Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-10-07

and ashamed viii all your earthly trou-
bles be when you have dashed into the
river from under the throne Of God, and
the heights and depths Of heaven are
between You and your pursuers.
The Eternal Brooks.
We are told in Revelation xii, 10,
"Without are dogs" by which l con-
clude there is a whole kennel OF hounds
outside the gate of heaven. or, as when
a master goes in through door bis dog
lies ON the steps waiting for him to
come ont, so the troubles Of this life may
follow us to the shining door, but they
cannot get in. without are dogsf l
have seen dogs and owned dogs that /
would not be chagrined to zee in the
heavenly city. Some of the grand OLD
vatchdogs who are the constabulary OF
the homes in solitary places and Tor
wears have been the only protection for
wife and child, some of the shepherd
dogs that drive back the wolves and
bark away the focks from going too
near the precipice, and some OF the dogs
whose necks and paws Landseer. the
painter, has made immortal. would not
find me shutting them out from the gate
of shining pearl. Some of those old ct.
Bernard dogs that have lifted perishing
travellers out of the Alpine snow, the
dog that John Brown, the Scotch essay
ist. saw ready to spring at the surgeon
lost in removing the cancer be too much
bprt the moor woman whom the dog felt
bound TO protect, and dogs that we ca
ressed in our childhood days or that In
later time lay down on the rug in SEEM
ING sympathy when our homes were
desolated. gay, if some soul entering
heaven should happen to leave the gate
aiar and these faithful creatures should
quietly walk in it would not at all dis
turb nv heaven. But all those human
or brutal hounds that have chased and
torn and lacerated the world-yea, all
that now bite or worry or tear to pieces
shall be prohibited. without are
dogsW No place there for harsh critics
or backbiters or despoilers of the reputa'
tions of others. Down with you to the
kennels of darkness and despair The
hart has reached the eternal water
brooks, and the painting of the long
chase is Quoted in still pastures and
There shall nothing hurt or destroy IN
all Gods holy mountain"
Il Of fn4TA-
will be like what hunter tells of when
pushing his canoe far up north in the
winter and amid the ice foes and 100
miles, as be thought, from any other
human beingsl He was startled one day
as he heard a stepping on the ice, and
he cooked the rife, ready to meet any
thing that came near. He found man,
barefooted and insane from long expo
sure. approaching him. Taking him into
his canoe and kindling fires to warm
him. he restored him and found out
where he had lived and took him to his
home and found all the village in great
excitement. A hundred men were
searching for this lost man, and his
family and friends rushed out to meet
him. and. as had been agreed at mis-
first appearance, bells were rung and
guns were fired and banquets spread
and the rescuer loaded with presents
Well. when some of you step ont OF this
wilderness, where you have been chilled
and torn and sometimes lost amid the
icebergs, into the warm greetings OF all
the villages of the glorifed and your
friends rush out to give you welcoming
kiss, the news that there isanother soul
forever saved will call the caterers OF
heaven to spread the banquet and the
bellmen to lay hold Of the rope in the
tower, and while the chalices click at
the feast and the bells clang from the
turrets it will be scene so uplifting
pray God / may be there to take part
in the celestial merriment Until the
day break and the shadows flee away
be thou like roe or young hart upon
the mountains of Bother.