Woodruff County news., 1901-11-23

the Red sea of trouble. Miriam's timbrel will play on the high banks Israel Delivered" High hope for the home! High hope for the church! High hope for the world!
 1 introduce the angel of Hope to those who have through decease lost Christian friends. "How could I find them," says a bereft soul, up there in the land of the multitudinous? | You may find them by inquiry, by heavenly escort and by unfailing memory of the guard at the gate. And he carried me away in the spir- it to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of Heaven from God, having the glory of God, and her light was like unto stone most precious, even like a jas per, clear as crystal, and had wall great and high, and had 12 gates and at the gates 12 angels" So, you see, there will be an angel guarding each gate. As you go in ask the armed guard. He saw your loved one pass through, and will know the direction to take and by what fountain or in what street of gold is the mansion prepared. The blessed Christ knows where your departed loved one is, and He will tell you if no one else will. Fifty ways of finding out the whereabouts of your ascended one. But will I surely know Him when I get there, for he will be so changed?" Yes, for you will be just as much changed, and the old affinity will as- sert itself. The soul will be as easily distinguished oy soul there as on earth the body is distinguished by the body.
 Open that closed instrument of mu- sic in your parlor that has not been played on since the hand of the de- parted player forgot it's cunning. Put up before you on the music board the notes of the hymn of Isaac Watts and sing "There Is Land of Pure Delight" or James Montgomery's hymn, "Who Are These In Bright Array?" or Fil- more Bennett's Sweet Bye and Bye" or Jerusalem the Golden" Take some tune in the major key-"Ariel" or Mount Pisgah." While you play and sing the angel of Hope will stand i by you and turn the leaves and join in the rapturous rendering. Reunion with the loved and lost! Everla ting reunion! No farewell at the door of any mansion! No good-by at any of the 12 gates! No more dark apparel i of mourning, but white robe of exal- tation! Hop now is on it's knees, with face uplifted, but Hope there will be on tiptoe or beckoning you to follow, saying: "Come and hear the choirs sing! Come and see the procession march! Come and see the river of life roll! Come with me over the hills that rise into everlasting heights" Celes- tial Alps and Himalayas hoisted into other Alps and Himalayas!
 From this hour cultivate hope. Do so by reading all the Scriptural prom ises of the worlds coming Edenization and doubt if you dare the veracity of the Almighty when He says He will make the desert roseate, and the leop- 1 ard and the kid will lie down in the l same pasture field, and the lion, ceas- ing to be carnivorous, will become ! graminivorous, eating "straw like an oX,' and reptilian venom shall change into harmlessness, so that the 'weaned child shall put his hand on the cocka- trice's den, and there shall be nothing to hurt or destroy in all Gods holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea-" So much for the world at large.
 Then cultivate hope in regard to your own health, your own financial prosperity, your own longevity, by seeing how in other people God merci- fully reverses things and brings to pass the unexpected, remembering that Washington lost more battles than he gained, but triumphed, at the last, and, further, by making sure of your eternal safety through Christ Jesus, understand that you are on the way to palaces and thrones. This life a span long, ending in durations of bliss that neither human nor arch angelic faculties can measure or esti- mate-redolence of a springtime that never ends and fountains tossing in the light of a sun that never sets. May God thrill us with anticipation of this immortal glee! (Which hope"
 I said in the opening of this subject that my text was only the wave on the beach, while the whole verse from which it is taken is an ocean. But the ocean tides are coming in, and the sea is getting so deep I must fall back, wading out as I waded in, for what mortal can stand before the mighty surges of the full tide of eternal glad ness? Eye hath not seen nor ear heard; neither hath entered into the