Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1917-09-30
SUNDAY MORNING SERMON.

Turn you the stronghold, We prisoners of hope;
today do l declare that l will render double unto
you."-Zechariah SO.
greater than the above be found in the
scriptures. They are well calculated help broken
pilgrim upon his way. Every mortal is prisoner o.
hope The skein his life is wrapped upon spool and
the off in colors that both sombre and
gay. We sit in doors today and Depression and Dis
couragement only guests. We know not which
way to turn or what to DO Turn you to stronghold"
urged the old prophet.
What stronghold you ask? Away back deep in your
SOUL further than old Chief Cochise
penetrated his stronghold in the mountains to the
north of u.s. lies citadel that be taken unless
you voluntarily surrender yourself 1t is called Hope,
and God Himself placed it there when He closed the
gates of Eden to His first children.
The who hopes is lost; is never beaten.
For from Hope born those shining children Patience
Courage and Endeavor 81 will render double unto ye,
promised the prophet But you must turn to the strong
hold You must do your part. You must love if you
would be loved You must weep the sorrows of
others you would have shed for you restore
your soul You must kindness to reap kind You
bread upon the wish flood the
must hope things; hope if you would have
them, would do them.
The singer is mute and he greves his
his song lives the hearts of those who heard
it. The rerinng but his dream, which he
told friend inspired another strike and
the world. The lips that smiled to suffer
ing that smile of long ago shines still like lamp OF
heaven before the eyes of a loved one.
Look to the stronghold of hope and you shall have
double 1t will to you from what you have done.
If body broken mind be the greater for
it, If your mind is slow and dull yet your hands be
the stronger and the kindly a recompense.
The died and who passed that way said that
its end But shoot sprung up beside it, sap of its
sap and wood of its wood grew larger still and
leaved spread its shade for a hundred
When is darkest, look stronghold; there is
always light there. When Dsmay binds you and
beckons to his terrible Despair, to into
house. stronghold of which the prophet prom
ised much. If you look that way evil enter
your door that is too great for you to bear.
prisoners of Hope" And she a dear mistress She
has westward since Japhet left Asia to
his brother Shem and eastern fringe Eu
rope Ever westward something Hope leads
and We hope to do better bigger work tomor
ROW. We hope for better job, more pay. We hope to
be cured of sickness of today Tomorrow wounds
will friends come and our true love
relent and smile again.
Today we look with heavy eyes at the waves of the
sad and solemn Yet down deep in heart is the
hope that the sails of long past due
ship will loom white and grand against the sky.
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must toll today and endure the grind and bear the
burdens and bend backs at the sowing without
of tomorrow will bring span of life is
but day. Let smile little and work a little and
play little pray little and look the stronghold
like brave prisoners of hope for did the prophet
promise that double should be rendered unto
other day. whether in this world the he did not
specify And what does it matter just it us?
Be it will when is needed most And it will
lightly and with gentleness upon brothers bowed head
1t will come only hearts that held hope the
last. will gladden. only those eyes that have
looked up from the earthly of pleasure
signs and laughter to the stronghold of those Three
Graces, Faith Hope and Charity
What change in the standing of the l. ". w. since
May of this year, Then the agents of this detestabe
organization boldly entered a community and stood on