The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-01-26

sheaves of Dakota. and from the ore
beds of Wyoming, aud 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
come? Here is something gloriously
c~onsolatory 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 peo-
pie are kept on the run all their life
time. business keeps them on the run.
Trouble keeps them on the run. Rival
ries 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 IA restful posture for ali Gods
children, for all those who for a life
time have been on the run. They shall
sit down.
There is that mother who through
all the years of infancy and childhood
has kept running amid sick trundle-
beds. now to shake up the pillow for
that flaXen head, and now to give u
drink to those parchcd lips, and low
to hush the frightened dream of u lit
tie 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 celcs-
tial atmosphere, the mother putting
all 81. - IN I'll. l.
were left; so weary of arm, and foot,
and back, and head, so often crying out,
Il am so tired! l am so tired!' Her
work done, she shall sit down. Aud
that business man for thirty. forty,
fifty years has kept on the run, not
urged by selfishness, but for the pur-
pose of achieving a livelihood for the
household. On the run from store to
store, or from factory to factory; meet
ing th!. loss, and discovering that mac
curacy all a;fering betrayal or dis
appoih :...i.: -. .ermore to be cheated,
or perpt "a or exasperated, he shall
sit down. Not in n great arm chair of
Heaven, for the rockers of such n chair
would imply ones need of soothing. of
changing to easy posture, or semi-in-
validism; but u throne, solid as etcr-
nifty aud radiant as the morning after a
night Of 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
tiers, many such persons through the
inhumanity OF employers compelled to
stand, even when because of a lack Of
customers there Is no need that they
stand. Then, there are the carpenters,
and the stonemasons, and the black.
smiths, and the farmers, and the
engineers, and the ticket agents,
and tho conductors. In most trades,
in most occupations, thay must
stand. But ahead of all those
who love and serve the Lord is a
resting place, a complete relaxation OF
fatigued muscle, something cushioned,
and upholstered, and embroidered,
with the ve.y ease of Heaven. They
shall sit down" Rest from toll. Rest
from pain. Rest from persecution.
Rest from uncertainty. Beautiful,
joyous, transporting. everlasting rest!
Oh, men and women of the frozen
north, and the blooming south, and
from the realms of the rising or setting
sun, thTOueh NhriSt kCl yOcT SihS loI-
given and start for the place where
you may at last sit down in blissful re-
covery from the fatigues OF earth,
while there roll over you the raptures
of Heaven. Many of you have such q
rough tussle In this worli that II your
faculties were not perfect in Heaven
You would sometime forget yourself
and say: 1T is time for me to start on
that ~journey;''sor 1T must be time for
me to our out the drops of that mcdi-
cine" or Il wonder what new attack
there is on me through the newspa-
pers?" or DO you think I will save any
thing of those crops from the grass.
hoppers, or the loousts or the
droughts?" or II wonder how much |
have lost in that last bargaing' or ~
must hurry lest l miss the train." No,
no, The last volume of direful, earthly
experiences will be finished. Yea, the
last chapter, the last paragraph, the
last sentence, the last word. Finis!
Frederick tho Great, notwithstand-
ing the mighty dominion over which
he reigned, was SO depressed at times
he could not speak without crying, and
carried . small. bottle Of quick poison
with which to end his misery when he
could stand 1t no longer. But l give
you this small vial Of Gospel anodyno,
n drop Of which, not hurting either
body Or soul, ought to soothe ali I'M.
rest, and put your pulses Into an eter-
nal calm. They shall come from
the east, and from the west, and from
the north, and the south. and shall sit
down."