The Washington weekly post., 1899-11-14

good serse, and rallying each ether In
pleasantries, and in every possible way
forwarding good neighborhood. No look
ing askance; no whispered backbiting; no
strut of pretension; no oblivion of some
ones presence because you do not want
TO know him. Each one happy, deter
mined on making some one else happy.
Words Of honest appreciation instead OF
hollow fattery. SuaVities and genialities,
instead Of infatiOns and pomposties
Equipage and upholstery and sculpture
and painting paid for. Two hours of
mental and moral Improvement. All the
guests able to walk as steadily down the
steps of that mansion as when they as
cended them. No awaking next morning
with aching head and bloodshot eye, and
incompetent for the days duties The
social life as perfect as refinement and
common sense, and culture, and prosper
ity, and religion can make 1t. The earth
made better than ii was at the start
And all through gospelizing influences,
directly or indirectly.
Il suppose the greatest tidal wave that
ever. rolled the seas was that which in
1868 was started by the Peruvian earth
quake. At africa, Peru, the wave was
fifty feet high, and swung warships a
mile forward on the land. At San Pedro,
Cal. the wave was sixty feet high. 1t
moved on to the Sandwich Islands and
submerged some of them, and beat
against the shores of New Zealand and
rolled up the beach of Japan, and stopped
not until it had encircled the entire globe
Oh. what a waveI But the earthquake
that shook the mountain where our Lord
cled started a higher and swifter and
mehtier tidal wave that will roll round
and round the earth until all rebellions
and denominations have gone under.
Whole Earth Redeemed.
THAT was an exciting scene after the
battle Of BoswOrth, which was fought
between Richard III and the Earl of
Richmond. the king falling and the earl
triumphing. when Lord Stanley brought
tie crown and handed II to the earl seat
ed on horseback. while the dying and the
dead of the battle were lying all around.
But it is a more thrilling spectacle as we
look forward through the centuries and
see the last armed and imperial iniquity
OF the world slain and the crown of uni
versal victory put upon the Conqueror on
the white horse of the apocalypse. and
all nations hail the power of Jesus
name That the whole earth will be re-
deemed Is one OF the things long ago set
tied in heaven.
place is that all who are adioined TO the
unparalleled One Of Bethlehem and Naza-
reth and Golgotha viii be the subjects of
a supernal felicity without any taking off.
The old adage says that 'beggars must
not be choosers,' and the human race in
its depleted state had better not be crit
lcal OF the mode by which God would en-
palace all Of US l could easily think of a
plan more complimentary to our fallen
humanity that that which is called the
plan of salvation If God mad allowed
Is to DO part of the work of recovery. and
He do the rest; if we could do three
quarters OF it and He do the last quarter:
II we could accomplish most Of il and He
Just put on the finishing touches. MANY
could look with more complacency upon
the projected reinstatement of the hu-
man family. No, no! We must have our
pride subjugated. our stubborn will made
flexible. and supernatural power DEM
oEStrated in us at every Sep A pretty
plan Of salvation that would be. of hui
man draughtlng and manufacturing 1t
would be a dOXology sung to ourselves |
God must have all the glory. Not one !
step of our heavenly throne made hv
earthly carpentry. Not one string could |
we twist of the harp of our eternal re- |
jocing. Accept all as an unmerited dona- |
tion from the skies, or we will never have
il at all,