Milford chronicle., 1904-06-24

fall in time before a mortal foe. Eve
monster leader Of the elephantine her
every shaggy named Bengal kin
must die violent death. So dies Il
dog: but, thank God, 50 does not die Il
Christian.
Sometimes tits true that the body
man may die the death Of dog. bl
the Christian has hope in his dealt
Though his body perish in battle or
accident. though it may be crushed q
burned. so that it cannot be recognized
/ his soul is safe. He has the cOnsciOu,
ness that Christ is able to keep tha
which has been committed TO him AM
whatever may befall the body the sou
will be preserved.
John B. Cough in one Of his wonder
full lectures gives description Of the
remarkable escape of his father who
was an old English soldier, from dying
a horrible death. 1t was during the
famous Franco English war Of lSO9
when the British troops were retreat
ing before lightning h1rSed Marshal
Soult Hungry and faint and sick
from exposure and lack of food and
also from loss of Lio0d from wound
in the chest. young Cough staggered
plong with his regiment as long as he
could and then fell by the roadside TO
die He must die. said his son 1t
seemed inevitable that he must die.
Suddenly, as he lay upon the ground,
a large bird Of prey with a red neck
growing out of a rutIle of feathers,
came swooping along almost touching
my fathers body with its wings, and
then circling up. it alighted on point
Of rock and turned its blood red eye
OG its intended victim. As my father
saw that horrible thing watching and
to tear him in pieces, even be-
fore life was extinct, it so filed him
With horror that he cried: 1 cannot
endure this. When l am unable TO
lrive that fearful thing away, it will /
De tearing my flesh He rose TO his /
Get and crawled and struggled on till .
t length he crept into hut and found
afety." The death which menaced
hat wounded man is the death which
waits the eastern dog. When he is
of defending himself he is
Drn to pieces. Men, too. have per-
she'd through the vindctiye passions
their fellows. Some have been cru
fled. as was Christ; some have been
oned, as was stephen; some have
cen beheaded, MS was Paul: some have
zen burned mt the stake as were Rid
y and Latimer. But how different
as their future from that of the dog.
rom out those crushed and mutllated
'dies the martyr spirits have gone
redeemed and glorifed, to dwell
rever before the throne.
A Legend OF King solomon.
D We mortalS. destined to live for
or either in bliss or in misery. does
I the offer that Christ makes YOU
r your desire for salvation? Accept
: proffered gift, and then, be your
d what it may. your being rooted
from this world. with its bitter
tits Of sorrow and pain and misery.
] mean nothing more than your be-
, transplanted into that supernal
'den in which you will grow and
lrish and bear fruit to the honor
l glory Of God. There is an old leg
that when King Solomon was a
one day he begged his teacher to
w him miracle. Nathan thrust
finger into the soil and droDped
rein little seed. Immediately that
I began to sprOut. While the lad
ied on the two little green leaves
W into a round stem. Then the
Il swelled out with the trunk of n
% tree. Then the tree, like the
en branches. became like the seven
llesticks of the altarS." and tbe
IS Of the air flew into those branch.
md builded there their nests and
ed their young While he looked
blossoms grew upon that tree. and
those blossoms were changed into
deep rich red fruit which bmshed
the glow Of the setting sun. That
errly legend, but there is real
Gle which can be worked i'm vour
Infinitely greater than young Sol
IS supposed to have seen
g seed of eternal life planted bv
Holy Spirit in your heart can
ge your whole nature. Instead Of
qualities which degrade Won to
evel Of the brutes. instead Of the
i propensitips which distort and
m your being, there shall grow
that divine seed plant Of beauty
'ful and glorious with heavenly =
ness and eternal in ever deyelon. Hon
fe. "Ne shall be like tree Dlant. ~
the rivers Of water that bringeth Kf
ITS fruit in its season. ana what At
r We doeth shall prosper" What
lr choice? win you live a life Of
Wand usefulness. Il life patterned man
at diyin" life which Christ lived lhSB
'th ending in triumphant r4sur.
H. or will you choose the wick
$ The vice. tho corruption. of the
. feeling like The eastern dog on h I
'rri"h ct life anl becoming in
i'"e him: Eemcaler. if We live
'le H'Sh We ~AaIi lie, and from
iDode o. bliss, where there are II. A,
'reVer more, you will be excluded FL
All whose natures have grown