The Brookhaven leader., 1889-03-28

every Sabbath afternoon at three O'Clock
for many years. These destitute childre n
receive religious instruction, concluding
with cakes and sandwiches. How do
know that that has been going on FOR
many years3 l knew il in this way.
That was the first homo in Philadelphia
where was called to comfort great sor-
row. They had q splendid boy, and ne
had been drowned at Long Branch. the
father aud mother almost idolized the
boy; and the sob and shrek Of that father
and mother, as they hung over the comm.
resound in my ears to-day. There seemed
TO be no use of praying, for when l knelt
down to pray, the outcry in the room
drowned out all the prayer. But the LORD
comforted that sorrow. They did not
forget their trouble. you should
go on the snowiest winter afternoon into
Laurel Hill you would find q monument
with the word "Walter" inscribed upon
it, and wreath of flowers around tho
name. | think there has not been an
hour all these years, winter or summer
when there was not a wreath OF fresh
flowers around Walters name. But the
Christian mother who sends those flowers
there, having no child left, Sabbath after
moons mothers ten or twenty OF the lost
ones of the street. That is beauu-
full. That is what l call busy and
triumphant sadness. Here is man
who has lost his property. He does
not 60 to hard drinking. He does not de-
stroy his own life. He comes and says:
Harness me for Christian work. Ny
moneys gone. l have no treasures on
earth. l want treasures in Heaven.
have a voice and heart to serve God"
You say that that man has failed. He has
not failed-he has triumphed. Oh, wish
could persuade all the people who have
any kiGd of trouble never to give mp. l
wish they would look at the midnight
rider of the text, and that the four hoofs
of the beast on which Nehemiah rode
might cut to pieces all your discourage
ment and hardships and trials.
Give up! Who is going to give up,
when on the bosom of God he can have
all his troubles hushed? Give up! Never
think Of giving up. Are you borne down
with poverty? A little child was found
holding her dead mothers hand in the
darkness of a tenement house, and some
one coming in, the little girl looked up,
while holding her dead mothers hand,
and said: "Oh, l do wish that God had
dear, God will be your light, God will be
your shelter, God will be your home.
Are you borne down with the
bereavements of life. Is the house
lonely now that the child is
gone? Do not give up. Think Of what
the old sexton said when the minister
asked him why he put SO much care on the
little graves in the cemetery-sO much
more care than on the larger graves, and
the old sexton said: ''Sir, you know that
| of such is the kingdom of Heaven and
think the Saviour is pleased when He sees
SO much white clover growing around
these little graves" But when the minister
pressed the old sexton for a more salts
factory answer, the old sexton said: Sir,
about these larger graves, / don't
know who are the Lords saints and who
are not; but you know, sir, it is clean
different with the BARNS" Oh, if you
have had that keen, tender, indescribable
sorrow that comes from the loss OF a
child, do not give up. The old sexton was
right. 1t is all we'll with the barns. Or,
if you have sinned, if you have sinned
grievously-sinued until you have been
cast out by the church, sinned until you
have been cast out by society, do not give
UP. Perhaps there may be in this house
one that could truthfully utter the
lamentation of another:
Once / was pure as the snow, but fell
Fell like a snowflake, from Heaven to hell
Fell, to be trampl,d as filth OF the street.
Fell, 10 be scoffed at, spit on and beat;
Praying, cursing, wishing to die.
Selling my soul to whoever would buy,
Dealing in shame for a morsel OF bread,
Hating the living and fearing the dead.
Do not give up. One like unto the Sou
of God comes to you to-day, saying: "Gc
and sin no more:" while he cries out tC
your assailants: LET him that is without
sin cast the first stone at her." Oh! there
is no reason why any one in this house
by reason Of any trouble or sin, should
give up. Are you foreigner, and in {,
strange land? Nehemiah was an exile
Are you penniless? Nehemiah was poor
Are you homesick? Nehemiah was home.
sick. Are you broken-hearted? Nehe.
miah was broken hearted. But just see
him in the text riding along the
sacrileged grave of his father,
and by the dragon we'll, and
through the fish gate, and by the Kings
pool,in and out, in and out, the moonlight
falling on the broken masonry, throws q
long shadow at which the horse SHES, and
at the same time that moonlight kindling
up the features of this man, till you see
not only the mark Of sad "Reminiscences
but the courage, the hope, the enthusiasm
of a man who knows that Jerusalem will
be rebuilded. pick you up to-day out OF
your sins and out of your sorrow, and pu,
you against the warm heart of Christ
"The eternal God is thy refuge, and I'M
derneath are the everlasting arms.n