The Progress., 1896-11-28

glad to see the morning than was jacob
after that night of struggle. 1t Is ap.
propriate fer philanthropists ana
Christians to cry out with this anger
of the text. "The day breaketh." Inc
worlds prospects are Frightening.
Superstition has had it's strongest props
knocked out. The tyrants OF earth ars
falling fiat in the dust. The Churcn
Of Christ is rising up in its strength TO
90 forth, fair as the morn, clear as tho
sun. and terrible as an army with pan
ners" Clap your hands, all We people,
"the day breaketh."
AS l look around about me, | sec
many who have passed through waves
Of trouble that came up higher than
their girdle. In Gods name proclaim
cessation of hostilities. You shall not
always go saddened and heart-broken.
God will lift your burden. God VIII
bring your dead to life. God VIII
stanch the hearts bleeding. l know
he will Like as father pitieth his
children, so the Lord pities you. the
pains of earth will end. The tomb
will burst. The dead will rise The
morning star trembles on Frightening
sky. The gates of the east begin to
/ swing open. THE day breaketh.'
S Luther and Melancthon were talking
Il together gloomily about the prospects
+ of the Church. They could see no
Il hone of deliverance. After awhile, Lu-
It Their got up and said to Melancthon'
y Come. Philip, let us sing the forty
S. sixth psalm, God is our refuge and
l. strength in every time Of trouble
IL Death to many, nay, to all, is strug'
ID ole and a. wrestle. We have man!
/ friends whom it would be hard II
T. leave. I care not how bright our future
VI hone is. It is bitter thing to 1901
- upon this fair world, and know ina
=, we shall never again see its DlOsEomln'
spring, its autumnal fruits, It's spark
- ling streams, and to say farewell [
y those with whom we played IN chlio
% hood or counselled in manhood. l
~ that night like Jacob, we may have I
Wv wrestle, but God will not leave us IN
~ blessed. It shall not be told in heaVe
ne that q diving soul cried unto God tc
90 helm but was not delivered. The la
~ tice may be turned to keep out the SUI
-A' or q book set to dim the light OF ii
,e midnight taper; or the room may
A. ~, filled with the cries of orphanage
- widowhood; or the Church of Chrl
" NAV mourn over our going; but, II )
sns calls. all is we'll. The strong Wres
pu, ling by the brook will cease; ME hou
,na of deaths night will pass along; O.
O'clock in the morning; two O'Clock
-u the morning; four o'clock in the NOR
,th ing: five o'clock in the morning: I
o,v day breaketh.
ing So would have it when die.
With in no haste to be gone. l would II
its to stand here twenty years and prea
he this G eel. have no grudge again
this world. The only fault have
find with this world is, that 1t treats
too we'll. But when the time comes
90. l trust to be ready, my W"rl
affairs all settled. If l have wrong
others. I want, then, to be sure
their forgiveness. In that last WIRE
ling, my arm enfeebled with sickn'
and my head faint, l want Jesus
,ors side me. If there be hands on
side Of the flood stretched out to
me back, want the heavenly ma
stretched out to draw me forw'
uo, Then. O Jesus, help me on, ana
w., 1;.os me up. Unfearing, undoubting, ms
., ls stem right out into the light, and
..,u able to look back to my klnoreo
and friends, who would detain me mere
-. of claiming. Let me go-let me go!
great day breaketh.