The Baptist headlight., 1894-01-11

are building up some great enterprise.
You have built the fOundatlOn-the
wall-you are Just about to put on the
capstone. when everything is demol-
ished. You have harp all strung for
sweetest accord. and some great agony
brushes it. There is a little voice
| hushed in the household. Blue eye
closed. Color dashed out of the cheek.
The foot still. Instead of the quick
feet in the hall, the heavy tread OF
those who march to the grave. On,
what are people to do amid all these
| sorrows? Some sit down and mourn.
Some bite their lip until the blood
comes. Some wiring their pale hands.
| Some fall on their faces. some lie on
their backs helpless and look up INTO
what seems to them an Implying
Heaven Some pull their hair down
| over their eyes ard look through with
iends glare. Some. with Dotn
| hands, press their hot brain ana want
/ to die and cry, 20 God, . Goa. Long
night, bitter night, stupendous nlght
| of the worlds suffering, Some know
| not which wav to turn. But not SO the
| Christian man. He looks up toward
| the heavens. He sees bright ap-
pearance in the heavens. Can 1t be
! only flashing meteor? Can it be only
! a falling star? Can it be only delu-
sion? Nay, nay The longer he looks
/ the more distinct it becomes,f until at
| ter awhile he cries out, "A star-a
morning star. a star of comfort, star
/ of grace, star of peace, the star OF
| the Redeemer." Peace for all trouble.
| Balm for all wounds. Life for all dead.
| Now Jesus, the great heart healer,
comes into our home. Peace. Peace
| that passeth all understanding. We
! look up through our tears. We are
comforted. 1t is the morning star of
! the Redeemer. WHO broke off that
| fiower?" said one servant in the gar
| den to another. ''WhO broke of that
| flower?" And the other said. The
master" Nothing more was said, for
| if the master had not a right TO break
! off a flower to wear over his heart or
| to set in the vase in the mansion, who
has right to touch the flower? And
when Christ comes down into our
garden to gather lilies, shall we fight
Him back? Shall we talk as though
| He had no right TO come? If any one
in all the universe has right to that
which is beautiful in our homes, then
our master has, and He will take t,and
He will wear it over his heart, or He
will set it in the vase of the palace
eternal. ''The Lord gave, and the
/ Lord hath taken away: blessed be the
name of the Lord Peace, troubled
soul! | put the balm on your wounded
heart tonight. The morning star,
the morning star OF the Redeemer.
Again Christ holds the dawn of mil
lennial glory. 1t is night in China,
night in India night in Siberia, night
| ho IF nvslA Ia
population. But it seems to me there
are some intimations of the morning.
All Spain is to be brought under the
influence of the gospel. What is that
! light [ see breaking over the top of
the Pyrenees? The morning. Yea,
all Italy shall receive the gospel. She
shall have her schools and colleges and
her churches. Her vast population
shall surrender themselves to Christ.
What is that light | see breaking over
the top of the Alps? The morning.
All India shall come to God. Her idols
shall be cast down. Her juggernauts
shall be broken. Her temples of in
iquity shall be demolished What is
that light see breaking over the top
Of the Himalayas? The morning. The
empurpled clouds shall gid the path
of the conquering day. The Hottentot
will come out of his mud howell to look
at the dawn: tho Chinaman will come
up on the granite cliffs, the Norwegian
will get up on the rocks, and all the
beach of Heaven will be crowded with
celestial inhabitants come out TO see
the sun rise over the ocean of the
worlds agony. They shall come from
the East, and from the West, from the
North. and from the South. and sit
down in the kingdom OF God. These
sweltered under tropical suns. These
shivered under Icelandic temperature.
These plucked the vineyards in Italy.
These packed the teaboxes in China.
These were aborigines lifting up their
dusky faces in the dawn. And the
wind shall watt it, and every mountain
shall become TRANSPORTATION, and the
sea will become the walking place of
| Him who trOd the wave cliffs of stormy
Tiberias, and the song of Joy shall rise
toward Heaven, and the great sky will
become a sounding board which shall
strike back the shout of salvation to
the earth until it rebounds again to
the throne of the Almighty, and the
morning star of Christian hope will be
come the full sunburst OF millenial
glory.
Again, Christ heralds the dawn of
Heaven upon every Christians dying
pillow. suppose you have noticed
that the characteristics of people in
their healthful days are very apt TO be
their characteristics in their diving
days. The dying words of ambitious
/ Napoleon were. Head OF the Army"
The diving words of poetic Lord Byron
We're. L must sleep now" The diving
words of affectionate Lord Nelson were
Kiss me, Hardy" The dying words
OF Noltalre were, "a he saw one he sun
posed to be Jesus in the room. Crush
that wretch" But have noticed that