The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1902-02-07

Tins OF chloral and morphine. Sleepless-
ness IS an Amercan disorder, III Il has
not touched YOU and YOU can rest for seven
or eight hours without waklng-if for that
length Of time IN every twenty-tour hours
YOU can be free ot All care and worriment
and your nerves are retuned and Your
limbs escape from al fatigue and the ris.
ing sun finds YOU a new man, body. mind
and Soul-you have an advantage that
ought 20 be put IN prayer and song and
ConCratulatlon.
The French financier, almost wealthy
enough TO purchase a kingdom, but the
victim OF insomnia. wrote. NO slumher
10 he bought IN any market lie was
right. Sleep Is gratuity from Him who
never sleeps oh. The feheitioS of slumberl
Let all who have this real hcuCiaotlon Gel
citrate it, This ls one of the sweetest
strings in all the instrument of ten strings.
Further, let us gratefully acknowledge
the power of physical locomotion, To
be able TO 90 where we wish and all un-
aided-what \ kindness What multitudcs
have 10 call IN the and of cane aud crutch
and invalid's chair and their whole lie
Is Underwent How hard ia get about
with ack Of strong and healthy and sup
pie limbs, Congratulated ought YOU all 20
be If YOU have the usual physical endow.
mCnt. and sympathzcd with ought all
those 20 be who can neither walk nor
climb nor enter upon any great activities.
That Is one ot the thousands of reasons
why | hate war with a complete hatred.
As long as YOU collect vast dividends
and nave health jocund and popularity un-
bounded YOU will have crowds of seeming
friends. but let bankruptcy and Invalid
ism and defamation come, and the mum.
Der OF your friends will be niuety.tive per
cent. Off Ii YOU have been through some
great crisis and YOU have one friend left
. N.,l % Il
est harpstring,
While all this is So says some one.
there are so many things that others
have which | have not | reply. II is not
what we get. but what we are, that de.
cides our happiness With the bare neces-
sites of life many are unspcakably happy,
while others with all the luxuries are i'm
presentations of misery. In the Roman
empire there was no man more wretchCd
than the Nero who ruled il The porticoes
of his palace were a mile long. A statue
of him in silver and gold 40 feet high
stood IN the vestibule. The walls of his
palace were mother of pearl and IVORY
The ceiling was arranged 10 shower flow
ers and pour perfumes upon the guests
He wardrobe was 50 large that he never
wore a garment twice. His mules were
gold \ thousand carriages accompanied
him when he travelled. His crown was
worth $500 600. He had everything but
happiness. That never came. Your heart
right, all Is right; your heart wrong, all
rs wrong
But we must tighten the cords OF our
harp and retune /; while We celebrate Cos
pei advantages. The highest style OF civ.
ilzation the world has ever seen is Amer.
lean civilization. and IT is built out of the
gospel of pardon and good morals. That
gospel rocked our cradle, and II will epi.
taph our grave Ii soothes our sorrows
brightens our hopes, inspires our courage,
forgives our sins and saves our souls. IL
takes q man who il all wrong and makes
him all right What that gospel has done
for you and me rs n story that we can
never fully tell
What it has done for the world and will
yet do for the nations it viii take the thou.
sand years OF the millennium TO celebrate
The grandest churches are vet TO be built
The mightiest anthems are yet To bo
hoisted. The greatest victories are yet To
be gained. The most beautiful Madonnas
are yet to be painted. The most trium.
pbant professions are yet 10 march.
Oh. what a world this will be when IL
rotates in it's orbit n redeemed planet
girdled with spontaneous harvests and
enriched by orchards whose fruits are
speckless and redundant. and the last pain
will have been banished and the last tear
wept and the last groan uttered. and there
shall be nothing 10 hurt or destroy IN all
Gods holy mountain! All that and more
will come TO pass, for "the mouth OF the
Lord hath spoken IL.
So far | have mentioned nine Of the ten
rtrings Of the instrument OF gratitude. j
now come TO the tenth and the last
mention IL last that II may be the more
memorable-heavenly anticipation. BY the
grace o. God we are gong to move into n
place so much better than this that on ar
irving we viii wonder that We were for 20
many years so loath TO make the transfer
After we have seen Christ face TO face and
reioiccd over our departed kindred there
are some mighty spirits we will want 10
meet soon after we pass through the gates
We want TO see and will see David, a
mightier king IN heaven than he ever was
on earth. and we will talk with him about
psalmody and get from him exactly what
he meant when he talked about the lnstru.
Wcnt of ten strings We viii confront
No.cs, who viii tell OF the law Civl5o~ on
rocking Sinai and Of his mysterious burial,
with no one bat God present
We will see Joshua, and he will tell us
Of the coming down Of the walls Of Jeri.
chO at the blast nj the rams horn and cx.
plain TO "a that miracc-how the sun and
moon could stand still without demolition
oi the planetary aystcm.
We will see Ruth and have her tell Of
'.Ic harvest fed Of Boa2. ~ which she
cleaned fer afflicted Naomi We viii see
Nashti and hear from her own lips the
story Of her banishnent from the Persian
palace by Infamous Ahasuerus.
We viii see Paul and hear from him
how Felix trombcd before hln and the
audience of skeptics on Mars Hill were
coniounded by his rermon on the brother.
hood OF man. what he faw at Ephesus and
Syracuse and Philppi and Rome and how
dark was the Ma ucftinc dungeon and how
sharp the axe that behoadcd him on the
road 20 Osta. Yea, wc will see all the
maTtyrs, the yictlm0 Of axe and sword and
fire and biilOw What q thrill OF excite
mcnt for us when we ga-e upon the heroes
and herolnes who gave their lives for the
truth.
We will see the ro-7el rroc'aimcrs Chry.
sostom and Bourdalous and Whitcfcld,
and the Wesleys and John Knox. We
viii see the great Christian poets, Milton
and Dante and Watt. and Mrs Hcnans
and Frances Havergai Yea, all the de-
parted Chri tian men and Tomel Of what
ever age or nation.
Eut there viii b. one focus toward
which all eyes win be- directed. His in.
fancy having slept o. pillow oi straw; all
the hates Of the Hercdic Government plan.
ming for His ags3ssina non: ~ after time
whipped a. though lie were a criminal;
asleep on the cod mOvut1Ins because no
one offered Him \ lodging; though the
greatest being who ever touched our earth,
dcrisiyeiy called chs io,,ow;" His last
hours writing ~ sJIErg ~ Infinite tor
turc, His laccratcd for. prt ~ gepuicher,
then rea9lmated and asccHdcd q be the
centre OF all heavenly aLmiration-uJo
that greatest martyr and m'zhties, hero
oi az the centuries VIC viii be- permitted %
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