St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-09-26

"hearken, o earth and an that trara
IN Is: and let the lord God he witnassl
agalnst you, the Lord firm his holy
Temple For, behold, thelLord cometb
lortn out of his place, and will come
doWn, and tread u1on the high places
OF the earth"
AS he had spoken his message of
pleaolng and warning, and threaten
ing, 1t had seemed to him as though
ne could even then feel the tread OF
the Almighty's footsteps as he passed
through the land.
He shall tread upon the high
places"
How could the king in his place
keep from trembling Didn't he know
that his throne void totter under
the tread CT that mighty football?
But the king had gone on his way
Of pleasure and sin d before. The peo.
pie had continued to follow the
strange gods of the beople about, and
We're content to liveln the conditions
into which sin had cast them. So
great, in fact, was their need that
they knew no need
/ And Micah had farveled. It was
the first severe tesng of the proph
cts faith, and in the seclusion of
the mountain fatnesses whittier
he betook himself he had learned
his lesson and had bme to know that
it was for him to peak the word as
God gave 1t to him and not for him
to become the tins keeper upon the
movements OF the 1mighty.
But God shall trad upon the high
places. The moptains shall be
molten under hir, and the valleys
shall be cleft, as Nx before the fire
) and as the waters that are poured
. down steep place,he had exclaimed
! over and over agn to himself, as
: though he would erVe his fainting
. heart and strength a weakening
e faith.
And so he had gee on in his lonely
mission. How mucalone he felt only
the servant of thesord who is faith.
full in his minist1gcan understand,
for he who walkswith God wholly
2 lives separated III
5 And that evenin as he sat there
2 outside of Jerusale's gate the mem,
5 DRY of all this camback to him with
z peculiar vividness ID force, so much
8 so, in fact, that healt utterly discon,
& ISOLATE and wretche
B What is there tshow for all this
9 preaching of the gord? 1t is as
5 though one had tked to the wind
& The peoples hear are as hard as
8 that stone wonderland with yehe
z mence that startle the prophet him
5 self, he gave it Dush that sent ii
3 rolling down the Icky hillside into
Q the brook Kedro below. AS il
< | touched the bottolthere came echo
9 ing back to him lie reverberating
( sounds Of it's impt with the rocky
2 ground.
x Hard! Yea, ined. But the hearts
2 of this rebelliouoeople shall be
Z broken even as hat stone hath
2 crashed to it's DEDUCTION. And the
< nations about willie the instruments
2 in Gods hands odoing this thing
5 All, how they waxt on the spoils o.
2 battle. Nation Iii up sword against
3 nation, and the oHises upon the de
2 caying heaps of t1enemys dead"
5 And in vision gre passed before
2 him the bloody hors of battle al
8 even he in his shoil fe had witnessed
2 it. He remembed the coming o
8 the hordes of the s rians. He wit
z messed their deyStaing work. II
Q the anguish of hi sAl he cried on
x at last:
3 ooh, God, shall kllays be SO? viii
z there be no end thfsWars that giv'
/ . one nation powerIdr mother? Will
7 Z the spirit Of conqpa continue ever t.
2 blight the land?ij
5 The. voice foatAoIt upon thu
z silence of the evelg darkness, ant
5 it seemed to the 9phet as though
2 his spirit folloFd the ascending
5 echoes of the soIas they sped u
2 and ever upward4 seemed to hin
. he must seek thsfry presence o
( God for answer. he alone coui'
: Q answer. Suddenly darkness seeme'
< to fee away, and hing to seek tn
/ 2 reason for the cha he saw away OF
q in the distance aBplendent city.
! Q "This can be ling but the cit,
5 of God," he whlced to himself.
] 2 Then as he loo he beheld wha
. . seemed all the Dns of the cart
2 marching towardhe city, Will
1 s-TL
= Q they raised their ,es in one might
chorus, saying:
+ 2 Come, and let go up to tn
n X mountain of thefd, and to tn
$ Z house of the Got Jacob; and b
r z will teach us Of ways"
s 2 And from out respondent cit
s. there came the rinse:
s. Nation shall lift up a swor
8 against nation, ner shall they lear
600 war any more"
The vision fadehe voices ceased
Micah was agailone with hi
orIv thoughts. But hath been here,
: arc he exclaimed vently, "and tn
man mouth of the Il of hosts hat
Mt of spoken"