The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-09-18
REST IN LIFE.

Peace That Gives Meaning 10 the Pres-
ent and Assurance for the Future.
Rest is a soft-sounding, beautiful
word that comes from the heart as the
breath of peace and sweet contentment.
But few words have more meanings, OF,
rather, more applications. The laborer,
wearied with the toll and heat OF the
day, goes home at night, task done,
wage earned, 20 wife and little ones, 10
put his strained muscles at ease. He
finds rest in cessation from toll. One
who has given the day TO ease and pleas
ure finds great need OF change and
gets rest in sleep. Hunger and thirst
afiiict the traveller in the wilderness, and
there Is no rest for him until he gets
food and drink. In the hospital lies
patient whose bones have ached, whose
pulse has raced and whose flesh has
burned with fever day and night He
finds rest in the flight OF the malady.
The man OF business has had great
financial burdens which he could not
lay aside; they have tormented his walk
ing and broken his sleeping hours. Rest
comes when he has passed the crisis and
met the obligations. The guilt of n
crime lies heavy upon this mans con-
science; he is troubled because he can
not escape il. Life becomes n horror 10
him. At last he confesses, surrenders
himself and, having made restitution so
far as he can, he has rest. The poor sui
eide thinks there Is rest only in ceasing
10 be. Greece has been ut war. She
staked her very existence on her def
ance OF Turkey. All her resources were
strained to meet the enemy which was
far too powerful for her. Her rest
comes with peace.
What, then, is rest? Is 10 cessation
from toll, or satisfaction OF hunger, or
the coming OF sleep, or the return of
health, or the laying down of business
burdens, or confession of crime, or dec
lGration of peace, or death?
There is n rest the desire for which
has n deeper hold on the nature OF man
than any Of these. We are made with
higher longings than the horse or the
sheep, which having food and drink and
companionship of their own kind, are
satisfied. Rest from toll and all the
burdens and ills of life, and even from
life itself does not fill up the measure
OF our hopes and aspirations. We be-
lleve in life continuous. At death we
do but cross a stream TO live forever on
the other side. God sends our spirits
and takes them again. We are anxious,
we must be anxious, TO understand His
purposes and TO fulfill the destiny lie
created us for. When we are made 90
see how far we have gone astray and 20
what adverse fate we are tending
there is and can be no rest for US until
we have found our way back again.
The desire for this rest In God is likened
In the Bible TO hunger and thirst; to
longing for sleep, for health. for cessa-
ton OF war, for life. II is not Of SUI
preme Importance that the brief days
we spend here should be free from
trouble. toll, illness. hunger and thirst;
or that they should be heightened out;
but IL Is one great object to learn Gods
will and conform our lives toll Not 20
know that will means n blind conflict
with the Almighty; 20 know IL and TO
defy IL means the most unequal, hope
less, terrible battle ever waged. How
can there be rest when there Is n GER
tain fearful expectation of judgment?"
Rest Is the sweeter for the toll or
waking, the trouble or agony OF pain
that precedes IL. Rest In God Is mex
pressbly precious to them who have
been tossed and torn with doubt. who
have CROPPED blindiy In the darkness OF
sin for a ray of hope, who have learned
that II Is n fearful thing TO confront the
living God as rebels. What a rest of
peace comes TO the troubled soul when
IL ceases it's silly war against God and
knows that all it's future battles will be
fought with Him against the common
enemyl This IL rest which comforts
and sustains through all the troubles
and trials which may be cast into our
lot Unless we have IL the present is
without meaning. and the future utter
ly without assurance. - N. Y. indie
pendent
Spiritual strength.