Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-04-26

l never shall forget a prayer I heard a
young man make some fifteen years ago. IL
was very short prayer, but il was a tremend-
Gus prayer: "Oh Lord help us. We find 1t
so very easy to do wrong and so hard TO do
right. Lord, helpUsn That prayer, warrant
you, reached the car Of God, and reached
His heart And there are in this house
hundred men who have found out-a thou
sand young men, perhaps, who have found
out that very thing. II is so very easy to do
wrong, and 50 hard TO do right
got letter, only one paragraph Of which
l shall read: Having moved around some
what have run across many young men OF
intelligence, ardent strivers after that will-o'-
the wisp fortune, and of one of these l would
speak. He was a young Englishman OF
twenty-three or four years, who came to
New York, where he had acquaintance,
with barely sufficient TO keep him
couple of weeks. he had
been tenderly reared; perhaps l should
say too tenderly, and was not used to earning
his living and found it extremely difficult to
get any position that he was capable Of fill
ing. After many vain efforts in this direc-
ton he found himself ON Sunday evening in
Brooklyn, near your church, with about
three dollars left of his small capital Provi-
dence seemed to lead him to your door, and
he determined to go in and hear you.
HE told me his going TO hear you that
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his life, for when he went iuto your church
he felt desperate but while listening to your
discourse his better natU.e got tho mastery.
| truly believe from what this young man
told me that your sounding the depths of his
heart that night alone brought him back to
his God whom he was SO near leaviHgn
The echo, that is of multitudcs in the
house. | am not preaching an abstraction,
but great reality. OH friendless young
man, Oh! prodgal young man, Oh broken
hearted young man, discouraged young man,
wounded young man, | commend you to
Christ this day, the best friend man
ever had He meets you this
morning. You have come here for
this blessing. DeSpise not that emotion ris-
ing in your soul; it is dvine,y lifted Look
into the face Of Christ. Lift one prayer TO
| your fathers God, to your mothers God, and
| get the pardOning blessing. Now while
| speak, you are at the forks of the road and
this is the right road, andthat is tho wrong
road, and | see you start on the right road.
One Sabbath morning, at the close Of
my service, l saw a gold watch Of the
world renowned and deeply lamented
violinist Ole Bull. You remember he died
in his island home of the coast OF Norway
That gold watch he had wound up day after
day through his illness, and then he said TO
his companion: Nov l want to wind this
watch as long rs / can, and then when | am
| gone VAIN you W htGp ~ WOuuu up lilltl IL
gets to my friend, Dr.. Doremus in New
| York, and then he will keep it wound I'M until
| his life is DONE and then want the watch to
! go TO his younger son, my especial fav0riten
The great musician, who more than any
other artist had made tho violin speak and
sing and weep and laugh and triumph-for
| it seemed whom he drew the bow across the
strings as if all the earth and heaven
trembled in delighted sympathy-the great
musician, in a room looking off upon the sea,
and surrounded by his favorite instruments
of music. closed his eyes in DEATH
! While all the world was mourning
| at his departure. sixteen crowded steam
ers fell into line of funeral procession to carry
his body to tho main land There were fifty
| thousand Of his countrymcn gathered in an
amphitheatrc Of the hills waiting to hear the
| eulOgium, and it was said when the great
| orator Of the day with stentorian voice be-
! gan to speak, the fifty thousand people on the
| hillsides burst into tears.
OH that was the close Of q life that had
done so much to make the world happy. But
l have to tell you young man, j. you live
! right and die right, that was a came scene
compared with that which will greet you
| when from the galleries of heaven the one
! hundred and forty and four thousand shall
accord with Christ in crying: "Well DONE
thou good and faithful servant
| And the influences that on earth you put in
I motion will go down from generation to gem
| Grafton, the influences You wound up handed
to your children, and their influences wound
up and handed TO their children until watch
! and clock are no more needed to mark the
! progress, because time itself shall be no
! longer,