The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-01-10

Pr1ising God In Song.
Let one Of these starveling fancy
songs sung in church get up before the
throne of Goo, how would 1t look stand
ing amid the great doxologies Of the
redeemed! Let the finest operatic air
that ever went up from the church of
Christ get many hours the start. it
will be caught and past by the hosanna
OF the Sabbath school children. l know
church where the choir did all the
singing, save one Christian man who,
through perseverance Of the saints,
went right on, and afterward COM
mittee was appointed to wait on him
and ask him if he would not please to
stop singing, as it bothered the
choir.
Let those refuse to sing
Who never knew our God,
But children Of the heavenly King
Should speak their joys abroad"
Praise we the Lord; let everything
with breath praise the Lord" In the
glorious time coming in our cities and
IN the world hosanna will meet ho-
sauna and hallelujah hallelujah.
The Machinery of Love.
He goes on and gives plates of the
machinery by which this work is to be
done, and he says he only needs at the
start a company in which the shares
shall be $40 each, and a hundred or
two hundred thousand shall be raised
just to make a specimen community,
and then, this being formed, the world
will see its practicability, and very
soon E, 100000 or s3,OOO,OO0 can be OBJ
tanned, and in ten years the whole
earth will be emparadised The plan
is not so preposterous as some have
heard of. but will take no stock in
that company. do not believe it will
ever be done in that way by any me-
chanical force or by any machinery
that the human mind can put into play.
It is to be done by the gospel of the
Son of God-the omnipotent machinery
of love and grace and pardon and sal
walton. That is to emparadise the ma
lions. Archimedes destroyed a fleet of
ships coming up the harbor. You
know how he did it? He lifted great
sunglass, history tells us, and when the
fleet of ships came up the harbor of
Syracuse he brought to bear his sun
glass, and he converged the suns rays
upon those ships. Now, the sails are
wings Of fire, the masts fall, the YES
sells sink. Oh, my friends, by the sun
glass of the gospel converging the rays
of the Sun of Righteousness upon the
sins, the wickedness of the world, we
will make them blaze and expire!
Gods Omnipotent Love.
Gods love will yet bring back this
ruined world to holiness and happiness
An infinite Father bends over it in
sympathy. And to the orphan he will
be father. and to the widow he will
be husband. and to the outcast he
will be home, and to the poorest
wretch that today crawls out Of the
ditch OF his denominations, crying for
mercy, he will be an all pardoning Re-
deemer. The rocks will turn gray with
age, the forests will be unmoored in
the hurricane, the sun will shut its
fiery eyelid, the stars will drop like
blasted. figs, the sea will heave its last
groan and lash itself in expiring agony,
the continents will drop like anchors
in the deep, the world will wrap itself
in sheet of flame and leap on the flu
neral pyre. of the judgment day but
Gods love will never die. 1t shall
kindle its suns after ali other lights
have gone out. 1t will be billowing
sea after all other oceans have wept
themselves away. 1t will warm itself
by the blaze Of consuming world. It
will sing while the archangels trumpet
peals and the air is filled with the crash
of breaking sepulchers and the rush of
the wings of the rising dead. Oh, COM
mend that love to all the cities, and
the morning without clouds will come
Like Hopeless Task.
/ know that sometimes it seems q
hopeless task. You toll on in different
spheres, sometimes with great discoul-
agement. People have no faith and
say: 1T does not amount to anything.
You might as well quit that" Why,
when Moses stretched his hand over
the Red sea. 1t did not seem to mean
anything. especially. People came out,
/ suppose. and said, "Aha!" Some OF
them found out what he wanted to do.
He wanted the sea parted. It did not
amount to anything, this stretching
out Of his hand over the sea. But after
awhile the wind blew all night from
the east, and the waters were gather
ed into a glittering palisade on either
side, and the pillows reared as God
pulled back on their crystal bits. Wheel
into line, Q Israel! March, march!
Pearls crashed under feet. Flying spray
gathers into rainbow arch of victory
for the conquerors to march under.
Shout q hosts on the beach answering