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line to some reporter, or sketch the
plan for a public defense against the
assaults of the people Happy when he
got his first lawyers brief, exultant
when lie triuu.ohed over his first politi-
cal rival; yet, sitting on the very top
of all that this world offers of praise,
he eNclaims: mo rest. no rest!"
The very world that now applauds
will soon hiss. That world said OF the
great Webster What statesman
What wonderful exposition of the con-
stitution! A man fit for any position!"
That same world said, after awhile:
Down with him He is an office
seeker. He is a sot, He is libertine.
Away with him" And there is no
peace for the man until be lays down
his broken heart in the grave at
Marshield. While Charles Matthews
was performing in London, before inn
mense audiences, one day WORKOUT
and gloomy man came into doctors
shop, saying: Doctor, what can you
do for me?" The doctor exam
ined his case, and said: my
advice is that you go and see
Charles Matthews" ALAS! Alas!"
said the man: II, 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; sub
merged it and then drank himself to
death because he could not stand the
trouble. Burns thought he would give
everything If he could win the favor of
courts and princess; won it, and amid
the shouts of great entertainment,
when poets and orators and duchesses
were adoring his genius, wished that
he could creep back into the obscurity
in which he dwelt on the day when he
wrote of the
Daisy, wee, modest, crimson-tipped flower
Napoleon wanted to make all Europe
tremble at his power; made it tremble,
then died, his entire military achieve
ments dwindling down to pair of
military boots which he insisted on
having on his feet when dying. At
Versailles | saw a picture of Napoleon
in his triumphs. went into another
room and saw bust of Napoleon as
he appeared at St. Helena; but, oh,
what grief and anguish in the face of
the latter! The first was Napoleon in
triumph, the last was Napoleon with
his heart broken! How they laughed
and cried when silver tongued Sheri-
dan, in the midday of prosperity, ha-
rangued the people of Britain; and
how they howled at and execrated him
when, outside of the room where his
corpse Law his creditors tried to get
his miserable bones and sell them.
This world for rest? "Aha!" cry the
waters, mo rest here-we plunge tc
the sea-" AHA" cry the mountains
mo rest here we tumble to the
plains" Aha" cry the towns "nc
rest here-we follow Babylon, and
Thebes, and Nineveh into the dust.
No rest for the flowers; they fade. Nc
rest for the stars; they die. No res
for man; he must work, toll, suffer ant
slave.
Now, for what have l said all this
Just to prepare you for the text
arise we and depart; for this is 40
your rest" am going to make you +;
grand offer. Some of you remembel
that when gold was discovered in Cali
fornia, large companies were made VI
and started off to get their fortune
) and year ago for the same purpos,
hundreds dared the cold of Alaska. To
day l want to make up party for tn,
Land of Gold. I hold in my hand deco
| from the Proprietor of the estate, il
which He offers to all who will joil
, the company 10000 shares of intinit,
value in city whose streets ar
gold, whose harps are gold, who's
: crowns are gold. You have read O
the Crusaders-how that many thou
J sands of them went off to conquer tn
Holy Sepulcher. | ask YOU to join
: grander crusade-not for the purpose o
J conqueriug the sepulcher of a deat
Christ, but for the purpose of reaching
the throne of living Jesus. When al
army is to be made up, the recruiting
officer examines the volunteers;he test
l their eyesight; he sounds their lungs
t he measures their stature; they mus
3 be just right, or they are rejected. Blu
E there shall be no pcrtiality in making
: up this army of Christ. Whateve
/. your moral or physical stature, what
a ever your designations, whatever you
+ crimes, whatever your weakness,
n have commission from the Lor
S Almighty to make up thi
regiment of redeemed souls, and | CRY
: "Arise we, and depart; for this is nc
| your rest" Many of you have latel
e joined this company, and my desire
J; that you all may join it. Why moi
e You know in your own hearts exper
d ence that what | have said about tn
| world is true that it is no place to re.
d in. There are hundreds here weary
y, oh, how weary-weary with sin; wear
" with trouble; weary with bereavement
e Some of you have been pierced throug
d and through. You carry the scars
( score of conflicts, in which yo
v have bled at every pore; and yo
l. sigh: "Oh, that had the wing
i. of dove, that l might fly ava
o and be at rest!" You have taken I'll
i cup of this worlds pleasures and drum
/ it to the dregs, and still the thir:
d claws at your tongue and the few,
n strikes to your brain. You have chase
t Pleasure through every valley, by ever
e stream, amid every brightness, an
IS uhder every shadow; but just at til
/! moment when you were all ready [