Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-09-15

pain, any more. the first things are
passed away
When earth's last picture is painted.
And the tubes are all twisted II
dried.
And the oldest colors have faded.
And the youngest critic has died;
We shall rest-and. faith. we shall need
Lie down for an aeon or two.
Till the Master of all good workmen.
Sets us to work anew.
And they that We're good shall be happy
They shall sit in II golden chair.
And splash 1T a ten-leaguc canvas.
With brushes of comets hair.
They shall find real saints to draw
from
Magdaline and Peter and Paul
They shall work for an age at II sitting,
And never grow tired at all.
And only the Master shall praise US.
And only the Master shall blame:
And no one shall work for money,
And no II shall work for fame;
But each for the joy of the working.
And each in His particular star.
Shall draw the Thing MS he sees IT,.
For tho Cod Of Things as They are.
-Kipliug.
Heaven will he homelikc. Our poets
has 80 tIuttercd IL up with harms and
angels with wings that there would
stt'I W. pt lIAtit iNi'f, WI ~ " ~ i'''''
person. The bible, on the contrary.
adds many domestic touches to its pic
lures OF hcaven. 1t will be II places OF
homes. we know, and of reunions. Lite
tie children will be there, playing, and
their laughter will be heavenly music.
Work there Will be, and his servants
shall serve him. Home. loved ones.
children. service--such will be homelilse
features of the Fathers house.
There is an old English word used in
the fourteenth chapter of Johns narra-
tive which has lost its original mean
ing-'mansions.' Today a mansion
represents a sort of palace. Il dwelling
Jesus was promising his fishermen
friends: they would have been Ill at
ease iii a palace. What he really
said may be freely translated thus-"ln
my Fathers house are many homes
hat never break up.",That is the COM
fort he was giving them now that their
little company, almost like II family,
WAS separating and losing its Head.
The new homes which He was going to
prepare would be permanent. not
places of soiourn. but abiding places.
Earth's homes all break up sooner or
later but the joy of heavens homes is
that they last throughout the endless
day of eternity.
The homes in heaven will be the
homes of earth perpetuated, purified
and perfected.
Heavens heavenliness to many con-
sists in the knowledge that Jesus him
self is there. He who has been the be
levers best friend and highest joy or
earth will be Il better friend and a high
er Joy when we see him in unclouded
glory. The highest use of the unfet-
tered powers of the eternal life will bt
to enjoy and glorify the Redeemer.
Some day. when fades the golden sun
eneath the rosy-tinted west,
Ny blessed Lord will say Come home
And l shall enter into rest.
And l shall see him face to face.
And tell the story, saved by grace.
Fanny Crosby.
They will, be highest in heaven VIII,
brought heaven highest to earth.
Civic betterment is always more o
less of an issue in every community.
clean city has long been a goal OF goot
citizenship, yet its perfect attainment
we know, is not for this world. Tn,
city that hath foundations,"-that is
the city hat is founded to last-wil
be a glad surprise to all who taste 1t
joys, for There shall in no wise ente
into 1t anything that defileth, neithe
whatsoever worketh an abominatiol
or maketh a lie.
NEWS AND NOTES.
The American colony in the city O
Mexico makes it's Headquarters in tn
Y. Nj. G. A. building.
Generai Booth has just completed
months our of Great Britain in a
automobile. Sixty-two towns, in ad
dition to villages. were visited enrout
and meetings held.
The Jefferson county. Alabains
Christian Endeavor union enjoys tn
distinction. unique in these days q
young peoples work, of having no off
Ger o twenty-six years old.
OF nine hundred members of one Bos
ton church. say THE Transcript,
eight hundred and fifty reside in tn
suburbs. while a few years ago. nearl
three-fourths of the members wey
within a mile of the church.
The British and Foreign Bible societ
on day last month, dispatched mir
tons of bibles in twenty-eight differer
languages fsom It's warehouses.
Native Christians of the Cannfbal Il
lands for the Solomon islands in Ell
lanosia surely deserve that name-aI
active in foreign mission work. -Four
teen men from Florida island are mis
sionaries In Quad a leanar, Mala ar
Raga.
! October 81 will be congregation,
I day" at h st. Louis fair. and Justis
David J.. Brewer will preside. DIR. L,
( man Abbott. DR.. Newell ID. Hills ar
, DR.. c. f. Jefferson will be speakers.
! The president of the Religious Ed,
= caJlOn aSSOciat1On, Kew. Or. CharIt
Cuthbert Hall. of New York, has 4
e the second time becn chosen to go
the Orient to fill the Haskell Lectur,
: ship on Cooperative Religions. Thr,
e years g he made a deep impressis
{ upon India and Japan.
z The Russian government has issu,
r an edict permitting work on Sunda
0 saints days and during religious GER
monies. The purpose is to restore
he people the right to labor six da,
a week. The great number OF saint
days. almost half the whole number
e a year.. prevented anything like stea,
industry. AS Sunday is not consider,
: as sacred as some saints days. 1t h;
e to be included in the order, temporar
I ly, at least.
According to a dispatch received
q the London Times from it's correspon
e emf in Pekin. the dowager empress h
for the first time recognized the med
cal work OF the Protestant mission
China by subscribing 10000 taels to L
medical college now being erected
e Pekin by the London mission. in coo
Grafton with American missions.
:, SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS.
Might is right, say I'M and so
is-might is the right to bear the bu
dens Of the weak. to cheer the faint,
uplift h fallen. to pour from on