El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-10-25

"Ho, there! wsterl waterl water for
sveryonel let every body come and
drink"
Beloved this Is no imaginative scene
| when we apply it to spiritua, life. Lille
/ is the desert; man the traveller. The
storms of hell have gathered about Us
| and lift MS to wander days and years
out of the way of God; until our hung
| er aud thirst for spiritual food has well
nig h exhausted Us. The vehicles on
which we have relied to carry US to
some place of supply and satisfaction
| have utterly failed US. And now our
hunger and thirst for higher thing
have we'll high exhausted us:and many
| the thousands who have cast To eDselves
down on the hot sands OF unrequlted
endeavor, ready to perish with their
highest aspirations that have climbed
the dizzy heights of earth's highest at
taipments only to fall back each time
CRYING, mo water, no food! no shade!
no rest to the weary soul!
But look YOU. beloved! There is one
stout heart that has scaled the height
of prophetic inspiration. And now,
standing on the very divide between
heaven and earth, his eyes fall upon
the river of life that flows direct from
the throne of God. How the scene
thrills his very SOUL And as he re-
mem bers the suffering, famished souls
in this desert below bis soul is klnoled
with q heavenly fire, his frame
trem bles with divine emotion and his
voice like the voice OF an arch angel
rings out-with celestial melody and
in tones so loud that all the world
might hear, "Ho, every one that thirst
eth, come We to the waters"
And ss 1 listen 1 hear the echo OF
another voice coming from the hills OF
the subsequent centuries. Like dis
tant music it falls in sweetest strains
upon my ear. whatsoever dripketh of
this water shall never thirst" 0 be-
loved, this is nothing else than the
proclamation of God, the promise Of
Jesus the incarDate Christ.
Does it need veri6cstion? Let the
myrisds of earth who have drunk from
this fountain testify. Millions there
are who have tried every remedy OF
earth aud who say there is satisfaction
here, and here only. Last week talk
ed with a man who has been prominent
in political and social life, prosperous
in business. and blessed with a noble
wife and promising children. Said he.
with all this, find nothing will sat
isfy the sonl save q full draUght from
the river of God"
A few years ago went into what W .
once a happy and prosperous home oil
a cultured family. But the demon OF
drink had come in; bankruptcy had
followed aud now the husband lay in
q drunken stuDor on the parlor
loun,e q. The dear wife led me to her
bedroom, and these are her words she
said as nearly as recall
them now, Nothing but
strength from on high could enable
me to bear so great burden as this; but
with Jesus by my side. strange as it
may seem, can rejoice in the very
midst OF my tribulation." And when
her brother wrote and said, II wish
you had been here to see how she re-
joiced even in her dying hours" L said:
IT'S religion that can give,
Sweetest pleasures while we live;
IT'S reli2ion must supply,
Solid comfort when we die"
80, how complete my happiness shall
be, when l am married to that noble
girl" wrote my friend just before the
wedding-dsy. But look you! Just one
short year gone, and be is bending
over her dead form and kissing her
good bye forever. o nothing is fully
satisf sipg in this life but water from
this river OF life. 1 bring you to the
very brink of crystal waters tonight,
and in Jesus, name l bid you drink and
he full and rejoice forever more