St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-04-03

sIbees compel1ed The eAedsnse, WiltlaM
vuA KylSum, b draw Watef out Of the
we'll for then, and Il vs. vsry pure W.
Ter. But the bottle ragged, and 800
dead and halt dead were Aung into the
well for quick and easy burial; % that
the well Of refxeohment became the
well Of death. and long after, peopls
looked down into the well and they
cav the bleAehed skulls, but NO water.
90 the human soul was well Of good,
but the armies Of sin have fought
around it, and fought across It and been
slain, and 1T has become well Of skele-
tons. Dead hopes, dead resolutions,
dead opportunities, dead ambitions. An
abandoned well unless Christ shall re
open and purify and Ill it Is the well
Of Belgium never was. Unclean, un-
clean.
Another seraphic posture in the text:
with twain he covered the face" That
means reverence Godward. Never SO
much irreverence abroad in the world
Is to-day. You zee it in the defaced
statuary, in the cutting out of figures
from fine paintings, in the fact that mill
itary guard must stand ut the graves
of Lincoln and Garfield, and that old
shade trees must be cut down for FIRE
wood, though 50 George P. Morrises
beg the woodcatter to spare the tree,
and that calls . corpse = cadaver, and
that speaks Of death rs going over to
the majority, and substitutes for the
reverent terms father and mother,
''the old man" and ''the old
woman" and finds nothing inn
pressive in the ruins of Baalbec or the
ence in the Sabbath from other days
except it allows more dissipation, and
reads the Bible In what is called higher
criticism, making it not the Word of
God, but . good book with some fine
things in it Irreverence never SO much
abroad. How many take the name of
God in vain; how many trivial things
said about the Almighty. Not willing
to have God in the world. they roll up
an idea of sentimentality and humani-
tarianism and impudence and imbecil-
ity, and call It God. No wings Of rev
erence over the face, no taking OF Of
shoes on holy ground. You can tell
from the way they talk they
could have made . better world than
this, and that the God Of the Bible
shocks every sense of propriety. They
talk Of the love Of God in q way that
shows you they believe it does not
make any difference how bad man is
here, he will come in at the shining
gate. They talk Of the love Of God in
Ia way which shows you they think it
is . general Jail delivery Tor all the
abandoned and the scoundrelly of the
universe. No punishment hereafter
for any wrong done here.
The Bible gives two descriptions of
God, and they are just opposite, and
they are both true. In one place the
Bible says God Is love. In another
place the Bible says God is = consum-
ing fire. The explanation is plain rs
plain can be. God through Christ is
love. God out Of Christ is fire. To win
the one and to escape the other we
have only to throw ourselves body,
mind and soul into Christ's keep
ing. NO." says Irreverence, II want
no atonement, 1 want no par
don, want no intervention; I will
20 up and face God, and will challenge
Him, and will defy Him, and l will ask
Him what He wants to do with me"
| So the finite confrcnts the infinite, SO
. tack hammer tries to break . thun-
derbolt, SO the breath Of human nos
trils defies the everlasting God, while
the hierarches Of Heaven bow the
head and bend the knee Is the Kings
chariot goes by, and the archangel
turns away because he can not endure
the splendor, and the chorus of all the
empires of Heaven comes in with full
diapason, Holy, holy, holyr
Reverence for sham, reverence for
the old merely because ~ old, revcr-
ence fors-atupidity, how kr learned,
reverence for incapscity. fowever fine
| " inaugurated, have n6he But we
want more reverence fdk aGod, more
| reverence for the sacr1hknts, more
reverence for the Bible. more rever-
ence for the pure, more r19Srence for
the good. Reverence + Characteristic
Of al great natures. hear it in
1.-THE roll Of the master.N1Ptories. You
| see it in the Rsphaels and Titans and
Ghirfandl3o6: Y06s study it in the
: :ssssistetsI1a II; = :e :s, Chris,
] about God. 6ttkot Jbke about death.
Do not make fun Of the Bible. Do not
deride the eternal The brightest and
mightiest seraph can not look UNI
abashed upon him. Involuntarily the
wings come up. "With twain He COW
cred his face"
Who il this God before whom the ar
rogant and intractable refuse rever-
ence? There was IN engineer by the
name Of Strasicrates, who was in the
employ of Alexander the Great, and he
offered to hew . mountain in the shape
of his master, the emperor the enor-
nous figure to hold in. the left hand =
city Of 10000 inhabitants, while with
the right hand It was to hold basin
large enough to collect all the noun
tain torrents. Alexander applapded
him for his ingenuity, but forbade the
Yet l have to tell you that our King
holds in one hand all the cities Of the
Garth, and all the oceans, while He has
the stars OF heaven for His tiara.
Earthly power GOES from hand to
hand. from Henry !. TO Henry II. and
Henry I'LL. from Charles L to Charles
IL, and from Louis !. to Louis II. and
/ Louis Ill, but from everlasting to
everlasting Is God. God the first, God
i the last, God the only. He has one
telescope with which Hessees every
thing; His omniscience. He has one
bridge with which He cfoAies every
thing; His omnipresence. He has one
hammer with which He builds every
thing; His omnipotence. Put two t.
blespoonfuls Of water in the palm Of
your hand and IL will overflow; but
Isaiah indicates that God puts the At
lAntic and the Pacific and the Arctic
and the Antarctic and the Mediter-
ranean and the Black sea and al the
waters Of the earth in the hollow OF
/ HE hand The fnUnrR the heach IN