THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA.,, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1897. DO NOT GIVE UP. Al! Mankind is Org Follow Nohomiah's Ex for the Will and Glve Weary Greatest Sinne) Comfort Hest There ia Pardon if He Seeks It the Il mesick to the inners wn heat don throu onement, His Neh the nigl the wall, by the “Then went the brook back, and minh 2 nna ned turned.” Ad \ a living city Rome coed cathedral past Rome than pre newly fre best time t than the rather But moonlight I'he Co rains visit a ruin is by iseum traveler You ma id by dayligh s of Mel monastic r rose study so that 1 shall not journey And will find in the « order on the man who keeps for just so much timber as J for the rebuilding of the city Oesiades mtext i want your forest an need “How said the king. may long shall you be gone?’ The time of absence is arranged In hot haste this seeming adventurer comes to Jerusalem, and in my text we find him on horseback, in the midnight, riding around the ruins, It is through the spectacles of this scene that we dis cover the ardent attachment of Nehe- mish for sacred Jerusalem, which in all ages has been the type of the church of God, our Jerusalem, which we love just as much as Nehemiah loved his Jeo rusalem: The fact is that you love the ¢hurch of God so mwch that there le no spot on earth so sscred, unless it be your own fireside. , The church has been to you so much comfort and illu. |mdnation that there is nothing that {makes you so irate as to have it talked nst. If there have been times yor have been carried into sap grity by sickness, you longed for i | ful salem, le my right | moonlight ride § | belove the church, our holy t ns } lem, jus nas much ws longed for his Jerusalem, and tl you came out 0 of the Lord. ruins day you cam When the Neheminh, ooked nt hou Hike walked around and the ht moonligl tood vou sto { organ, th Sabbath W Nehemiah, the Skeptics Jat churct and infid church as an obsolete more 8 other iui you © | can take } | as he Lt my t hand cunning understand own exmperien +) | sickness, the f | thusiasm of Nehemial around | Jerusalem Get iid rather y then 30,000 int redemption of the gospel is there y perdi- farce if not & physician are sick If any one, » be an angel from Heaven, Kospei let him be a« other than this” irned. There must be the midnight wilt of the hoofs the ruins before Jerusalem can | here must be the clicking the ring of the i never ays Nehemiah jef ough rr sO intense th cited the that rouses ommentary of his k expatriated up Nehemiah to rebuild the city He gets his permission of absence. He gets his passports. He hastens away to Jerusalem. By night on horseback he rides through the ruins the most feroeious opposition He arouses the piety and patriotism of the people, and in less than two months, namely, 52 days, Jerusalem was rebuilt. That's what I oall busy and triumphant sadness, My friends, the whole temptation is with you when you have trouble, to do juat the opposite to the behavior of Ne- hemiah and that is to give up. You say: “1 have lost my child and can never smile again.” ' You say: “I have lost my property, and I never can re- pair my fortunes.” A You say: ‘I have fallen into sin, und I never can start again | for a new lite.” If Balan ean make you form ' that resolution and make you keep i he has ruined you penniess himself He over comes | you ride over | {| ONS ‘ your Jerusas | Trouble ‘a not sent to erush you, but VO to prop Hrouse The the iron animate you blacksmith does not forge nnd the i th thrust into the n blow ny h the bellow RIL! en br the hot iron with ad on the stroke afte: tre fron, but t repare it for Oh, th Lord God of weuld rouse up all the | people to rebuild 1 \\ h ipped and sald: “'Giv 16 a NSabbath-school « now left me beautiful ¢ her dead mn th, I do wish more light for poor My dear, God will be your | will be your shelter, God will home. Are y bereavementa of down Is the is gone? what the old borne life? TY hie child Do Thiok of the minister asked lonely now that not sexton when him put little graves in the cemetery than on the larger graves nd sexton sald Sir, the the give up said why on the he so much care 0 much more care and the « know that ‘of su Heaven, 1 I think pleased when He sees so much you ® ingde wn of Saviour ia hh Ia And white clover around these itt growing 1) graves But presse Fell Pell Prayl el Dealing Hating th Do not ’ ( tne ike un ia up omes Lo you to . sono “Go and n no more.” while he assailants: “Let him t) without sin east the first stone at h Oh, there | ) ne this house, by pin, should reason why reason of Are you a foreigner Nehemiah was any Any trouble or give up and in a strange land? an Are you penniless? Nehe- miah was poor. Are you homesick? Ne hemiah was homesick. Are you broken hearted? Nehemiah was broken hearted. But just see him in the text, riding along the saerileged grave of his father, and by the dragon well, and exile through the fish gate, and by the king's pool, in and out, in and out, the moon light falling on the broken masonry, which throws a long shadow at which the horse shies, and at the same time that moonlight kindling up the feat ures of this maa till yoa see not only the mark of sad rggniniscence, but the courage and hope, the enthusiasm, of a man who knows that Jerusalem will be rebuilded. 1 plek you up to-day, cus of your sina and out of your sorrow, and I put you against the warm heart of Christ. “The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the eves lasting arms.” FRANKED FOR THEM. A SOLDIER'S STORY OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND BOYS IN BLUE. Valuable Thun The An Envelope That Is More the Dest Boldier Lie. Samp In Any Collection Who Wouldn't Tell Lincoln a “‘T.et th $20 Unl § It in a home has been d in Fond du Lao of 8 TON farm, and mpuny took to kindly from fresh from our whole o« who first, When the army w ginia, near W 1861-2, it was a common the soldiers, they visit the city to buy at tho capitol, repros ptative and in Vir of with got a pass, to of en send In camped winter aR ashington, the practic waen a pi kago velopes and call for their senator or get him to frank them, One of our boys came back to camp in high feather wo packages of envelog Senator James R go law yer, the Howe, to mee yous “1'l]l fix om 0 your congressman “I d¢ ni Enow y “Where is your home? “"Lamartine, Fond Wis “That is my friend Scott Sloan's dis trict. You go to Mr. Sloan. He will fix the rest of them.’ The president shook bands with the two privates, asked them to be brave soldiers and wished them a safe return to their western homes Frank couldn't make his tentmates believe that the president had written “Let thisgo. A. Lincoln.'' But the next day he wrote a Jetter to his father. The pame of Lincoln was personally exam ined by all of the neighbors In January, 1864, our regiment was in Washington on the way home, du Lac county, having they two others The presi thanked us for three years more and pe that we would have re-enlisted—"'veteranized, called it. In company with I went to the White Hous dent shook with for swearing 1 expressed the he a Dice visit on our veteran furlough “Mr. President said Jones-—~Ed Jones—"'‘you franked a letter for one of the boys in our company, Frank King I wish you would frank one for me it may seem, you are requ et RnR hands us, the second sol 80 both are of the same company? Very well On Jones’ ier to make such a envel 4 he handed become President, : 18 neked what had had Lincol: it back he that other man who pass a letter “Ho was killed at Gettysburg.’ I shall never forget the look of sad- | the | ness in the face when answer was given, and it had not disap- peared when we left the room “Jones, what did you tell him about King for? Did yon him?’ “What did he ask about him for? Do you suppose | was going to lie to a man I would die for?" was Jones' indignant reply. =Chicago Times-Herald president's Reo The Court's Decision. “You remember Howforth, who mar. ried the woman who kept house for him | mo long?’ “oT Yep. " “Wall, the court granted her a di- voreo last week, '' “Alimony?” “Not in cash. The decision was that she could keep the house, "Cincinnati Enquirer, A hornets’ nest usaally contains from 800 to 400 perfect males and females and an indefinite number of workers. 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