The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1895-07-22

First-The love OF God who gave
the flowers and Of the perfume OF
the roses and the sweet scented
among them all, and / thought OF
Jesus and how the sweet perfume OF
his holy life has been waited down
the ages into our lives, making them
full of JOY, and then in my wander
ings l reached n scene that shocked
me. 1t was death, awful silent
death, for there shut in by n glass
case was the monument of Henry
Shaw, lying as in death and a feel
ing of sadness came over US as we
turned from the beauty of the flowers
TO the silence of the grave and /
learned this lesson. You may ill
your life with roses, you may spend
your days listening to the voice OF
the song birds, you may commune
with nature, but after il all you
must die, and better far better a life
filled with good deeds than with
flowers. II Henry Shaw hlled the
days of his earthly existence with
love to God as well as to flowers he
did well. IL not, he made a misera-
BILE failure in spite of his acres Of
roses, and 50 you my brother, my
sister, IL you pay most attention to
the cultivation Of the good that is
men, that is in your child IL you
protect and nourish them first II
you point them to God, then God
has no objection 10 your loving the
flowers. But II it Is all flowers. n
il is all love for the beauties Of this
life, then indeed are the days Of your
mortal existence, but miserable fail
ure. But / must hasten. After par
taking of the kindness OF these St.
Louis endeavorers, We start on.
We stop next for n half day at Mag
ara Falls. This sight alone was
worth the expense money. had
read Of il, seen it in pictures, but
had never imagined il bali SO grand
and as l looked at the awful rapids
above it / realized as never before
the illustration of the boat in the
rapids as the illustration of the DOW
er of evil habits, and as I looked al
the mighty torrent OF water rushing
down and battering itself into mist
= upon the jagged rocks beneath.
1 thought Of the fearful doom of the
D man who resists not temptation and
thus drifts down TO the hell OF the
n sinner. Had | time the inspiration
e of Niagara would enable me tc tel
! you of the peril of delay, the folly ol
] proerastination.
G But on TO Boston. We arrived
e there Wednesday evening, hour
n late, and now do you expect me q
n tell you about that convention
& Don't do IL, for you will be disap
j pointed. Would you expect {,
20 home from our state convention
- and tell all you heard and saw in ont
y sentence. Well l cannot tell YOU o
d the Boston convention i'm one ser
n mon. Besides haven't recOvere,
a yet. I'm in a state OF bewilderment
" Maybe after awhile the thing viii
y rather straighten itself out and littl
n by little you will get IL. The BOsto
n convention, that means great deal
p II means a visit 10 the historic oil
> city with its monuments, with Il
u fanuel hall, its Cambridge, its Hal
+ ward, its harbor, its seaside report,
II its graveyards, 200 years old, IL
y Boston common, its Bunker Hill
u its mouth Rock, its genial hand
10 shake, its pleasant hospitality, IL
IT desire TO accommodate.
ID Il means GO,OOO happy, earne,
70 persons, who had come there I
"a worship God. IL means this vas
N host arranged for Christ and th
oi church. IL means that they stoo
% solid for good citizenship. Il mean
pc the purifying OF politics. II NEAR
~ that they represent a movemeT
OF grown over 100000 strong in
a. years. IL means that the people
God are going TO unite some da,
y II means the saloon is doomed-thi
re the young people Of the church al
DC at work-that the cause OF Christ
!" advancing. Oh, | can't describe
III don't ask me, il is Gods work, h
at hand is on the helm. The world
~ growing better, the army Of the Loi
is marching on. My only regret
III that YOU we're not all there. Yo
- would have been lifted up, up, "
- until you grew dizzy with Il
~ heights. You would have grow
Il stronger in the Lord and in the POI
VI er of his might. You would hay
known what il is to stand IN n ci
N and know that 60, 200 people love
or you because they loved the Lord