The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1898-03-25


tions! That little voice may bias
phcnc God in the grogsbop or
cry Forward To the Lords hosts
as they go out for their last victory.
d Ny mind this morning leaps 80
/ years ahead. and see merchant
prince of New York. One stroke
Of his pen brings n ship out of Canton.
Another stroke Of his pen brings ship
ia Malra.. Mas saixhty IA all the
fuoucy snarixett Ut tifswoffsk <~'ssn, u
hep lie sits on Sabbaths beside YOU in
church. NV mind leaps 80 years for.
/ ward from this time, aud find mys ! (
I In relief association. \ great multi
tudc OF Christian women have met to-
gcthcr Tor generous purpose.
! There II one woman In that crow
who seems To have the confidence
Of all the others, and they alt
look M To her for counsel and
for her prayers Who il shcP This
afternoon YOU viii fud her In the Sab.
bath-,chuol, while the teacher tells her
that Christ who clothed the naked,
and fed thc hungry. aud healed the
sick My mind leaps forward 80 year,
from now. aud find myself in an Az
r,can jungle, and there is a missionary
of the cross addressing the natives. and
their dusly cnunt"narccs are iyraIi-
atvd with the glad tidIngs Of great
Joy and salvation. Who !, hc2 Dil
you not hear his voice to-day In the
opening song Of your church service?
Ms mind leaps forward 80 years from
now, aud find myself looking through
the wlchcducss of prison. see a
face Scared with every crime His
chin GA his open palm, his elbow un
bis kucc-a picture 81 despair AsI
open the wicket lac starts aud hear
his chain clanl,. The jail-kcepcr tells
no that lac has been ia there three
time, first for theft, then for arson,
aud now for murder lie steps upon
the trap door, the rope g. fastened tp
his neck, the plank falls, his iui ~
swings In the air, his soul swings oil
into eternity. Who is IA, aud whore Is
hep This afternoon playing uir ON
the city commons Mother. YOU are now
hosting a throne or forging a chain;
you are kiudling "A star or digging
dungeon.
A Christian mother good many
years ago sat teaching lc,,on, 81 ra-
iigion 10 her child, aud hc drank "a
those lessons Sh" never knew that
Lamphicr would come forth aud cStah.
lish the Fult"u-strcet prayer M citing,
and 10y one meeting rcvolutioniz' the
dcvotions of the whole earth and thrill
the ctcruitics with his Christian iu1u-
.-..... i...,s.l,t=- --ss, 4, ist- s..s-',--
who brought him 10 Jesus Christ She
never had an idea that she was leading
forth such dcstiuics. but oh.
when | see mother reckless
of her influence, rafting on toward
destruction. garlanicd for the sacrifice
with un>ccmly mirth and "oIlcssncs>,
dancing on down to pyrdition, taking
her children in the same direction,
preparing them for a life 81 friyolitv,
can not help but say: There they go
there they go; liagar and IShmucl!
tell you there are wilder deserts than
liccr.shcha in many of the fashion
able circles Of this day. pisSipatvd
parent. leading dissipatrd chill.
drop Avaricious parents leading
avaricious children. praycrlvsS pa
rents leading praycrlCs, children.
They 90 through every street,
up every dark alley, into every cellar,
along every highway, llagar and l,h.
macl, And while | pronounce their
names 1t seems like the moaning Of
the desert wind: "Ilagar and l>hmacl.'
| learn one more lesson from this
Oriental scene, and that is that
every wilderness has well in IL
Ilagar and Ishmacl gave up To die.
liagar'S heart sank within her Is she
heard her child crying: water.
Water, Water" "Ah" she SAYS,
my darling, there is no water. This
is dcscrt!' And then Gods angel
said from the cloud: "Nhat ailvth
thee, IIagar?' And She looked up aud
saw Him pointing 10 a well OF water,
where she filed the bottle for the lad.
BlcSscd he God, that there is in every
wilderness a well, il YOU only know
how To- find it-fountains for all
these thirsty souls. On that last
day, ON that great day of the feast,
Jesus stood and cried: II any
man thirst, let him com, To mo
and drink An these other fount-
aims you find are mere miragcS OF the
desert raracrlsuS, you know, spent
his time IN trying to find out the elixir
OF hfc-a liquid, which, IL taken, would
keep one porpctually young in this
world, and would change the aged back
again to youth. or course he was dis
appointed; he found not the elixir
hut here tell you OF the elixir of
everlasting life bursting from the
Rock Of Ages and that drinking
that water you shall never get old, and
you will never be sick, and YOU will
never die. "lIo, every one TINT
thirStcth, como We 10 the waters" All,
here is man who says: IL believe all
you say, but have been trudg.
ing along in the wilderness, aud can't
find the fountain DO you know the
reason? | will tell you. You never
looked in the right direction. "Oh,"
you say, II have looked everywhere.
have looked north, south, east aud
west and | haven't found the fnun-
tain Why, you are not looking in
the right direction ut all,
Mosr people know that gold is the most
widely distributed Of all metals, being
found in almost every country In the
world, though, Of course, not in guam
titles which it would pay To dig. Now
comes the startling discovery that the
common red clay of which brick; arI
made contains gold ut the rate of near
ly IA shilling's worth tn the ton--cycn,
in some eases, little more. In tho
houses Of London there are at least ., E.
10000 tons of brick. Make little
calculation at the rate of one shilling
per ton, and you will find thatno loss
than t25O,OOO of the precious metal is
locked tightly mp in the uyly red walls
of london alone.
PRoF SNELSo says that the are of fish
is almost unlimited. As To the length