Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-06-03

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Dumb asylum, and one Of the visitors
with chalk on the blackboard wrote this
question TO the pupils: ''Do you not find
It very hard 70 be deaf and dumb" And
one Of the pupils took the chalk and
wrote on the blackboard this sublime
in answer: "Wheu the song OF
the angels shall hurst upon our enrap
tured ear, we viii scarce regret that our
ears were never marred with earthly
sounds. Oil the brightest eyes in
heaven will be those that never saw on
earth. The ears most alert in heaven
will be those that in this world heard
neither voice Of friend, nor thrum of
harp, nor carol of bird, nor doxology of
congregations.
A lad who had been blind from in
fancy was cured. The oculist operated
upon the lad, and then put very heavy
bandage ovgr the eyes, and after few
weeks had gone by, the bandage was re-
moved, and the mother said TO her child:
willie, can you seer" He said: ''Oh!
mamma, is this heaven?" The contrast
between the darkness before and the
brightness afterward was overwhelming.
And tell you the glories of heaven will
be thousandfold brighter for those who
never saw anything on earth. While
many with good vision closed their eyes
in night, and many who had a good,
artistic and cultured ear went down into
discord, these afflicted ones cried unto
the Lord in their trouble, and he made
their sorrows their advantage, and so
1.-THE lame took the prey"
In the Seventh century there was a
legend Of 81. Modobert. 1t was said that
his mother was blind, and one day while
looking at his mother he felt so sympa-
thetic for her blindness that be rushed
forward and kissed her blind eyes, and.
the legend says, her vision came i'm
mediately. That WAS only legend, but
it is a truth, a glorious truth, that kiss
Of Gods eternal love has brought 10
many blind eye eternal illumination.
A step further; There are those in all
communities who toll nightly for live
ihood. They have scant wages. Per
haps theyare diseased, or have physical
iniirmities, so they are hindered from
doing a continuous days work. A city
missionary finds them up the dark alley,
with no fire, with thin clothing, with
very coarse bread. They never ride in
the street cars; they cannot afford the
five cents. They never see any pictures
save those in the show window on the
street, from which they are often jostled,
and looked at by some one who seems to
say in the look: ''Move on! what are
you doing here looking at picturesP
Yet many Of them live on mountains
Of TRANSPORTATION. At their rough table
he who fed the five thousand breaks the
bread. They talk often Of the good
times that are coming. This world has
no charm for them, but heaven entrance
their spirit. They often divide their
scant crust with some forlorn wretch
who knocks at their door at night, and
ON the blast of the night wind, as the
door opens to let them in. is heard the
voice Of him who said: II was hungry
and ye fed me' No cohort of heaven
viii be too bright 10 transport them. By
Gods help they have vanquished the
Assyrian host. They have divided
among them the spoils. Lame. lame.
yet they took the prey.
| was riding along the country road.
one day, and | saw a man on crutches
| overlook him. BE was very old. He
was going very slowly. At that rate il
would have taken him two hours TO 20
mile. ! said: Wouldn't you Ike 10
ride!" He said; Thank you. would.
God bless YOU" When he sat beside me
he said: "You SEE am very lame and
very old, but the Lord has been a good
Lord TO me. ! have buried all my chill.
dren. The Lord gave them and the Lord
had a right to tulse them away. Blessed
be his name. was very sick and ! had
no money and my neighbOrs came in
and TOOK care Of me and | wanted moth
ing. suffer a great deal with pain but
then has so many mercies left Tho
Lord has been a good Lord 90 mo- And
before we had got far was in doubt
whether | was giving him ride or lie
was giving me ride He saidi Nov,
IL YOU please. TN get out here. Just
help me down on my crtchcs, II you
please God bless Won Thank you. sir
Good morning. Good morning. You
have been feet 10 the lame, sir, you have.
Good morning." Swmthy men had gone
the rond that day. ] do not know where
they came out, but every hobble Of that
old man was toward the shining gate,
With his old crutch he had struck down
many Sonnachcrib Of temptation which
has mastered yau and me. Lame. 70
fcarfully lame, SO awfully lame; but he
took the prev
A step further. There are in all com
munites many orphans, During our
last war aud IN the years Immediately
following, how many children we heard
sayi "Oh! my father was killed In the
war" Have You ever noticcd-I fear
you have not-how well those children
have turned outl Starting under the
greatest disadvantage, no orphan asylum
could do for them what their father
would have done had he lived. The
skirlnisher sat one night, by the light Of
fagots, in the swamp, writing letter
home, when a sharpshooter's bullet ended
the letter which was never folded, never
posted and never read.
Those children came up unde. great
Disadvantage. No father 20 fight their
way for them. Perhaps there was in the
old family Bible nm old yellow letter
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