St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-01-10

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! ever inch OF the way. He knew the
Fathers House was eternal in tho
Heavens, and that there was a place
there for him. Jesus said He was
going there, and that the disciples
knew the way thither. Immediately
Thomas began to look around in his
own heart for the light that would
lead him to the Fathers House
Questionings always come from with.
In, but if they are honest questions.
with eager yearning after the truth
then Jesus always answers them.
Have you doubts and questionings
in your heart, o soul? Go to Jesus
with them. Don't seek for the light
that can chase away all the dark
clouds of unbelief anywhere but in
the presence of the Son of God, for
it you do the clouds will gather
thicker and blacker about your soul
and you will never find the blessed
Way to the Fathers House. But if
the eye of faith looking up sees the
eternal reality of the Fathers House
and longs to plant it's feet within its
pearly gates, then Jesus will turn to
such an one, as He turned to Thomas,
and say: "Why, dear heart, l am
the Way to the Fathers House. Do
not look within for thy way. Fix
your eyes on Me, for l am the Way,
and the Truth and the Life: no man
cometh unto the Father but by Me. -
An Unerring Guide.-During the
years following the great gold dis
coveries in California caravan after
caravan of eager seekers after the
yellow metal threaded their way across
the great trackless plains of the
west. Frontiersmen who could pilot
safely through the wide stretch of
wilderness and lead paft the dangers
of the hostile Indian country were in
demand. The question always ask
by the cautious traveller was: "Have
you been over the route before?" To
have learned the landmarks that
made the way certain to the desired
haven, and to have found out the
perils of the journey and be able to
guard against the lurking foe, were
qualifications in the guide which
made his services always in demand.
But let the incautious emigrant trust
himself to the leadership of an in
competent guide, or let him attempt
to make the journey alone, and ten
chances to one his bleaching bones
would be found later on the prairie,
silent and CHASTITY witnesses against
his mad folly.
= In the journey from earth to the
fathers House a competent Guide is
needed to safely pilot the soul over
the desert wastes of the earthly pill
grimage, and around the hostile coun-
try. One who can always perceive
the presence of the lurking foe and
guard against his attack. Would you
dare to trust yourself in the hands
of one who has not been over the
way, who does not know every inch
of the way, or would you in mad folly
dare to attempt the journey alone?
Oh, soul, mark the sad wrecks by the
roadside of life of those who have
chosen a false guide or who have at
tempted the journey alone! Let the
rafting bones and the grinning skulls
bear their message of solemn warn
ing to your soul, that you can never
safely make the journey from earth
to Heaven without you trust yourself
in the hands of the unerring Guide,
Who is known as Christ Jesus, the
Way.
"The Way" Not ga Way."-The Way
came from the Father, and The Way
led back to the Father. Every road,
every pathway has it's distinctive
landmarks by which it is identified,
and the point to which - leads made
plain and certain. The pathway of
the human will leads away from God.
It's landmarks are found in the
wrecked lives, satisfied longings
and desires, its restless seeking after
every conceivable and inconceivable
thing in the world, while the soul
sickens and dies. But the pathway of
eternal hope leads through Jesus,
the Way, and the landmarks that
make it bright and shining Way are
the expressions of the Fathers will
in the cradle, the cross and the tomb.
The cradle that received Gods gift to
the world of Saviour. The cross of
sacrifice, on which the Lamb of God.
the Sinless One. suffered 'or the sins
of the world. The tomb of hope from
which the Son of God came forth a
triumphant Victor over death. And
you, oh, soul, must pass over this Way
if you would make a safe journey and
gain the eternal joy and rest and Sc
curity of the Fathers House. Put
your hand in the clasp of the Unerring
Guide, enter through the gateway of
the cross, bury in the tomb the dead
self and rise to newness of life in
Christ Jesus. Then will your Guide,
The Way, safely and surely lead your
feet through the journey of life to the
Fathers House.
The Eternal Rock.-Like an ever
lasting mountain lifting its snow
capped peaks into the vast reaches of
the limitless expanse of the heavens,
Truth lays it's foundations in the be-
ginning with God, and towering from
everlasting to everlasting, reaches on
and up through the unending
stretches of eternity. Plate asked:
'What is truth?" His gaze was so
steadfastly fixed into the devils
chasms of unbklief and untruth that
the high-rearing peaks of Truth could
not fall athwart his vision. The mole
burrowing through the black, dark
earth might hear the sunbeam dane
ing on the glad soil above his sightless
ewes and ask: "What is ight?' and
there would be more hope of leading
him to understand what light was
than to lead the Pilates of the world,