News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-31

| so tired; we are so sick: we are so hungry =
But the men who had charge of them said
stop this crying. Go on" David AMI hi
| men also found it a hard way. They bad K
travel it. Our friends have gone into glory
and it is through much tribulation that W.
are to enter into the kingdom. How oul
| loved ones used to have to struggled how thei
old hearts ache1! how sometimes they had {
| tussle for breadi In our Childhood WI
wondered why there We're so many wrinkle:
on their faces We did not know that wha
| were called ''crow's feet on their faces were
the marks of the black raven of trouble
Did you never hear the old people
seated by the e-ening sand, tall
over their early trials, their hardships
| the accidents, thu burialS, the disap-
pointm nts, the empty -four barrel when
there were so many hungry on S to feed, the
| sickness almost unto death, where the next
/ dose of morphine decided between CHASTITY
| bereavement and an uniroken home circle
| Oh, yes it was trouble that whitened Their
| hair. 1t was trouble that shook the
/ cup in their hands. 1t was trouble
| that washed the lustre from their eyes
with the rain of tears until they
| needed spectacles. 1t was trouble thai
made tho cane necessity for their Journey
Do you never remember seeing your old
| mother sitting, on some IA ny day, looking
| out of the window, her elbow on the window
sill, her hand to her brow-'ooking out, not
| seeing the falling shower at all you vel
| knew that she was looking into the distant
| past, until the apron came up to her eyes
because the memory was too much for herr
| soft the big, unbdden tear.
| Stealing down the furrowed cheek,
Tod in eloquence sincere,
Tales of woe they could not speak.
| "But this scene of weeping DER
Past h scene Of toll and pain,
They shall feel distress more,
Never, never weep again"
| "Who are these under the altar J." the ques
| ton was asked; and the response came
| These are they which came out of great
| tribulation, and have washed their robes
| and made them white in the blood OF the
Lamb Our friends went by path of tears
| into glory. Be not surprised if we have to
| travel the same pathway.
| remark, again, if we want to win the so.
| ciety of our friends in heaven, We viii not
| only have to ira ell path of faith and q
| path of tribulation. but we viii also have tC
positively bate for their companionship.
David and his men never wanted sharp swords
and invulnerable shields and thick breast
plates SO much as they wanted them on the day
when they came down upon the Amalek ties
If they had lost that battle, they never
would have got their families back. | sup
pose that one glance at their loved ones in
captivity hurled them into the battle Wi b
ten-foid courage and energy. They said:
I'VE must win it. Every thing depends upon
it. Let each one take a man on point of 81 ear
or sword. We must win it. And have to
tell you that between us and coming into the
companionShp of our loved ones who are
departed there is an Austerlitz, there is a
Gettysburg. there is a " aterloo. War with
the world, war with the flesh, war with the
devil. We have either to conquer our troub-
les, or our troubles will conquer U.s. Davi /
will either sIaY the AmaIekites or the
Amaekites will slay David. AMI vet is not
the fort to be taken worth all the pain,
all the peril, all the lesiegement
n0lrf L
hills of heaven yonder! There the
are those who sat at your own table, the
chair now vacant There they are, these
whom you rocked in infancy in the cradle
or hushed to sleep in your arms. There they
are, those in whose life your life was bound
up There they are, their brow more radiant
than ever before you it, their lip,
waiting for the kiss of heavenly greeting
their cheek roSeate with the health of eterna
summer, their hands reckoning YOU I'D the
steep, their feet bounding with the mirLh OF
heaven The pallor of their last sicknes,
gone out of their face, never mere to be sick
never more to cough. never more to limp,
never more to he old, never me re to weep
They are watching from these heights to Sc
If through Christ YOU can take that fort, and
whether y on will rush in upon Their - ictcrs.
