The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1897-12-31

IL goes up. len tnousauu miiph ayes
will not finish you. You will never b.
finished On foreverl Up forevcrl
Out Of the sea Of earthly disqcictude
will gradually rise the reefs, the
islands. the continents, the hcm,-
spheres of grandeur aud glory. Men
talk as though in this life we only had
time TO build; hut what We build in
this life. as compared with what we
shall build in the next life. is as
striped shell to Australia You 20 into
an architects study and therc ypu see
the sketch Of temple, ths corner
stone Of which has not vet been laid.
o. that could have an architectural
sketch OF what you Will b. after cicr-
nifty has wrought upoh you. What
pillars OF strength What affairs Of SUI
pernal worship What E.unacles
thrusting their glittering spices into
the sun that mover sets! Nou do not
scold the coraIlines because they can
not build an island in a day. Why
should You scold yourself because you
can not complete temple vi holiness
for the heart in this short lifctime2
You tell me we do not amount 10 much
now. but try Us after a Thousand mil
lion ages Of hallclujah. Let rs hear
the angels chant for a million CEN
turtles. Give Us an eternity with God,
and then see II we do not amount to
something. MOre slowly and marvel
ously aceumulative is the grace in
the soul than anything l can think
OF. mo mention shall be made OF
coral
Lord, help TO learn that which most
OF us are deficient in-patience. IL thou
canst take. through the sea anemones,
millions Of years to build one bank OF
coral. ought we not be willing to do
work through 10 years or 5Oyears with
out complaint. without restlessness,
without chatting of spirit? Patience
with the erring; patience that we can
not have the millennium in a few
weeks; patience with assault
Of antagonists; patience at what
seems slow fulfllment OF Bible
promises; patience with physical all
ments; patience under delays OF Provi-
dence. Grand, glorious, all-enduring,
all-conquering patience! Patience
like that which my lately as
cending friend, DR.. Abel Stevens,
describes when writing of one Of Wes-
ley's preachers, John Nelson, who,
when a man had him put in prison by
false charges, and being for long
time tormented by his enemy, said:
THE Lord lifted up standard when
the anger was coming on like flood,
else should have wrung his neck to
the ground and set my foot upon it y
Patience like that OF Pericles, the
Athenian statesman, who, when man
pursued him to his own door hurting al
him epithets, and arriving there when
it had become dark, sent his seryan,
with a torch to light his enemy back &c
his home. Patience like that eulOgizec
by the Spanish proverb when il says: -
have lost the rings, but here are the I'm
gers still" Patience! The sweetes
sugar for the sourest cup; the balance
wheel for all mental and moral ma
chinery; the foot that treads int
placidity stormiest lake; the bride TO
otherwise rash tongues; the sublime
silence that conquers the boisterou
and blatant. Patience like that Of tn,
most illustrious example OF all tn
ages-Jesus Christ; patient under be
trayal: patient under the treatment o
Pilates oyer and terminer; patient IN
der the expectoration of his assailants
patient under hagellation; patient un
der the charging spears of the Roman
cavalry: patient unto death. Unde
J all exasperations employ it What
ever comes, stand it; hold on, wait
bear up.
Take my hand again, and we will g
: little further into this garden Of tn
: sea, and we shall find that in propol
ton as the climate is hot the coral
' wealthy. Draw two isothermal line
E at 80 degrees north and south Of tn
: equator and you find the favorite HON
: of the coral Go to the hottest part {
the Pacific seas and you find the fine.
0 specimens Of coral Coral is the chill
g Of the fire. But more wonderfully d
d the heats and fires Of trouble bring OF
I the Jewels of the Christian soul Thos
e are not the stalwart men who al
= asleep on the shaded lawn, but those WI
!; are pounding amid the furnaces. d
e not know of any other way of gettin
e a thorough Christian character. Iwi
l show you picture, Here are fath'
aud a mother 80 or IS years Of az
e their family around them. 1t is Sal
/ bath morning. They have prayer
d They hear the children's catechisI
!. They have prayers every day Of Il
IT week. They are in humble circur
Ie stances. But after a while the whe
l. of fortune turns up, and the man ge
70 his $50, 900. Now he has prayers {
L Sabbath and every day of the week, b
II he has dropped the catechism- ~
n wheel of fortune turns up again, and
lie gets his $50, 600. Now he has praye
Sc on Sabbath morning alone. The whe
oi of fortune keeps turning up and
r. has 5000. 600, and now he has praye
m on Sabbath morning when he fee
v like it and there is no company. Il
ne wheel Of fortune keeps on turning
IS and he has $500, 900 and no prayers
Il all Four-leaf clover in pasture fie
ID is not so rare as family prayers in t
Sc houses OF people who have more tn
IL $500, 900. But now the wheel OF Il
TO tune turns down and the man los
or 5000, 900 out OF the $500, 900. Now
X, Sabbath morning he Is on a ste
s. ladder looking for a Bible und
IN the old newspapers on the bookcai
d. He is going to have prayers His
ur fairs are more and more complicatt
&c, and after while crash goes his ID
x, dollar. Now he has prayers eve
e, morning. and he hears his grandcl
n dren say the catechism. Prosper
no took him away from God; advers
es, drove him back to God. Hot clint
OF to make the coral; hot and scaldi
Tn trouble TO make the Jewels OF grace
ais the soul We all hate trouble, and
no il does a great deal for us You hi
iu- heard, perhaps, of that painter "
no wished to get an expression of gr
Ior distress for his canvas, and who had
on' servant lash a man fast and put
to great torture, and then the ar
AK caught the look on the victims 4
and Immediately transferred it to
Is canvas Then he said to the serva
lth More torture" and under more
uL- ture there was a more thorough
OK, preston OF pain, and the artist 8;
LED "Stop there; wait till | catch that