The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-11-02
"I love TO steal awhile away
From every 'cumb'ring care,
And spend the hours Of setting day
In humble, grateful prayer"

In hulnDlt, BTAJel VI prayer
According to my text the Christian
sexton will get as much divine reward
at the last as the minister. Suppose the
former see that the house OF God is filled
with fresh air for the lungs of worship
pers. and is always affable and watches
that the church is undamaged, at his
death he will go right up to sit beside
the royal psalmist. The faithful pastor
who tOiled at one side of the church will
have no higher reward than the sexton
who toiled at the other.
Clear back in the country there is
boy who wants to go to college and get
an education. Ed is reading all about
the house whenever he can get an OPP
pOrtunity. One night after he has gone
to bed a family council is held in regard
to him. The sisters say: I'VE will work
hard and make our old dresses do The
mother SAYS: 81 will do without any
hired help" The father says: 81 will
husk the corn by working nights"
They Danish sugar from the tea and but
ter from the plate, and sit without can
dies during the evening. The whole
house is put on rigid, yea suffering,
economy that the son and brother may
be educated, Commencement day comes
(TemembeT it is not an imaginary case
God knows il happened Commence
ment day at college comes. The eXer-
cises go by, and the climax of interest
is reached when the yaledictOrian is an.
nOunced. Ed has succeeded so well that
the honor has been conferred upon him.
GdTlandS are shOweTed upon him. Great
day for Ed. But away back in the gal
leTy sit his sisters, in plain bOnnets, and
his Old-fashiOned father and mother.
Dear me, she has not had a new bonnet
nor he a new coat for seven years, Ed
has the gaTlands. but the self-denying
group in the gallery, who made that
scene possible, have their full share of
the triumph now, and in the day when
God shall more fully reward the self
sacrificing shall be recognized.
There is much encouragement in this
for those who once wrought effectively
for Christ and the Church, but through
sickness or collapse of fortune or ad-
yanced years cannot gOOutas thy used.
| was in the Soldiers Hospital in Paris,
and there | saw some of the men of the
first Napoleon some of them lame and all
of them aged. l asked them about Ma
poleon and where they fought under
him. One man said, 81 was at Auster-
litz," and another said, 81 was at the
Pyramids" and another said 81 was at
the bridge of Lodi" The French Gov
ernment, instead of casting these old
men off to die, made their last days lux
nriOus. Well, do you think the Lord is
going to cast off his old soldiers? Look
at the old veteransl You think those
ereVices on their faces are wrinkles.
No; they are battle wounds. They fought
with trouble, with sickness. They fought
for God, they fought for Heaven. When
hard work was to be done for Christ,
they were willing to take the heaviest
end of 1t. They would do the most un-
popular thing If they thought God want
ed it done. But now they are full of
physical weaknesses. They have been
obliged to stop by the brook BesOr. You
must think that Christ has very short
memory if you think he has forgotten
their faithful services. Do not fret. my
aged friend, because you cannot be in
active service. You just tarTy by the
stuff, and wait for your share of the
spOils. 1t makes me laugh to think how
you will be surprised as the cOnquerOr
puts a ring on your hand and chain of
gold on your neck, and tells you to go
in and dine with the king. 1 see you
trying to back out, as unworthy, but the
shining angels of God would group
around you, and some on one side and
some on the other will push you right
up and cry, Here is another old soldier
of Jesus Christi And blessed spirits will
rush down at you, saying, 'Oh, yes; he
was the means Of saving my soulP' And
the cry will go round the shining cir.