St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-11-23


tress have been hoisted and the lite
lines are out, and our worlds re.
lease is certain. The good influences
of the consecrated people in our
world will be centupled by the help
from the heavenly world, and the Dl-
vine power will overcome the de-
moniac. o man, O woman, expand
your idea and know the magnitude
of contest in which three worlds are
specially interested. From all the
seven worlds which my text calls the
Pleiades there come no such powerful
influences as from the two worlds
that am now mentioning. Ny only
hope for this world is in the reen-
forcement that is to come from an.
other world. But that is promised,
and so I feel as sure of the ratifca-
ton of all evil as though looking out
of my window to-day saw the parks
and the gardens Towering into anoth-
er paradise and the apocalyptic angel
flying through the midst of Heaven
with the news that the Kingdoms Of
this world have become the kingdoms
of our Lord.
My text called Job and calls US to
consider "the sweet influences" We
put too much emphasis upon the acid
tiles of life, upon the irritations Of
life, upon the disappointments Of
life. Ammianus Marcellinus said that
Chaldea was in olden times overrun
with lions, but many of them lost
their power because the great swamps
produced many gnats that would get
into the eyes of the lions, and the
lions to free themselves of the gnats
would claw, their own eyes out and
then starve. And in our time many q
lion has been overcome by . gnat.
The little singing annoyances of life
keep us from approaching the sweet
influences. And how many OF these
last there are! Sweet influences Of
home, however plain it may be! That
is the harbor into which we sail.
That is the goal for which we run.
That is the place where we rest.
There abide all confidence and affec-
tions. There we lay our plans. There
we extend our sympathies. There
we talk over our successes. There
we unload our griefs. Its four walls
shut out prying and inquisitive
world. Thank God for the home in
which we were born, the home in
which we now live, the home in which
we expect to die!
Not sufficiently do we recognize the
sweet influences of the wife. We men
are of a rougher mold, and our voice is
loud, and our manners need to be
tanned, and gentleness is not as much
Of . characteristic as it ought to be,
and we often say things we ought to
take back. It is to change this that the
good wife comes in. The interests of
the twain are identical. That which
from outsiders would be considered
criticism and to be resented becomes
kindly suggestion, sweet influences
that make us better men than we 9TH
erwise would have been or could have
been.
The sweet influences Of the heavenly
world, which many wise men thought
Tor long while was Alcyone, the CEN
.er of the constellation Of the Plei.
ades, world of our future residence.
Is we hope; world Of chorus and il,
animation, world of reunion, world
where we shall be everlastingly COM
p1ete, world where our old faculties
will be intensified and quickened and
lew faculties implanted, world Of high
oh
whose grace we got there at all, and
apostles and poets-Habakkuka and st.
John, of Patmos, and Edward Young,
lis might Thoughts" turned into
eternal day; and Horatius Bonar, Of
modern hymnology; andHannah More,
md Mrs. Hemans and Mrs. Sigourney,
Who struck their harps till nations lis-
ened; and David, the victor over Co
iath with what seemed insufficient
Weapons; and Joshua, Of the pro-
onged day in Gideon; and Havelock,
he evangelist hero, and those thou
;ands of men of the sword who fought
N the right side. What company to
move in. What guests to entertain!
What personages to visit! What
hoirs to chant! What banquets with
fitted chalices filled with 1.-THE new
vine of the kingdom!" What victories !
o celebrates!
The stories of that world and its |
loly hilarities come in upon our soul |
ometimes in song, sometimes in SER
non, sometimes in hours Of solitary |
election, and they are, to use the |
vords of my text, sweet influepces.
tut there is one star that affects us
nore with its sweet influence than the
enter star, the Alcyone of the Plei-
des, and that is what one Bible au-
hor calls the Star Of Jacob and anoth-
r Bible author calls the Morning
tar.
Sweet influences Of the Holy Ghost,
18th all His Transforming and COM
emancipatingpower! When
hat power is fully felt, there will be
o more sins to pardon and no more
1rongs to correct and no more sor-
ows to comfort and no more bondage
> break. But as the old-time ship
aptains watched the rising of the
leiades for safe navigation and set
all in Mediterranean waters, but
ere sure to get back into port before
he constellation Orion came into
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