Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-11

The springs of joy are In God; and
the nearer the hearts get the more
joy 1t knows.
Eeulah Land is not a geographical
location. but a spiritual experience.
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Every hardship triumphantly endur-
ed sweetens the succeeding bliss. Port
| seems safest to the sailors who have
come through the hardest storms.
Over and over it needs to be said
that Christianity is a religion of feast
Ing as we'll as of fasting. The good
times are not all in the DEVILS pas
| lures; the best times are not there at
ALL There Is more solid pleasure, in the
Christian life than in any other walk.
The Pilgrim Toasted in Beulah Land
and the provision for this had been ex-
prsssly made by the king of the coun-
try, The person who is not getting hap
piness out of his faith is not getting
from 1t all that God puts into it, The
disciple of Jesus who goes through the
world with a sour visage SANDERS his
Lord.
Dr.. Henry Van Dyke tells the story
of once finding a guide at the top of a
mountain at sunset, evidently enrapt
In spiritual contemplation. Some re-
mark was made about his presence
there, and the unlettered woodman re-
piled that he liked to go up occasion
ally, because 1t sort of gives me a
feeling of heaven up histedness." The
expressive colloquialism reveals the
depths of human spirit, and it's
heights. Man needs to feel the touch
Of the big and the beautiful and the
divine upon his life. The principle of
times Of special exaltation is sound.
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There are plenty Of valleys of humilia-
ton: it Is tonic to get where the
dove of peace sings in the heart, and
the flowers of JOY blossom about ones
feet.
There is more beyond Beulah Land.
1t is only one transporting experience
on the way to the Celestial City. Gods
bets are always beyond. Eye hath not
seen nor ear heard; neither hath en-
tered into the heart of man, the things
which God hath prepared for them
that love him."
Whoever has walked through the
dark by lanterns knows that the light
shines only a short distance before
ones feet. But there is always light
ahead. Darkness disappears as the
pedestrian progresses In the Christ
ian's spiritual journey the Light Shin
found that his way grew brighter as he
advanced. Perfect day awaited in the,
City that hath no need of the sun.
The newspapers a few days ago re-
ported that fifty exiles on the leper
island OF Molokai have been pronounc-
ed free from faint. What a thrilling
delirious moment it must have been
for these outcasts, who had themselves
doomed to this living death of lep-
rosy. A sentence in the dispatch add
ed that others of the eight hundred oc-
cupants of the island are agitated by
the hope that some of them may also
be pronounced untainted, and therefore
free. Such was Pilgrims joy when he
reached Beulah Land; he was literally
overcome by the happiness of the great
love that had spared him and delivered
him. and brought him in sight of the |
Promised Land To know ones self
the guiding and protecting love Of the
King of glory, is bliss up to the limit |
OF mortal capacity
SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS.
No pleasure is comparable to the |
standing upon the vantage ground Of I
truth.-Bacon.
My most passionate desire is to have
a clearer and fuller vision of Cod
Tennyson.
Nor deem the irrevocable Past
AS wholly wasted, wholly vain
If, rising on it's wrecks, at last
To something nobler we attain
-Longfellow
All the strength and all the arts of
men are measured by. and founded up
on. their reverence for tho passion and
their guardianship of the purity of |
loye.-Carlyle.
1t is question whether all our
searching criticism has ever done so
bring our neighbor to his best, as
words of genuine and hearty encour-
agement.-John Watson.
There was never a night without day
Nor an evening without a morning,
And the darkest hour, the Droverb goes
Is the hour before the dawning
G. Mackey.
I have said one hundred times, and
am willing to say against. that if any
body will take charge of the poverty
and crime which result from drunk
enness, the South Congregational
Church, of which have the honor to
be the minister, will alone take charge
of the poverty which needs relief in
the city Of Boston-Edward Everett
Hale.