The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-11-26

the Holy One of Israel unto anger; they
have gone away backward.
! To-day as in the times Of st. Luke,
there are those who lade men with bur
dens grtevous to be borne and yet touch
not the burdens with one OF their fin
gers.
Brother, sister, have we provoked the
Holy One Of Israel to anger? Have we
gone away backward? Are we burden
LADDERS or burden filters? Are we dark
ness producers or night creators? DO
we hurt or help humanity
Are we workers or idlere; thinkers or
sticks?
/ DO we sail or steam, or do we drift or
stand still?
Do we live or simply exist?
Do we see and hear and feel or do?
VIII we go to him-to her laden with
sins and tell them of 4 burden bearer
the Man of Nazareth who was our
helper our Saviour?
Has the admonition TO Ezekiel no
force or application to-day?
Ought there not to be many watch
men?
Is it possible that God speaks to us
as Christian Disciples to sound the note
of warning:
80 wicked man, thou shalt surely die:
If thou warn the wicked man of his
way to turn from it; if he do not turn
from his way he shall die in his iniqui-
ty; but thou hast delivered thy SOUL
General Haveock once wrote to his
dearest friend, George Broadfoot,
"Principles alone are worth living for
or striving for" Dying under the trees
Of the Dlkoosha, the brave Christian
soldier salmly remarked to his Valient
comrade, General Outram, Il have for
forty years so ruled my life that when
death came l might face it without
fear"
1t is stated that Florence Nightingale
said she could not refuse God anything.
The Khartoum martyr often uttered
this prayer: "May | be ground to dust
if He will but glorifiy Himself in me.
Fifty-two years after his birth at
Woolwich, that magnificent Scotchman,
that man Of God, Charles George Gor-
don, wrote at I<hartoum his last mes
sage, "The Almighty God will help
me-"
The greatest statesman Of his day, the
great Gladstone. remarked TO the
greatest English general of his time
that Gordon was a man in close COM
munion with God.
OH burden litter, be inspired by Cor
don's memorable message, "The AL
might God will help me"
Does a portion of Florence Nightin-
gales loyalty to her Father in Heaven
possess US? Are we willing that Goa
should glorify Himself in us? Are we
in close communion with God? Could
we fearlessly face death?
DO we worship God or mammon?
Are we God adorers, Christ livers and |
church sustainers?
Are we home builders, home lovers +
and home abders?
DO we regard the home as bulwark |
of our civilization? Or, do the fascina- |
tons of the club, or the cafe draw us /
from the delights Of the fireside?
Do we realize that burden lifting t
tends to uproot selfishness and to check +
self indulgence-that only as we sink !
self and sin, can we contemplate God /
and purity
VIII we not rise from the low levels
If sensuality and selfishness Of indif-
ference and Incidence to the table,
ands, to the sublime heights of service
md sacrifice; then shall we be sunshine 7
reators-humanity helpers-burden
filters.
Dear friends, when our obligations to
he church-to the home and to the
state have ceased-when our residence
las been changed from the countries of
he earth to those of the skies-then
hall we know that there Will be no
more death-neither sorrow nor crying,
neither shall there be any more pain,
or the former things have passed
we shall see His face and
His name shall be in our foreheads
md there shall be no night there, and
We shall need no candle, neither light
# the sun, for the Lord God giveth us
light and we shall reign forever and
ver
A final question.
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