Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-10-13

in proportion to your great achieve
ments. The best and the mighuest
being the world ever saw had set after
him all the hounds, terrestrial and dia-
bolic, and they Tapped his blood after
the CalVarean massacre. The world
paid nothing to its Redeemer but u
hramble, four spikes and a cross.
Many who have done their best to
make The world better have had such
a rough time of it that all their pleas
ure is nm anticipation of the next
world, and they could express their
own feelings in the words of the bar
oneSs OF NaGn AT the close OF her long
life, when asked if she would like to
live her life over again:
Would you be young again3
So would not
One tear of memCry given,
Onward III HE;
Lies dark wave torded Ger,
All but at rest on shore,
Say, would you plunge once more,
With home so ntghP
II you might, would you now
RetraCe your way?
Wander through stormy wids,
Nights gloomy watches fed,
Morning all heamng red,
Hopes smile around us shed,
leavenward, away,
Yes, for some people in this world
there seems no et-up. They are pur-
sued from youth to manhood, and
from manhood into old age. Very dis
tingushed are Lord Statford's hounds,
the earl of larborough's hounds, and
the duke of Rutlaud's hounds, and
Queen Victoria pays $500 per year 20
her master of bucllhounds. 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 and
master.
For Him thirst; for His grace |
beg; on His promise | build my all.
Without Him can not be happy. |
have tried the world. and il does well
enough as far as it goes, but ii is too
uncertain world, too eyanesccnt a
ness. have nothing against this
world. | have been one of the most
fortunate, or. to use more Christian
word, one of the most blessed of men
blessed in my parents, blessed in
the place of my nativity, blessed in
my field of work. blessed in my nat
ural temperament, blessed in my fam.
lily, blessed in my opportunities,
blessed in n comfortable livelihood,
blessed in the hope that my soul will
go to Heaven through the pardoning
mercy of God, and my body, unless il
be lost at sSa or crrmatcd in some con'
tlagration. will lie down in the gardens
of Greenwood among my kindred and
friends, some already gone and others
to come after me. Life to many has
been a disappointment, but to me il
has been pleasant surprise, and yet
! declare that if | did not feel that
God was now my friend and evcr-prcs.
ent help. | should he watched and ter.
ror-stricken. But | want more Of Him.
7 have thought over this text and
preached this sermon to myself until
with all the aroused energies Of my
body. mind and soul, | can cry OUT:
CAS- the hart pautcth after the water
brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee,
Q. Cod
Oh. when some of you get there II
will be like what ahuntcr telIsof %hen
pushing his canoe amid the icc-I|oes,
and hundred miles, as he thought,
from amy other human being! He WIS
startled one day as he heard stepping
on the ice, and he cooked the rife
ready to meet anything that came
near. He found man, barefootcd
and insane from long exposure, APP
preaching 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, AMI
his family and friends rushed out 10
meet him; and, as had been agreed
at his first appearance, bells were
rung and guns were fired, and barr
quets spread, and the rescuer loaded
with presents. Well, when some OF
you step out of this wilderness, where
you have been chilled and torn and
sometimes lost among the icebergs,
into the warm greetings Of all the
villages Of the glorifed, and your
friends rush out to give you welcom.
ing kiss. the news that there Is anoth.
er soul for ever saved will call the
caterers OF Heaven to spread the ban
quet, and the bellman 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
a scene so uplifting pray God ! may
be there 70 take part in the celestial
merriment Until the day break and
the shadows fee away, be thou like a
roe or young hart upon the noun.
tains of Bother"