The Monte Vista journal., 1898-05-14
MYRON REEDS SERMON.

coming, "whcn there shall be no more
sea-" like the old prophets. They saw
things ahead. Earthquakes, pestilence,
powder smoke. According to the
prophets there is to be plenty Of east
wind, but they all see good ending.
The day Of earth ends with n red sun
set. The Bible begins with couple OF
raw possibilities born in garden and
not able to stay In 1t, unworthy of 10
good a home. God is their friend, but
they do not obey orders. Many a child
runs away from good home. After
fifty years Of more or less trouble per-
haps he makes a good home for HIM
self. Adam hid from his best friend.
Left the homestead and went into the
wilderness. He has been there ever
since, working on new land making n
garden for himself and Is ut work.
He has been learning very slowly
that the good Of his neighbor is his
good.
All the old prophets agreed In this
that all is well that ends we'll And
they make earthquakes, floods famine
and war contribute to ION earth peace.
good will to men," A new heaven
ana new earth. The Bible begins
with wail Of banlshment and separa-
ton; 1t ends with Il happy chorus In
which the whole creation sings. In
n week of snow and rain and slush our
canary lifted up his voice Just the
same. He Is now nineteen years old
relatively older than Jacob. In spite
OF the appearance OF things he felt that
! June was coming
The bird is old, but like Emerson,
he is not sour. Neither Carlyle nor
Tennyson could keep sweet In their old
age. Compare "Locksley Halr' and
I-ocksley Hall Forty Yenrs After"
They are not true prophets. The true
prophet keeps his grip. Sees always
what Robert Louis Stevenson calls
the ultimate deccncy of things"
prophet is n man who sees an
acorn well planted and sees what 1t
VIII become. The old prophets do not
give us dates. They look on the fu-
lure as l look on II panorama. The
world Is not going to end. 1t is good
| enough earth. The fashion of II will
change, is changing.
st. John says that he sees n time
when there shall be no more sea"
| Ihat needs some examination Most
| men love the ocean. If do not get
sight OF II once n year | feel injured.
salt water keeps the earth clean and
sweet. There is n legend that man nj
ms creation was given the choice 10
be a land or water animal. and pom
dered long before deciding.
War Is an education. II enabled mo
to know people of East Tennessee.
Otherwise | should have been ms iyno.
rnnt OF them ns two weeks ago | was
ignorant AS to the Philippine islands.
lf any one had told me there are ten
Islands Inhabited by few thousand
people could not have corrected him.
The naval battle or one-slded smash
has taught me that there are LOO
Stands and seven miiiions of people
i've there not SO many as eight days
ngo.
During our war lady Of Hunts.
vile mentioned to me "our country"
| asked what she meant and she said
Northern Alabama" New Orleans
and Boston never got so very far
apart during the civil war.
They had traded together. Thor,
were shuttlcs of ships that had woven
| kind OF web. I lived and worked in
New Orleans some years and never
met a cross look.
II is the beginning OF the end that
81. John saw-division. separation,
plaques. earthquakes and war. Gcner.
al Misunderstanding. But after all
pencc-not OF the graveyard. but OF a
living. loving. comfortable earth.
l see the whole side OF u newspaper
covered with notices OF reunions.
where they meet, when they meet.
Tint is good.
A man who knows much about the
bunnlO tells me that his hump dis.
secicd proves TO he a iin-that once he
WAS water animal lie GALLONS like
n side-whccler working out OF
crooked rivcr-onc eide at n time, He
In heavy forward. looks like n catfish
or bullhcad. One day long ngo the
buffalo worked himself ashore. and af.
ter many visits concluded he would
stay.
But to st. John and his people the
sea meant separation. The sen divided
the nation. II was II new saying, that
OF Paul: Men are OF one blood" But
Pnul Ind travelled. lie was one OF the
Few great trnvelers Of his time. moved
about all his life and by said boat and
on the bnck Of n camel. What II took
him thirty years To do I can do In
three months Separated by oceans
and seas. men were strangers. one To
the other. A stranger In the time OF
Christ was nn enemy. stranger" and
'u'us ui'Hul Nht ~UHlt IHiHS. ISnDr-
ancc IN the mother OF hate. Over nt the
old church n man complained TO me
that Denver IL unsocial. lie said the
man who snt In III" pew directly In
front OF him had never spoken to him.
! sald: How long have you lived In
DcnverT' ''Threc years" said:
'''rhc mnn who sits directly In front OF
You and does not speak to you lived
here only eight months" There nrc In.
tcrcsiing people In Denver. All they
have to do Is To ind one another out.
"Therc shall bc no more scn." ~.
John. Isaiah and Robert BURNS anw IA
day on the rond when people will get
together In town meeting on n inrg.
anil universal scnlc. Rome Of our
bright men nrc making arrangements
to get the cnr'h acquainted with the
rCnl planet Mars. Distance In nothing
To mcnini tcicgrnphy.
! notice the growth Of clubs of wo.
men. There II nothing more remark.
able. II II the evolution Of the old.
fashioned quilting bee. have been TO
rnisings md corn huskings and hny.
turned out with others 10 harvest u
widows potatoes.
! notice III" life nnd growth Of n col.
ony Of Socialists In Iuskin. Tennessee.
The Coming Nation published down
there is MS good paper ns know or
will know until The New Nation IL
better. The word federation" Inns
la. - Al.