Woodruff County news., 1901-11-02

tress have been hoisted and the life 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 Di- vine power will overcome the de- moniac. man, o woman, expand your idea and know the magnitude of a 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 I am now mentioning. My 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 ratifica- tion of all evil as though looking out of my window to-day saw the parks and the gardens Towering into anoth- CT 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 ities 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 1 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 lion has been overcome by a gnat. The little stinging annoyances of life keep us from appreciating the sweet influences. And how many of these last there are! Sweet influences of home, however plain it may be! That is the harber 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. It's four walls shut out a 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 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 oth- erwise would have been or could have been.
 The sweet influences of the heavenly world, which many wise men thought for a long while was Alcyon the cen- ter of the constellation of the Plei- ades. world of our future residence, as we hope; world of chorus and il- lumination, world of reunion, world where we shall be everlastingly com plete, world where our old faculties will be intensified and quickened and new faculties implanted, world of high associa tion with Christ, through whose grace we got there at all, and apostles and poets-Ha bakkuk and St. John, of Patmos, and Edward Young, his Might Thoughts turned into eternal day; and Horatius Bonar, of modern hymnology; and Hannah More, and Mrs. Hemans and Mrs. Sigourney, who struck their harps till nations lis tened; and David, the victor over Go Hath with what seemed insufficient weapons; and Joshua, of the pro- longed day in Gibeon; and Havelock, the evangelist hero, and those thou- sands of men of the sword who fought on the right side. What company to move in. What guests to entertainl What personages to visit! What choirs to chant! What banquets with lifted chalices filled with "the new wine of the kingdom!" What victories to celebrate!
 Sweet influences of the Holy Ghost, with all His transforming and conn fortingand emancipatingpower! When that power is fully felt, there will be no more sins to pardon and no more wrongs tn correct and no more sor- rows to comfort and no more bondage to break. But as the oldtime ship captains watched the rising of the Pleiades for safe navigation and set sail in Mediterranean waters, but were sure to get back into port before the constellation Orion came into sight, the season of cyclone and hurri-