Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-02-08

INTO crescents, or build it into temples. |
You forget you ever saw the less glorious !
waters at Chatsworth, England, or Yer /
sailles, France. as you stand in the bal |
cOny of the palace overlooking the Fin |
land gulf, bewildered and transported as
you look at the one display called the
Golden Stairway fountain. The water
rolls down over "a steps foot high and
20 feet long. All of these "a steps are
covered with sheets of FURNISHED gold.
Silver step of the water on stairs of gold!
What a glee of liquids! Rolling, dashing,
fOaming, enrapturing splendOrs! Chorus
of floods! Poetry of waters! DOxOlOgy
OF torrents! But that which most i'm
pressed me there and elsewhere is the
abundance Of water, the fact that there
are so many waters that the continents
can afford to throw them away into the
sea, Hudsons and Ohios, Oregons and
Amazons, Rhines and Danubes and Vol
gas, and so abundant that the earth can
afford to have its oceans evaporate into
the heavens. Mediterraneans and Attain
tics and Pacifcs. How rich the earth is
with waters! Best beverage of all the
nations, for after the richest banquet
with the richest beverages every one
wants at least a sip of it-water, cool wa
ter, GOu descended water!
With still more abundance is the air
distributed. An earth full of it. A sky
full of it. Swiftest and strongest eagle
cannot fly so high as not to have it in the
nostril or under wing. And what af-
huence of sunlight! No one but the in
finite God could dispense so much of It.
The golden candlestick set on the blue
mantel of the heavens! So great that the
10 - Ill
! crying out, 'The Lord God is SUM-" 1t
| is high time that we recognize in our
/ liturgies and in our formulas of prayer
| the three most abundant blessings of the
universe which come to all.
Trust Thoroughly In God.
Now, is it not time that we all began
more thoroughly to trust the Lord? We
trust him with our souls, why not trust
him with our bodies? We trust him with
our spiritual interests, why not trust him
with our temporal interests We believe
what is said to us by an ordinarily honest
man. could not anger you so much OIL
make your cheeks so burn with indigna
ton as to doubt your truthfulness, an(
how do you suppose the Lord of HEAVIER
and earth feels when you doubt him, a!
he declares in the text, Say We to tn,
righteous that it shall be well with him.
Such a promise as that ought to cain
your pulses and irradiate your cOunte
nance and halo all the future with rap
ture; for, after all, it makes but little diff
ference what becomes of us here if W
come out mt the right place, amid tn
right surroundings and in the right com
partnership. What are the 20 or so year
of terrestrial stay compared with the cen
turtles, the millenniums, the mons of on
chief lifetime, which we are to begi
when we quit this insignificant planet, il
, significant as compared with the size Q
other worlds? This world is only a schoO
house for heaven. We learn here only tn
, A b c of a higher literature, or the sin
2 pie addition and subtraction Of an inf
mite mathematics and are practicing tn
/ eight notes of an eternal harmony. I'll
4 ! most important question any man eve
4 asks is What will be my destiny
@ "Whither am l bound?' where shall
| land?" what is the terminus of tn
i short Journey" Now. child Of God,
r. not worry about that 1t shall be we
+ with you in your next state Of existenc
j. We know but little about heaven. Thei
;. is but little concerning it in the Bib
+ and that is on the last few pages and
e mostly tigurative. DO you know the re-
j. son why? | suppose it is because if v
/ knew the full attractiveness of that pla'
II we would be untitled for our duties her
II We would feel that we were standing
o the vestbule of a great Luxembourg al
it would want to go right in and see Il
glories: or, standing in the porticO of