Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-01

kindle their enthusiasm. They shall come
from amid the wheat sheaves OF Dakota. AMI
from the ore beds of Wyoming. and from
the silver mines of Nevada, and from the
golden gulches OF Colorado. an from the
banks Of the Platte, and the Oregon, an the
Sacramento, and the Columbia. They
shall come from the West"
But what will they do after they comes
Here is something gloriously consolatory
that you have nev1r no:lcei. "fhey shall
come from the East. and the Wes-, AMI the
North, and the South, and shall sit down"
Oh, this is a tira1 world The most of pao-
pie are kept on the run all their lifetime.
Business keeps them on the run. Trouble
keeps them on the run. Rvalres of life
keep them on the run. They are running
from disaster. They are running for
ward. And those who run the fastest and
run the longest seem best to succeed. But
my text suggests restful posture for all
Gods children, for ali those who for life
time have been on the run. "They shall sit
down !" Why run any longer! When man
gets hsaven, what more can he get? "They
shall sit down." Not alone, but picked COM
panionshtp Of thu universe not emher-
. rassed, though a seraph should sit down on
one side of you and an archangel on the
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 frightened dream
of little one, and when there was one less
of the children, because the great lover oil
children had liitel one out Of the or CUP into
the easy breathing Of celestial atm osph9re,
the mother putting all the more anxious
care on those VINO were left, 50 weary OF
arm and foot and back and head so often
crying out II am 80 tired !! I am SO tired" "
Her work done, she shall sit down, and that
business man for thirty, forty, fifty years
has kept on the run. not urge1 by Sc fish
ness, but for the purpose of achievinS
livelihood for the household. On tho run
from store to store, or from factory to fnc-
tory, meeting this loss and discovering that
inaccuracy and suffering betrayal Or disap-
pointment nevermore to be cheate or per-
picked or exasparated, he shall Sit down,
not In a great armchair Of heaven, for the
rockers Of such a chair would imply ones
need Of soothing, of changing to easy pos
ture or semi-invalidism, but atnrone, sold
as eternity and radiant as the morning after
a night of storm. "They shall sit down "
1 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 inhumantty OF
employers compelled to stand, even when
because lack of customers there is no nc ID
that they stand. Then there are all the car
penters, and the stonemasons, and the
blacksmiths, AMI the farmers, and the engi-
neers, and the ticket agents, and the con-
ductors. In most trades, in most oc3upa-
tions, they must stand. But ahead OF al
those who love and serve the Lord is a rest
ing place, a complete relaxation OF fatigued
muscle, something cushioned and uphols-
tered and embroidered with the very ense
Of heaven. "They shall sit down" Rest
from toll, rest from pain, rest from p3rSecu-
ton, rest from uncertainty. Beautiful, JOY
Gus, transporting, everlasting rest
On, men and women of the froz IN North.
and the blooming South, an from the
realms Of the rising or setting sun, through
Christ get your sins forgiven AMI START tor
the place where you may at last sit down IN
blissful recovery from the fatigues Of EARTH
while there roll over you the raptur35 Of
heaven. Many of you have had such a rough
tussle in this world that if your faculties
were not perfect in heaven you would some
time forget yourself and say, "It is time for
me to start on that Journey" or at must be
time for me to count out the drops OF that
medicine" or ~ wonder what new attack
there Is on me- through the newSpapsrs?' or
"Do you think will save anything of those
crops from the grasshoppers, or the locusts,
or the droughts?" or II wonder now much
I have lost in that last bargain?" or II must
hurry lest I miss the train" No, no! Tne
last volume of direful, earthly experiences
will be finished. Yea, the last chapter, the
last paragraph, the last sentence, the last
word Finis
Frederick the Great, notwithstan ling the
mighty dominion over which he reigne1,
was SO depressed at times he could not speak
without crying, and carried a small bottle OF
quick poison with which to end his misery
when he could stand it no longer. But
give you this small vial Of gospel anodyne,
one drop of which, not hurting either body
or soul, ought to soothe all unrest and put
YOUR pulses into an eternal calm. "Fhey
shall come from the East an from the West,
and from the North, and the South, and shall
sit down"