The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-07-09

goes to his desk to finish his neglected
correspondence, or to pen an indignant
line to some reporter, or sketch the
plan for public defense against the
assaults of the people. Happy when he
got his first lawyers brief, exultant
when he triumphed over his first politi-
cal rival; yet, sitting on the very top
Of all that this world offers of praise,
he exclaims: mo rest! no rest!"
The very world that now applauds
will soon hiss. That world said of the
great Webster: "What a statesman
What wonderful exposition of the con-
stitution! A man fit for any positionl"
That same world said. after awhile:
Down with him! He is an office
seeker. He Is 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
Marshtield. While Charles Matthews
was performing in London, before inn
mense audiences, one day worn-out
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 Matthew'S" "Alas! Alas!"
said the man: II, myself, am Charles
Matthews" Jeffrey thought that il he
could only be a judge that would be
the ma king 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 a pair of
military boots which he insisted on
having on his feet when dying. At
Versailles | saw a picture of Napoleon
in his triumphs. l went into another
room and saw a 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 lay, his creditors tried to get
his miserable bones and sell them
This world for rest? AHA" cry the
waters, "no rest here-we plunge to
the sea-. "Aha," cry the mountains,
mo rest here we tumble to the
plains" aha" cry the towns mo
rest here-we follow Babylon, and
Thebes, and Nineveh into the dust"
No rest for the flowers; they fade. No
rest for the stars; they die. No rest
for man; he must work, toll, suffer and
slave.
Now, for what have l said all this?.
just to prepare you for the text:
arise We and depart; for this is not
your rest" am going to make you
grand offer. Some of you remember
that when gold was discovered in Cali
fornia, large companies were made up
and started off to get their fortune,
and year ago for the same purpose
hundreds dared the cold of Alaska. To-
day want to make up party for the
Land of Gold. hold in my hand deed
from the Proprietor of the estate, in
which He offers to all who will join
the company 10000 shares of infinite
value in city whose streets are
gold, whose harps are gold, whose
crowns are gold. You have read of
the Crusaders-how that many thou
sands of them went off to conquer the
Holy Sepulcher. L ask you to join
grander crusade-not for the purpose of
the sepulcher of dead
Christ, but for the purpose of reaching
the throne of living Jesus. When an
army is to be made up, the recruiting
officer examines the volunteers;he tests
their eyesight; he sounds their lungs;
he measures tHclT StdJure, tney lnuSJ
be just right, or they are rejected. But
there shall be no Partially in making
up this army of Christ. Whatever
your moral or physical stature, what
ever your designations, whatever your
crimes, whatever your weakness, /
have commission from the Lord
Almighty to make up this
regiment of redeemed souls, and cry:
"Arise we, and depart; for this is not
your rest Many of you have lately
joined this company, and my desire is
that you all may join it. Why not?
You know in your own hearts expert
ence that what have said about this
world is true that it is no place to rest
in. There are hundreds here weary
oh, how weary-weary with sin; weary
with trouble; weary with bereavement.
Some of you have been pierced through
and through. You carry the scars of
a score of conflicts, in which you
have bled at every pore; and you
sigh: sob, that had the wings
Of dove, that 1 might fly away
and be at rest!" You have taken the
cup of this worlds pleasures and drunk
It to the dregs, and still the thirst
claws at your tongue and the fever