St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-04-20

love he very often comes and takes
these little ones from us that our hearts
and affections may be drawn toward
him, and if a man or woman are guilty
of being idOlaters, if they are guilty of
that sin God will punish the sin. l
think that there is no danger of our
loving our children too much if we love
Christ more we can love our children
just us much as we want to if we only
love Christ more. Keep that one thought
i'll our hearts all the while; Christ is to
have the first place in our hearts, and
then he will comfort us and be with us,
and never, never leave us in the hour of
danger and in the hour of sorrow.
| met mother some time ago; she
said, "Mr. Moody, had seven beautiful
children few years ago; God came
and took one of them and | rebelled /
accused him of being unjust by and
by he took the second; | was more hit
ter than ever; he took the third | was
worse than ever, and at last the fourth
died and | refused to be recOnciled; |
thought God was an unjust God /
murmured against him; | used to go to
the grave every week and weep over
those children; at last the fifth one
died, and then | was still worse, and
death came and took the sixth and |
only had one more left, and do you
think, Mr.. Moody, | never yielded my
heart to God, | never kissed the hand
that laid the rod on until the seventh
was taken, and now all my children
sleep in yonder cemetery and | have
been led to put my trust in the Lord
Jesus Christ and | want to say right
here that he has made up that loss to
me, l can thank him now, | would rath-
er be as | am with my children safe
with Christ and Il heart that is loyal to
him, than to be as l was before death
entered my family and took my chill
dren, for then | lived for them, I didn't
live for God, God was in none of my
plans and in none of my thoughts, |
lived a mere selfish life"
Let me say to those dear friends that
want to get Christ into your homes, it
may be some of you have got homes
that are very dark. A lady came to me
with very bitter story within the last
"a hours. She had got drunken hus-
band and five children, and he was do
ing all he could to ruin his children,
and she was not Christian. Now if
that dear wife will only take Christ into
her heart and into her home and live
for Christ, it will not be long before
that drunken husband may be won to
the Saviour, and those children grow up
to be "a great blessing and comfort to
her.
If there is mother here that has got
Il broken heart, take Christ into it, just
let him be your companion, tell him all
your troubles, and if your husband is as
bitter as gall, yea, as bitter as death,
and hates you and Christ, bear in mind
God has got the power to break his
heart and to heal it up and make him a
loving husband.
Oh, may God help us, each one, to
realize this truth, that God has sent
Christ into the world to heal the broken
hearted, and if there is Il heart broken
on account of sin here he can heal it,
and if there is heart broken on ac-
count of affiictiOn he can heal it. He
can heal every broken heart in this as
sembly, yes, every broken heart in all
Boston, if they will only bring their
wounded and crushed and bleeding
hearts to him.