The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-05-07

between Christ and his enemies. they
would take the side of Christ, and the
faggots and the Instruments of torture.
and the anatbemas of all earth and
hell would not make them blanch.
Martyrs are made out of such stuff as
they are: But let them not wait for
such days as l pray to God may never
come. Drawn by the sense of fairness
and justice and obligation, let them
show their colors. Let the redeemed
of the Lord say so!
No statistics can state how many
mothers have rocked cradles and hoy
cred over infantile ~sicknesses and
brought up families to manhood and
womanhood and launched them upon
useful and successful lives, ard vet
never received n THANK you" that
amounted to anything. The daughters
became queens in social life, or were
aftianced in highest realms of prosper
ity; ons took the first honors of the
university and became radiant in mon
etary or professional spheres. Now.
the secret of all that uplifted maternal
influence must come out. Society did
not say so; church did not say so ;the
world did not say so, but on that day
of all other days, the last day, God
will say so.
There are men to whom life is q
grind and a conflict. hereditary ten.
denotes TO be overcome. accidental en-
vironments to be endured, appalling
opposition to be met and conquered,
and they never 81 much as had Il rose
pinned to their coat lapel in admira-
ton. They never had a song dictated
to their name. They never had n book
presented to them with the compli-
mentaTy word OIL the fly-leaf. All they
have to show for their lifetime battle
is scars. But in the last day the story
will come out, and that life will be
put in holy and transcendent rhythm.
and their courage and persistence and
faith and victory will not only be an
nOuAced, but rewarded. These are
they that came out of great tribulation
and had their robes washed and made
white in the blood of the Lamb" God
will say so.
We miss one of the chief ideas of a
Last Judgment. We put into the pic
ture the fire, the smoke, and the earth
quake, and the descending angels. and
the uprising dead, but we omit to put
into the picture that which makes the
Last Judgment a magnificent oppoFtu-
nifty. We omit the fact that it is to be
Il day of glorious explanation and COM
mendatiotl. The first justice that mil
lions of unrewarded. and unrecog-
nized, and unappreciated men and
women get will be on that day, when
services that never called forth so
much as a newspaper line of finest
pearl or diamond type, as the printers
term it, shall be called up for corona
ton. That will be the day of enthrone-
nlent for those whom the world called
"NobodicS.' Joshua, who commanded
the sun and moon to stand still. needs
no last judgment to get justice done
him; but those men do need a last
judgment who at times, in all armies,
under the most violent assault. in ODE.
dience to command. themselves stood
still. Deborah. who encouraged Barak
to bravery in battle against the op-
pressors of Israel, needs no last iudg-
ment to get justice done her, for thou
sands Of years have clapped her ap-
plause. But the wives who in all ages
have encouraged their husbands in the
battles of life, women whose names
We're hardly known beyond the next
street or the next farm house, must
have God say to them, you did Well!
You did gloriously! / saw you down
in that dairy. | watched you in the
old farm house. mending those chill
dren's clothes. | heard what you said
i'll the way of cheer when the bread
winner of the household was In de-
spair. | remember all the sick cradles
you have sung to. | remember the
~backaches, the headaches. the heart
aches. l know the story of your knit
ting needle as we'll as | know the story
of a queens scepter. Your castle on
the heavenly hill is all ready for you.
Go up and take itr' And turning to
the surprised multitudes of heaven he
will say, "She did what she could"
God will say so.
And now l close with giving my own
personal testimony, for l must not en-
join upon others that which | decline
myself to do. Born at Boundbrook,
\. j., Of a ~parentage as pious as the
world ever saw, l attest before earth
and heaven that have always felt the
eleVating and restraining influence of
having had a good father and a good
mother, and if | am able to do half as
we'll for my children as the old folks
did for me. | will be thankful forever.
The years of my life passed on until,
at about eighteen years of age. | felt
the pressure of eternal realities, and
after prayer and religious counsel /
passed into what ] toOk to be Il saved
state, and joined the church, and | at
test before earth and heaved that I
have found il a most helpful and in
spring association. ] like the cOmpan-
ionship so well that ! cannot be salts
fed if | have n day less of it than all
eternity. After graduating at college
and theological Institutions | had the
hands of ten or twelve good men put
upon my head in solemn ordination at
Belloyille, y. j., and | attest before
earth and heaven that the work of the
Gospel ministry has been delightful,
and | expect to preach until my last
hour. Many times I have passed
through deep water of bereavement,
and but for the divine promise of
heavenly reunion l would have, gone
under, but | attest before earth and
heaven that the comfort of the Gospel
is high, deep, glorious. eternal. Many
times nave I been maligned and my
work m~isrepresented. but all such
falsrhocds and persecution have turn
ed out for my advantage and enlarged
my work. and | attest before earth and
heaven that God has fulfilled TO M
the promises, 10, ! am with YOU al
ways" and THE gates of hell shall
not prevail against YOU"
For the cheer of younger men in all
departments, let me say you will come
out all right if you mind your own
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