They know that upon this LATHE d4pen Is
whether you will ever oin Their society. Up
strike hard charge more bravelY! Re
member that every inch you gain puts you
union
IF this morning while speak YOU could
bear the cannonaGe OF forei IN navy coming
through the NarrCwS, which was to despoil
our city, and if they really shoul succeed in
carrying our families away from US, how
long would we take before we re Owed to &c
after them: Every weapon, whether fresh
from Springfield or old and rus: in the gar.
ret. would he brought ont: and wa would
urge on, and, coming III front of the foe, we
of I l.
families, and the cry would be: Victory or
death! and when the ammunition was
gone, we would take the captors on
the point of the bayonet or under the breech
OF the gun. If you wouli make such a
struggle for the getting back of your earthly
friends, will you not make as much struggle
Tor the gaining of the eternal companionship
OF your heavenly friends, Oh yes! we must
JON them. We must sit in their holy society.
we must sing with them the song We
must celebrate with them the triumph. Let
It never be told on earth or in heaven that
David and his men pushed out with drawer
hearts Tor the getting back of their earthly
trlendS for few years ON earth than we to
get our departed!
You say that all this implies that our de-
parted Christian friends are alive. WHY. had
you any idea they were dead. They have
only ISoved. Ii you should 90 on the I'd of
May TO a house where one of your friends
I'VE !, ana found him gone, you would not
1. wOfli1
inquire next door where he had moved
o. Our departed Christ an friends
ave only taken another hoase. The secret
IS tiiat they are richer now than they
1nce were, an can afford letter residence
lhey once drank OFT of earthenware they
now DRINK from the Kings chalice Joseph
IS yet alive" al nd Jacob will go up and see
nlm- Living. arr they Why. if a man can
I'VE IN tins damp, dark dungeon of earthly
captivity, can he not live where he breathes
the braclng atmosphere of the mountains of
heaven Oh, yes, they are living
DO you think that Paul is so near dead
now as he was When he was living in the
homan dungeon? DO you think that Fred
erick Robertson, of Brighton, is as near dead
now as he was when, year alter year he
slept seated on the floor, his head ON the
bottom of chair, because he could find
ease IN no other position: Do you think
that Robert Hall is as near deal now as
wren, on his couch, he tossed in physical tor
turess No. Death gave them tue few blacl,
drops that cured them That is all death
does TO Christian cures him. / know that
" hat have said implies that they are living.
Eere IS no question about thai. The only
question this morning is whether you will
ever join them.
But | must not forget those two bundred
men who tainted by the brook Besor. They
:ould not take another step farther Their
feet were sore; their heal ached: the en-
they We're broken hearted because their
aomes were gone. Ziklag in ashes! And vet
David, when he comes up to them, divides
the SPOTS among them. He says they shall
nave some OF the jewels, some of the robes
some of the treasures | Iook over this
audience this morning, and | find at least
two hundred who have tainted by the brool;
Besnr-the brook of tears You feel ms
If you could not take another step farther
as though you could never look up AGAIN
n mi at at-iI
among you some glorious trophies Here is
a robe: "All things work together for good
to those who love God" wrap Yourself in
that glorious promise Here is for your neck
a string of pearls, made out of crystalized
tears; Weeping may endure for a night,
but Joy cometh in the morning" Here is a
coronet: BE thou faithful unto death, and
will give thee crown of life" o ye faint
ing ones by the brook Besor, dip your bis
tered feet IN the running stream of Gods
mercy. Battle your brow at the wells of sal
VaVon. Soothe your wounds with tie bal
sam that exudes from trees of life. God will
not utterly cast you Off O broken hearted
man, o broken-hearted woman. faintinp nv
the brook Besor. -
A shepherd finds that his musical pipe is
bruised. he saws: II can't get any more
music out OF this instrument; so / will Just
break 1t, and | will throw this reed away
linen viii get another reed, and will nav
music on that But God saws He will not
cast you off because all the music has
gone cut Of your soul ''The bruised
reed He will not break AS far as
L can tell the diagnosis of your disease, Won
want Divine nursing, and it is promised Won.
AS one whom his mother comforteth, SO
will comfort you.n Col will see Won ali
the way through, o troubled soul. and when
you come down to the Jordan of death. Won
Will find it to be as thin brook as Besor. for
DR.. Robinson says that, in April Besor dries
up, and there is no brook at all. And in
your last moment you will be as placid as
the Kentucky minister who went nm n
God. saying, in the dying hour Write to