Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-05-06
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be anything serious. Death in slippersd
feet walked round about the cradle. You
did not hear the tread; but after a while
the truth flashed on you. You walked
the floor. Oh, if you could, with your
strong, stout hand, have wrencbed that
child from the destroyer. You went to
your room and you said, God, save my
childl Gcd, rave my child" The world
seemed going ont in darkness. You said,
81 can't bear it; 1 can't bear it" You
felt as if you could not put the long lsshes
over the bright eYes, never 10 see them
sgsin sparkle Oh, If you could have
taken that little one in your arms and
with il leaped the grave, how gladly you
would have done IT, Oh, il you could let
your property 20, your houses 20, Your
land and your storehOuse 10, how gladly
you would have allowed them TO depart if
yea could only have kept that one treas
urel
All, IT WAS YOUR FIRST TROUBLE
How did you get over it? God comforted
you. You have been better man ever
stree. You have been a better woman
ever since. In the jar of the closing gate
Of the sepulcher you heard the changing Of
tie opening gate of heaven, and you felt
an irresistible drawing heavenward. You
have been purer Of mind ever since that
night when the little one for the last time
put its arms around your neck and said,
Good night, papa; good night, mamma.
Meet me in heaven"
But must come down TO your latest
sorrow. What was it? Perhaps it was
your own sickness The child's tread on
the stair, or the tick of the watch on the
stand disturbed you. Through the long,
weary days you counted the figures in the
carpet OF the flowers in the wall paper.
On, the WEAKNESS, the exhaustion Oh,
the burning pangs Would God it were
morning, would God il were night, were
your frequent cry. But you are better, or
perhaps even well. Have you thanked
that God to-day you can come ont in the
fresh air; that you are in this place to hear
Gods name, and to sing Gods praise, and
implore Gods help, and to ask Gods for
giveness? Bless the Lord who healeth all
our dis asses, and redeemeth our lives from
destruction.
PERHAPS YOUR LAST TROUBLE
was q bereavement That heart which in
childhood was your refuge, the parental
heart. and which has been a source Of the
quickest sympathy ever since, has sudden
ly become silent forever, and now some
times, whenever il sudden annoyance and
without deibeFstion you say 81 will 60 and
tell mother" the thought flashes on yOu,
Il hsve no mother" or the father, with
voice less tender, bat as stanch and earn
est ard loving as ever, watchtul OF all your
ways, exultant over Your success without
saying much, although the old people do
talk it over by themselves, bis 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 over a wide wilderness
of desolstion, the sands of the desert driv-
ing across the place which once blcomed
like the garden of God. And Abraham
mourns for Sarah at tbs cave OF Machpe-
lsh. Going along your path In life, sud
denly, right before you was sn open grave.
People looked down and they ssw it was
only few feet deep and few feet wide,
but to you il was cavern down which
went all your hopes and all your exDecta-
tions.
But cheer up in the name of the Lord
Jesus Christ, the Comforter. He Is not
going 10 forsake you. Did the Lord take
that child out Of your arms? Why, be is
going 10 shelter it better than You could.
He is going to array it in white robe,
and with palm branch 1t Will be all ready
70 greet you at your coming home.
Blessed the broken heart that Jesus heals.
Blessed the importunate cry that jesus
eompassiopstes. Blessed the weeping eye
from which the soft hand of Jesus wipes
away the tear.
THE INTERVAL LAND.
was sailing down the st. John river,
Canada, which is the Rhine and the Hud-
son commingled in one scene of beauty
and grar deur, and while was On the deck
of the steamer a gentleman pointed out 10
me he places OF interest, ard he said, All
this is interval land, and 1t Is the richest
land in all the provinces Of New Bruins
wick and Nova Scotia"
what" said l, do yor mean by the
interval land?" We'll" ne said, 'this
land is submerged for part Of the year
snripg freshets come down, and all these
plains are overlooked with water. and tue
water leaves a rich deposit, and when the |
water is gone the harvest springs up, ard
there is the grsudest harvest that was
ever resped." And / instantly thought, |
at il not he heights of the church end 1t
IL not the heights of this world that ls the
scene of the greatest prosperity, but the
soul over which the floods OF sorrow nave
gone, tie soul over which the treshets Of
tribulation have torn their way, that
Yields the greatest fruits of Righteousness,
aud the largest harvest fer time, and the
richest harvest for eternity" Bless Goa
that YOUR soul is interval land.
But these reminiscent es reach only to this
morning. There will yet be one more
point Of tremendous reminiscerce, and
That Is the last hour of life, when We bave
10 look over all cur past existence. What
A moment that will be. 1 place Napo-
Icons
DYING RENiINIsCENCE
on ST. Helena beside Mrs. Judson's dying
reminiscence in the harbOr of st. Helena,
the same Island, twenty years after. Ma
poleon's dying "reminiscences was one OF de-
iirium, Head of the army" Mrs. Jnd-
sons diving Renaissance, as she came
home from her missionary toll and her lie
of self sacrifice for God, dying in the csoin
of the ship in the hsrbor OF St Helena,
was. 81 always did love the LORD Jesus
Cbrist - And then, the historian says,
sha tell into a sound sleep for an hour, and
woke amid the songs Of angels.
nIscs the diving Renaissance of Au-
orstns &c ,sr against the dying Renaissance
81 the APOSTLE Paul. The dying reminis-
e. of Augustus Cesar was, addressing
his attendants, Have l played my part
we'll we ON the stage of life?" and they ans
s Ger, in the affirmative, and he said,
'sW v then, don't you applaud me?" The
vas ~ have fought good fight | have