The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-11-04
Evening H.iglli.

"Nl evening tlmr II shall be- light Il rh yiy. :.
This teaches us tho uucyp"ctrduchs Of
Gpi 's solution OF dinicutica, and our cNtri.
cuiou out ul troubles. When the evening
time comes, we expect tho sun to descend
more aud morc, I'LL we gee but the mere
Inn ul hia disc above the Western horizon,
and at last he disappears. Then You cN-
rcci the cpol aud cuvcloprng, but dark,
/ shadow oi ntgGt tr settle on the earth. But
Instead, ~ your suprlBc, at evening tlm"
/ tho order ul nature seems reversed, and
there breaks forth light. Now. ~ II s the
exact expression of what Our cSpCIicuC"
often is. \ knock comes 10 your door A.;
you think It is 'hc hand OF poNorly--it is
the hand Ol one who tells YOU Of a
fortune. \ night of weeping ovcrtakcs you,
and that uight OF weeping breaks IN morn
of JOY Iou look MP into the sky under the
shadow OF u great calamity; all is cold and
drcary within, all is bleak and ominuus with
ont not star in your sky, nor taper in your
home; You look still, and the great black
cloud that was threatening to burst upon
YOU, in the shallow of which you pned,
begins to turn ont its lining of purple, and
of beauty and of glory, and YOU learn how
truly the prophet spoke when ho said At
.
true ia the experience of all.
You have lost, perhaps what was dear
and precious to You. Cod in his provi-
dcncc, has tANon from You your wealth,
your property, much that made life sunny
and the heart happy. Your present con.
rtruction of it is. An this is uuminglod
calamity" You sec the cloud only, the
dark and shaded day. If you 1.-Two long
enough, You will SEQ there was no chance,
but an crrand not only of wisdom, hut of
mercy and love- Many soul in heaven
will bless God through eternal ages that
he was confined for years to sick bed, or
was deprived ofpropcrty he made his god
for the loss dimmcl the sheen of terrestrial
things, made heaven seem nearer, and earth
appear more worthless, and wcancd the
heart from world it was Clinging 10 too
closely. Tho Keynote of many JOYOUS
anthem in heaven will be, " 1t was good for
mo that was thus afflicted" Or perhaps
you have lost your nearest, dearest and
best beloved. You sit down under the
cold shadow of this great calamity, and
you SEQ no light ; You ponder, You seek li-
rcCtlon from Cod You look up to Him for
| light, and you find at the evening time of
| liio's saddest and most surowlul day there
breaks forth light: you discover You have
got new grave in which You have an inter
est on earth. but oyer il a new mansion, in
which you have an interest in heaven. YOu
havo lost one tic that knit YOU Ia this world,
and you have gained another that Lift and
attracts you to another.
Often in our individual spiritual, and
Christian experience we find the same thing
especially III tho evening of life. Youth is
the morning, manhood the noon, old age is
tho evening Of lie, Tho shadow becomes
longer, the weight becomes heavier; a
thousand things begin to show whether we
like to look at it or not! that man is going to
his long home. What happy thing if, as
the heart begins to stand still, il pondcrs
moro deeply upon better and brighter
things il the gray hair hc the reflected
light of the better land When you take a
retrospect, at that evening time, of tho past,
do you not often discover that your bitter
est cup was your best that your heaviest
sorrow was Gods greatest mercy that
your prouactcd illness was wholesome
medicine; that your disappontments, aches
aud croSs-winds. the distractions, the rug.
| gca road, and all the difficulties YOU met
/ in your long Journey, wcrc all "a wisc as
! thcy were we'll and your evening is SO
/ light because God never forsook YOU in
!'"l "iN''!'H W W. NNN W NpNIoVi III
meridian day ? And when we como to that
/ hour that comes to ALL when tho body shall
! so the way Of all tho earth, we shall then
he able in \ light we SEQ for the first time,
/ the evening light, to look back upon the
whole of life, and to discover that in the
| variNEatcd web OF life, not one thread in
/ It's warp or woof ia out of place ; that thoro
was not one tear that WAS not expcdicnt
, that there WAS not ON, nuuu that waa nnI
of God and from God Oh what blessed
when one can saw with Paul. II am now
ready to depart have fought good fight
! | have Guishod my course hcncciorth
thoro is laid up for me IA crown of right
couSness, which the Lord, the righteous
Judge, will give me at that day - Cpm
ming,