Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-06-08

lowering over them than you and have,
and they will have higher seat in heaven.
They may have only cup of cold water
to give a poor traveller or may have only
picked splinter from the nail of child's
ringer or have put only two mites .nto
the treasury, but the Lord knows them:
Considering what they had, they did
more, than we have ever done, ana tneir
faded dress will become a white robe,
and the small room will be an external
mansion and the old hat will be exchanged
for coronet OF victory and all the APP
plause of earth and the shouting of heaven
will be drowned out when God rises up
to give His reward to those humble work
ers in His kingdom and to say to them;
well done, gccu and faithful servant"
You have all seen or heard of the ruins
of Melrose Abbey. | suppose IN some
respects they are the most exquisite ruins
on earth, and yet, looking at 1T, l was
not so impressed-you may set 1t DOH
to bad taste, but | was not so deeply
stirred as | was at tombstone at the
foot of that abbey, the tombstone placed
by Walter Scott over the grave OF an
old man who had served him a good
many years in his house, the 'scrlption
most significant. and defy any man TO
stand there and read 1T without tears
coming into his eyes-the epltaph, wen
done, good and faithful servant. On,
when our work is over, will 1T be found
because of anything we have done Tor
God or the church or suffering humanity,
that such an inscription is appropriate
for us? God grant it!
Who are those who were bravest and
deserved the, greatest monument-Lord
Claverhouse and his burly soldiers or
John Brown, the Edinburgh carrier. and
his wife? Mr.. Atkins, the prosecuted
minister of Jesus Christ in Scotland, was
secreted by John Brown and his wltee,
and Claverhouse rode up one DAY Witi
the house. John Browns little girl came
out. He said to her, "Well, miss, is MIR.
Atkins here?" She made no answer, for
she could not betray the minister OF the
gospel. "Ha!" Clavcrhouse said, Then
You are a chip of the old block, are you!
/ have something in my pocket for you.
1t is nosegay. Some people call 1T {,
thumbscrew, but L call it a nosegay..
And he got off his horse, and lie put II
it until the bones cracked and she cried
He said: Don't cry, don't cry. This
isn't thumbscrew; this is nosegay,.
And they heard the child's cry, and the
father and mother came out, and Claver-
house said: ct seems that you three
have laid your holy heads together. de
termined to die like all the rest Of your
hypocritical, canting, snivehng crew.
Rather than give up good Mr.. Atkins,
pious Mr.. Atkins, you would die. L have
telescope with me that ,, WI III, imor owe
toll. "Now," he said, 'you old pragmatl,c;
lest YOU should catch cold in this, cold
morning of Scotland, and for the honor
and safety of the king, to say nothing
of the glory of God and the good. OF our
souls. I will proceed simply and III the
neatest and most expeditions style u
blow your brains out
John Brown fell upon his knees and
began to pray. "AhW said Claverhouse,
'look out if you are going to pray. Steer
clear of the king, the council and Richard
Cameron" 80 Lord" said John Brown;
"sinceit seems to be Thy will that l should
leave this world for a world where L
can love Thee better and serve Thee more,
/ nut this poor widow woman and these
helpless, fatherless children into Thy
hands. We have been together IN peace
a good while, but now we must look forth
to better meeting i'll heaven. and as Tor
these poor creatures. blindfolded and IN
fatuated. that stand before me, convert
them before it be too late, and may, they
who have sat in Judgment IN tins lonely
place on this blessed morning upon me,
a poor, defenseless fellow creature, may
they in the last judgment find that mercy
which they have refused to me, Thy mos.
unworthy but faithful servant. Amen
He rose and said. Isabel, the hour has
come of which / spoke to you on the
morning when [ proposed hand and heart
to YOU. and are you willing now, for the
love of God to let me die!" She put her
arms around him and said: 1.-The Lord
gave. and the Lord hath taken away.
Blessed be the name of the Lord" stop
that spyeling." said Claverhouse. Il
have had enough of it, Soldiers, do your
work! Take aim, FIRE." And the head
of John Brown was scattered on the
ground. While the wife was gathering
UP in her apron the fragment OF her nus
bands head-gathering them up tor bur,
ial-Claverhouse looked into her face and
said Now, my good woman, how do YOU
feel now about your bonnie man Ol,
She said, 81 always thought weel OF him.
He has been very good to me; had no
reason for thinking anything but weel OF
him. and think better Of him now; oh.
what a grand thing it will be in the last
dav to see God pick out His heroes and
heroines! Who are those pauperss OF cter,
nifty trudging off from the gates, OF 1eaVcA
Who are they? The Lord Clavcrho,ises
and Herods and those who had sc9n ,s
and crowns and thrones, but they, hVeG
for their own ACKNOWLEDGMENT, and they
broke the heart of nations. Heroes OF
earth. but paupers in eternity. | beat the
drums of their eternal despair. woe,
woe, woe!
What harm can the world do you when
the Lord Almighty with unsheathed sword
fights for youZ | preach this sermon loI
RI
where God has put you to play the hero
or the heroines DO not envy any man
! his money or his applause or his social po1'
sition. Do not envy any woman her ward
robe or her exquisite appearance. be the
hero or the heroine If there be no flour
in the house and you do not know where
your children are to get bread, listen, and
YOU will hear something tapping, against
| the window pane. Go to the window, and
! YOU will find it is the beak OF raven, and
| open the window. and there Will ny IN the
messenger that fed Ethan; DO you thi INK
| that the God who grows the cotton OF the
| sonth will let you freeze for lack OF
clothes? Do you think that the God who
| allowed His disciples on Sabbath morning
| to 90 into the grainfeld and then take
| the grain and rub it in their hands and
| eat-do YOU think God will let you starve
Did YOU ever hear of the experience OF
| that old man, II have been young and
! now am old, yet | have never seen the
| righteous forsaken or his seed begging
bread?" Get up out of your discourage
ment, O troubled soul, o sewing woman
o man kicked and cuffed by unjust EN-
ployers, o We who are hard besee, in the
| battle of life and know not which way te
turn, 0 bereft one, O you sick enc with
complaints you have told to no one, come
and get the comfort of tbs subject! Lis
ten to our great Captains cheer, "To. hin
| that overcometh will | give to eat OF tht
fruit of the tree of life which is IN the
midst of the paradise Of God"
| Dangers of Night Parties.
| Tabominate night parties for en-!
dren," said a prominent city physi