The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-03

AnnOYanCGS from appreciating the sweet influences. I And how many of these last there are! l Sweet influences of home.- however plain 1t may be! That is the harbor into which Il we sail. That is the goal for which we run. That Is the place where we rest. There abide all confidence and affections. There we lay out our plans. There we extend our sympathies. There we talk [ over our successes. There We unload our griefs. Its four walls shut out prying l and inquisitive world. Thank God for home in which we now live. the home in | which we expect to dte!
 The wife's Influence. !.
 Not sufficiently do we recognize the sweet influences of the wife. We men are of a 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- take back. It is to change this that the | good wife comes in. The interests of the | twain are identical That which from ard tc be resented becomes kindly sug- | gesticns, sweet influences that make | us better men than we otherwise would
 %Ye The % iast % chapter ro of o@ Proverbs i recog- | nizes the good wifes influence when it | says, Her husband is known in the | gates when he sitteth among the elders | of the iand"-that is, his apparel indi- | cstes that he has scme one to look af- | ter his wardrobe. and his manners show that he is under refining influences at | home. But no one fully appreciates the | sweet influences of the wife until the l dark day comes and the slight symptoms become serious and the serious phases of | temperature is 106 and medical ingenu- | ity is exhausted and you are told for | your consolation that while there IS | there N no hope at all. and the precious l life 1utters and Is gone and you must I put out ,6f sight the one who from the blossoms under the marriage bell had | been to you more than all the world besides. Then you realize as never be- fore what had been the sweet influences: have behaved ourselves tolerably well. | we have friends. In our days of mirth they come with their congratulations. In times of sorrow they come with ex- pressions of solace. In times of per- plexity they. rome with their advice. | They are with us at weddings and at they find it out. and our frailties theX overlook or excuse. If something ap- pears asainst us. they say, Wait till l befall us. we know from whom would | come the first condolence-familx friends, church friends. business friends, lifelong friends. In our heart of hearts we cherish them.
 Sweet influences of our holy religion. | surrounded as we are by all the ameni- ties of Christian society; men and women men
 
 | power of the gospel! Sweet influences of the Sabbath, ffty-two of them chim- ing their joy into every year! Sweet in-
 fiuences of the Scriptures, with their balm for all wounds and their light for | every darkness! When the heirs of vast estate in England wished to estab- GOO. 900, they offered a reward of $500 for the recovery of an old Bible, the family | record of which contained the evidence requisite. But any Bible new or old, can help us to a vaster inheritance than the one spoken of, one that never fades away.
 The World of Reunion.
 The sweet influences of the heavenly a long while was Alcyone. the center of the constella ton of the Pleiades. world of our future residence. as we hope: | world of chorus and illumination. world of reunion, world where we shall be | everlastingy complete. world where our
 old faculties will be intensified and quick ened and new faculties implanted world of high association with Christ, through
 whose grace We got there at all. and
 apostles ard poets-Habakkuk and St
 John of Patm0s and Edward Young, his day, and Horatius Bonar of modern
 hymno logy and Hannah Moro and Mr3 | Sigcurney, who struck their harps till
 nations listened, and David, the victor
 over Goliath with what seemed insuffi-
 cient weapons, and Joshua of the br0-
 longed day in Gideon, and Haveiock. |
 of men of the sword who fought on the
 right, side. What company to move in!
 What guests to entertainl What person,
 ages to visit! What choirs to chant! What banquets with lifted chalices filled
 with "the new wine of the kingdom!' | What victories to celebrate!
 The stories of that world and its holy
 hilarities come in upon our soul some
 times in song, sometimes in sermon.
 sometimes in hours of solitary reflection. and they are, to use the words of my irofI EIlf fd nnn star that affects us more with its sweet influences than the center star, the All cyone of the Pleiades, and that is what one Bible author calls thA Star of Jacob nd another Bible author calls the Morn-
 ing Star Of all the sweet influences that have ever touched our earth those that radiate from Christ are the sweet est, Born an Asiatic villager in a me chanic's home, living more among ham, mers and saws and planes than among books, yet at twelve years of age con founding robed ecclesiastics and starting out on a mission under which those born | without optic nerve took in the clear daylight, and those afflicted with unre-
 sponsive tympanum were made to hear. and those almost doubled up with de-
 formities were straightened into grace
 full boise, and the lepreus became rubl-
 cund. and the widows only son ex- i, changed the bier on which he1ay lifeless for the arms of his overjoyed mother, } and pronouncing nine benedictions or , the Mount of Beatitudes and doing deeds and speaking words which are ! filling the centuries with sweet inhu ences Christ started every ambulance.
 kindled every electric ray, spread every . soft hospital pillow and introduced all ) the aleviations and qualifications and . rescues and mercies of all time. He
 was the loVeliest being who ever trod , cur earth, more beauty in His eye, more 7 tenderness in his manner, more gentle . ness in His footstep, more music Tn .H Ills ' footstep more dignity In His brow, more gracefulness in the locks that rolled ! upon His shoulders, more compassion In ; His soul. ! Sweet influences of the Holy Ghost, ! with all His transforming and comfort ing and emanclpating power! when . that power is fully felt, there will be no more sins to pardon and no more wrongs
 to correct and no more sorrows to ccm-
 fort and no more bondage to break But
 as the old time ship captains watched
 gation and set sail in Mediterranean Wa
 ters but were sure to get back Into port
 before the constellation Orion came into
 sight, the season of cyclone ana hurrl-
 cane, so there is a time to sal Tor
 Heaven, and that is while the sweet ln- huences are upon us and De1ore the l storms overtake the delay. open all your d soul to the light and warmth ana com bfort andsinspiration of that goSpeI iH,ta Mhlcn lIhas already people Heaven with mlIlons tof the rans,omed and is helping other , millions to that glorious destinatlon. DO not postpone the things of God ana eter-
 nity till the storms of life sWoop ana
 the aEitaticns of a great future are up Ion us. Do not dare wait unul Orion
 takes the place of the Plelades,, Meis1 B