Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-03-18

but methirkS, when soul comes BACK
| God is So glad that to express His JOY
| He filings ont new worlds into space,
and kindles up new suns, and rolls
among the white rubed anthems OF the
redeemed greater hallelujah, while
with voice that invertebrates among
the mountains OF frankinccnse ana Is
echoed back from the everlasting gates
He cries; This my SON, was dead
and He is alive again"
! At the opening OF the exposition in
| New Orleans saw Mexican huust,
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 joys OF
the universe when compared with the
resounding heart of Almighty God'
For ten years. father went three times
day To the depot, His son went OIL In
aggravating circumstances, but the
father said: "Hr WIN come back" The
| strain was too much, and his mind
parted, ana three times 4 day the IA
Their went. In the early morning he
watched the train, its arrival, the
stepping out of the passengers,
aid 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. 10 years, 20 years, so
years, 40 years, perhaps 30 years, wait
/ ing, waiting, watching, watching. and
! If now the prodigal should come home,
what scene of gladneSs and festivity,
and how the great Fathers heart would
rejoice at Your coming home. You Will
come, some Of YOU, will You not? You
will, YOU will,
| notice also, that when n prodigal
comes home there is the Joy of the min
| listers of religion. oh. it is n grand
thing to preach this Gospel know
! there has been great deal said about
! the trials and the hardships OF the
1 Christian ministry. | wish somebody
would write good, rousing book about
! the lows of the Christian ministry.
} Since | entered the profession, | have
! seen more of the goodness of God than
! | will be able to celebrate in all eter-
nifty. | know some boast abou their
equilibrium, and they do not risA into
enthusiasm, and they do not break
down with emotion; but l confess TO
you plainly that when ! see q man
coming to God aud giving up his sin
| feel in body, mind and soul transport.
When | see man bound hand and foot
in evil habit emancipated. | rejoice
over it as though il were my own
I emancipation.
Once more | remark, that when the
prodigal gets back the inhabitants of
| Heaven keep festal | am very certain
of it. If you have never seen tele-
graph chart you have no idea how
many cities are connected together, aud
how many lands Nearly all the neigh.
/ borhoods of the earth seem reticulated,
and news flies from city to
city, and from continent to CON
tinent But more rapidly go the
/ tidings from earth to Heaven, and
when prodgal returns it is an
| nounced before the throne of God.
And II these souls now present should
enter the kindom there would be some
one in the Heavenly Kingdom to say:
That's may father" That's my moth
err" That's my son, That's the one
: | used to pray for" That's the one for
whom wept SO many tears and one
soul would say: "liosanna" and an.
other soul woul say: "lla,lclujahT
Pleased with the news the saints below
In songs their tongues employ;
| beyond the skies the tdings go,
And Heaven Is tilcd with Joy
Nor angels can their JOY contain,
But kindle with new fire;
Tho sinner lost Is found, they sing
And strike the sounding Tyre,
From this hilltop catch glimpse of
those hiltops where all sorrow and
signing shall be done away. Oh, that
God would make that world to us
reality. Faith in that world helped
old DR. Tying when he stood by the
casket of his dead son whose arm had
been torn off in the threshing machine,
death ensuing and DR.. Tying, with in
/ nnlte cOlnp'lsufe, prehcneu tuc lu-
neral sermon of his own beloved
son. Faith in that world helped
Martin Luther without one tear
to put away in death his favorite
child. Faith in that world helped the
dying woman to see on the sky the let
ter wv, and they asked her what she
supposed that letter "W" on the sky
meant "Oh," she said, don't you
know? W. stands for Welcome" Oh,
Heaven, swing open thy gates, Oh,
Heaven, roll upon US some Of the sun.
shine anthems. Oh. Heaven, fash upon
us the vision OF thy luster. On old
writer tells us of a ship coming from
India to France. The crew was made up
OF French sailors who had been long
from home, and as the ship came along
the coast of France the men skipped
the deck with glee, and they pointed TO
the spires of the churches where they
once worshipped and TO the hills where
they had played in boyhood. Butwhen
the ship came into port, and these sail
ors saw father and mother and wife and
a. A q