The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1894-03-29

White House" Most OF the things
now white with attractivencss
were once black with disaster.
What the world most needs is the
ccnsolatory. and here IL comes, our holy
religion, with both hands full of ano-
dynes, and sedatives, and balsams,
as in Daniels time to stop mouths leo
nine; as In Shadrach's time to cool
blast furnaces; as in Ezekiel's time to
console captivity; as in ST. Johns time
TO unroll the apocalypse over rocky des-
Citations. Hear its soothing voice as IL
declares: weeping may endure for
night, but JOY coneth in the morning."
The mountains shall depart and the
hills be removed, but My loving kind
ness shall not depart from you"
"Whom the Lord loveth he chasten-
eth" "They shall hunger no more,
neither thirst any more, neither shall
the sun light on them, nor any heat;
for the Lamb who is in the midst of the
throne shall lead them to living foun-
tains of water, and God shall wipe
away all tears from their eyes" The
most wholesome thing on earth is trou-
bic IL met In Christian spirit. To make
Paul what he was il took shipwrecls,
and whipping on the bare back, and
penitentiary, and pursuit OF wild mobs,
and the sword OF decapitation. To
make David what he was II took all
that Ahithophel, and Saul. and Absa-
lom, and Goliath, and all the Philis-
tine hosts could do against him. 1t
took Robert Chambers malformation
OF feet to make nim the literary con-
querer. IL was bereavement that
brought William Haworthe of Wcslcy's
time from wickedncss to evangelism
that won many thousands for Heaven.
The world would never have known
what heroic stuff Ridley was made of
had not the fires been kindled around
his feet, and, not liking their slow
work, he cried: Il can not burn; let
the fire come to me; can not burn"
Thank God that there are gems that
unfold their best glories under the
lamplight! That God for the Ruby.
Moreover, | am sure that Solomon
was right in saying that religion, or
wisdom, is better than rubies from the
fact that thing is worth what it will
fetch. Religion will fetch solid happi-
ness, and the ruby will not. In all
your observation did you ever find
person thoroughly felicitatcd by an en-
punishment of jewels? As you know
more of yourself than anyone else, are
you happier now with worldly adorn-
ments and successes than before you
won them? Does the picture that cost
you hundreds of thousands of dollars
on your wall bring you as much salts
faction as the engraving that at the OK
pense of SIS was hung upon the wall
when you first began to keep house?
DO all the cutlery and rare plate
that glitter on your extension dining
table surrounded by hattering guests
contain more of real bliss tran the
plain ware of your first table, at which
sat only two? Does wardrobe crowded
with costly attire give you more salts
faction than your first clothes-closet
with its four or five pegs? Did not
the plain ring set on the third finger
OF your left hand on the day of your
bctrothal give more gladuess than the
ruby that is now cnthroncd on the
third finger of your right hand? If in
this journey Of life We have learned any
thing we have learned that this world,
neither with its cmolunentS nor gains,
can satisfy the soul. Why, here come
Us many witnesses rs wish to call to
the stand to testify that, before high
Heaven and the world, in companion
ship with Jesus Christ and good hope
of Heaven, they feel a JOY that all the
resources of their voca bulary fail to
express. Sometimes it evidences itself
in calculations of hoSannas, sometimes
in doXology, sometimes in tears. a
converted native of India in letter
said: "How l long for my bed, not that
] may sleep; lie awake often and
long, but to hold sweet communion
with my God" If so mighty is
worldly Joy that Julius H., hearing
his armies were triumphant, expired;
and if Talva, hearing that the
Roman senate had decreed him
an honor, expired; and il Diony-
sius and Sophoclcs, overcome of
Joy, expired; and if shipwrecked
purser waiting on the coast of Guinea
in want and starvation at the sight
of vessel bringing relief fell dead
from shock of delight, is il any sur
paise to you that the joys OF pardon
and Heaven rolling over the soul
should sometimes be almost too
much for the Christian to endure and
live? An aged aunt said TO me: DE
Witt three times l have tainted dead
away under the great Christian joy.
IL was in all three cases at the Holy
Communion" An eminent Christian