St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-01-14

ascending mists werc folded up int.
clouds, which instead Of darkening the
SKY only ornamented 1t. As they
L cked out Of the windows these worn
passengers clapped their hands and
rejoiced that the storm was over, and
l think II God could stop such storm
IS that He could stop any storm In your
lifetime experience. II He can control
vulture in mid-sky, He can stop sum
mer bat that flies in at your window.
At the right time He will put the rain.
bow on the cloud and the deluge of
your misfortunes will dry up. Ipreach
the doctrine of Limitation. relief and dis
cIthrallment. At just the right time
the pain will cease, the bondage will
drop. the imprisoned will be liberated,
the fires will go out, the body and mind
and soul will be free. Patience! An
old English proverb referring to long
continued invalidism, says: "a creak-
ing gate hangs long on its hinges" and
this may be a protracted case of vale
tudinarianism, but you will have taken
the last bitter drop. you will have suf-
fered the last misinterpretation, you
will feel the gnawing of the last hun.
ger, you will have tainted the last time
from exhaustion, you will have felt the
cut of the last lancet, you will have
wept under the last loneliness. The
last week of the Noachian deluge came,
the last day, the last hour, the last mo-
nent. The beating of the rain on the
roof ceased. and the dashing of the
pillows on the side OF the ship Quoted,
and peacefully as yacht moves out
over quiet Lake Cayuga. Como or Luz
cerne. the ark with its illustrious pas
sengers and important freight glided
to its mountain wharfage.
Notice also that ON the cessation of
the deluge the shut-ins came out, and
they built their houses and cultured
their gardens and started a new world
On the ruins of the old world that had
been drowned out. Though Noah lived
$50 years after this worldwide accident
and no doubt his fellow passengers sur
vived centuries, I warrant they never
got over talking about that voyage.
Now. / have seen Dorc's pictures and
many other pictures Of the entrance
into the ark. two and two, Of the hui
man family and the animal creation
into that ship which sailed between
two worlds, antediluvian world and the
postdiluvian world. but I never saw
= picture OF their coming out, yet their
cmbarkation was not more important;
than their Decentralization. Many q i
crew has entered ship that never
landed. Witness the steamer Portland
short time ago, with 100 souls on
board. going down with all its crew and
passengers. Witness the line of sunken
ships reaching like submarine cable |
OF anguish across the ocean depths |
from America to Europe. II any ship |
might expect complete wreckage, the |
one Noah commanded might have ex-
pected it. But no. Those who en-
barked disembarked. Over the plank
reaching down the side of the ark to
the Armenian cliffs on which they had /
been stranded the procession descend
ed. No other wharf felt SO solid or at
forded such attractivencss as that
height OF Ararat when the eight pas
scngers put their feet on it. And no
sooner had the last one, the invalided
wife Of Japheth. been helped down the
plank upon the rock than the other
apartments of the ship were opened.
and such dash of bird music never
filed the air as when the entire or
chestra of robin redbreast, and morn
ing lark, and chafIinch, and hooking
bird, and house swallow took wing into
the bright sky, while the cattle begar
10 low and the sheep to bleat and the
horses to neigh for the pasture, which
from the awful submergence had now
begun to grow green and aromatic.
tell you plainly nothing interests me
more In that tragedy from the first to
The last act than the exit" and the
'exeunt," than the fact that the "shut
ms" became the "go outs" And now
cheer with this story all the inmates
# sickrooms and hospitals. and those
prisons where men and women are
endungeon"d, and all the thou
lands who are bounded on the north
md south and east and, west by floods.
~ deluges OF misfortune and disaster.
The ark of your trouble, if it does not
and on some earthly height Of vindi-
.ation and rescue, will land on the
leights celestial.
1t you have put your trust in Gcd.
ou will come out the garden of the
ling. among orchards bending with 12
manner of fruits and harvests that
rave In the light of a sun that never
cts. As the eight passengers of that
raft Of Captain Noah never got over
alking about their seafaring expert
noes. So you who have been the shut
rs of earth will add unbounded inter
st to the conversations Of Heaven by
and reciting your earthly ex-
eriences, and the rougher those ex-
eriences the more thrilling will they
Q to yourself and others who listen.
$ when we sit amid a group of soldiers
nd hear their story of battle or a
roup of sailors and hear their story of
yciones we feel stupid because we have
othing in our life worth telling. how
will be those souls In
eaven who had smooth sailing all
heir lives and no accidents, while Noah
Ills his story Of the deluge. and Lot his
DRY Of escape from destroyed cities.
nd Paul his story of the Alexandrian
Urn ship, and you tell your story of the
avs and nights and years Of the times
hen you were shut in. You will be in
resting and sought after In Heaven in
roportion rs you are martyrized Of !
and pain on earth. And I
rely you do not want to get the ad- '
lntage Of Heavenly association and &
without yourself adding Il
me interest to the interview. hail
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