The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-16
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The Late John A. POOler of WaIIing-
ford

The Late John A. POOler of Waliing-
ford
This christian man, whose suilerings and
experiences are familiar to so many of the
readers of the GLOBE, selected his own
funeral text found in Isaiah J4--11 40
thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not
comtorted; behold | will lay thy stones
with fair colurs and lay thy foundations
with ssphires
Before announcing the text the Rev.
Edward Conover made the following
beautiful Introductory remarks:
"'l'he Sabbath was fast waning away.
Its remaining hour already bore the shadow
of the approaching night, reminding each
christian pilgrim that he had come little
nearer in point of time to that rest which
remaneth "to the people of God" Such
circumstances were specially betting re-
Election, bidding the thoughts go back over
the sacred hours and gather from each
religious opportunity and suggestions
whether from all its Sabbath advantage the
heart were better fitted (spirltually) to eX-
change the earthly day Of rest for its more
blessed anttype, the rest of heaven.
Suddenly, however, the scene is invaded
10y the angel Of death, descending into our
midst and Tapping his wing near by where
one waited almost too anXiously the time
when he should be ''absent from the body
and present with the Lord leaving on
record the while as his constant anxious
realization, ''nearer my God to thee. nearer
to thee There is to me a consolation in
the thought that since it seemed the divine
will that His servant should depart, God
took him TO himself and the heavenly rest.
on His Sabbath, transferring him in spirit
with more than electric quckncss from
every pain of earth to the perfect painless
rest of heaven. For years haye thought
it were a privilege to die amid the quiet Of
Sabbath hours, lying down attended by its
precious typical influences for that slumber
"whose waking" is for the christian dead,
'supremely best"
Some two months before his death Mr..
Pooler had written the following article,
and sent it to Boston for publication. Sin
gularly enough, it was not published until
the very last issue preceding his death Ii
comes now to his friends as voice from
the other land, speaking the happy ex-
perence of christian at rest.
THE REST OF FAITH-THoUGHTs on SICK
BED.
1t is with feelings of great humility that
have written the following. 1t has been
done as "thank Offering to God for Ills
mercy in raising me up again from what
was supposed to be my deathbed, and fol
the comfort of "thc faithful" The grca,
majority of christians are "a great way
off, from their Fathers house." 'famish-
ing with hunger" for 1.-THE good things" on
their Fathers table, where there is enougI,
and to spare" During the first three weeks
OF my sickness two watchers stood at my
bedside constantly. thought, us endured
night and day such bodily pain. and fell
such tbroes OF suffering that it WAS he
yOnd peradyenture the rending aslndel
of body and spirit, and yet il was a solemn
but joyful season TO my soul es ! Inv. thn.r
seemingly intermediate hours. d1ve and
weeks. that were like ages of main in ,yno,
| supposed to he the prospnct Of certain
death. and ! could say '.tbo,oh wall,
through The valley of tie shadow Of death
will fear no evil; ior thou art with nie,
.hy rod and thy staff they comfort me-
Daring all that fiery trial seemed To rcnos,
sHcetly In the arms Of Infinite love
Heaven seemed opened 10 nv sniritnol
vision, and Law in full view. MIN, NJ
"eternal weight Of glory" was "lnid M
for my enraptured and !ayishel .oui
Jesus. my ail-preyailng saviour. "my
prophet, priest and King Was NV "n;i ID
nil. and o, the 10Y! eternal ioy, TIM,
should soon be With Him forever. and 5,,
Him as He is; :" cast NV glttering crn,,n M
His feet, and through endless accs vail
with Him the golden streets OF the New
Jerusalem, and he led by His hand alone
the banks of the river OF the water of lie
''for the lamb which is in the midst Of Nh,
throne shall feed them, and shah lead then
unto living fountains Of water; and Goo
shall wipe away all tcars from their eyes.
An of these plores Law. il seemed nj onl,
a few hours distance. If the bare ontici
patton gave such low, what must bethc fuI
iruition?
In this furnace of suffering | conf,
not forget how Jesus suffered and died fol
me- mn fine cross and founI ,,,ho, 80, SC,