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ment. When Daniel Sandman was dy-

ment. When Daniel Sandman was az.
ing Of cholera, his attendant said,
Have you much pair? z" s. Oh, q he re.
piled, since found the Lord / have
never had any pain except sin. Then
they said to him, Would you like To-
send message to your friends ~ .sYes 81,
4 would tell them that only last night
the love Of Jesus came rushing into my
soul like the surges Of the sea, and /
had to cry out, Stop, Lord, it is
enough; stop, Lord, enough!,' Oh, the
joys of this Christian religion. Just
pass over from those tame joys in
which you are indulging, joys Of this
world, into the raptures Of the gospel.
The world cannot satisfy you !; you have
found that out. Alexander, longing for
other worlds to conquer, and yet
drowned in his own bottle; Byron
whipped by disquietudes around the
world; Voltaire cursing his own soul
while all the streets Of Paris were APP
plauding him; Henry VIII. consuming
with hatred against poor Thomas q
Beckett all illustrations Of the fact.
that this world cannot make man
happy. The very man who poisoned te'd
the pommel of the saddle on which
Queen Elizabeth rode shouted IN the
street, God save the Queen!' One mos
ment the world applauds, and the next
moment the world anathematiz Oh,
come over into this greater JOY, this
sublime solace, this magnificent beati-
f1J6 a ;rrI,+ of% NC hof q nf
Shiloh, and there were thousands OF
wounded on the field, and the ambu-
lances had not come, one Christian SOL
der lying there a-dying under the
starlight, began to sing:
There is a land Of pure delight,
And when he came to the next line
there were scores Of voices singing:
Where saints immortal reign. 8.
The song was caught up all through
the field among the wounded until it
was said there were at least 10000
wounded men uniting their voices as
they came to the verse:
There everlasting Spring abides
And never whitening flowers;
'Tis but narrow stream divides
This heavenly land from ours Z
At the opening of the Exposition in
New Orleans saw Mexican f1utist,
and he played the solo, and then after
ward the eight or ten bands of music,
accompanied by the great organ, came
in; but the sound Of that one flute as
compared with all the orchestras was
greater than all the combined joy Of
the universe when compared with the
resounding heart of Almighty God. For
ten years a father went three times a
day to the depot. His son went off in
aggravating circumstances, but the
father said: 'He will come
back The strain was too much
and his mind parted, and three times a
day the father went. In the early
morning he watched the train, it's arri-
val, the stepping out of the passengers,
and then the departure of the train.
At noon he was there again watching
! the advance Of the train, watching the
departure At night he was there
| again, watching the coming, watching
the going, for ten years. He was sure
his son would come back. God has
been watching and waiting for some OF
you, my brothers, ten years, twenty
years, thirty years, forty years, per-
haps fifty years, waiting, waiting,
watching, watching, and if now the
prodigal should come home, what q
scene of gladness and festivity, and
how the great Fathers heart would re-
| joice at your coming home. You will
come, some of you, will you not? You
will, you will
| I notice, also, that when a prodigal
comes home there is the joy of the
ministers Of religion. Oh, it is "a grand
thing to preach this gospel. know
there mas been great deal said about
the trials and the hardships of the
Christian ministry. wish somebody
! would write good, rousing book about
the joys of the Christian ministry
Since entered the profession, have
a seen more of the goodness of God thar
4 will be able to celebrate in all eter-
nifty. I know some boast about thei1
equilibrium, and they do not rise int
enthusiasm, and they do not break
down with emotion; but I confess tt
you plainly that when I see a mar
/ coming to God and giving up his sir
1 feel in body, mind and soul trans
i port When see man bound hanG
and foot in evil habit emancipated,
4 rejoice over it as though it were my
own emancipation. # 81.
n Wnen in one communion service sucl
throngs Of young and old stood up ant
in the presence of heaven and eartl
and hell attssted their allegiance t,
Jesus Christ, felt joy something akil
4 to that which the apostle describe
@Ewhen he says: Whether in the bod,
/ I cannot tell; God knoweth.'' Oh, hav
b not ministers a right to rejoice when
! prodigal comes home? They blew TIL
Il trumpet, and ought they not be gla,
J Of the gathering of the host? The,
pointed to the full supply, and ough
. they not to rejoice when thirsty soul
!, plunge as the hart for the waite