Milford chronicle., 1895-01-25


" get rid Of the impression that a man Ill
le that would cure the denominations of Ne
IA York about rs soon as smallpox woul
lt cure typhoid fever or a buzZsaW woul
IS render Haydn's Creation. " Politics 1
Is all our cities has become so corrupt thi
t the only difference between the Rcpu lica
d and Democratic parties is that each
It worse than the other. But what nothin
= else in the universe can do tho gospel ca
4 and will acc mplish. They shall com
L from the west and for that purpose tn
:, evangelistio batteries are planted all alon
s the Pacific coast, as they are planted al
] along the Atlantic coast. All the prairics
{ all the mountains all the valleys. all tn
cities are under more or less gospel inau
ence, and when we get enough faith an,
conservation for the work this who'll
American continent will cry out for Sod
f They shall come from the west.
The work is not so difficult as many
, suppose Iuu say There are the foreign
populations Yes but many Of thom art
HollandoTs, and they were brought up tC
love and worship God ard it, will take but
little to persuade the II landers To adopt
the religion of their forefathers Then
there ar9 among these foreigners 50 many
of the Scotch. They or their ancestors
heard Thomas Chalmers thunder and
Robert McCbeyne pray. The breath of
God SO often swept through the heather of
the highlands and the voice of God has so
often sounded through the Trossachs, and
they all know how to sing Dundee, - so
that th0y will not have often to be invited
to accept the God of John Knox and Both
well Bridge
A Tired World.
Then there are among these foreigners
so many of the English. They inherited
the same language as we inherited-the
English in which Shakespeare dramatized,
and Milton chimed his cantos, and Henry
Melville gospelized, and Oliver Cromwell
prOrogued parliament, and Wellington
commanded his eager hosts. Among these
foreianers are the Swiss and they were
rocked in a cradle under the shadow of the
Alps that cathedral Of the Almighty in
which all the elements snow and hail and
tempest and hurricane, worship. Among
these foreigners are n vast host Of Germans,
and they feel centuries afterward the pow.
er of that unparalleled spirit who shook
the earth when he trod it, and the heavens
when he prayed-Martin Luthorl From
all nations our foreign populations have
come, and they are homesick, far away
from the place Of their childhood and the
graves of their ancestors, and our glorious
religion presented to them Alright win
meet their needs and fill their souls and
kindle their enthusiasm. They shall come
from amid the wheat sheaves of Dakota, !
and from the ore beds of Wyoming and (
from the silver mines of Nevada and from (
the golden gulches of Colorado, and from |
the banks of the Platte, and the Oregon, /
and the Sacramento, and the Columbia (
They shall come from the west
But what will they do after they comet /
Here is something gloriously consolatory
that you have never noticed, They shall /
come from the east, and the west, and the
north, and the south, and shall sit down "
Oh, this is a tired world The most of
people are kept on the run all their life
time. Business keeps them on the run.
Trouble keeps them on the run. Riyalries
of life keep them on the run They are
running from disaster. They are running
for reward. And those who run the fastest
and run the longest seem best to succeed
But my text suggests a restful posture for
all Gods children, for all those who for
lifetime havo been on the run. "They
shall sit down." Why run any longer?
When man gets heaven, what more can
he get? They shall sit down" Not
alone, but in picked companionship of the
not embarrassed, though a
seraph should sit down on one side of you
and an archangcl on the other.
Sitting Down to Rest.
There is that mother who through all ,
The years of infancy and childhood was
kept running amid sick trundle BEDS now
10 shake up the pillow for that haxen
bead, and now to give a drink to those 1
larched lips and now to hush the fright 5
,ned dream of "a little one, and when there {
vas one less of the children because the I
great lover of children had lifted one out &
If the Group into the easy breathing of S
celestial atmosphere the mother putting 1
III the more anxious care on those who G
we're left. So weary of arm and foot and [
lack and head, SO often crying out: Il am {
o tiredl l am so tired" Her work done, t
he shall sit down. And that business man
or 30 80, so years has kept on the run q
lot urged by selflshness, but for the pur Il
ose Of achieving a livelihood for the a
ousehOld; on the run from store to store, n
T from factory to factory, meeting this h
1ss and discovering that inaccuracy and v
uflering betrayal or disappointment, new D
rmore to be cheated or perplexed or exas b
shall sit down. Not in a great
rmchair of heaven, for the rockers of b
lch a chair would imply ones need OF a
1othing, Of changing to easy posture or Vi
.mi-invalidism, but a throne, solid as eter- A
ity and radiant as the morning after a h
light of storm They shall sit down" Il
l notice that the most of the styles OF Il
Ill require an erect attitude. There are W
lc thousands Of girls behind counters,
any such persons through the inhuman-
: Of employers compelled to stand even n
hen because Of a lack of customers there
no need that they stand Then there are
the carpenters and the stOnemasons,
ID the blacksmiths, and the farmers, and Vi
c engineers, and the ticket agents, and "
e conductors In most trades, in most "
cupations they must stand. But ahead - -
all those who love and serve the Lord Al
a resting place, a complete relaxation Of -,
tigued muscle something cushioned and II
holstered and embroidered with the w
ry ease of heaven.
Gospel Anodyne. ~,
''They shall sit down. " Rest from toll orl
st from pain Rest from persecution. tn
st from uncertainty Beautiful, joyous, ha
everlasting restl Oh, men pa
d women of the frozen north, and the tb,
,oming south, and from the realms of no
3 rising or setting sun, through Christ in,
; your sins forgiven and start for the tn,
ice where you may at last sit down in a f
ssful recovery from the fatigues Of earth ter
lie there roll over you the raptures Of col
wen. Many of you have had such a
lGh tussle in this world that if your fac car
les were not perfect in heaven you alb,
uld some time forget yourself and say ma
is time for me to start ON that jour the
7, or 1t must be time for me to count he
1.-THE drops OF that medicine, or won car
what new attack there ison me through ly
newspapers'' or Do you think Twill for
e anything of those crops from the SPA
shoppers. or the loonsts. or the boa
thil
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