News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-13

erect houses, and carry on thousand enter
prises of civilization. That's the reason We
pound YOU Now, God puts q soul into tia
furnace OF trial, and then it is brought out
and run through the crushing machine, and
then it comes down on the anvil and upon 1t
blow after blow, blow after blow, and tie
| soul cries out: "Oh. Lord, what does all this
mean" God says: Il want to make some
thing very useful out of you. You shall be
something to hew with and something to build
with. 1t is practical process through
which am putting you" Yes, my Christ
tian friends, we want more too,s IN the
church of God. Not more wedges to split
with; we have enough of these. Not more
bores with which to drill; we have.too many
boreS. What we really want is keen sharp
we'll tempered axes, and if there be any other
wav nf making than than in the hot furnaces
ana on Une hard anvil and under the heavy
hammer, do not know what it is Remem-
Der that if God brings any kind of chastiss-
ment upon you, it is only to make you use
full Do not sit down discouraged and say:
81 have no more reason for living. l wish
| were dead Oh, there never was SO much
reason for your living as now. BY this or
deal You have been consecrated priest of
the Most High God. Go out and do your
whole work for the Master
There is also great deal of comfort in the
fact there will be family reconstruction
in better place. From, Scotland, or Eng
land, or Ireland, child emigrates to this
country. 1t is very hard parting. but he
comes, after a while writing home as to what
a good land it is. Another brother comes, a
sister comes, and another, and after a while
the mother comes, and after while the
father comes, and now they are all here, and
they have a time of great congratulation and
a very pleasant reunion. Well it is just so
with our families; they are emigrating to a
better land. Now one goes out. Oh, how
hard it is to plrt with him! Another goes.
Oh, how hard it is TO part with her And
another, and another, and we ourselves will
after a while go over, and then we will be
together Oh, what a reunionl Do you be-
ieve that: Yes" you say. You do not!
\ on do not believe it as you believe other
things. If you did, and with the same
emphasis, why, it would take nine tenths
OF your trouble off your heart. The fact
Is, heaven to many of US is a great fog. 1t is
away off somewhere, filled with an uncertain
and indefinite population. That is the kind
of heaven that many of us dream about; but
it is the most tremendous fact in all the
universe-this heaven of the Gospel. Our
departed friends are not afioat. The resi-
dence in which you live is not real as the
residence in which they stay. You are afoat,
YOU who do not know in the morning what
will happen before night. They are housed
and safe forever Do not, therefore, pity your
departed friends who have died in Christ.
They do not need any of your pity. You might
well send a letter of coincidence to Queen
Victoria on her obscurity. or to the RothS.
chiidS on their poverty, as to pity those who
nave won Jne PAM 10 nOG say Oh G1Ose
who are departed: "Poor child! ''Poor
fathern Poor motherI" They are not
poor. You are poor-you whose homes
have been shattered-not they. You do
not dwell much with your families in this
world. All day long you are off to business.
Will it not be pleasant when you can be to-
gether all the while? If you have had four
children and one is gone and anybody asks
how many children you have, do not be SO
intidel as to say three. Say four-one in
hoo No Of ip1- hot fba &c
friendly. You go into your room and dress
for some grand entertainment. and you come
forth beautifully appareled; and the grave
is only the place where you go to dress for
the glorious resurrection, and will come
out radiant, radiant mortality having be-
come Immortality. Oh, how much condOl-
ence there is in this tnoughtl l expect to
see nv kindred in heaven; expect to see
them as certainly as | expect to go home to-
day. Ay, shall more certainly see them.
Eight or ten will come up from the graveyard
back of Somerville; and one will come up
from the mountains back of Annoy, China; |
and another will come up from the sea off |
Cape Hatteras; and thirty will come up from /;
Greenwood; and | shall know them better |
than [ ever knew them here. And your \
may be across the sea, but the /
that sounds here will sound there. /
You Will come up on just the same day.
Some morning you have oversight yourself, /
AMI YOU open your eyes and see that the sun
IS high in the heavens and You say, II have
oversight and | must be up and Off" So you !
will open your eyes on the morning of the res |
direction in the full blaze of Gods light, and
you will say: Il must be up and away" Oh !
yes you will come up and there will be a re |
Inion, a reconstruction of your family. |
ike what Halliburton, l think it was-good |
I'D Mr.. Halburton-said i'll his last moments:
L thank God that l ever lived, and that L |
lave a father in heaven, and a mother in
leaven, and brothers in heaven, and sisters
n heaven, and L am now going up to see
T1enarl, once more: Our troubles in this
world are preparative for glory. What
it was for Paul-from the slippery /
ieck of laundering ship to the calm pres
ence of Jesus! What transition it was for |
LatImer-frOm the stake to a thronel What /
transition it was for Robert Hall-from \
insanity to glory, What a transition IL was /
Tor Richard RaXter-frOm the dropsy to the I
saints everlasting restr And what /
transition it will be for you-from n world /
Of sorrow to a world of JOY! John Holland, |
when he was dying. said: what means this /
d .ghtnesS in the roOmE Have you lighted [
h candies:' No" they replied, 1--WE have /
lot lighted any candies" Then said he:
Welcome heaven" the light already beam
ng upon his pillow. We who are perse-
'uted in this world your enemies will get
II the track after a while and all !
will speak well of you among the thrones. /
iOi we who are sick now, no medicine to take /
here. One breath of the eternal hills will
brill you with immortal vigor And We |
Who are lonesome now, there will be thou
AMI spirits to welcome you into their COM
We bereft souls there will be
10 grave dgger's spade that viii cleave the
ide of that hill, and there will be no dirge |
v9iling from that temple The river of God /
leep as the Joy of heaven, will roll on be- /
ween banks odorOus with balm, and over
epths bright with jewels, and under skies
oseate with gladnesS, argosies of light going
own the stream to the stroke of gIittering |
ar and the song of angels Not one sigh in
he wind; not one tear mingling with the !
7aterS
There shall battle my weary soul
In seas of heavenly rest,
And not wave of trouble roll
Across my peaceful breast.