St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-01-07
like ,hat!" But God win say to thos.

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like that!" But God will say to those
who have never fallen, and consequent.
" have not been redeemed: "You must
be silent now. You have not the quail
dcation for this anthem" So they sit
with closed lips and folded hands, and
sinners saved by grace take up the har-
mony, for the Bible says: mo man
could learn that song but the hundred
and forty and four thousand which
were redeemed from the earth"
But now come nearer home and put
= dark saying on the Gospel harp. a
style Of question tina; is asked q mil
lion times every year. Interrogation
the fourth: Why do have it SO hard
while others have it SO easy? Or. Why
do have so much difficulty in getting
a livelihood. while others so around
with full portmonnaier Or. Why
must wear these plain clothes, while
others have to push hard to get their
wardrobes closed. SO crowded are they
with brilliant attire? Or. Why should
have to work so hard. while others
have 365 holidays every year? They are
all practically one question. ] answer
them by eaying it is because the Lord
has His favorites. and He puts extra dis
cipline upon you and extra trial. be-
cause He has for you extra glory, extra
enforcement and extra felicities.
That is no guess of mine. but Divine
says so: "Whom the Lord loveth He
chasteneth." "Well," says some one:
81 would rather have little less in
Heaven an6 little more here. Discount
rny Heavenly robe ten per cent. and let
me now put it on fur-lined overcoat;
put me in less gorgeous room of the
house of many mansions and let me
have house here in n better neighbcr-
l.ood." No. no; God is not going to rob
Heaven. which is to be your residence
for nine hundred quadrillion of years.
10 fix up your earthly abode. which you
VII occupy at most for less than CEN
fury. and where you may perhaps stay
only ten years longer. or only one year.
or perhaps a month mere. Now, you
had better cheerfully let God have His
way. for, you see. He has been taking
care Of folks for near 5000 years and
knows how to do it and can see what is
hest for you better than you can your
self. Don't think you are too insignifi-
cant to be divinely cared for. 1t was
said that Diana. the goddess. could not
be present to keep her temple at Ephe-
sus from burning because she was at
tending upon the birth of him who was
to be Alexander the Great. But tell
you that your God and my God is so
great in small things as well as large
things. that He could attend the cradle
Of babe and at the same time the burn
ing of a world.
And God will make it all right with
YOU. and there is one song that you will
sing every hour your first ten years in
Heaven, and the refrain of that song
will be: II am so glad God did not let
me have it my own way!" Your case
WILDE all fixed up in Heaven. and there
will be such a reversal of conditions
that we can hardly find each other for
some time. Some of us who have lived
rcighborhoods will be found. because
Of our lukewarmness of earthly service.
living on one of the back streets of the
celestial city. and clear down at the end
cf it at No. S0S or 900 or 1905, while
some who had unattractive earthly
abodes. and a cramped one at that. will
in the heavenly city be in house 'front.'
ing the royal plaza.
You. my brother, and you. my sister.
who have it so hard here, will have 1t SD
fine and grand there that you will hard
" know yourself and will feel disposed
to dispute your own identity. and the
first time see you there will cry out:
Didn't I tell you so when you sat down
there in the pew and looked incred
ulous because you thought it too good
TO be true?" And you will answer:
"You were right; the half was not told
met" So open your dark saying OF
dependency and complain on my Cos
rel harp and give you just one bar OF
music. for ! do not pretend to be much
of player. The Lamb which is in the
midst of the throne shall lead them tc
living fountains of water, and God shall
wipe away all tears from their eyes
But. / must confess. am a little per
picked low some Of you good Christians
ere going to get through the gate. be
cause there will be SO many there t:
greet you. and they will all want t.
shake hands at once and will all war
-, L.
that you are coming, and they will al
press around 10 welcome you and vii
want you to say whether you know
them after being so long parted.
Amid the tussle and ronp or reunion
tell you whose hand of welcome yo,
had better first clasp and whose cheel
is entitled to the first kiss. 1t is tn,
hand and the cheek OF Him withou
whom you would never have got ther'
at all, the Lord Jesus, the darling OF thu
skies, as He cries out: 81 have loved
thee with an everlasting love, and TIT
fires could not burn it, and the floods
could not drown it," Then you, m!
dear people, having no more use for m!
Ecor harp on which used to open your
dark sayings. and whose chords some
times snapped, despoiling the sym
phony. you will take down your owl
harps from the. willows that grow b.
the eternal water courses and play to
gcther those celestial airs. some of thu
names Of which are entitled The King
in His Beauty" 1.-The Land That Was
Far Off" And as the last dark cur
tain Of mystery is forever lifted it will
be as though all the oratorios that were
ever heard had been rolled into one. and
Israel in Egypt." and "Jephthah's
and Beethoven's Overture
in c." and Ritter's first Sonata in
and the Creation" and the
Messiah" had been blown from the
lips of one trumpet.
But here must slow UP lest in try
Jig to solve mysteries / add to the