The Brinkley argus. (Brinkley, Ark.) 1883-current, 1896-05-07

tumbled at my feet. So It Is with the
church Of God. Everything comes
from above; pardon from above, JOY
from above, adoption from above,
sanctif1cat ton from above.
Harkl / hear the latch of the garden
gate. and look to see who is coming.
/ hear the voice of Christ: II am COM
ing into my garden" | say, "Come in,
| o Jesusl we have been waiting for
thee; walk all through the paths
Look at the flowers; look at the fruit;
pluck that which thou wilt for Thy.
self" Jesus comes into the garden
and up to that old man, and touches
him, and says, 'salmost home, father;
not many more aches for thee;
/ / will never leave thee; take
courage a little longer and
l will steady thy tottering steps, and l
will soothe thy troubles and give thee
rest. Courage, old man." Then Christ
goes up another garden path, and He
comes to soul in trouble, and says:
ssPeacel all is well. have seen thy
tears. / have heard thy prayer. The
sun shall not smite thee by day nor
the moon by night. The Lord shall
preserve thee fro-, all evil; He will
preserve thy soul. Courage, O troubled
spirit"
Then see Jesus going up another
garden path, and see great excite
ment among the leaves, and hasten
up that garden path to see what Jesus
| is doing there, and lol He is breaking
of flowers, sharp and clean from the
stem, and say: ''Stop, Jesus, don't kill
those beautiful flowers" He turns to
meend say@ II have come into my
garden to gather lilies, and mean to
take these up to higher terrace, for
the garden around my palace; and
there will plant them; and in better
soil and in better air they shall put
forth brighter leaves and sweeter re-
dolence, and no frost shall touch them
forever" And / looked up into His
face and said: ''Well, it is His garden,
and He has right to do what He will
with it. Thy will be done!' the hard
est prayer ever man made.
| It has seemed as If Jesus Christ took
the best; from many Of your house,
holds the best one is gone. You know
| that she was too good for this world;
she was the gentlest in her ways, tho
deepest in her affections; and when at
| last the sickness came you had no
| faith in medicines. You knew that the
hour Of parting had come, and when,
through the rich grace OF the Lord
Jesus Christ, you surrendered that
treasure, you said: Lord Jesus, take
tit is the best we have; take It.
4 Thou art worthyl' The others in the
household may have been of grosser
mold She was of the finest.
The Heaven OF your little ones will
not be fairly begun you get there.
All the blindness shown them by Inn
mortals will not make them forget
/. you. There they are, the radiant
throngs that went out from your
homes I,throw kiss to the sweet
darlings. They are all well now in
the palace. The crippled child has a
sound foot now. A little lame child
says: ma, will be lame in Heaven
mo, my darling you won't be lame in
Heaven. +" A little sick child says: MA,
will be sick in Heaven" mo, my
dear, you won't be sick in Heaven.
little blind child says: ma, will be
blind in Heawens" mo, my dear, you
won't be blind in Heaven. They are
all wen there. z
4 Inotace that the fine gardens some
: times bazsr~AiShs feyc~s sslreaEtas them
and you can not get in. It is so will
a kings garden. The only glimpse
You everlget, of such garden is wher
the king rides out in his splendid car
; rage Itis not SO with this garden
this Kings garden. throw wide ope1
the gate and tell you all to come in
! No monopoly in religion. Whosoeve,
: will, may. Choose now between ,
desert and a garden. Many of 70,
have tried the garden OF this world
. delight. Ypu have found it has beef
/. a chagrin. So it was with Theodor
' Hook. He made all the world laugh
4 He makes us laugh now when we rea1
4 his poems; but he could not make hi
t own heart laugh. While in tn
9 midst of his festivities he con
e fronted a looking-glass, and h
. saw himself and said: ''There
that is true. I look just as ! am
0 done up in body, mind and purse" S
Y it was of Shenstone, of whose garde
Q / told you at the beginning of my SCI
: mon. He sat down amid those bower
d and said: II have lost my road t
e happiness. l am angry and enviou
s and frantic, and despise everythin
! around me Just as it becomes mac
n man to do"
t o, We weary souls! come into Christ
n garden to-day and pluck little hearts
!, ease. Christ is the only rest and tn
/ only pardon for perturbed spiri
Is Do you not think your chanc
II has almost come? You men an
e women who have been waiting yea
It after year for some good opportunity
,, which to accept Christ, but have pos
5, poned it, five, ten, twenty, thirty yenl
t, do not feel as if now your hour {
h delivcrance and pardon and salvatio
had come? 0, man, what grudge ha.
p thou against thy poor soul that tho
it wilt not let it be saved? feel as
n salvation must come to-day in some {
IT your hearts.
le Some years ago a vessel struck 9
d the rocks They had only one lif
h boat. In that lifeboat the passenger
8, and crew were getting ashore. tt
N vessel had foundered, and was sinkin
h deeper and deeper. and that one BOZ
a. could not take the passengers vel
III swiftly. A little girl stood on the dec
ID waiting her turn to get into Il
re boat. The boat came and went, can
in and went, but her turn did not seem
ID come After awhile she could wait !
Or longer, and she leaped on the traffra
m and then sprang into the sea. saying
le the boatmah: Save me next! Save n