Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-06

Or. there was your companion in life, shaIer
of your joys and sorrows, taken, leaving the
heart an old rum, where the chill winds Diow
over a wide wilderness of desolation, 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
suddenly, right before you was an open grave.
People looked down and they saw 1t was only a
few feet deep and q few feet wide. but to you
it was a cavern down which went all your hopes
and all your expectations.
BUT CHEER UP.
in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Com
forter. Heis not going to forsake you. Did
the Lord take that child out Of your armsf
Whv He is going to shelter it better than you
could. He is going to array it in white robe,
and with palm branch it will be all ready to
greet YOU at your coming home. Blessed the
broken heart that Jesus heals. Blessed the inn
portunate CRY that Jesus compassionates.
Blessed the weeping eye from which the soft
hand of Jesus wipes away the tear.
was sailing down the st. John river, Canada.
which is the Rhine and the Hudson commingled
in one scene of beauty and grandeur, ana Whne
was on the deck of the steamer gentleman
pointed out to me the places OF interest ana
said "All this is interval land, and it is the
richest land in all the provinces OF New Bruins
wick and Nova Scotia"
What " said do you inca mean Dy ln1erVSl IVA
merged for a part of the year: spring freshets
come down, and all these plains are Overhowed
with the water, and the water leaves rich de-
posit and when the waters are gone the harvest
springs up and there is the grandest harvest
that was ever reaped." And instantly thought,
at is not the heights of the church and it is
not the heights of the world that is the scene
of the greatest prosperity, but the soul over
which the floods of sorrow have gone, the soul
over which the freshets 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 God that your soul is interval land.
A GLORIOUS ETERNITY.
But these "reminiscences reach only to this
morning. There will yet be one more point of
tremendous reminiscence and that is the last
hour of life, when we have to look over all our
past existence. What a moment that will be!
place Napoleon's dying reminiscence on st.
Helena beside Mrs. Judson's dying reminis-
cence in the harbor of St. Helena, the same
island. 20 years after Napoleons dying remi-
niscence was one of delirium, Head of the
army" Mrs. Judson's dying "reminiscences, as
her life of self sacrifice for God dying in the
cabin of the ship in the harbor of st. Helena,
was, 81 always did love the Lord Jesus Christ"
And then the historian says, she fell into a
sound sleep for an hour, and woke amid the
songs of angels
place the dying reminiscence of Augustus
Caesar against the dying reminiscence of the
Apostle Paul. The dying Renaissance of Au-
gustus Cesar was. addressing his attendants,
"Have played my part well on the stage of
lifer' and they answered in the affirmative, and
he said, why, then, dou't you applaud me?'
The dying "reminiscences of Paul the Apostle
was, II have fought good fight have kept
the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a
crown of righteousness which the Lord, the
righteous Judge, will give me in that day, and
not to me only but to all them that love His
appearing" Augustus Caesar died amid pomp
and great atsurroundings Paul uttered his dying
reminiscenoe looking up through the wall of
dungeon. God grant that our last hour may be
the closing of useful life, and the opening OF
glorious eternity.