The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-12-14

terment Of your spiritual condition and
| the pther for the safety Of your. world
ly interests. FGS, get YOUR heart right
with God by being paxdoned through
the atonement OF Jesus Christ Tint
viii give security FOR your souls well
fare. Then get yoE H6e Insured In
some well established life insurance
company. Thar viii take from you all
anxiety about the welfare Of your
houshold in case OF your Sudden de-
mise. The antar influence OF such
insurance is not sufficiently under
stood
Many a breadwtnner long since de-
ceased would now have been alive and
we'll but for the reason that when he
was Frustrated he saw that in case Of
his dcease his family would go to the
poor-house or have an awful struggle
for daily bread. But for that anxiety
he you'd have got we'll. That anxity
defied adj that the best physicians
could do. Surprising these two duties
attended to. the one for h safety OF
your soul in this world and the mex
and the other for h safety OF your
family il you IS out Of this life. make
a new start. If possible have your
family sitting room where you an let
in the sunlight Have a musical in
strument il you can afford II. harp or
piano or bass ayiol or parlor organ.
/ Learn how TO play on it yourself or
have our children to learn how TO play
on It. Let bright colors dominate al
your room If there are pictures on
| the wall. let them not be suggestive O.;
battlefields which are always cruel, of
IdeathbedS which are always sad, or
partings which are always heartbreak-
ing. There are enough present woes
in the world without the perpetual
commemoration of past miseries. II
do not always chooSe tunes in long
meter. Far better to nave your patti
ence augmented by the considerable
that the miSfortunes Of this life must
soon terminate. Hardly any once lives
to 100 years, but few live to 80, while
the majority Quit this life before so.
You ought to be able, God helping you,
to stand it as long as THAT. for then by
the grace of God you will move into
an improved residence and be
ed by all benign and excellent surround
ingS. into am. atmosphere every breath
of which is balmy. and a egion where
every sound is music and every emo
ton rapture. A and without one tear.
without one parting. without n grief.
THE REWARD of PATIENCE.
This last summer / stood on Sparrow
hill, four miles from Moscow. 1t was
the place where Napoleon stood and
looked upon the city which he was
about to capture. His army had been
in long marches and awful fights and
fearful exhauStionS, and when they
came to Sparrow hill the shout went
up from tents Of thousands of voices,
Moscow, Moscow" I do not wonder
at the transport. A ridge of hills
sweeps round the city. A river semi
circles it with brilliance. 1t is a spec
tacle that you place in our memoir
aQ one of three or fn1lr most haa1rtjfI1
scenes in all the earth. Napoleon's
army marched on it in four divisions
four overwhelming torrents of valor and
pomp. Down Sparrow hill and through
the beautiful valley and across the
bridges n into the palaces, which
surrendered without one shot of resist
ance because the avalanche of troops
was irresistible. There is the room in
which Napoleon slept and his pillow,
which must nave been very uneasy for
oh, how short his stayi Fires kindled
! in all parts Of the city simultaneously
drove out that army into snowstorms
under which 81, 900 men persisted. How
soon did triumphal march turn into
horrible demolition. Today, while 1
speak, we come on a high hill, a glor1-
GUS hill of Christian anticipation
These hosts of God have had a long
march, and fearful battles and defeats
have again N again mingled with the
NlSlollSS, Uul lOOdy Z Jill III iSi
of the great city, the capital of the UNI
verse, the residence of the King and
the home of those who are to reign with
him for ever. Look at the towers and
hear them ring with eternal jubilee.
Look at the house of many mansions.
where many of our loved ones are. Be-
hold the streets of FURNISHED gold and
hear the tumble of the chariots of those
who are more than conquerOrS. So far
from being driven back, all the II gates
are wide open for our entrance. We
are marching on and marching on and
our every step brings us nearer to the
city.
At what hour we shall enter we have
no power to %foretell, but once enlisted
amid the blood washed host our en-
trance is certain. 1t may be in the
bright monday or the dark midnight.
1t may be when the air is laden with
~springtime fragrance o. chilled with
falling SHOWS. But enter we must, and
enter we will through the grace offered
us as the chief of sinners. Higher hills
than In I ave spoken Of will guard
that city. More radiant waters than ]
saw in the Russian valley will pour
through that great metropolis. No
raging confiagration shall drive us forth
for the only fires kindled in that city
will be the fires Of a splendor that shall
ever hoist and neve die. Reaching
that shining gate, there will be a part
ing, but no tears at the parting. There
will be an eternal farewell, but no sad
ness in the utterance. Then and there
we will part with one of the best friends
we ever had. No place for her in heav-
en-, for she needs no heaven. While
love and joy n other graces enter
heaven, she will stay out. Patience
beautiful patience, long suffering pa.
thence, will at that gate say: "Goodby!
I helped o in the battle Of life, but
now hat you have gained the triumph
you need no more. I bound up your
wounds, but now they are all healed
1 soothed our bereavements. but you
pass now into the reunions of heaven
/ can do no more for you, and there is
nothing for me to do in a city where
there are no burdens to carry. Goodby.
go back into the world from which you
came up, to resume my tour among hos
/ pitfalls, and sickrooms, and bereft house
holds, n almshouses. The cry of the
worlds sorrow reaches my ears, and ]
must descend. Up and down that poor
suffering world I will go to assuage and