The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1899-10-18
Morning, all beaming red;
Hopes smile around us shed,
HeayenWard. away!

Yes, for some people in this world
there seems no let up. They are pursued
from youth to manhood and from man
hood unto old age. Very distinguished
are Lord Stafford's hounds and the Duke
of Rutland's hounds, but all of them
put together do not equal, in number or
speed or power to hunt down, the great
kennel of hounds of which Sin and TrOu-
BILE are owner and master.
But what is a relief for all those pur-
sued of trouble and annoyance and pain
and bereavement? My text gives it to
you in word of three letters, but each
letter is chariot if you would triumph,
or throne if you want to be crowned,
or a lake if you would Stake your thirst
yea, a chain of three lakes-G-o-d, the
one for whom David longed and the one
whom David found. You might as well
meet stag which, after its sixth mile of
running at the tOpmost speed through
thicket and gorge and with the breath Of
the dogs on it's heels, has come in full
sight of Schroon lake and try to cool It's
projecting and blistered tongue with a
drop of dew from blade of grass as to
attempt to satisfy an immortal SOUL
when flying from trouble and sin, with
anything less deep and high and broad
and immense and infinite and eternal
than God. His comfort-why, it embos
oms all distress. His arm-it wrenches
off all bondage. His hand-it wipes away
all tears. His Christ.y atonement--it
makes all right with the future, and al
right with God, all right with man, and
all right forever.
Nimrod and His Sons.
Lamartine tells us that King Nimrod
said TO his three sons: Here are three
vases, and one is of clay. another of am
Der and another of gold. Choose now
which you will have" The eldest son,
having the first choice, chose the vase of
gold, on which was written the word
Empire" and when opened it was found
TO contain human blood. The second
son, making the next choice, chose the
vase of amber, inscribed with the word
GLORY" and when opened it contained
the ashes of those who were once called
great. The third son took the vase of
clay and, opening it, found it empty, but
on the bottom of it was inscribed the
name of God. King Nimrod asked his
courtiers which vase they thought weigh
ed the most. The avaricious men of his
court said the vase of gold, the poets said
the one of amber, but the wisest men
said the empty vase, because one letter
of the name of God outweighed a uni
verse
The Safe Refuge.
Through Jesus Christ make this God
your God. and you can withstand any
thing and everything, and that which af-
frights others will inspire you-as in time
of earthquake, when an old Christian
woman, asked whether she was scared,
answered, mo; l am glad that / have
God who can shake the world" or as in
financial panic, when a Christian mer-
chant, asked if he did not fear he would
break, answered, Yes; l shall break
when the Fiftieth Psalm breaks in the
fifteenth verse, Call upon me in the day
of trouble; will deliver thee, and thou
shalt glorify me- :" o Christian men and
women, pursued of annoyance and exas-
peration, remember that this hunt, wheth-
Ell still hunt or hunt in full cry, will
soon be over. If ever a whelp looks
ashamed and ready to sink out of sight
it is when in the Adirondacks deer by
one long, tremendous plunge into big Tup-
per lake gets away from him. The disap-
PolntCo CdulHt SN lilies III Il llltlc way, Dut,
defeated, swims out again and cringes
with humiliating yawn at the feet of his
master. And how abashed and ashamed
will all your earthly troubles be when
you have dashed into the river from un-
der the throne of God and the heights and
depths of heaven are between you and
your pursuers!
We are told in Revelation xii, 15,
Without are dogs" by which / conclude
there is whole kennel of hounds outside
the gate of heaven, or, as when a mas
ter goes in a door, his dog lies on the
steps waiting for him to come out, so the
troubles of this life may follow us to the
shining door, but they cannot get in
Without are dogs" / have seen dogs
and owned dogs that / would not be cha
grined to see in the heavenly city. Some
of the grand old watchdogs who are the
constabulary of the homes in solitary
places and for years have been the only
protection of wife and child, some of the
shepherd dogs that drive back the wolves
and bark away the flock from going too
near the precipice and some of the dogs
whose neck and paw Landseer, the paint
err, has made immortal would not find ME
shutting tueHl out from the gate OF shin
ing pearl. Some of those old st. Ber-
nard dogs that have lifted perishing trav-
GERS out of the Alpine snow; the dog t. t
John Brown, the Scotch essayist, saw
ready to spring at the surgeon, lest, IN
removing the cancer, he too much hurt
the poor woman whom the dog felt bound
to protect, and dogs that we caressed in
our childhood days, or that in later time
lay down on the rug in seeming sym
pathy when our homes were .desolated.
The Secure Haven.
| say if some soul entering heaven
should happen to leave the gate ajar and
these faithful creatures should quietly
walk in it would not at all disturb my
heaven. But all those human or brutal
hounds that have chased and torn and
lacerated the world-yea, all that now
bite or worry or tear to pieces-shall be
prohibited. Without are dogs" No
place there fol. harsh critics or backbiters
or despoilers Of the reputation Of others.
Down with you to the kennels of dark
ness and despair! The hart has reached
the eternal water brooks, and the painting
of the long chase is quoted in still pas