The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-14

over again:
Would you be young again?
So would not /;
One tear of memory given,
Onward I'll HE;
Life's ark wave forded Ger.
All but at rest on shore,
Say, would you plunge once more
With home so nigh!
| If you might, YOU you now
Retrace your way?
Wander through stormy wilds,
Faint and astray?
| Nights gloomy watches fed,
| Morning all beaming red.
Hopes smile around US shed,
H~eavenward, away,
MASTER OF THE HOUNDS.
Yes, for some people in this world
there seems no let up. They are pur-
| sued from youth to manhood and from
manhood into old age. Very distin-
guished are Lord Stafford's hounds,
the Earl of Yarborough's hounds and
the Duke of Rutland's hounds, and
Queen Victoria pays $500 a year to
her master of buckhounds. But all of
them put together do not equal in
number or speed or power to hunt
down the great kennel of hounds of
which sin and trouble are owner n
master.
But what is a relief for all this pur-
suit Of trouble and annoyance and
pain and bereavement? My text gives
it to you in a word Of three letters,
but each letter is a chariot if you
would triumph, or a throne If you
want to be crowned, or a lake if you
would Stake your thirst-yes, a chain
of three lakes-G-O-D, the one for
whom David lOnged, and the one whom
David found. You might as we'll meet
a stag which after its sixth mile Of
running at the topmOSt speed through
thicket and gorge, and with the breath
of the dogs on its heels, has come i'll
full sight of Scroon lake, and try to
cool it's projecting and blistered tongue
with a drop of dew from a blade of
grass as to attempt to satisfy an i'm
mortal oul with anything less deep
and high and broad and immense and
infinite and eternal than God. His
comfort-why, it embosoms all dis
tress. His arm, it wrenches off all
bondage. His hand, it wipes away all
tears. His Christly atOnement, it
makes us all right with the past and
all right with the future, all right with
God and all right with man and all
right forever. Lamartine tells US that
King Nimrod aid to his three sons:
Here are three vases, and one is of
clay, another of amber INT another of
gold. Choose now which you will
have" The eldest son, having first
choice, chose the vase of gold, on
which was written the word Empire"
and when opened it was found to con-
tain human blood. The second son,
making the next choice, chose the
vase Of amber, inscribed with the word
GLORY" and when opened it contain
ed the ashes of those who were once
called great. The third son took the
vase of clay, and, opening, it. found
it empty. but on the bottom of it was
inscribed the name of God King
Nimrod asked his courtiers which vase
they thought weighed the most. The
avariciOuS men of court said the vase
OF gold. The poets sand the one OF
amber, but the Wisest men said the
empty vase, because one letter of the
name of God outweighed a universe.
GODS PROMISE.
For Him 1 thirst, for His grace I
beg, on His promise 1 build my all.
Without him l cannot be happy. I
have tried the world, and it does well
enough as far as it goes, but it is too
uncertain a world, too evanescent j
world. I am not a ~prejudiced witness.
l nave nothing against this world. ]
lave been n of the most fortunate.
or, to use a more Christian word, one
of the most blessed of m~en-blessed in
my parents, blessed in the place OF
my nativity, blessed in my health
blessed in my field of work, blessed in
my natural temperament, blessed in
l my family, blessed in my %opportuni.
ties, blessed in the hope that my sou
will go to heaven through the pardon.
5 ing mercy of God, and my body, unless
; it be lost at sea or cremated in some
cOnflagration, will lie down in the gar.
!, dens Of Greenwood among my kindred
l and friends, some already gone ane
I others to come after me. Life to many
, has been a disappointment, but to m
T it has been a~pleasant surprise, an
= yet I declare that if I did not feel tina
God was now my friend and ever pres
ent help I hould be wretched and ter
) ror stricken. But I want more of Him
( [ have thought over this text an,
preached his sermon to myself unit
with all the aroused energies of m.
e body, mind and soul / can cry out, "a
v the hart panteth after the waite
n brooks, SO pantheth my soul after thee
4 o God"
Through Jesus Christ make this Go,
h your God, and you can Withstand any
thing and everything, and that whicI
affrights others will inspire you. AS i
y time Of an earthquake when an oil
e Christian woman was asked whethe
q she was scared, answered, mo, l ar
d glad hat l have a God who can shak
r the world" or, as in a financial panic
" when a Christian merchant was aske
if he did not fear he would break, an
swered: Yes, I shall break when tn
e Fiftieth Psalm break in the fifteent
e verse, Call upon me in the day c
e trouble, 1 will deliver thee and tho
IS shalt glorify me-" Oh, Christian me
6 and women, pursued Of annoyance
/, and exasperations, remember that TIL
l. hunt, whether a still hunt or a hur
Is in full cry, will soon be over. If eve
le a whelp looks ashamed and ready t
j. stink out of sight, it is when in tn
A~dirondacks a deer by one tremendou
y plunge into Big Upper lake gets ava
le from him. The disappointed canir
n swims in a little way, but, defeate'
he swims out again and cringes with HI
re inflated yawn at the feet of his maste
And how abashed and ashamed Wi
Ie all your earthly roubles be when yo
lp have dashed into the river from und,