Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-01-16

'N ASe~S" Whh lOu w Ailc cNci ciiastiuk
he can sooth your sorrows and heal you
wounds. How sorrowful il is to be be
reaved of children, and how sad it is tC
pray over the coffins of magdelenas; il
shakes the spirituality os man. Al
these seasons what good resolutions are
formed; prayers that were once daily
now forgotten, with the family altar, are
revived. People are better or worse un
der affiiction. Those who receive the
breathings of the spirit should seize up.
ON the first opportunity to improve il
and not neglect the Importance of the
opportunity. God is now stirring the
soul. Lay hold ON him and embrace
him. He will make it difficult for you,
for he loves and is trying to save you
let him mould you to his will let him
hold you in trustfulness, faith and pa
tience. Mourners should be led to Jesus,
but how can we direct unless we are
spiritual ourselves? How can professed
Christians pray at the side of dying
bed? They feel that they cannot, and
so the friends must send for minister.
They have consciousness of their back
sliding, and feel that they must pray for
themselves before praying for the dying.
There is not one here but who should be
able to pray for the dying saint or sim
ner. tbs one great part with Christians
work to sympathize with those in sorrow
and affliction. 1t is the duty of all to
weep with those that weep, and rejoice
with those that rejoice and all should
be prepared to sympathize in this spirit.
This does not mean formal prayer and
visitation, but it does mean sympathy
and no one is in Jesus who does not
study aud practice this. A mother who
has lost her babe considers religion fruit
less in view of her affliction; but anoth.
er mother who has been similarly affiict-
ed goes to her and tells her she is not
alone, and che carries comfort with her.
So with man who lost his wife. An
other man goes to him and tells him that
he is not alone. The sympathy of such
friends is like angel visits from new
world for they bring with them a world
of sympathy. Oh, angel of death
these jewels are to be found on every
side of us. Let me exhort all mourners
to study Gods word let me exhort you
to public and private prayer; keep the
heart fresh and free from hard thoughts
against the Lord, for his mercies endur-
eth forever he will not willingly aff1ict
you; his blessed promises how like
stars they shine upon the heads of the
afflicted. AS he bore with Elijah and |
Jonas so will he bear with US. We won
der at the death of the babe, and of
youth in the flush of life. We see ten
thousand apple blossoms of which nine
thousand perish and only one thousand
become fruit We don't know why it is
10, but he does, blessed be his name.
When babe dies its great mission has
oeen fulfilled. The century plant is
ong time in growing. God is never in
/ hurry. The plant is one hundred
7ears in coming to blossom, and then
perhaps at midnight its petals open to
i've only six hours, when it withers. A
voung man Of twenty years grows up
md passes through difficulties. and bids
air to be man of worth, but he dies.
Ie is the God century plant. We can't
ell why it is SO, but God and your dar-
ing can tell, and you may know in
hat highest light Of the blossoms.
t is better to have loved and lost, than
ever to have loved at ALL"