The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-07-03
TlA ES SERMON.
GLORIOUS REST LAST
SUNDAYS SUBJECT.
From the Text Of Micah. Chapter II.
Verse 10. NJ Followss aArAse Ne and
Depart, for Thia Is Not Your Reutr-
Drunbeat OF the Prophet.

DuI ~ may just as properly be uttered
now asthen. Bells, by long exposure
and much ringing. lose their clearness
OF tone; but this rousing bell of the
gospel strikes in .as clear a tone as
Wnenfit first rang on the air.
As4far as / can see, your great want
and mime is rest. From the time we
enter life. great many yexations and
annQyances take after us. We have our
Aolldays and our seasons of recreation
ana quiet, but where is the man in this
world who has found entire rest? The |
Ia ct is that God did not make this
World to rest in. A ship might as we'll |
go down OF Cape Hatteras to find |
smooth water as a man in this world to |
ana quiet. From the way that God |
mas strewn the thorns, and hung the |
clouds, and sharpened the tusks; from |
the colds that distress US and the heats
that smite US. and the pleurisies that |
STAB us, and the fevers that consume
us, know that he did not make this
world as place to loiter in. God does
everything successfully; and this wol:ld
would be very different world If it
were intended for us to lounge in. 1t
| does right well for few years. In
deed, 1t is magnificent! Nothing but
lnnn1te wisdom and goodness could
have mixed this beverage of water, or
| hung up these brackets of stars, or
trained these voices of rill, and bird,
and ocean-so that God has but to- lift
his hand, AID the whole world breaks
| forth into orchestra. But after all, it
Is only the splendors of a kings high
! way, over which we are to march on to
eternal conquests.
! You and 1 have seen men who tried
to rest here. They builded themselves
great stores. They gathered around
them patronage of merchant princes.
The voice of their bid shook the,
money markets. They hadtstock in thei
most successful railroads. 'and in safef
deposit vaults great rolls of govern
ment securities. They had emblazoneds
carriages, high-mettled steeds, foot
men, plate that confounded lords ands
senators who sat at their table, tapestry
on which floated the richest designs of
foreign looms, splendor of canvas ont
the wall, exQuisiteness of music risingt
among pedestals of bronze, and Drop
ping, soft as light, on snow of sculp-
ture. Here let them rest. Put back,
the embroidered curtain, and shake up1
the pillow of down. Turn out the'
lights. 1t is IL o'clock at night. Let
slumber drop upon the eyelids. and the
air float through the half-opened lat
tice, drowsy with midsummer perfume.
Stand back. all care, anxiety, and trou-
BILE! But no! they will not stand backs
They rattle the lattice. They look un-
der the canopy. With rough touch
they startle his pulses. They cry out
at 12 o'clock at night, Awake, mem;
how can you sleep when things are so.
uncertain? What about those stocks :?
Hark to the tap of that flre-bell; it, is
your district. How, If you should die
soon? Awake, man! Think of: 1t !
Who will get your property when !you
. are gone? What will they do with it?
Wake up! Riches sometimes take
winge. How if you should get poor?
. Wake up!" Rising on one elbow. the
man of fortune looks out into the dark
ness OF the room, and wipes the damp
ness from his forehead and says, Alas !!
For all this scene of wealth and mag
nifcence-no rest!"
c The very world that now applauds
: will soon hiss. That world said of the
| great q
! What wonderful exposition of the con-
3 stitution! man fit for any position!'
: That same world said, after a while,
' Down with him! He is an off1ce-seek-
s er. He is a sot. He is a Hbertine.
Away with him!" And there is no
neace for the man until he lays down
his broken heart in the grave at Marsh
Aeld. While Charles Matthews was
= nerforming in London, before immense
q audiences, one day a worn-out and
r gloomy man came into doctors shop,
saving Doctor, what can you do for
- me?" The doctor examined his case
: and said. MY advice is that you go and
!. see Charles Matthews" alas! Alas!"
: said the man, 81 myself am Charles
:. Matthews." Jeffrey thought that If he
could only be judge, that would be the
! making of him; got to be judge, and
= cursed the day in which he was born
!. Alexander wanted to submerge the
world with his greatness; submerged
a and then drank himself to death be.
. cause he could not stand the trouble
r Rurns thought he would give every
= ching IL he could win the favor of courts
ond nrinces: won it, and amid the
= shouts of a great entertainment, wheI
=. noets. orators and duchesses were a6or
!. ing his genius, wished that he coult
IA creep back into the obscurity in whici
a he dwelt on the day when he wrote o
H. the
ut DAISY, wee modest, crimson-tippet
as flower"
Napoleon wanted to make all Europ
ia tremble at his power; made it tremble
Id then died, his entire military achieve
h, ments dwindling down to pair
ell military boots which he insisted OF
ds having on his feet when dying. A