The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-11-25

they have only fifty thousand dollars
left.
On Bowling Green, New York, there
is house where Talleyrand used to
go. He was a favored man. All the
world knew him, and he had wealth
almost unlimited; yet at the close OF
his life he says: Behold, eighty-three
years have passed without any prac-
tical result, save fatigue of body and
fatigue OF mind. great encouragement
for the future, and great disgust for the
past" oh, my friends. this is south
land" and it slopes off toward deserts
of sorrows: and the prayer which
Achsah made to her father Caleb we
make this day to our Father God:
Thou hast given me a south land;
give me also springs of water. And ne
gave her the upper springs, and the
neither springs"
Blessed be God! we have more adj
vantages given us than we can really
appreciate. We have spiritual bless
ings offered us in this world which
shall call the neither springs, and
glories in the world to come which l
shall call the upper springs.
Where shall l find words enough
threaded with light to set forth the
pleasure Of religion? David, unable to
describe it in words, played 1t on
harp. Mrs. Hemans. not finding
enough power in prose, sings that
praise in canto. Christopher
Wren, unable to describe it in Ian
guage, sprung il into the arches OF st.
Paul's. John Bunyan, unable to pre-
sent it in ordinary phraseology, takes
all the fascination of allegory. Han
del. with ordinary music unable 10
reach the height of the theme, rouses
it up in an oratorio. oh, there is no
life on earth so happy as a really
Christian life! / do not mean sham
Christian life. but a real Christian lie.
Where there is a thorn, there Is
whole garland of roses. Where there
is one groan. there are three doXolo-
gies. Where there is one day OF cloud,
there is a whole season OF sunshine.
Take the humblest Christian man that
you know-angels of God canopy MIN
with their white wings; the hghtnlngs
of heaven are his armed allies; the
Lord is his Shepherd. picking out for
him green pastures by still waters; II
he walk forth, heaven is his body
guard; If he lie down to sleep, ladders
Of light, notwithstanding, are let into
his dreams; If he be thirsty, the poten-
tates Of heaven are his cup-bearers; If
he sit down TO food, his plain table
blooms into the Kings banquet. Men
say, Look at that odd fellow with the
WORKOUT coat" the angels Of God cry,
Lift up your heads, we everlasting
gates. and let him come I'M" Fastid-
ious people cry, Get off my front
steps," the doorkeepers Of heaven
cry, Come, we blessed Of my Father,
inherit the kingdom!" When he comes
to die, though he may be carried out
in a pine box to the potter's field. to
that potter's field the chariots of Christ
will come down. and the cavalcade
will crowd all the boulevards OF
heaven.
Man OF the world! will you not to-
day make a choice between these tive
portions, between the south land" OF
this world, which slopes to the desert,
and this glorious land which thy Faith
er offers thee, running with eternal
water-courses? Why let your tongue
be consumed Of thirst when there are
the neither springs and the upper
springs; comfore here and glory here
after?
You and l need something better
than this world can give us. The fact
is that it cannot give lis anything
after a while. 1t is changing world.
Do you know that even the mountains
on the back of thousand streams are
leaping into the valley. The ALE
ghanies are dying. The dews with
crystalline mallet are hammering away
the rocks. Frosts, and showers, ana
lightnings are sculpturing Mount
Washington and the Catskills. Mag
ara is every year digging for Itself a
quicker plunge. The sea all around
the earth on its shifting shores IS
making mighty changes in bar, anu
bay, and firth, and promontory. Some
of the old sea coasts are midland now.
Off Nantucket, eight feet below low
water mark, are found now the stumps
of trees. showing that the waves are
conquering the land. Parts Of Nova
Scotia are sinking. Ships today sail
over what. only little while ago, was
solid ground. Near the mouth of the
ST. Croix river is an island which, in
the movements of the earth, is slowly
but certainly rotating. All the face
of the earth changing-changin In
1881 an island springs up in the Medi.
terranean sea. In 1866 another island
comes up under the observation of the
American consul as he looks off from
the beach. The earth all the time
changing. the columns of a temple near
Bizoli show that the water has risen
nine feet above the place it was when
the columns were put down. Chang
ing! Our Columbia river. once vaster
than the Mississippi, flowing through
the great American desert. which was
then an Eden of luxuriance. has now
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