The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-10-24

| 20 you want an Illustration OF devotion.
behold Him whole nights In prayer. DO YOU
across Palestine tracked with blood. Doyou
want an example OF patience, see Him abused
and never giving one sharp retort. Do you
want an example of industry SEQ Him with
out one idle moment. Do YOU want speci.
men Of sacrifice, look at His life of self de
NAL, His death Of isnominy. His sepulcher OF
humiliation. oh what an examplel His feet
wounded, yet He submitted 10 tho Journey.
Ills back lacerated, and yet He carried the
cross. Struck, He never struck back again.
Condemned, yet no roso higher than
His calumniators, and with wounds
in His hand and wounds IN
His feet and wounds on His brow and wounds
in His side, He CALCULATED; "Father forgive
them, they know not what they dor All,
my brethren, that is the pole by which to SGT
your compass, that is the headland by which
to steer, that is the light by which TO kindle
your lamps, that Is the example that we
ought all 10, follow. How II would smooth
out the roughness In our disposition, and the
world would he impressed by the trans
formation and would say: 81 know what Is
the matter with that man, he has been with
Jesus and has learned Of Him.
Alexander was going along with his army
In Parsia and the snow and ice were so great
that the army halted and said: 'lye can't
march any further Then Alexander dis
mounted from his horse, took pickax, went
ahead OF his army and struck into the ice
aud SHOW. The soldiers said ''If he can do
that we can do it, and they took their picks
and soon the way was cleared and tho army
marched on. So our Lord dismounted from
HIS glory, md through all icy obstacles news
path for Himself and q path for us saying:
Follow Me. do not ask you to go through
any suffering, or fight any battles where
do not lead the wayi Follow Mem
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Christ as sympathiaer. Is there anybody
In the house to-day who does not want SYM
pothy? do not know how any one can live
without sympathy. There are those how.
ever, who have gone through very rough
paths in life who had no divine arm 10 lean
on, How they got along do not exactly
know. Their fortunes took wings in come
unfortunate investment and few away. The
bank failed and they buttoned up penniless
pocket. Ruthless spectators carried Off the
fragments of an estate they were twenty.
five years In getting with hard work.
How did they stand 1t without Christi
Death came into the nursery and there was
an empty crib. One voice less in the house,
hold. One fountain less of joy and laughter,
Two hands less, busy all day long in sport.
Two feet less to 60 bounding and romping
through the hall. Two eyes less to beam with
love and gladness. Through all that house
shadow after shadow, shadow after shadow
until it was midnight. How did they get
through its do not know. They trndged
the great Sahara with no water in the goat
skins; They plunged to their chin in the
slough of despond and had no one to lift
them In an unseaworthy craft they put
out into black Euroclydon
My brother, my sister, there Is a balm that
cures the worst wound There is a light that
will .dndle up the worst darkness THERE'S
harbor from the toughest ocean. You
need and may have the Saviour's sympathy,
You cannot get on this way. see your
and soul. come on no fools errand
to-day. / come with a balm that can
heal any wound. Are you sick2 Jesus
was sick. Are you weary Jesus was weary,
Are you prosecuted? Jesus was prosecuted.
Are you bereaveds Did not Jesus weep over
Lazarusl Oh, yes, like roe on the mount
aims OF Bother Jesus comes bounding to your
soul to-day. There Is not one passage of
Scripture, every word of which Is heart
throb: Come unto Me- all We who are
weary and heavy laden, and will give you
restn Then there Is another passage Just as
good: Cast thy burden on the Lord and
He will sustain thee" Oh, there are green
pastures where the heavenly shepherd leads
the wounded and sick of the flock.
The Son Of God stands by the tomb Of Iaza.
rus and will gloriously break it open at the
right time, Genesaret cannot toss its waves
SO high that Christ cannot walk them. The
cruise of oil will multiply into an illimitable
supply. After the orchard seems to have
been robbed of all its fruit, the Lord has one
tree left, full of golden and ripe supply. The
requiem may wall with gloom and with death;
but there cometh after while q song, a
chant, an anthem, a battle march, jubilee
coronation. Oh, do you not feel the breath
Of Christs sympathy now, you wounded
ones you troubled oness II you do not
would like to tell you Of the chaplain In the
army who was wounded 50 he could not walk,
but he heard at "a distance among the dying
q man who said: "Oh, my Godr' He said to
himself: 81 must help that man though I
can't walk
So he rolled over and rolled through his
own blood and rolled on over many of the
slain, until lie came where this poor fellow
was suffering and he preached to him the
comfort of the Gospel and with his own
wound he seemed to soothe that mans |
wound. 1t was sympathy going out to-
ward an object most necessitous, and |
one that he could easily understand. And
over Himself, He hears the cry Of our
repentance, the cry Of our bereay.
ment, the cry Of our poverty, the cry of our
wretchedness, and He says: Il must 60 and |
help that SOUL and He rolls over with |
wounds in head, wounds in hands, wounds in |
feet, toward US until He comes Just where we |
are weltering in our own blood and He puts +!
His arm over us-and | see it is wounded |
arm, and it is wounded hand-and |
us He throws His arm over us l hear Him |
say: 81 have loved Thea with an everlast- |
ing love-
Agrlu, we must look to Christ as our final
rescue. Wecannot with these eyes however
good our sight may he, catch glimpse Of |
the heavenly land for which our souls long.
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cold river there Is place of glory and Of
rest, than we have that across the Atlantic |
Ocean there Is another continent. But the |
heavenly land and this land stand in mighty |
contrast. This il barrenness and that yer. !
dure. These shallow streams Of earth which !
a thirsty OK might drink dry, or nudes |
hoof trample into mire, compared with the |
bright, crystalline river from under the |
throne, on the banLs OF which river the ar
mics Of heaven may rest, and into whose clear
flood the trees Of life dip their branches.
These instruments of earthly music, SO |
easily racked into discoid compared with the
harps that thrill with eternal raptures, and
the trunpets that are SO musical that they |
wake the dead. These streets along which |
we go painting in summer heat or siivering
in winters cold, and the poor man carries his
burden and the yagrant asks for aims and
along which shnffis the feet Of pain and want
and woa compared with those streets that
sound forever with the feet OF Joy and holt
ness and those walls made out of all manner
of precious stones, the light intershot with re.
flections from jasper and chrysolits and
topaz and saidonyx and beryi and emerald
and chrysoprasus.
Oh, the contrast between this world where
we struggle with temptation that will not
DO conquered, and that world where 1t is per.
feet JOY. perfect holiness and perfect resti
Said little blind child: Mamma, will
| be blind in heavenf' ''Oh, no, my dear"
replied the mother, you won't be blind in
heaven" A little lame child said:
Mamma, will l I've lame in heavenY'
''No," size replied, 'you won't be lame
IN heaven Why, when the plainest
Christian pilgrim arrives at the heavenly
gate 1t opens to him, and as the angels
,ome down TO escort him in, and they
pread the banquet and they keep festival
over the august arrival, and Jesus comes
With a crown and says: "Wem this and
With a palm and says: Wave this and
points to throne and says: Mount this"
Then the old citizens of heaven come around
% hear the newcomers recital of deliverance
wrought for him, and as the newly arrived
oul tells of the grace that pardoned and the
mercy that saved him, all the inhabitants
bout the praise OF the King, crying: praise
lin! Praise Him.
Quaint John Bunyan caught glimpse Of
hat consummation when he said: "Just as
he gates were opnped to LET in the man |