Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-05-12
reayement. That heart which in child

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hood was your refuge, the parental
heart, and which has been q source Of
the quickest sympathy ever since, has
suddenly become silent forever, and
now sometimes, whenever in sudden
ANNOYANCE and without deliberation
you say Il will 60 and tell mother"
the thought flashes on you, II have
no MOTHER" or the father, with voice
less tender, but as stanch and earnest
and loving rs ever, watchful Of all
your ways, exultant over your success
without saying much, although the
old people do talk il over by them
selves, his trembling hand on that staff
which you now keep as a family relic,
his memory embalmed in grateful
hearts, is taken away forever.
Or, there was your companion in
life, sharer of your joys and SORROWS,
taken. leaving the heart an old ruin,
where the chill winds blow overa wide
wilderness of desolation, the sands
of the desert driving across the place
which once bloomed like the garden
of God. And Abraham MOURN for
Sarah at the cave of Machpelah. Go
ing along your path in life, suddenly,
right before you was an open grave.
People looked down and they saw il
was only a few feet deep and a few
feet wide, but to you it was a cavern
down which went all your hopes and
all your expectations.
But cheer up IN the name of the
Lord Jesus Christ, the Comforter. He
is not going to forsake you. Did the
Lord take That child out of your armst
Why, he is going to shelter it better
than you could. He is going 10 array
i in a white robe, and with palm
branch it viii be all ready to greet
you at your coming home. Blessed
the broken heart that Jesus heals.
Blessed the importunate cry that Jesus
compassionates. Blessed the weeping
eve from which the soft hand Of Jesus
wipes away the tear.
| was sailing down the ST. John
river. Canada, which is the Rhine and
the Hudson commingled in one scene
of beauty and grandeur, and while !
was on the deck of the steamer a gen.
tleman pointed out TO me the places of
interest, and he said, All this is in.
terval land, and it is the richest land
in all the provinces Of New Brunswick
and Nova Scotia.
What" said /, do you mean by
interval landi" well" lie said, this
land is submerged for a part of the
year; spring freshets come down, and
all these plains are overlooked with
the water, and the water leaves q rich
deposit, and when the waters are gone
the harvest springs up, and there is
the grandest harvest that was ever
reaped." And | instantly thought,
1T is not the heights of the church
and it is not the heights of this world
that is the scene of the greatest pros
perity. but the soul over which the
floods OF sorrow have gone, the soul
over which the freshets of tribulation
have torn their way, that yields the
greatest fruits of righteousness, and
the largest harvest for time, and the
richest harvest for eternity" Bless
God that your soul is interval land.
THE LAST MOMENT.
But these "reminiscences reach only
to this morning. There will yet be
one more point Of tremendous remi-
~niscence, and that is the last hour of
life, when we have To look over ell our
past existence. What a moment that
will bel ! place Napoleon's dying
reminiscence on ST. Helena beside Mrs.
Judson's dying rminisc nee in the
harbor of 81. Helena, the same island,
twenty years after. Napoleon's dying
Renaissance was one Of delirium,
Head Of the army" Mrs. Judson's
dying Renaissance, as she came home
from her missionary toll and her life
Of self sacrifice for God, dying in the
cabin Of the ship in the harbor of st.
Helena, was, II always did love the
Lord Jesus Christ" And then, the
historian says, she fell into a sound
sleep for an hour, and woke amid the
songs Of angels.
/ place the dying Renaissance of
Augustus Caesar against the dying
Renaissance of the Apostle Paul. The
dying Renaissance OF Augustus Ca-
sar was, addressing his attendants,
"HaveI played my part well on the
stage of lifef" and they answered in
the affirmative, and he said, "Why,
then, don't you applaud met" The
dying "reminiscences Of Paul the
Apostle was, II have fought a good
fight, / have kept the faith; hence.
forth there is laid up for me a crown
of righteousness, which the Lord, the
righteous Judge, will give me in that
day, and not TO me only, but to all
them that love his appearing" Au-
gustus CTsar died amid pomp and
great surroundings. Paul uttered
his dying rcminiscencc looking up
through the wall Of a dungeon. God
grant hat our last hour may DO the
closing of q useful life, and the open
ing OF a glorious eternity.
Thence. ~ Npa.tba,