The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-29

WOulu duSWeT L uOu KNOW exactly
where l am going" Always looking for
something. Though he was a tender
hearted man l never saw him cry but
once, and that was at the burial of my
mother. After sixty years living to-
gether it was hard to part. And there
are aged people to-day who are feeling
just such pang as that. l want to tell
them there is perfect enchantment in
the promises of this Gospel and come
to them and offer them my arm or L
take their arm, and bring them to this
Gospel we'll. Sit down. father or moth
or, sit down see If there is anything at
the well for you. Come, David, the
Psalmist, have you anything encOurag-
ing to offer them "Yes," says the
Psalmist, "they shall still bring forth
fruit in old age, they shall be fat and
tiOurishing, to show that the Lord is up
| right. He is my rock. and there Is no
unrighteousness in me-" Come, Isaiah,
have you anything to say out of your
prophecies for those aged people ''Yes,"
says Isaiah: "Down to oldage am with
| thee and to hOary hairs will l carry
thee" Well, if the Lord is going to
carry you, you ought not to worry much
about your failing eye-sfght and failing
limbs. You get little worried for fear
some time you will come to want, do
you Your children and grandchildren
sometimes speak little sharp at you
because of your ailments. The Lord
will not speak sharp. Do you think you
will come to want ? Who do you think
the Lord is ? Are His granaries empty?
| Will He feed the raven, and the rabbit,
and the lion in the desert, and forget
you? Why, naturalists tell us that the
/ pOrpOise will not foTSake the wounded
and sick mate. And do you suppose the
| Lord of heaven and earth has not as
much sympathy as the fish Of the sea
But you say Il am so near worn out,
and l am of no use to God any more"
l think the Lord knows whether you are
of any more use or not (; if you were no
more use He would have taken you be-
fore this. Do you think God has forgot
ten you because He has taken care of
you for seventy or eighty years ? He
thinks more of you to-day than He ever
did, because you think more of Him.
May the God Of Abraham, and Isaac, and
Jacob, and Paul, the aged, be your god
| forever.
But gather all the promises to-day in
a group, and ask the shepherds to drive
their flOcks of lambs and sheep up to the
sparkling supply. Behold, happy is
the man whom God correcteth."
Though Heeause grief, yet will He have
compassion" "Many are the Affections
of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth
him out of them ALL" weeping may
endure for night, but joy cOmeth in
the morning" l am determined this
morning that no one shall go out of this
house Uncontrolled. YOnder is a timid
and shrinking soul who seems to hide
away from the consultations l am utter
ing as child with a sore hand hides
away from the physician lest he touch
that wound too roughly and the mother
has to go and compel the little patient
to come out and see the physician. So
come to your timid and shrinking soul
to-day, and compel you to come out in
the presence of the Divine Physician.
He will not hurt you. He has been
healing wounds for many years, and He
will give you gentle and OmnipOtent
medicament. But people when they
have trouble go anywhere rather than
to God. De Quincy took opium to gel
rid of his trouble; Charles Lamb took tC
punch; Theodore Hook took to something
stronger; Edwin Forrest took to theatre
/ cal dissipation; and men have run al
J around the earth hoping in the quick
transit to get away from the misfOr
tunes. 1t has been dead failure. There
3 is only one we'll that can slake the
) thirst of an afflicted spirit, and that il
the deep and inexhaustible we'll of the
Gospel.
, But some one says in the audience
. Notwithstanding all you have said this
. | uuOEulIlR L uuu uO dll6NldLlOh lOI lily
troubles" Well, am not through yet.
have left the most potent cOnsidera-
tiOn for the last. | am going to sOOthe
, you with the thought of heaven. How
ever talkatiVe we may be there will
come a time when the stOutest and most
emphatic interrogation will evoke from
US no answer. As soon as we have closed
our lips for the final silence no power
on earth can break that taciturnity. But
Nubara n Christian will hn dnirif 2
In a scene of infinite gladness. The
spring morning of heaven waving its
blossoms in the bright air; victOrs fresh
from battle showing their scars; the
rain of earthly sorrow struck through
with the rainbow of eternal joy. In one
group God and angels and the redeemed
Paul and Silas, Latimer and Ridley,
Isaiah and jeremiah, PaysOn and John
Milton, Gabriel and Michael the Arch
ANGEL Long line of chOristers reach
ing across the hills; seas of joy dashing
to the white beach; you among theml
Oh, what great flock Of sheep God will
gather around the celestial well. No
stone on the wells mouth while the
Shepherd waters his sheep. There Jacob
will recognize Rachel, the shepherdess
And standing on one side of the well OF
ing on the other side of the well OF
eternal rapture your Christian ancestry
you will be bounded on all sides by a
joy so keen and grand that no other
world has ever been permitted to ex-
perience it. Out of that one deep well
of heaven the Shepherd will dip reunion
for the bereaved, wealth for the poor
health for the sick, rest for the weary
And then all the flock of the Lords sheer
will lie down in the green pastures, and
world without end, we will praise the
Lord that on this summer Sabbath morn
ing we were permitted to study the story
of Jacob and Rachel, the shepherdess, al
the we'll in MesopOtamia.