Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-06-22

ter Sabbath preaching on these Vhetnes
his face kindled with the glory. 'ohn
Foster, a Christian man. SAID oil tins man,
'Robert Hall is onlv acting. and the smile
on his face is reflection of his own van.
ity." John Wesley turned all England
upside down with Christian reform, and
vet the punsters were after him. and the
meanest Jokes in England we're perpetrated
about John Wesley. What is true Of the
pulpit is true of the pew: it is true Il the
street: it is true of the shop and the store.
All who live godly IN Christ Jesus must
suffer persecution.
And | set it down as the very worst sign
in all your Christian experience IT you are
anv Of YOU at peace with all the world.
The religion of Christ is war. 1t is
challenge to "the world, the flesh and the
devil /" and if YOU will buckle on the whole
armor of God you will find great host
disputing your path between this ana
heaven. ~
Again. 7 commend the behavior OF the
disciples to all the bereaved. How many
in garb of mourning. How many emblemss
of sorrow YOU behold everywhere! God
has His own way of taking aparr TAM
ily. We must get out of the way fol- com
ing generations. We must get on the
stage that others may come on. and f0r
this reason there is long PROCESSION, reach,
ing down all the time into. the valley o.
shadows. This emigration from the into
eternity is so vast an enterprise thai we
cannot understand it. Every hour we hear
the clang of the sepulchral gate. Inc
sod must Oe broken The ground must be
plowed for res,lrrectit harvest. Eternity
must be peopled. The dust must press our
eyelids. at is appointed unto. all men
once to die" This emigration from. time
into eternity keeps three-fourths OF m the
| families of the earth in desolation. The
air is rent with farewells. and the black
tasseled vehicles of death rumble through
every street. The body of the child that
was folded so closely 10 the mothers. heart
is nut away in The cold and the darkness:
The laughter freezes to the girls In, and
the rose scatters. The bow in the harvest
field of Shunem says. INV head. my
head" and they try him home to die on
tho lap of his mother Widowhood stands
with tragedies of woe struck into the pal
Tor of the check. ORDINANCE cries IN warn
for father and mother Oh the grave is
cruelt With teeth of stone it clutches for
its prev. Between the closing gates OF the
sepulcher our hearts are mangled and
crushed.
But Christ is always ncar--before you
behind you, within you. No mother ever
threw her arms around her child with such
warmth and ecstacy of affection as Christ
has shown toward you.
Close at hand, nearer than the staff upor
which you lean, nearer than the cup you
nut to your lip, nearer than the handker'
chief with which you wipe away your tears,
] preach Him an ever present, all sympa-
thizing, compassionate Jesus. How can
YOU STAY away one moment from Him with
your griefs? Go now Go and tell Jesus.
It is often that friends have no power
to relieve us. They would very much like
to do it, but they cannot disentaneie our
finances. they cannot cure orr sickness
and raise our dead. but glory I've to God
| that He to whom the disciples went has all
| power in heaven and on earth. and at oui
| call He will ball, our calamlties and at
| just the right time, in the presence OF an
| applauding earth and resOundlne heaven,
| will raise our dead. He is mightler than
| Herod. He is swifter than the storm. he
| is grander than the sea. He is vaster than
| eternity. And every sword of Gods opl..
| impotence will leap from it's scaDbard and
| the resources of in6nity be exhausted rath'
er than that GODS child shall not be de-
| lvered when he cries to Him for rescr' >
Suppose your child was il trouble How
much would you endure to get. him out;
You would say Il don't care what 1T WI
Do you think God is not so good father
as you? Seeing you arc in trouble anC
having all power. will He not stretch out
His arm and deliver you? He will. he Il
mighty to save. He can level the mount
ain and divide the sea. and can extinguisf
the fire and seve the soul. Not dim O
eve, not weak OF arm, not feeble OF re
sources. but with oil eternity and the un,
verse at His feet. Go and tell Jesus. WI
you9
Ye whose cheeks are wet with the nigh
dew of the grave, We who cannot look uE
We whose hearts are dried with the breatl
of sirocco. in the name of the religion o
Jesus Christ, which lifts every burden ant
wipes away every tear and delivers ever.
captive and lightcns every darkness, I'm
p,ore YOU now go and tel Jesus.
A little child went with her father,
sea captain TO sea, and when the hrs
storm came the little child was very muc
frightened, and in the night rushed out Q
the cabin and said, Where is fatheI
where is father?' Then they told hei
w psehsp Is the U storm term The little child in
mediatefy returned to her berth and said
Its all right, for fathers on deck. =,
O We who are tossed and driven IL tn!
world, up by the mountains and down b
the valleys and at your wits ends, wan
YOU to know the Lord God is guiding tn
ship. Your Father IS on deck. lie WI
bring you through the darkness into TN
harbor. Trust in the Lore. 10 and tc
Jesus.
If YOU 90 to Him for pardon and gym
pathy, all is well. Everything Will bright
en- up, and joy viii come to the heart, an
sorrow will depart, your sins Will be 1ol
given, and your foot will touch the VI
ward path and the shining messenger
that report above what is done here w
tell it until the great arches OF God r.
sound with the glad tidings if now wit
contrition and full trustfulness OF soul 20
will only 60 and tell Jesus.
But am oppressed rs / think OF t!ios
who may not take this counsel and ma
remain unblessed ] cannot help aslln
what will be the destiny of these people
! Xerxcs looked off on his army There wer
1000, 900. perhaps the finest army ever MAJ
, shaled. Xerxes rode along the lines; re
viewed them. came back, and stood Q
, some high point, looked off upon the 1000
600 men and burst into tears. At that m!
, ment. when every one supposed he woui
be in the greatest exul:stion, ne broE
down in grief. They asked him Why }
wept. "Ah," he said, Il weep at u
8 dead" So I think of these vast popul
: tions of immortal men and women and r
q alize the fact that soon the places who
. know them now will know them no NOR
! and they will be gone-whither, whittier
9 There is stirring idea which the .po'
4 put in very peculiar verse when ne said:
: IT'S not for man to trife; life is brief,
e And sin is here;
!. Our age is but the falling of !e-f,
n A dropping tear.
d Not many lives, but only one have We
+ One, only one;
v How sacred should that one life ever be-
Y That narrow span!