The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-10-03

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Of work, bisssod In my natural tempers
Inent, blsssed IN my family, blessed in n
opportunities, blessed IN eomforta6f
livelihood, blessed In tho hope that NJ
soul will 60 to heaven through the pardon
ing mercy Of God, and my body, unless
b. lost at sea or cremated In some confa
grafton, viii lie down in the gardens O
Greenwood among my kindred ant
friends, soRo already gone and others tx
come aftor me. Life to many has been
disappointment. but, to >me 1t has been
pleasant surprise, and yet declare that /
did not feel that God was no~> my frient
and ever present help should be wretchet
and terror stricken. But want more Of
him. have thought over this text ant
preached this sermon 10 myself until Will
all the aroused energies of my body, mine
and soul I can cry out, AS the hart
panteth after the water brooks, 30 pantett
my soul after thee o God"
Faith In Adversity.
Through Jesus Christ make this God
your God, and YOU can Withstand anything
and everything, and that which affrights
others will inspire you. As in time Of an
earthquake when an old Christians woman
%. was aAked whether she was scared, a.
swercd. mo; I am glad that. l have a
God who can shsEe the WORLD" or, o. in a
financial panic, when Christian merchant
was Asled II he did not fear he would
break, answered: Yes, shall break when
the Fiftieth Psalm breaks In the fifteenth
verse: Call upon mo In the day of trou-
bic. I will deliver thee and thou shalt
glorify me-" Oh, Christian men and
women, pursued Of annoyances and exas-
perations, remember that this hunt,
whether still hunt or hunt In full cry,
will soon be over. II ever whelp looks
ashamed and ready to stink out of sight,
1t 10 when in the Adirondack deer by
one tremendous plunge into Big Topper
lake gets away from him. The disappoint-
ed canine swims In little way, but, de-
feated, swims OUT again and crinses with
humiliated yawn at the feet of his master,
And how abashed apd ashamed will all
your earthly troubles be when you have
dashed into the river rom under the
throne of God, and the heights and depths
Of heaven are between you and your pur-
suers. We are told In Revelation xii, IL,
without are dogs" by which conclude
there Is whole kennel Of hounds outside
the gate Of heaven, or, as when o master
goes In through door his dog lies on the
steps waiting for him to come out, 30 the
TROUBLES Of this life may follow us to the
shifting door, but they cannot get In.
Without are dogsi" have seen dogs and
owned dogs that would not be chagrined
to see in the heavenly city. Some Of tho
grand old watchdogs who arc II pop-
stabulary of the homes in solitary places,
and for years have been the only proteo-
ton for wife and child; some Of the shep-
herd dogs that drive back the wolves and
bnrk away the fiocks from going too near
the precipice, and some Of the dogs whose
neck and paw Landseer, tho painter, has
made immortal, would not find me shut
ting them out from the gate Of shining
pearl. Some Of those old st. Bernard dogs
that have lifted perishing travellers out Of
the Alpine snow, the dog that John
Brown, the Scotch essayist, saw ready to
spring at the surgeon lest in removing the
cancer he too much hurt the poor woman
whom the dog felt bound to protect, and
dogs that we caressed In our childhood
days, or that In later time lay down on the
rug in seeming sympathy when our homes
were desolated. say If some soul entering
heaven should happen to leave the gat,
ajar and these faithful creatures should
quietly walk in 1t would not at all disturb,
my heaven. But all those human or brutal
hounds that have chased and torn and
acerataa To world, yea, all that now BIT,
n worry or tear to pieces, shall be prohib.
ted. without are dogs!" No place there
or harsh critics or back biters or despoil-
NJ tho ka<{ of> al
'ou 10 the kennels Of darkness and de.
pair The hart has reached the eternal
vater brooks, and the painting Of the long
base is quieted in still pastures, and
there shall nothing hurt or destroy in all
'ods holy mountain"
"A Glorious Rescue.
Oh, when some of you get there 1t will
e like what>a hunter tells of when push
ng his canoe far up north In the winter
nd amid the ice foes and 100 miles, as he
bought, from any other human beings
10 was startled one day as he heard a
topping on the ice, and he cooked the
life ready to meet anything that came
ear. He found a man, barefooted and
Insane from long exposure, approaching
i'm. Taking him into his canoe and
indling fires to warm him, he restored
i'm and found out where he had lived aud
ook him to his home and found all the
illage in great excitement. A hundred
len were searching for this lost man, and
is family and friends rushed out to meet
i'm, and, as had been agreed, at his first
ppearance bells were rung and guns
'ere fired and banquets spread, and the
escuer loaded with presents. Well when
Dme of you step out of this Wilderness,
ghere you have been chilled and torn and
lost amid the icebcrgs, into the
'arm greetings Of all the villages of the
lorifed, and your friends rush out to give
OIL welcoming kiss, the news that there
another soul forever saved will call tho
,terers Of heaven to spread the banquet,
nd the bellmen to lay hold Of the rope In
10 tower, and while the chalices click at
10 feast and the bells clang from the tur-
its 1t will be scene 30 uplifting l pray
cd may be there to take part in the
'lestial merriment. until the day break
nd the shadows flee away, be thou like u
10 or young hart upon the mountains
Bether."
"Aunt Rachel"