Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-02-01

keeps them on the run. Rivllries OF lie
keep them on the run. They are running
from disaster. Taey are running for re.
ward And those who run the fastest and
run the longest seam best TO succeed. But
my text suggests restful posture for al
Gods children, for all those who for ilfe-
time have been on the run. They shall SIT
DOWN. Why run any longer When man
gets heaven, what moro can he get? "Ihey
shall sit down." Not alone, but picked COM
partnership OF the universe; not emoar'
raised, though 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 sck trundle beds, now to
shake up the pill ow for that flxen head,
and now to give drink to those rarche1
l'ps and now 10 hush the frightened dream
OF little one, and when there vas one less
of the children, because the great love- OF
children had liltel one out OF the or CUP Into
the easy breathing OF celestial atm osphere
the mother putting all the more anxlou
care on those wao were left, so weary q
arm and foot and back and head, so often
crying out II am so tired I am so tired !
Her work done, she shall sit down, and thai
business man for thirty, forty, fifty Year.
has kept on the run. not ur9al by Sc ilsn
ness, but for the purpose OF achieving
livelihood for the household. On the run
from store TO store, or from factory to fac
tory, meeting this loss AMI discovering that
inaecuracy and suffering betrayal or disap-
pointment, nevermore to be cheated or per-
picked or exasperated, he shall sit down.
not In 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, solid
as eternity and radiant as the morning atter
night of storm. "They shall sit down y,
notice that the most OF the styles OF ton
require an erect attitu lie. There are the
thousands Of girls behind counters, m1ny
such persons through the inhumanity OF
employers compelled to stand, even when
because lack OF customers there Is no need
that they stand. Then there are all the car
penfers, and the stonemasons, and the
bIacxsmiths, AMI the farmers, aud the ensi-
neers. and the ticket agents, and the con-
ductors. In most trades, in most occupa.
tions. they must stand. But ahead OF all
those who love and serve the Lord Is rest.
ing place. complete relaxation OF fatigued
muscle something cushioned and uphols-
tered and embroidered, with the very ease
of heaven. "They shall sit down." Rest
from toll, rest from pain, rest from persecu-
ton, rest from uncertainty. Beautiful, Joy
Gus. Transporting, everlasting rest
Oh. men and women OF the frozen North,
and the blooming South, AMI from the
realms of the rising or setting sun, through
| Christ get your sins forgiven AMI start Tor
tie place where you may at last sit down IN
bItsssul recovery from the fatiguss OF earth,
while there roll over you the raptures Of
! helyen. Many OF you have had such roug1
tussle in this world that II your faculties
were not perfect In heaven you would some
time forget yourself and say, at is time To-
me to START on that journey" or sit must be
time for ME to count out the drops OF thai
medicine" or ~ wonder what new attaci
there is on mo through the Newspapers OF
"Do YOU think will save anything OF thoss
crops from the grasshoppsrs, or the locusts
or the droughtsY' or II wonder now mucf
have lost in that last bargain?" or Il mus
hurry lest miss the train No, no Fat
last volume OF direful, earthly experience:
will be finished. Yea, the last chapter, tn'
last paragraph, the last sentence, the las
wori. FINS
Frederick the Great, no. withstan ling the
mighty dominion over which hs reigne1
was so depressed at times he could not speal
without crying, aud carried small bottle
quick poison with which TO end his misery
when he could stanl 1t no longer. But
give YOU this small vial OF gospel anoiyns
one drop OF which, not hurting either Dol!
or soul. ought to soothe all unrest and pu
your pulses into an eternal calm. "Ina
shall come from the East, IAN from The vest
and from the North, and the South, ant shsl
cit down."