The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-09-16

mission. Suffering al ended now. With
respect to that invalid the words Of my
text have been fulfilled:
Thou shalt be missed. because Thy seAtvill
be empty.
e. Ipass on and find one more vacant
chair. 1t is 3 high chair. 1t is the ehild's
chair. II that chair be occupied. think il
is the most potent chair in all the houses
hold. All the chairs wait on IL; and the
chairs are turned toward il. Il means
more than David's chair at Saul's banquet.
At any rate, il makes more racquet. That
Is a strange house that can be dull with
child in it. How that child breaks up the,
hard worliliness Of the place. and keeps
you young to sixty, seventy and eighty
wears OF age! IL you have no child OF
your own, adopt one; 1t viii open
Heaven to your soul. IL will psy
its way. Its Growing in the morning will
give the day a cheerful starting, and
its glee at night will give the day a
| cheerful close. You do not like children:
! Then you had better stay out Of Heaven,
! for there are so many there they would
| fairly make you crazy! Only about 5lO.-
I 90, coo Of themi The old crus;y disciples
| told the mothers 10 keep the children
| away from Christ.
"You bother Him." they said, you
/ trouble the Master"
| Trouble Him. He had filed Heaven
/ with that kind Of trouble.
a pioneer in California says that for the
/ first year OF two after his residence in
Sierra Nevada County there was not a
single child in all the reach Of a hundred
miles. Bu. the Fourth of July came,
and the miners were gathered to-
/ gether, and they were celebrating the
/ Fourth with Grafton AMI poem and
! boisterous brass brand; and while the
band was playing, an infants voice
was heard crying, eni all the miners
were startled, and the sva-thy men
be-au 20 think Of their homes
on the Eastern coast AMI 4 their
wives and children far away, AMI their
hearts were filed with homes .cEuess as
they heard the babe CRY. Bat the music
went on. AMI the child cried l=uier and
louder, and the trass banl plG vel louder
and louder, trying to drown cut tie in
fantile interruption, when a swaTthv
miner, the tears rolling down his face, got
up and shook his fist, aal said:
stop that noisy band, and give the
bal V a chance"
Oh there was pathos in u as wei as
good cheer in it! There IS nothing 70
arouse, AMI melt, and suJlue tie soul ,:e
a chill's voice.
Bur when it goes away from yoG, The
high chair becomes a higher chair, nj
there IS dessla.i3n all about you. IN
three-fourths Of the homes Of my couEr e.
CATION there is a vacant hi III chair Some
how you never get over it. There is no
one to put 20 bel at night; NJ one 70 ask
strange questions about God and
H aven. Oh. what is the uze Of tat
high chai.: Il IS - ell you higher. WHAT
drawing upward it is 70 have children
in Heaven. And then it is such pre-.
yeutive against sin. If father is going
away into sin he leaves his living chill
dIen with their mothe-; bat II a father IS
going away into sin what is he going %
do with his dea children f Eating about
him and hovern- over his every hayward
sep: Oh, speak out. vacant high chair,
and say:
Father, come hack from sin; mother.
come lack from worllline 5. l am watch
ing YOU. am waiting for YOU
VIZ respect to yeur child the words OF
my text have been fulfilled:
Taol Shalt be missed. because thy seat
Will be empty.
Ny hearers, l have gathered up the
voices of your departed friends, and tried
t. intone them into enc invitation up
ward. Iset in array all the vacant chairs
in your homes, AMI of your social circle,
and l bid them cry out.
Thine is short. Eternity is near Take
my Saviour. Be at peace with my God.
I Come up where l am. We lived together
IN earth come, let Us live toge her in
heaven"
We answer that invitation. We come
: Keep a scat for Us, as saul kept a sea: for
/ David; lut that seat shall not he empty.
/ When we are all through with this world,
/ and we have shaken hands al around for
/ the last time. and all our chairs in the
! home circle, and IN the outside world,
shall lie vacant, may We he worshiping
| God in that place from which We shall 20
cut no more forever. I thank God there
Eill he no vacant chairs in heaven.