Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-12-07

or ak or trowel until the night comes IN
which no man can work, and when the
work is all completed we will have right
to say rejoicingly: THANK God, ! was
privileged to help in the rearing OF that
temple! had part in the work OF the
worlds redemption"
Again, we have need of patience under
wrong inflicted, and who escapes it IN
some form? 1t comes to all people in pro-
fessional life In the shape of being mlsun'
derstood: Because of this; how many peo'
pie fly to newspapers for an explanation:
You see their card signed by their own
name declaring they did not say. this OF
did not do that. They fuster and worry,
not realizing that every man comes to be
taken for what he is worth, and you can
not, by any newspaper puff, be taken Tor
more than you are worth nor by any news
paper depreciation be put down. There
is a spirit of fairness abroad in the world,
and if you are public man you are classi'
fled among the friends or foes Of society:
If you are friend of society, you will IND
plenty of adherents, and if you are the
foe of society you cannot escape reprehen-
sion. Paul, you were right when you sad,
not more to the Hebrews than to us, "Ye
have need of patience" / adopted rule
years ago which has been of great service
to me, and it may be of some service to
you: Cheerfully consent to be misunder-
stood God knows whether we are right
or wrong, whether we are trying to serve
Him or damage His cause. When you can
cheerfully consent to be misunderstood.
many of the annoyances and vexations OF
life will quit your heart, and you will come
into calmer seas than you have ever sailed
TIL L. 1a.p hot
ever trod the earth was the glorious Christ.
The world misunderstood His cradle and
concluded that one 80 poorly born could
never be of much Importance. They
charged Him with inebriety and called
Him a winebibber. The sanhedrin misuni
derstood Him, and when it was put to
treason He got but one vote, while all the
others voted "Aye, aye" They misun
derstood His cross, and concluded that if
He had divine power He would effect His
own rescue. They misunderstood His
grave, and declared that His body had
been stolen by Infamous resurrectionists.
He so fully consented to be misunder-
stood that, harried and slapped and sub
merged with scorn, He answered not
word You cannot come up to that, but
you can initiate in some small degree the
patience of Christ.
There are enough present woes in the
world without the perpetual commemora-
ton of past miseries. If you sing in your
home or your church. do not always choose
tunes in long meter. Far better to have
your patience augmented by the considera-
ton that the misfortunes of this life must
soon terminate.
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 cap
ture. 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 tens of thousands OF
voices, Moscow, Moscow" l do not
wonder at the transport. A ridge of hills
sweeps round the city. A river senior
cles it with brilliance. 1t is a spectacle
that you place in your memory as one OF
three or four most beautiful scenes in all
the earth. Napoleon's army marched on
it in four divisions, four overwhelming tor
rents of valor and pomp, down Sparrow
hill and through the beautiful valley and
across the bridges and into the palaces,
which surrendered without one shot cf
resistance because the avalanche of troops
was irresistible. There is the room in
which Napoleon slept, and his pillow,
which must have been very uneasy, for,
oh, how short his stay! Fires kindled in
all parts of the city simultaneously drove
out that army into the snowstorms under
which $4,000 men persisted. How soon did
triumphal march turn into horrible demo-
lition!
To-day while speak we come on high
hill, glorious hill of Christian anticipa-
ton. These hosts of God have had long
march and fearful battles and defeats have
again and again mingled with the victor
les, but to-day we come in sight OF the
great city, the capital of the universe, the
residence Of the King and the home OF
those who are to reign with Him for ever
and 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 rumble of the chariots of those
who are more than conquerors. 30 TAR
from being driven back, all the twelve
gates are wide open for our entrance. We
are marching on ard marching on, and our
every step brings US nearer to the city.
At what h. we shall enter we have no
power to foretell, but once enlisted amid
the blood washed host our entrance is GER
tain. 1t may be in the bright MONDAY or
the dark midnight. 1t may be when the
air is laden with springtime fragrance or
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 any have spoken of will guard
that city. More radiant waters than l
saw in the Russian valley willpour through
that great metropolis. No raging confia-
grafton shall drive us forth, for the only
fires kindled in that city will be the fires
of a splendor that shall ever hoist and
never die Reaching that ginning gate,
there will be parting, but no tears at the
parting. There will be an eternal farewell,
but no sadness in the utterance Then
and there we will part with one Of the
hest friends we ever had. No place for
her in heaven, for she needs no heaven.
While love and Joy and other graces enter
heaven, she will stay out. Patience, beau
tiful Patience, long-suffering Patience, will
at that gate say: Goodbye. / helped you
in the battle of life, but now that you have
gained the triumph you need me no more.
| bound up your wounds, but now they
are all healed. / soothed your bereave-
ments, but you pass now into the reur-
ions Of heaven. / can do no more for you,
and there is nothing for me to do in city
where there are no burdens to carry.
Goodbye I go back into the wor.l from
which you came up to resume my tour
among the hospitals and sick rooms and
bereft households and almshouses. The
cry of the worlds sorrow reaches my ears,
and 1 must descend. UP and down that
poor suffering world I will go to assuage
and comfort and sustain until the world
itself expires and on all its mountains and
in all it's valleys and on all its plains there
is not one soul left that has need of pa