Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1902-09-11

wondered now IL was InaJ we COulu lSaCh
home in that fashion, but when the jour.
new is ended we find that every dot
marked the progress OF the homeward
Journey, and when we reach heaven and
enter the graft room of the sky we shall
find that every line led homeward and
things we could not understand pointed
heavenly.
"The years of man are the looms of God,
Let down from the place of the sun.
Wherein we are weaving hearts,
Till the mystic web is done.
And when the task is ended,
And the web is turned and shown.
He shall hear the voice of the Master,
1t shall say to him, We'll done"
God has way of making lives over.
First, by outer circumstances, like the
potter's wheel, such as trials and disap-
pointments.
Second, by His own word. 1t is called
the light, and light reveals imperfections;
it is called the fire, and fire purges the
dross; it is described as water, and water
cleanses all displacements it is said to be
hammer and the hammer in the hands of
the artist fashioned the angel from the
block of marble. DIR. Arthur Il. Pierson
tells of the potter who was seeking to make
porcelain for the kings palace, was greatly
discouraged in the work and in desperation
threw himself into the fire. and there was
something about the burning of his own
body that gave an incstimabc value to the
porcelain which is still in existence, and
that is the value of this book. God threw
Himself into it in the person of His own
Son, and no man can read it without feel
ing His power.
There are some lives mentioned in the
Bible which have really been made over
again like the clay in the hands OF the pot
ter.
First -- Jacob. BY nature he was a sup
planter and a cheat; he stole his brothers
hirthright and deceived his father. but by
the power of God he became Israel. the
prince and all because he and God met at
Jabbol's Ford, and God touched him and
he limpcd away from weakness to power
Michael Angelo was banshed from
France, but afterward they wanted him to
return. They wished him to take block
of marble, which had been lying at the
gates of the city. and fashion it into some
masterpiece, and Michael Angelo came
back to the city, and out of the piece of
marble that had been lying for years in the
dirt of the city he made his David, which
is his masterpiece in many respects. God
by the touch of affection sometimes and
the touch of disappointment again has
made many a life over. May lie make
yours?
Sccond-Eljah. He was a man Of like
passions with ourselves and came from Il
rugged country. but God made his passions
and his appet'tcS to he IKE horses I" ms
chariot by means OF Whlch he was trans
lated, and he will make the weakness OF
your life to be power II You VIII let Inn.
Ihlrd-Panl. tls was Dttcr nature
and his spirit that OF prosecutor; ne
hears OF few CHRISTIANS IN ian, ana muir
RES away that he may cast them INTO rrl,
son, and from the man OF lQttcrness and
prejudice he is changed INTO the Iit!e o,d
Know whom J have beheNei ana am per
sundcd that lie is able to keep that winch
have computed unto ifIn against tsat
day, and all because he had tound 'hrlSt.
When the children OF israel made thrIr
way across the land they came to the
waters OF Mara, winch were. very bitter.
They were all but dying OF thirst, but
Moses cast the wood OF certain tree lnlo
the waters and they became sweet. Into
Paul lllc had beer, pressed the prmcip'cs
OF the cross; not fiIs will; but Gods was
to ne done, and he was made happy.
Fonrth-Pfter. lie was man OF weak:
ness, but TRANSPORTED INTO man "t
strength. he was ignorant, but ne writes
the hp's,le tn"f stands as b ms m" mo- yrl',
IN the purcSt creek OF the New irsta-
ment, and all because he added Christ to
his HE 50 II Is not question MS TO VINO
we are or what we have been, but whether
we are united to INN.
IL Is said that Dle l'ul was making MS
way at one time through one OF the great
American forests, ana n" came upon a nut
N which dWclt hermit lite had lett ms
city home because disappointed III busi'