Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-02-21

] YOU lIOtU Sill ana uctllu ana NEIL w III fOus
Do youl You have. Something makes
me think you have New light has
come into your countenances. Well
comet Welcomed Hail Hail Saved
yourselves how are You going to save
otherss BY testimony. Tell it to your fam
| lily. Tell it TO your business associates. Tell
it everywhere. We will successfully preach
no more religion and will successfully talk
no more religion than we ourselves have.
The most OF that which you do to benefit
the souls OF this generation, you will effect
| through your own behavior Go wrong, and
that will induce others to go wrong. Go
right, and that will induce others TO go
right. When this great centennial exhibition
| was being held in Philadelphia. the ques-
tion came up among the directors as
position open on Sundays, when a director,
who was man of the world. from Nevada,
arose and said, his voice trembling with
emotion and tears running down his cheeks:
II feel like a returned prodigal. Twenty
years ago | went West and into region
where we had no Sabbath but to-day old
memories come back to me, and | re-
member what my glorified mother
taught me about keeping Sunday, and /
seem TO hear her voice again and
feel as did when every evening l knet by
her side in prayer. Gentlemen, / vote for
the observance of the Christian Sabbath
And he carried everything by storm, and
when the question was put "Shall we open
the exhibition on Sabbathp' it was almost
unanimous, no" Nor What one man can
do if he does right, boldly right, emphatic
ally right.
What If we could get this whole genera
ton savedl These people who are living
with us the same year and amid the same
stupendous events and flying toward the fu
ture swifter than eagles to their prey. We
cannot stop They cannot stop. We think
we can stop, We say, "Come now, my
friend, let US stop and discuss this subject
but we do not stop. The year does not
STOP the day does not stop, the hour does not
stop. The year is a great wheel and there is
a band on that wheel that keeps il reyolv
ing and as that wheel turns, it turns three
hundred and sixtv-five smaller wheels. which
are the days. and then each of these three
hundred and sixty-five wheels turn twenty
four smaller wheels which are the hours, and
these twenty-four smaller wheels turn sixty
smaller whee's which are the min
utes, and these sixty smaller wheels turn
sixty more smaller wheels, which are the
seconds. and they keep rolling, rolling, roll.
ing. mounting, mounting, mounting, ana
switching, switching, switching. Oh,
Cod If our generation is going ike
that and we are, going with them,
waken US to the shor. but tremendous
opportunitv / confess to you that my |
one wish is to serve this generation, not TO
antagonize it not to damage il, not to rule IL. |
but to serve il. / would like to do something |
toward helping unstrap its load, to stop It's |
tear, to balsam its wounds and to induce it |
to put foot on the upward road that has |
at its terminus. acc amation rapturous |
and gates pearine, and garlands amaranth-
inc and fountains rainbowed AMI domlnions /
enthroned and coroneted, for cannot forget /
that lullaby in the c osing words OF my text;
"David after he had served his own genera i
ton bv the will OF God fell on sleep
And what lovely sleep it was Unflial
Absalom did not trouble it. Ambitious Ado.
nj jah did not worry it. Prosecuting Saul |
did not harrow it, Exile did not fill it with
nightmare. Since rel headed boy amid
his fathers locks at night he had not had |
of age he lay down to II. He has had
many "a troubled sleep, as in the caverns
OF Adullam or III the palace at
the time his enemies were attempting his
capture. But this was peaceful sleep, o |
calm sleep, n restful sleep, glorious seep. |
AFTER be served his generation by the Will
OF God. he tell on sleep" Oh, WI Mt good /
thing is sleep after a hard days work. IL /
takes all the aching out Of the head and all
the WEAKNESS out of the limbs and all the |
smarting out OF the eyes From u we rise IN
tine morning and il is new world. And il |
we, like David, serve our genera
ton. we will at lfe's close have /
most desira lie and refreshing sleep in It
will vanish our last fatigue of body, our
last worriment Of mind, our last sorrow Of |
soul. 10 tue 0HTtsAidiS hbAA AhaA was nv
with raging fevers so that the Attendants /
must bv sheer force keep on the blankets, |
it will be the cool sleep. To those who |
are thin blooied aud shivering with |
agues, it will be the warm sleep To |
those who because OF physical disorders, |
were terrified with night visions, it |
will be the draamess sleep, To nurses and |
doc ors and mothers who were Weakened al |
most every hour OF the night by those to
whom they minlstered or over whom they |
watched it will be the undisturbed sleep.
To those who could not get to bed till late at
night and must rise early in the morning |
ana before getting rested, 1t will be the long |
sleep.
Away with all your gloomy talk about de.
parture from this world. II we have served
cur generation it will not be putting out into
the breakers, it will not be the tight with the
King OF Ierrors; it will be going to sleep.
A friend writing me from illinois says
that Rev Dr. Wingate. President Of /
Wake Forest College, North Carolina,
after a most useful life, found his last
day on earth his happiest day, and |
that in his last moments he seemed TO be per-
sonally talking with Christ, rs friend with
friend saving: ooh how delightful il is. | |
knew You would be with me when the time
came, and / knew it woald be sweet. but |
did not know it would lie as sweet as il is
The fact was he had served his generation in
the gospel ministry and bY the will of tod he
fell on sleep When in Africa. Majwara. the 1
servant. looked into he tent OF David Liv
ngstone and found him ON his knees. he
stepped back, not wishing to disturb him in
praver. and some time after went in and |
found him in the same posture, and stepped l
back again. hut after while went in and /
touched him, and loi the great Traveller had
finished his last journey and he had
died in the grandest and mlghtlest
posture a man ever takes-on ms knees. ne
had served his generation by unrolling the
scroll of continent and by the will OF God
fell on sleep. Grimshaw. the evangelist,
when asked how he felt in his last moments,
responded: "As happy as can be ON earth
and as sure of glory as IL were IN 1t; have
nothing to do but TO step out OF this bed into
heaven" Having served his generation IN
successful evangelism by the will OF God. he
In the museum of Greenwich Hospital
England there is a fragment OF book that
was found in the Arctic regions am d tine
relics OF Sir John Franklin. who had Per.
ished amid the snow and ice. ana the leaf
of that piece of a book was turned down at
the words: "When thou passest through the
,.-..e,-s will he with thee y Having served 1