Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-03-21

az tne Otner story, Il saw a new heaven
and new earth"
The old mans hand trembles as he turns
over this apocalyptical leaf, and he has
to take out his handkerchief to wine he
spectacles. The book of Revelation is a
prospectus now of the country into which
ne Is soon to immigrate,. the country in
which he has lots already laid out and
avenues opened and mansions built.
1t Is trouble, my friends, that makes us
feel our dependence upon God. We do
not know our own weakness or Gods
strength until the last plank breaks 1t is
Is nothing else to take hold of we catch
hold OF God. Why, do you know who the
Lord is! He is not an autocrat seated
far up In palace, from which He emerges
once year, preceded by heralds swinging
swords to clear the way. No; He is a
father, willing at our call to stand by us
IN every crisis and predicament of life l
tell you what some of you business men
make me think of. A man is unfortunate
IN his business. He has to raise a good
deal OF money and raise it quickly He
horrows on word and note all he can bor-
row; After while he puts mortgage on
his house; after a while he puts a second
mortgage on his house. Then he puts a
hen on his furniture; then he makes over
his life insurance; then he assigns all his
in-law and asks for help. We'll,
having failed everywhere, completely
and afa says sts ford down hhHe hs tnsss tpss
everybody and everything; now help me
out of this financial troubled" He makes
God the last resort instead of the first re-
sort.
A young man goes off from home to earn
his fortune. He goes with his mothers
consent and benediction. She has large
wealth, but he wants to make his own
fortune. He goes far away, falls sick and
frot out of L. 1. e. Al / 4
keeper where. he is staying, asking for le-
nience, and the answer he gets is, ''If you
do not pay up Saturday night you'll be re-
moved to the hospital" The young man
sends to a comrade in the same building;
no help. He writes to banker who was
a friend OF his deceased father; no relief.
Saturday night comes, and he is moved to
the hospital. Getting here, he is frenzied
with grief, and he borrows a sheet OF
paper and q postage stamp, and he sits
down, and he writes home: Dear mother,
l am sick unto death. Come" 1t is twen-
letter. At 10 o'clock the train starts. She
is five minutes from the depot. She gets
there in time to have five minutes to
spare. She wonders why the train that
can 60 forty miles an hour cannot go
eighty miles an hour. She rushes into the
all this mean? Why did you not send for
me! You sent to everybody but me. You
knew L would and could help you. Is this,
the reward l get for my kindness to you
always?" She bundles him up, takes him
home and gets him we'll very soon.
Now, some of you treat God Just as that
young man treated his mother When you
| get into financial perplexity you call on
| the, banker, you call on the broker, you
| call on your creditors, you call on your
lawyer for legal counsel, you call upon
| everybody, and when you, cannot get any
help, then you &C, to God. You say, 20
of my perplexity." And the Lord comes,
though it is in the eleventh hour. He
| says: why did you not send for Me be-
fore? As one whom his mother comfort
eth so will | comfort you" 1t is to throw
us back upon God that we have this minis
| try of tears.
Your troubles are educational l go
into the Office of lapidary an artifcer in
precious stones, and | see him at work on
one precious stone for a few minutes, and
he puts it aside finished. | see him take
up another precious stone, and he works
on that all the afternoon, and l come in
the next day and still find him working on
1T, and he Is at work on it all the week.
l say to him, why did you put only
twenty minutes work on that one precious
stone o., ana put, whole week on this
other?o "Oh," be says, that one upon
which | put only, twenty minutes work is
of but little worth and I soon got through
with it. But this precious stone upon
which l have put such prolonged and care
| full work is of vast value, and it is to flash
in kings coronet." So God lets one man
go through life with only a little cutting
| of misfortune, for he does not amount to
much, he is a small soul and of compara-
lively little value, but this other is Of
great worth, and it is cut of pain, and cut
| OF bereavement, and cut of persecution
and cut of all kinds of trouble, and
through many years, and l ask, Dear
Lord, why all this prolonged and severe
infinite value, and it is to fash in a king s
coronet. He shall be Mine in the day
when | make up My jewels"
You know, on a Widespread table the
food becomes more delicate at the last
| have fed you to-day with the bread of con-
ISOLATION. Let the table now be cleared.
and let us set on the chalice of heaven.
Let the Kings cupbearers come in. oh"
says some critic in the audience, ''the
Bible contradicts itself. 1t intimates again
and again that there are to be no tears
in heaven, and if there he no tears in heav
en- how is it possible that God will wipe
any awayy l answer, Have you never
seen child crying one moment and laugh
| ing the next and while she was laughing
you saw the tears still on her face?' And
perhaps you stopped her in the very midst
| of her resumed glee and wiped off those
| utidNcu tears. co tItHh dlttT tue HedS-
enly raptures have come upon us there
may be the mark of some earthly grief,
and while these tears are glittering in the
light of the jasper sea God will wipe them
away. How well He can do that!
| Friends, if we could get any apprecia-
tion of what God has in reserve for US, it
would make us so homesick we would be
unfit for our everyday work. Professor
Leonard, formerly of Iowa University, put
in my hands meteoric stone. stone
! thrown off from some other world to this
| How suggestive 1t was to me! And have
| to tell you the best representations We
have OF heaven are only aerolites flung off
from that world which rolls on, bearing
| the multitude of the redeemed. We ana
| lyze these aerolites and find them crystal
| iZations of tears. No wonder, flung off
from heaven God shall wipe away all
tears from their eyes"
Have you any appreciation OF the good
| and glorious times your friends are having
in heaven? How different it is when they
| get news there of Christians death from
what it is here! 1t is the difference be-
| tween emharkation and coming into port.
Everything depends upon which side OF
| the river you stand when you hear of a
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