Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-08-02

My sorrows shall be cast over all this
group, So said not Jesus. He said to
Himself: Here are two persons starting
casion. | will hide My own griefs. I will
kindle their joy" There are many not SO
wise as that l know household where
there are many little children, where for
| two years the musical instrument has been
kept shut because there has been trouble
in the house. Alas for the folly! Parents
saying: I'VE will have no Christmas tree
this coming holiday because there has
| been trouble in the house! Hush that
laughing up stairs! How can there be
any joy when there has been so much trou-
ble?" And so they make, everything con.
sistently doleful and send their SONS and
daughters to ruin with the gloom they
throw around them.
| Oh, my dear friends, do you not know
those children will have trouble enough
OF their own after awhile! lie glad they
cannot appreciate all yours. Keep back
the cup OF bitterness from your daughter
lips. When your head is down in the
grass OF the tomb poverty may come to
| her. betrayal to her, bereavement to her.
Keep back the sorrows as long as you can.
Do YOU not know that that son may after
between him and all harm. You may not
fight his battles long. Fight them while
you may. Throw not the chill of your own
dependency over his SOUL Rather be like
Jesus, who came to the wedding hiding
His own grief and kindlng the joys Of
day struggling amid Clouds black, ragged
and portentous, but after awhile the sun,
with golden pry, heaved back the black
ness, and the sun laughed to the lake, and
the lake laughed to the sun, and from hori
zon to horizon, under the saffron sky, the
water was all turned into wine.
! | learn from this miracle that Christ is
not impatient with the luxuries of life. 1t
was not necessary that they should have
| that wine. Hundreds of people have been
married without any wine. We do not read
that any OF the other provisions fell short
| When Christ made the wine it was not "a
necessity. but positive luxury: l do not
believe that He wants us to eat hard bread
| and sleep on hard mattresses unless we
| like them the best. | think, if circum
stances will allow, we have right to the
| luxuries of dress, the luyuries or diet and
| the luxuries Of residence. There is no
more religion in an old coat than in new
one. We can serve God drawn by golden
harness as certainly as when we so afoot.
Jesus Christ will dwell with us under a
fine ceiling as we'll as under a matched
roof.
Wha. is the difference between Chi
nese mud hovel and an American home?
What is the difference between the rough
bearskins OF the Russian boor and the
outfit of an American gentleman! No
difference except that which the gospel of
Christ, directly or indirectly, has caused.
When Christ shall have vanquished all the
world, | suppose every house will be a
mansion, and every garment robe, and
every horse an arch necked courser, and
every carriage a glittering vehicle, and
| every man a king. and every woman a
queen, and the whole earth paradise, the
glories of the natural world harmonizinG
with the glories of the material world un-
he, hnt1 L., nf ba hDr hall Ia
the praises of the Lord.
| | learn, further, from this miracle that
| Christ has no impatlence with festal JOY.
| otherwise He would not have accepted the
invitation to that wedding. He certainly
would not have done that which increased
the hilarity. There may have been many
in that room who were happy, but there
was not one of them that did so much ior
the JOY OF the wedding party as Christ
| Himself. He was the chief of the ban
quetcrs When the wine gave out, lie sup
piled it, and so, take it, He will not deny
us the joys that are positively festal.
| Who was it that sent the raven tapping
on the window. The same God that sent
the raven to feed Elijah by the brook
Cherith. Christ in the hour extremity!
You mourned over your sins. You couli
not find the way out. You sat down and
said: God will not be merciful. lie has
cast me Off" But in that the darkest hour
of your history light broke from the throne
and Jesus said: "Oh, wanderer, come
home! 1 have seen all thy sorrows LIZ
this the hour of thy extremity offer thee
pardon and everlasting life!"
Trouble came. You were almost torn
to pieces by that trouble You braced
yourself up against it. You said. Il will
be stole and will not care" But before
you had got through making the resolution
1t broke down under you. You felt that
all your resources were gone, and tnen
| Jesus came.
In the fourth watch of the night tho
sea-" Why did He not come in the first
watch or in the second watch or IN the
| third watch? | do not know. He came
| in the fourth and gave deliverance to llia
disciples. Jesus in the last extremity!
| / wonder if it will be SO in our very
last extremity. We shall fall suddenly
sick. and the doctors will come, but in vain
| We will try the anodynes and the stimu.
lants and the bathings, but all in vain
| Something will say, You must go. NC
one to hold us back, but the hands of eter
nifty stretched out to pull us on, What
| then? Jesus will come to us, and as we
say, Lord Jesus, am afraid of thnt wa
ter; l cannot wade through to the other
side" He will say, Take hold of My arm
and we will take hold of His arm, and then
| He will put His foot in the surf OF the
wave, taking us on down, deeper, deeper
| deeper, and our soul will cry, All lhy
| waves and pillows have gone over me-.
They cover the feet, come to the knee and
pass the girdle and come to the head. and
our soul cries out, Lord Jesus Christ,
cannot hold Thine arm any longer Then
Jesus will turn around, throw both His
| arms about us and set us on the beach tar
beyond the tossing of the billows. Jesus
| in the last extremity! -.
| That wedding scene is gone now. Tbs
| wedding ring has been lost, the tankards
have been broken, the house is down, but
Jesus invites us to a grander wedding
You know the Bible says that the church
is the Lambs wife, and the Lord will AT
ter awhile come to. fetch her home, There
will be cleaning OF torches in the sky, and
the trumpets OF God will ravish tie air
with their music and Jesus will stretch out
His hand, and the church, robed in white,
will put aside her veil and look up into the
face OF her Lord the King, and the Bride
groom will say to the bride: Thou hast
been faithful through all these years. The
mansion is ready. Come home. Thou are
fair. my love" and then He shall put upon
her brow the crown of dominion, and the
table will be spread and it will reach