! What wonderful
exposition of the constitution A man
Mt for any position." That same world
SAID after awhile: down with him
ne Is an otfice-seeker! He is sot! He
Is lroertine! Away with him. And
there IS no peace for the man until he
lays down his broken heart at Marsh
neld Jeffrey thought that if he
could only be judge. that would be
the making of him; got to be Judge,
ana cursed the day in which he was
born. Alexander wanted to submerge
the world with his greatness; sub
merged 1t, and then drank himself to
death because he could not stand the
trouble. Burns thought he would give
everything If he could win the favor Of
courts and princes; won it, and amid
the shouts Of a great entertainment,
when poets and orators, and duchesses
We're adoring his genius, wished he
could creep back into the obscurity in
which he dwelt when he wrote of the
palsy wee modest crimson-tipped flower
Napoleon wanted to make all Europe
tremble at his power; made il tremble,
Ihen died, his entire military achieve
ments dwindling down TO a pair Of mil
ltary boots, which he insisted on hav-
ing on his feet when dying. At Yer
sailles saw picture of Napoleon in
his triuinphs, | went into another
room and saw bust of Napoleon rs he
appeared at st. Helena; but oh, what
grief and anguish in the face of the
latter. The first was Napoleon in tri-
umph the last was Napoleon with his
heart broken. How they laughed and
cried when silver-tongued Sheridan, in
the midday of prosperity. harangued
the people of Britain, and how they
howled AT I'D eNecrated him, when
outside of the room where his corpse
lay, his creditors tried TO get his mis-
cradle bones and sell them.
This world for rest? ''Aha." cry the
waters, mo rest here-we plunge TO
the sea Aha, cry the mountains
mo rest here-we crumble to the
plain Aha, cry the towers, mo rest
here-we follow Babylon, and Thebes
and Nineyeh into the dust" No rest
for the flowers; they fade. No rest for
the stars; they die. No rest for man;
he must work. toll, suffer and slave.
Now, for what have | said all this?
just TO prepare you for the text: Arise
We, and depart: for this is not your |
rest" am going to make you grand /
offer Some Of You remember that when /
gold was discovered in California, large |
companies were made up and started I
off 10 get their fortune. To-day want /
to make mp party for the Land of 4
Gold. | hold in my hand a deed from /
the Proprietor of the estate, in which /
He offers To all VIII o win join the com
pany ten thousand shares of in
finite value, in city whose
streets are gold whose harps are gold.
whose crowns are gold. You have
read OF the crusaders-how that many
thousands of them went Oft to conquer
the Holy Sepulcher. | ask YOU TO join
a grander crusade-not for the purpose
of conqueriug the sepulcher of dead
Christ, but for the purpose of reaching
The throne Of a living Jesus. When an
army is to be made up. the recruiting
officer examines the volunteers: he
.ests their eyesight; he sounds their
ungs; he measures their stature; they
must be just right. or they are rejected
But there shall be no partially in MAX
ng up this army of Christ. Whatever
our moral or physical stature, what
yer your crimes, whatever your weak
less, l have a commission from the
ord Almighty to make up this regi-
nent of redeemed souls, and | cry:
Arise We and depart; for this is not
our rest" Many Of you have joined
his company, and my desire is that
gu may all join it Why not?
'ou know in your own hearts
Experience that what l have said
bout this world is true-that it is no {
lace TO rest in. There are hundreds |
ere weary-O. how weary weary with 5
In; weary with trouble; weary with /
bereavement. Some of you have been
ierced through and through. You
AIRY the scars of a thousand conflicts, !
which you have bled at every pore;
nd you sigh: 20. that had the wings
{ a dove, that might fly away and be /
t rest" You have taken the cup of a
lis worlds pleasures and drunk it to q
he dregs, and still the thirst claws at q
our tongue, and the fever strikes to f
our brain. You have chased pleasure
trough every valley. by every stream, '
mid every brightness, and under every t
ladow; but just at the moment when a
Du were all ready to put your hand ;
pom the rosy laughing sylph of the a
God, she turned upon you with the i
are of a fiend and the eve of a satyr,
r. locks adders, and her breath the X
ill damp of grave. Out of Jesus f
lrist no rest. No voice to silence the I
orm. No light to kindle the dark $