Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-06

'ower, but II II the invalid's chair. a.
hese men aud women who are al avs
uffering but never complaining -sncae
'ictims OF spinal disease, and 2 ..,e,glc
orture, and rheumatic excrucir Tar viii
answer 10 the roll call OF r ,or,,rrs and
Use TO the martyrs throne, ~ III, ,vavn
he martyrs palm, Blu ,rhen one ~
.heee invalids' chairs es,cornSs vscsnt,
how suggestive II isl n, nor, hi ster,ne
mp Of the weary head No mora chsneins
rom slue 70 sue 70 get an easy position.
NO more use OF Se bandage and the cat
Apiesm ana tne description. That inva-
Ilu's CHAR ID az be folded up or taken
apart, OF SET away but IL VIII never lose
US queenl3 power; 1t will always preach
OF trust 10 God and cheerful submission.
ouner' hg all ended now. With respect to
tnat hvalid the words OF my text have
beer. fulfilled: "Thou shalt be missed be-
ca.dse thy seat will be empty"
4. pass on and find one m ore vacant
chair. It's higu chair, it is
THE cHTLD's CHAIR.
IL that chair be occupied | think 1T Is
the most potent chair In all the house,
hold. All the chairs wait on It; all the
chairs are turned toward It. 1t means
more than Dsvid's chair at Saul's ban
quet. At any rate, it makes more racket.
That Is strange house that can be dull
with child in It. How that child breaks
up the hard worldiness of the place, and
keeps you young TO sixty, seventy and
eighty years Of age! II you have no
child OF your own, adopt one; It will
open heaven to your soul. 1t will pay It's
way. Its Growing in the morning will
give the day cheerful starting, and its
glee at night will give the
day 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 five hundred millions Of them!
The old crusty disciples told the mothers
to keep the children away from Christ.
'You bother him." they said; "you
trouble the Master" Trouble Him! He
has filed heaven with that kind of trouble.
A pioneer in California says that for the
first year or two after his residence in
Sierra Nevada county there was not a
single child in all the reach OF one hun
dred miles. But the Fourth OF July came,
and the miners were gathered together,
and they were celebrating the Fourth
with Grafton and poem and boistrous
brass band; and while the band was play
ing an infants voice was heard crying,
and all the miners were startled, and the
swarthy men began to think OF their
homes on the Eastern coast, and Of their
wives and
CHILDREN FAR AWAY,
and their hearts were filed with home
sickness as they heard the babe cry. But
the music went on and the child cried
louder and louder, and the band played
louder and louder, trying to drown out
the infantile interruption, when swarthy
miner, the tears rolling down his face,
got up and shook his fist and SAID: "Stop
that noisy band and give the baby
chance" oh, there was pathos in it,
as well as good cheer in it. There is
nothing to arouse, and melt, and subdue
the soul like chlld's voice.
But when 1t goes away from you, the
high chair becomes higher chair, and
there is desolation all about you. In
three fourths of the homes of my congre-
CATION there is vacant high chair. Some
how you never get over 1t. There is no
one to put 20 bed at night; no
one TO ask strange questions about
God and heaven. Oh, what Is the use OF
that high cheir2 1t is to call you higher.
What drawing upward it is to have
children In heaven And then 1t is such
a preventive against sin. II father is
going away into sin he leaves his living
children with their mother; but II
father Is going away into sin what is he
going to do with his dead children float
ing about him and lowering over his
every hayward stepP Oh, speak out
vacant high chair, and says tFather,
come back from sin; mother, come back
from worldliness. / am watching YOU;
| am waiting for you" With respect to
your child the words Of my text have
been fulhlled; "Thou shalt be missed
because thy seat will be empty"
My hearers, have gathered up the
voices OF your departed friends, and tried
to intone them into one invitation up
ward l set In array
ALL THE VACANT CHAIRS
OF your homes, and OF your social circle,
and bid them cry out: "Time Is short
eternity is near. Take my Savior. Be at
peace with my God. Come up where |
am. We lived together on earth; come,
let us live together in heaven.n We
answer that invitation. We come. Keep
seat for us, as Saul kept seat for
David; but that seat shall not be empty.
When we are all through with this world,
and we have shaken hands all around for
the last time, and all our chairs in the
home circle and In the outside world
shall be vacant, may we be worshipping
God In that place from which we shall 90
out no more forever. / thank God
there VIII be no vacant chairs in heaven.
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Ponds Extract, for every pain or
soreness. A history without narallel.