Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-05-16

worId' Have you, amid all your losses and
discouragemenfs. forgot that there was bread
on your table this morning, and that there
shall be shelter for your head from the
storm, and there is air for your lungs, and
blood for your heart, and light for your eve
and glad and glorious and triumphant re-
hg1on for your souls
Perhaps your last trouble was a bereave-
ment. That heart which In childhood was
your refuge, the parental heart and which
has been source of the quickest sympathy
ever since, has suddenly become silent for
ever, and now sometimes, whenever in sud-
den annoyance and without deliberation
you say 4 viii go and tell mother,
the thought flashes On you: Il have no
mother or the father, with voice less
tender, but as stanch and earnest and loving
as ever, watchful of all your ways, exultant
over your success without saying much
although the old people do talk it over BY
themselves, his trembling hand on that staff
which you now keep as a family relic. his
memory embalrned in grateful hearts, is
taken away forever
Or there was your companion IN life.
sharer Of your Joys and sorrows, taken, leav-
ing the heart an old ruin, where the chill
winds blow over wide wilderness OF desola-
ton. the sands Of the desert driving across
the place which once bloomed Like the garden
of God. And Abraham mourns for Sarah at
the cave of Machpelah. Going along your
path in life suddenly, right before you was
an open grave. People looked down and they
saw it was only few feet deep and few
feet wide but to you it was a cavern down
which went all your hopes and all your ex-
pectations.
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 arInsg Why, he is going 70 shell
ter it better than you could. He IS going TO
array it in white robe, and with palm
branch It viii be all ready 70 greet you at
your coming home Blessed the broken heart
that Jes,-E heals Blessed the importunate cry
that Jesus compassionates. Blessed the weep
ing eve from which the soft hand OF Jesus
wipes away the tear.
twas sailing down the St John River, Can
ada, which is the Rhine and the Hudson COM
mingled in one scene OF beauty and grandeur,
and while was ON the deck of the steamer
gentleman pointed out 70 me the places Of in
terest and he said. All this is interval
land and it Is the richest land in all the prov
inces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia
What, said T. do you mean by interval
Iandsr Well he said this land is sub
merged for part Of the year, spring freshets
come down, aud all these plains are over
flowed with the water, and the water leaves
a rich deposit and when the waters are gone
the harvest springs up. and there
is the grandest harvest that was
ever re1pcN- AM iI6lAlLY tlouPuts
1t IS not the heights of the church
and it is not the heights Of this world that is
the scene OF the greatest prosperity, but the
soul over which the foods of sorrow have
gone, the soul over which The hesilets 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 sod that your
soul is interval land
But these "reminiscences reach only TO this
morning. There viii yet be one more point
OF tremendous "reminiscences, and that IS the
last hour Of life, when VIC have 10 look over
al our past existence What n moment that
viii be- | place Napoieon's dying reminis-
cencc on st. Helena beside Mrs. Judson's dy-
ing "reminiscences in the harbor Of st. Helena,
the same island, twenty years after. Napo-
leon dying "reminiscences was one Of delirtum
Head Of the army Mrs Judson's dying
"Reminiscences as she came home from her
missionary toll and her life OF self-sacriics
for God dying IN the cabin OF the ship IN the
harbor Of St Helena. was: - always did
love the Lord Jesus Christ And then the
historian saws she fell into sound sleep for
an hour. and woke amid the songs Of angels.
place the dying "reminiscences Of Augustus
Cesar against the dying "reminiscences u the
Apostle Paul The dying "Reminiscences Of
Augustus Casar was, addressing his attend
ants. Have played my part vel on the
stage 0f life y and they answered him IA the
affirmative and he said why, then, don't
you applaud me 2 The dying Renaissance Of
Paul the Apostle was. 4 have fought
good fight | have kept the faith. hence
forth there IS laid up for me a crown
81 righteousness which the Lord, the right
eous Judge viii give me ia that day, and
not Is me only. but 70 an them that love His
appearingr Augustus Cesar died amid
pomp and great surrounding Paul uttered
lis dying rominiscence looking up through
the wall OF dungeon. God grant that our
last hour may be the closing Of a useful life,
and the opening Of glorious eternity.