Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-04-29

perpetual YOUTH" WELL" he an
swered, Il do not know of any except
one. trust God. Because l fully trust
him l never worry. / always go to bed
early and get eight or nine full hours
sleep. Then when get UP in the morn
ing l say to myself, Now, with Gods
help, I will do the best, the very best,
l can Then. if I have done my best
and things do not come out as l wish,
why, 1t is Gods lookout and not mine.
I know he loves me better than love
myself. Why should l grumble if he
has better plan for me than / have
thought out?' All. my friends, after
we have done our best with Gods help
can we not trust God? Can we not feel
that God will care for us even as he
docs for the wild flowers?
The Easter lilies teach us that a
short earthly life is not necessarily an
unimportant life Even though our
loved ones were with us but n few
years. the influence of those years both
for them and us may reach on through
the eternities. Their lives and our lives
the wild flowers. and yet the eternities
themselves will never be able to outlive
them and us in our heavenly joys. The
Easter lily Is the symbol of the Christ's
resurrection and Of our own resurrec-
ton through Christ.
The God Of the heavenly garden
sometimes gives his sweetest perfumes
and most exquisite garments to those
Of his floral children who may be call
ed the transient beauties of this world.
To some of us our earthly lives may be
as short as those of the passing flow
ers The night blooming cereus bios
SONS but once year. About o'clock
at night this beautiful flower. with its
rim of most delicate pink and Its white
center. opens. In three hours the flow
err is dead The midnight tolls its knell.
The night blooming cereus. although
nine Inches in diameter. dies Of old
age after 1t has had but three short
Peru. better known by the name Of
the four o'clocks. We're the little flow
ers dearly cherished by our grand
mothers. They open late every after
noon. just at o'clock. In olden days
these flowers were far more to be
trusted as timepieces than the ancient
wooden clocks of the quaint farm
houses. These flowers die short time
after the sun has set. Nearly all wild
flowers live but a few days at most.
Snowdrops fade almost as quickly as
snOwdrop melts away. The trailing
arbutus shivers in the cold Of spring
and soon catches pneumonia and dies
can be written in the few words with
which Jesus described the life Of q
lily. as 1.-The grass of the field. which
today is and tomorrow is cast into the
oven" The heat of the sun may both
incubate floral life and cremate the
shriveled corpse in the same day.
The Resurrection Truth.
But, though mans life, like the lilies,
may be very short. his heavenly life,
the resurrection life, Is very long.
Christ was only thirty-three years Of
age when he was crucified But Christ
Is today dwelling in heaven with our
dear ones who have gone beyond.
Mother, by the grave of your little
baby. l declare it. Husband, by the
grave Of your dead wife. believe it.
Child. by the casket of your father and
mother, welcome this resurrection
truth. Our dear ones earthly lives
may have ended, but their heavenly
lives have just begun. oh. on this glo-
rious Easter morn will you accept this
truth? BY placing your hope In Christ.
who bids you trust him, as do the lilies
Of the field, will you not grasp the
promise of a heavenly resurrection?
Could we have more beautiful SYM
Dol of the resurrection with which to
close this Easter service than the wild
flowers Of the east? Men often make
thing ugly first and then cover 1t up
with paint or paste or gliding to make
1t beautiful" once wrote an unknown
writer. God never does so. You will
find no sham ON his works. The shape
he gives to each creature Is just that
which Is fitted for it. and the color
with which he adorns it will never
wash Off. In his great workshop truth
and beauty go together" May the
beauty of the truth of the trusting
short lived Easter lilies be to us the
symbol by which we may learn to trust
Christ while we are upon earth and
live with him In the glorious Easter
which shall be eternal and without end.
Copyright 1906 by Louis Klopsch.l