Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-12-20
the geologist replied, Eyes, and you might

say millions of years, for no one knows
but the Lord, and He won't tell"
If it took SO long to make this world at
the start, be not surprised if it takes
long while to make it over again now that
it has been ruined
The Architect has promised to recon.
struct it, and the plans are all made, and
at just the right time it will be SO COM
plete that it will be fit for heaven to move
in, if, according to the belief of some of
my friends, this world is to be made the
eternal abode of the righteous.
The wall of that temple is going up, and
my only anxiety is to have the one brick
that / am trying to make for that wall
turn out to be the right shape and smooth
on all sides, SO that the Master Mason will
not reject it, or have much work with the
trowel to get it into place. l am respon-
sible for only that one brick, though you
may be responsible for panel of the door
or carved pillar or glittering dome.
So we are Gods workmen, and all we
have to do is to manage our own hammer
or AK or trowel until the night comes in
| which no man can work, and when the
work is all completed we will have right
to say rejocingly; Thank God, | was
temple! had a part in the work of the
worlds redemption"
| Again, we have need of patience under
wrong inflicted, and who escapes it in
some form? 1t comes to all people in pro-
| fessional life in the shape of being misun-
derstood. Because of this, how many peo-
pie fly to newspapers for an explanation.
| You see their card signed by their own
| name declaring they did not say this or
| did not do that. They fuster and worry,
not realizing that every man comes to be
| taken for what he is worth, and you can.
not, by any news aper puff, be taken for
more than you are worth nor by any news.
| paper depreciatio be put down. There
| is spirit of fairr IS abroad in the world,
and if you are public man you are classi-
fled among the friends or foes of society.
| If you are friend of society, you will find
| plenty of adherents, and if YOU are the
| foe of society you cannot escape reprehen-
sion. Paul, you were right when you said,
| not more to the Hebrews than to us, eye
| have need of patience" l adopted rule
| years ago which has been of great service
| to me, and it may be of some service to
| you: Cheerfully consent to be misunder-
stood. God knows whether we are right
or wrong, whether we are trying to serve
| Him or damage His cause. When you can
| cheerfully consent to be misunderstood,
| many OF the annoyances and veXations of
| life will quit your heart, and you will come
into calmer seas than You have ever sailed
on. The most misunderstood being that
ever trod the earth was the glorious Christ.
| The world misunderstood His cradle and
| concluded that one so poorly born could
never be of much Importance. They
charged Him with inebriety and called
| Him winebibber. The sanhedrin misun-
derstood Him, and when it was put to
the vote whether He was guilty or not of
treason He got but one vote, while all the
others voted "Aye, aye" They misun-
derstood His cross, and concluded that if
| He had divine power He would effect His
own rescue They misunderstood His
| grave, and declared that His body had
been stolen by Infamous resurrectionists
| He so fully consented to be misunder-
stood that, harried and slapped and sub
merged with scorn, He answered not
word You cannot come up to that, but
| you can initiate in some small degree the
patience of Christ.
| There are enough present woes in the
| world without the perpetual commemora-
| ton of mast miseries If you sing in your
| home or your church, do not always choose
tunes in long meter. Far better to have
your patience augmented by the considera-
ton that the misfortunes of this life must
| soon terminate.
This last summer I stood on Sparrow
| hill, four miles from Moscow. 1t was the
place where Napoleon stood and looked
| upon the city which ne was about to cap
ture. His army had been in long marches
and awful fights and fearful exhaustions,
| anu Wheu they CAME 10 sparrow Hlll lne
| shout went up from tens of thousands of
voices, Moscow, Moscow" l do not
wonder at the transport. A ridge of hills
! sweeps round the city. A river semicr-
cles it with brilliance. 1t is spectacle
| that yu place in your memory rs one of
| three or folr most beautiful scenes in all
| the earth. Napoleon's army marched on
it in four divisions. four overwhelming tor
rents of valor and pomp, down Sparrow
! hill and through the beautiful valley and
across the bridges and into the palaces,
which surrendered without one shot cf
resistance because the avalanche of troops
was irresistible. There is the room in
| which Napoleon slept, and his pillow,
which must have been very uneasy, for,
oh, how short his stay! Fires kindled in
all parts of the city simultaneously drove
out that army into the snowstorms under
which $4,000 men perished. How soon did
| triumphal march turn into horrible demo.
| liton!
| To-day while I speak we come on high
| HILL a glorious hill of Christian anticipa-
tion. These hosts of God have had long
march and fearful battles and defeats have
| again and again mingled with the victor
great city, the capital of the universe, the
residence of the King and the home of
| those who are to reign with Him for ever
| and ever. Look at the towers and hear
them ring with eternal jubilee.
| Look at the house of many mansions,
where many of our loved ones are. Be-
hold the streets of FURNISHED gold and
hear the rumble of the chariots of those
who are more than conquerors. So far
| from being driven back, all the twelve
gates are wide open for our entrance. We
are marching on and marching on, and our
every step brings us nearer to the city.
! At what h. we shall enter we have no
power to foreteil, but once enlisted amid
tine blood washed host our entrance is cer-
tain 1t may be in the bright MONDAY or
the dark midnight. 1t may be when the
air is laden with springtime fragrance or
| chilled with falling SHOWS. But enter we
pust and enter we will through the grace
offered us as the chief of sinners. Higher
hills than any 1 have spoken of will guard
that city. More radiant waters than |
saw in the Russian valley illpour through
that great metropolis. No raging conha-
grafton shall drive us forth. for the only
fires kindled in that city will be the fires
of splendor that shall ever hoist and
| I,o tbaf CHI ta