The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-09-21

honor? Wake up! The morning
papers are to be full of denunciation
Harken to the excavations of those who
once caressed you. By tomorrow
night there will be multitudes sheer
ing at the words which last night you
expected would be universally adj
mired. How can you sleep when every
thing depends upon the next turn OF
the tragedy? Up, man! OFF "of this
pillowr' The man, with head yet hot
from his last grafton, starts up sud
denly, looks out upon the night, but
sees nothing except the flowers that
lit,on his stand, or the scroll from
which he read his speech, or the books
from which he quoted his authorities,
and goes to his desk to finish his neg
lected correspondence, or to pen an in
dignant line to some reporter, or sketch
the plan for a public defense against
the assaults of the people. Happy
when he got his first lawyers brief; ex-
ultant when he triumphed over his
first political rival; yet, sitting on the
very top of all that this world 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 a statesman!
What wonderful exposition Of the con-
stitution! A man fit for any position!"
That same world said, after awhile:
Down with him! He is an office
seeker. He is a sot. He is libertine.
Away with him!" And there is no
peace for the man until he lays down
his broken heart in the grave at Marsh
field. Jeffrey thought if he could
only be judge that would be
the making of him; got to be
judge, and cursed the day in
which he was born. Alexander wanted
to submerge the world with his great
ness; submerged it, 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 great en-
tertainment, when poets, and orators,
and duchesses were adoring his genius,
wished that he could creep back into
the obscurity in which he dwelt when
he wrote of the
Daisy, wee modest crimson-t tipped flower.
Napoleon wanted to make all Europe
tremble at his power; made it tremble.
then died; his entire military achieve
ments dwindling down to pair of
military boots which he insisted on
having on his feet when dying. At
Versailles saw picture of Napoleon
in his triumphs. went into another
room and saw a bust Of Napolean
as he appeared at st. Helena;
but oh, what grief and anguish
in the face of the latter! The first
was Napoleon in triumph, the last was
Napoleon with his heart broken. How
they laughed and cried when silver
tongued Sheridan, in the midway of
harangued the people of
Britain, and how they howled at and
execrated him, when, outside of the
room where his corpse lay, his credit
ors tried to get his miserable bones and
sell them!
Now, for what have I said all this?
Just to prepaIe you for the text: "Arise
We, and depart; for this is not your
rest" l am going to make you grand
offer. Some of you remember when
gold was discovered in California, large
companies were made up and started
off to get their fortune. To-day want
to make up party for the land of
gold. hold in my hand a deed from
the Proprietor of the estate,
in which He offers to all
who will join the company
ten thousand shares of infinite 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 off
to conquer the Holy Sepulcher. ask
you to join grander crusade not for
the purpose of conquering the sepul-
cher of a dead Christ, but for the pur-
pose of reaching the throne of a
living Jesus. When an army is
to be made up, the recruit
ing officer examines the volun-
teers; he tests their eyesight; he sounds
their lungs; he measures their stature;
they must be just right, or they are re-
jected. But there shall be no partiali-
ty in making up this army of Christ.
Whatever your moral or physical stat
ure, whatever your designations, what
ever your crimes, whatever your weak
nesses, / have commission from the
Lord Almighty to make up this regiment
of redeemed souls, and cry: "Arise We,
and depart; for this is not your rest"
Many of you have lately joined this
company, and my desire is that you
may all join it. Why notP You know
in your own hearts experience that
what have said about this world is
true-that it is no place to rest in.