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aud these helpless, fatherless children into
thy hands. We have been together in
peace good while. but now we must
look forth to a better meeting in heaven.
And as for these poor creatures. blind.
folded and infatuated, that stand before
me, convert them before Ii be too late,
and may they who have sat in judgment
in this lonely place on this blessed morn
ing upon me, a poor, dcfenseless fellow
crcature-may they In the last judgment
find that mercy which they have refused
TO me, thy most unworthy but faithful
servant. Amen"
He arose 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 dieW She put her
arms around him and said: "The Lord
gave, and the Lord hath taken away.
Blessed be the name of the Lord stop
that snivclng," said Claverhousc II
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
I'D in her apron the fragments OF her
husbands head-gathering them up for
looked into her face
and said, "Now, my good woman, how DO
you feel now about your bonnie man
ooh" she said, II always thought wecl
of him; he has been very good to me; l
had no reason for thinking anything but
wool of him, and | think better of him
now" oh. what a grand thing it will be
in the last day to see God pick out his
heroes and heroines. Who are those pau
pcrs of eternity trudging off from the
gates of heaven? Who are they? The
Lord Clavcrhouses and the 1Ierods and
those who had scepters and crowns and
thrones, but they lived for their own ag-
grandizement, and they broke the heart
of nations Heroes Of earth, but paupers
in eternity. | beat the drums OF their
eternal despair. Woe, woe, woe!
The Heroes of Heaven.
But there is great excitement in heav-
en-. Why those long proccssionsf Why
| the booming of that great bell IN the
tower 1t is coronation day in heaven
| Who are those rising on the thrones with
crowns of eterna. royalty? They must
have been great people on the earth,
world renowned people. No. They taught
in a ragged school Taught In ragged
school, Is that all? That is ALL Who
are those souls waving scepters or eternal
dominion? Why, they are little children
who waited on invalid mothers. That
| all? That is all. She was called Little
/ Mary" on earth. She is an empress now
Who are that great multitude on the
highest thrones of heaven Who are
they? Why. they fed the hungry; they
clothed the naked; they healed the SICK;
they comforted the heartbroken. They
never found any rest until they put their
head down on the pillow Of the sepulcher.
God watched them. God laughed den
ance at the enemies who put their heels
hard down on these, his dear children,
and one day the Lord struck his hand so
hard on his thigh that the omnipotent
sword ratified in the buckler as he said,
II am their God, and no weapon formed
against them shall prosper
What harm can the world do you when
the Lord Almighty with unsheathed
sword fights for you? l preach this SER
mon for comfort. Go home to the place
Just where God has put you to play the
hero or Ito heroine. Do not envy any
man his money or his applause or his So
cial position. Do not envy any woman
her wardrobe or her exquisite appear
ancc Be the hero or the heroine. II
there be no -four in the house and you dc
bread, listen, and you will hear something
tapping against the window pane. Go &c
the window, and you will find it is the
bcak of a raven, and open the window
and there will fly in the messenger that
fed Elijah. Do you think that the Coo
who grows the cotton of the south will LEI
you freeze for lack of clothes? Do yot
think that the God who allowed his dis
ciples on Sabbath morning to 60 into the
grainfed and then take the grain ant
rub it in their hands and eat-do yol
think God will let you starve? Did yol
ever hear the experience of that old man
II have been young and now am old, ye
l have never seen the righteous forsakel
or his seed begging bread" Get up gu
of your encouragement, O troubled soul
o sewing woman, o man kicked ant
cuffed by unjust employers. o ye who ar
hard beset in the battle of life and know
not which way to turn, O you bereft one
o you sick one with complaints you hav
told to no one, come and get the comfor
OF this subject, Listen to our great Cap
tains cheer, ITO him that overcometl
will | give to eat of the fruit Of the tire
, of life which is in the midst of the para
disc of God"
Copyright. 1900 by Louis Klopsch.l
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