The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-09-11

asked God to do as He would regarding ii
and the tree became thing of beauty.
When you have crossed the ocean have
you not as you studied the captains chart
seen the little zg-zag lines running north
and south, and have you not sometimes
wondered how it was that we could reach
home in that fashion, but when the jour.
ney is ended we find that every Cos
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,
Whereon 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 a way Of making lives over.
First, by outer circumstances, like the
potter's wheel, such as trials and disap
continents.
Second, by His own word. II 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
ceanses 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. DR.. Arthur Z. Pierson
;ells 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 inestimable value to the
porcelain which is still in existence, and
chat 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 YVES sup.
planter and cheat; he stole his brothers
birthright and deceived his father, but by
the power of God he became Israel, the
prince. and all because he and God met at
jabbok's Ford, and God touched him and
he limped away from weakness to power.
Michael Angelo was banished from
France, but afterward they wanted him to
return. They wished him to take a block
gates of the city, and fashion il into some
masterpiece, and Michael Angelo came
back to the city, and ont 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 affliction sometimes and
the touch of disappointment again has
made many a life over. May He make
yours?
Second-Elijah. He was man Of like
passions with ourselves and came from a
rugged country but God made his passions
and his appetites to be like horses to his
chariot by means of which he was trans.
lated. and he will make the weakness of
your life to be power ii You will let Him.
Third-Paul. His was bitter nature
and his spirit that Of a prosecutor. He
hears of few Christians in Dan, and hur-
ries away that he may cast them into pri-
son, and from the man of bitterness and
prejudice he is changed into the little old
man a prisoner in Rome who cries out, 81
know whom ] have believed and am per.
suaded that He is able to keep that which
! have committed unto Him against that
day" and all because he had found Christ.
When the children of Israel made their
way across the land they came to the
waters of Mara. which We're very bitter.
They were all but dying of thirst, but
Moses cast the wood of q certain tree into
the waters and they became sweet. Into
Paul's life had been pressed the principles
to be done, and he was made happy.
Fourth-Peter. He was a man of weak.
ness, but transfgured into a man OF
strength. He was ignorant, but he writes
the Epistle that stands as his monument
in the purest Greek of the New Testa.
ment, and all because he added Christ to
his life. So it is not question as to who
we are or what we have been, but whether
we are united to Him.
1t is said that Ole Bul was making his
way at one time through one of the great
American forests, and he came upon a hut
in which dwelt hermit. He had left his
city home because disappointed in bust
ness, and had been living alone for years,
his only companion being his old violin,
on which he could play a few homely
pieces of music. Ole Bull stopped in the
hut over night, and in the shade of the fire.
light, to entertain his guest, the old her.
NIT took down his violin and played the
simple pieces with which he had whilcd
away his long hours of loneliness. When
he had finished playing the great musician
asked him if he thought he could play. The
reply was, 81 hardly think it possible; it
took me years to learn, and yet" said he,
you might try" and so the great violin.
lst took the instrument, drew his bow
across the strings and instantly the room
was filed with harmony. He played
America" and "Home, Sweet Home"
until tne ola hermit SODDed ike a child,
and then putting. the instrument back
again IN its place the old hermit was made
to understand that he was in the presence
of the greatest violinist of the day But
what difference of the violin when in the
hands of the hermit and in the hands of
the master. The tones Of one were any.
thing but complete: the music of the mas.
ter was perfect, and so it is not so much
question as to what our lives have been,
nor what we are ourselves, but altogether
the question is as to whether we are con.
troled absolutely by Christ. This is the
surrendered life.
Bear Ye One Another's Burdens.