The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-01-21

foreigners are n vast host Of Germans and
they feel centuries afterward the power
of that unparalleled spirit who shook the
earth when he trod it and the heavens
when he prayed-Martin Luther! From all
nations our foreign populations have come
and they are homesick far away from the
place of their childhood and the graves or
their ancestors and our glorious religion pre-
scented 10 them Alright Will meet their needs
and fill their souls and kindle their enthusl-
asm. They shall come from amid the wheat
sheaves of Dakota and from the ore beds
Nevada and from the golden gulches OF
Colorado and from the banks of the Platte
and the Oregon and the Sacramento anu
the Columbia. They shall come from the
west"
But what will they do after they come?
,eere is something goriously consolatory
come from all the east and the west and
the north and the south and shall sit down"
Oh this is a tired world. The most OF peo-
pie are kept on the run all their lifetime.
Business keeps them on the run. Trouble
keeps them on the run. Rivalries of life
keep them on the run. They are running
from disaster. They are running for re-
ward. And those who run the fastest and
run the longest seem best to succeed. But
Gods children, for all those who for a life
time have been on the run. They shall sit
DOWN. Why run any longer? When a man
gets heaven what more can he get? "They
shall sit down." Not alone, but in picked
companionship of the universe. Not en-
barrassed, though seraph should sit down
other.
There is that mother, who through all
the years of infancy and childhood was
kept running amid sick trundle-beds. now
TO shake up the pillow for that fiaXen
head and now to give drink to those
parched lips, and now to hush the frighten-
ell dream Of n little one; and when there
was one less OF the children because the
great lover of children had lifted one out
of the Group into the easy breathing of
celestial atmosphere, the mother putting
all the more anxious care on those who
were left, so weary OF arm and foot and
back and head, 80 often crying out. Il am
SO tired! l am 40 tiredl" Her work done she
shall sit down. And that business man
for thirty, forty. fifty years has Kept on the
run, not urged by sclfishness nor for the
purpose of achieving n livelihood for the
household. On the run from store TO store
or from factory TO factory. meeting tits loss
ana discovering that inaccuracy and suffer-
ing betrayal or disappointment, rtvermCre,
TO be cheated or perpleXed or CXaSpcrated
he shall sit down. Not in great arm
chair Of heaven for the rockers of such a
chair would imply ones need OF soothing
or changing TO easy pos jure or semi invalid
ism, but throne solid as eternity and
radiant ms The morning after nisnt If
storm. They shall sit down"
| notice that the most OF the styles Of
toll require an erect attitude. There are the
thousands of girls behind counters many
such persons, through the inhumanIty Of
employers. compelled 10 stand. even when
because or lack of customers. thCIc Is
no need to stand. Then there IRE I'll the
carpenters and the stone maSOnS and the
blaCKSmlths and the farmers and the en-
gineer- and the ticket agents and ne CON
ductors. In most trades, in most occupations,
they must stand. But ahead of all those
who love and serve the Lord i resting
place. complete relaxation OF faugued
muscle, something cushioned and uphol-
stored and embroidered with the very ease
of heaven. They shall sit down" Rest
from toll. Rest from pain. Rest from per
secution. Rest from uncertainty. Beautiful
joyous, transporting, everlasting resti ..
men and women OF the frozen north and the
blooming south and from the realms Of
the rising or setting sun, through Christ
get your sins forgiven and start for the
place where you may At last sit down ia
hlissful recovery from the fatgues of
earth. while there roll over you the rap
lures OF heaven. Many of you have had
such n rough tu>Sle i'm this world that ii
your faculties were not perfect IN heaven
You would forget yourself som times and
say: 1T is time for me to start on that
Journey" or 1T must be time for me 10
count out the drops of that medicine or
Il wonder what new attack there Is on me
| will save anything of those crops from
the EraSshoppcrS. of the lOCuStS or the
droughts?' or - wonder how much | have
lost in that last bargain or ~ must hurry
ume of direful earthly experiences VIII be
finished. Yea. the last chapter, the last
,para graph, the last sentence, the saSt
ord. Finis'
,hty dominion over which ne rcgrcd
so dcpree 81 at times hc could no.
ypeak without crying, ana carried small
fottle of quick poison with which TO end
But | give YOU this small vial Of gospel
anodynr one drop Of which, not hunting
either body or soul. ought to soothe all
unrest put your pulses into an ete3 FL
calm. They shall come from the east a. ,
from the west and from the north end
from tho south and shall sit down.