Milford chronicle., 1889-03-22

not forget their trouble. If you should 60 on
the snowiest winter afternoon into Laurel Hill
you would find a monument with the word
'sWaltern inscribed upon it, and a wreath Of
fresh flowers around the name. think there
has not been an hour all these years, win
ter or summer, when there was not a
wreath Of fresh flowers around Walters
name. But the Christian mother who
sends those flowers there, having no
child left, Sabbath afternoons mothers
ten or twenty Of the lost ones Of the street.
That is beautiful. That Is what call busy
and triumphant sadness. Here is man who
has lost his property. Hedoes not 90 TO hard
drinking He does not destroy his own life.
He comes and says, Harness me for Chris
tian work. My moneys gone. I have no
treasures on earth. ! want treasures in
heaven have voice and a heart to serve
Cod You say that that maR has failed.
He has not failed-he has triumphed. Oh,
wish could persuade all the people who have
any kind of trouble never to give up. wish
they would look at the midnight rider of the
text, and that the four hoofs Of that beast on
which Nehemiah rode might cut TO pieces all
your discouragements and hardships and
trials Give upl Who is going to give up,
when on the bosom Of God he can have all
of giving up. Are you borne down with
povertyl A little child was found holding
her dead mothers hand in the darkness of a
tenement house, and, some one coming in,
the little girl looked up, while holding her
dead mothers hand, and said, "Oh, do wish
that God had made more light for poor folks.
Ny dear, God viii be your light, God will be
your shelter God will be your home. Are
you borne down with the bereayements Of
iifei Is the house lonely now that the child
is gonel Do not give up Think of what the
old sexton said when the minister asked him
why he put so much care on the little graves
in tho cemetery-so much more care than
on tho larger graves, and the old sexton
said, "Sir, you know that of such Is the
kingdom Of heaven and think the Saviour
Is pleased when he sees so much white clover
growing around these little graves" But
when the minister pressed the old sexton for
q moro satisfactory answer, the old sexton
said, 'Sir, about these larger graves, I don't
know who are the Lords saints and who are
not; but you know, sir, it is clean different
with the bairnsn Oh, il you have had that
keen. tender, indescribable sorrow that comes
from the loss Of a child, do not give up. The
old sexton was right. It is all well with the
BARNS. Or, If you have sinned, if you have
sinned grievously-sinned until you have
been cast out by thschurch, sinned until you
have been cast out by society, do not give
up. Perhaps there may be in this house one
that could truthfully utter the lamentation
Of another:
Once was pure as the snow, but fell
Fell like a snowflake, from heaven to hell
Fell, to be trampled as filth In the street
Fell, to be sconfed at, spit on and beat
PRAYING cursinu wishing to die.
Selling my soul to whoever would buy.
Dealing in shame for a morsel Of bread,
Hating the living and fearing the dead.
WHERE COMFORT Is FOUND.
Do not give up. One like unto the Son Of
God comes to you today, saying, go and sin
no more, while he cries out to your assail-
ants. "Iet him that is without sin cast the
first stone at her" Obi there is no reason
why any one in this house, by reason of any
trouble OF sin, should give up. Are you
foreigner, and in strange landl Nehemiah
was an exile. Are you pennilessl Nehe-
miah was poor. Are you homesicki Nehe-
miah was homesick. Are you broken
heartfelt Nehemiah was broken hearted.
But just see him in the text, riding along the
sacrileged grave of his father, and by the drag
on well, and through the fish gate, and by the
kings pool, in and out, in and out, the moon
light falling on the broken masonry, which
throws u long shadow at which the horse shies,
and at the same time that moonlight kindling
up the features Of thisman till you see enotsnly
the mark Of sad reminiscence, but the cour-
age, the hope, the enthusiasm Of man who
knows that Jerusalem will be rebuilded.
pick you up today out of your sins and out Of
your sorrow, and put you against the warm
heart Of Christ. "The eternal God is thy re-
fuge, and underneath are the everlasting
arms.n