The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-04-22

uins. like Nehemiah. you walked .
round and looked at Il. and In the }
Moonlight you stood listening II you {
ould not hear the voice OF the dead 9
Ryan. the psalm OF the expired Sab
aths. What jerusalem was 10 Nehe- !
niah. the Church Of God Is TO you.
iceptics and inhdols may scof at tho
'hurch as an obsolete aiair. as relic
u tho dark ages, as a convention OF
people. but all the impress
lion they have ever made on your MIND
against the Church OF God is abso-
Iutely nothing. You would make more
sacrifices for II to-day than any other
and n Il were neediul you
would die In its defence. You can take
the words Of the kingly poet as ne
said: III | forgot thee. o Jerusalem.
let my right hand forget her cunning.
You understand In your own experience
tho pathos. the Inconsistencies, the
courage. the holy enthusiasm OF Meme
miah In his midnight moonlight ride
around the ruins OF his beloved Jeru-
salem.
Again. Ny subject gives me speel-
men Of busy and triumphant sadness.
II there was any man IN the worll
who had a right to NOPE and give up
everything as lost. Il was Nehemiah.
You say. "He was a cup-bearer In the
palace Of shuahan. and q was a grand
place. SO Il was. The hall OF that
palace was two hundred feet square
and the roof lowered over thlriy-siX
marble pillars. each pillar sixty feet
high. and the intense blue Of the Sky.
and the deep green OF the forest fol-
iage. aud the white Of the driven snow
all hung trembling In the upholstery.
But. my friends. you know very wei
that lne architecture viii not put
down home-slcknesa Yet Nehemiah
did not give up. Then when you see
him going among these desolatcd
| streets. and by these d.snanued tow
ors. and by the torn-up grave OF his
I father. you would suppose that DO
would have been dlshoar,cncd. and
that he would have dlBmoun,ed from
his horse and gone 10 bis room and
said: Woe Is me! Ny fathers grave
Is torn up. The temple Is dishonored.
The walls are broken down. ] have
no money with which 20 rebuild. ]
wish / had never been born. ! wish
I we're dead" Not 90 says Nehemiah.
Although he had a grief 80 intense that
Il excited the commentary Of his king,
yet that pennilesa. expatriaied Nehe-
miah rouses himself up 10 rebuild the
city. lie gets his permission OF alb
senco. lie gets his passports. lie has
tens away TO Jerusalem. by night on
horseback be rides through the ruins
lie oyorcomes the most feroclous oppo.
sltion. lie arousos the piety and pa
triotlsm Of the people. and In les
than two months. namely, hfty-tw'
days. Jerusalem was rebuilt That
what | call busy and triumphant sad
ness.
Ny friends. the whole temptation 4
with you when you have trouble. {,
do Just the opposite 20 the behavior o
Nehemiah. and that Is 20 give up. Yol
, say: Il have lost my child and car
never smile again" You say. Il hay
lost my property. and never can re
pair my fortunes" You say. Il hav
fallen into sin. and never can star
. again for new life" II Satan cal
! make you form that resolution. an
{ make you keep Il. be has ruined yoy
I Trouble ls not sent 10 crush you. hu
! 10 arouse you. TO animate you. TO Pre-
I pel you. The blacksmith does no
j thrust the iron into the forge. and the
, blow away with the bellows. and the
: bring the hot iron out on the anv
10 and beat with stroke after stroke {
1 ruin the iron. but to prepare Il Tor
p better use. Oh that the Lord God (
% Nehemiah would rouse up all broker
1 hearted people 10 rebuild. Whlppei
& BETRAYED. ship-wreckod. imprisone
a paul went right on. The Italian ma
j. tyr Algerius sits In his dungeon wri
n ing letter. and he dates Il. Fro
= the doiectahlc orchard OF the Leonir
y, prlson." That Ia what call trluu
10 phnnt sadness. knew n mother WI
p buried her babe on Friday and on Sal
"a bath appeared "a the house Of God an
u said: "Giyo me a class; give me
b Sabbath school class have no chi
now left me. and would Ike 20 has
n a class OF little children. Give n
h real poor children. Give me q class q
II the back street" That. ] say, Is beal
re tiful. That ls triumphant sadness
/? three o'clock every Sabbath aftcrnoo
W for years. IN a beautiful parlor In PM
ss adelphla-a parlor pictured and sta
M ueitcd - there were from ten
be- twenty destitute children Of the stree
rs Those destitute children received r
as llglous instruction. concluding WI
&c cakes and sandwiches How do kno
ne that that was going on Tor dxiei
OF years2 know Il IN this way. tn
m, was tho arst homo IN philadclph
on where ! was called TO comfort n gre
We sorrow, They had a splendid boy, a
IL he had been drowned at Long nranC
ng The father and mother almos, id'
as iEed the boy. and the sob and shri
rs OF that father and mother as IN
at hung over the coffin rcsound In Z
na ears today. There seemed 10 be no d
IT. OF praying. for when ! knclt down
ns pray. the outcry In the room drown
out an the prayer But the Lord col
w. fortcd that sorrow. They did not q
w get their trouble. 10 you should
ri any afternoon into Laurel Hill. y
.n would nnd a monument with the W.
y, walter inscribed upon 20, and
-, wreath OF fresh flowers around
NV name. think there was not an D,
y. lu twenty years, winter or SUNNI
IN whom thcro was not a wreath oi GO