Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-02-20


desirable and refreshing sleep. In It will
} vanish our last fatigue of body, cur last
worriuent of mind, our last sorrow of soul
To the Christians body that was hot with
= raging fevers so that the atteudants mus,
! by sheer force Keep on the blankets, it will
| be the cool sleep. To those who are chin
, blooded and shivering with agues it will bs
: the warm sleep. To those who, because Of
physical disorders, were terrified witt
} night visions, it will be the dresmless sleep
70 nurses and doctors and mothers who
! were awakened almost every hour of the
night by those to whom they ministered, OF
, over whom they watched, it will be the
undisturbed sleep. To those who could
not get to bed till late at night and must
rise early in the morning and before gettioQ
rested, it will be the long sleep.
AWAY WITH 1T.
Away with all your gloomy talk about
departure from this world. If you have
Iservsd our generation it will not be putting
! qnt into the breakers, it will not be the
flight with the King of Terrors; it will be
} going to sleep. A friend writing mo from
Illinois says that Rev. DIR. Wipgate, presi.
dent of Wake Forest College, North Caro-
} lima, after most useful life, found bis last
day on earth his hsppiest day, and that in
his last moments he seemed to be person
ally talking with Christ, as friend with
friend, saying; ooh, how delightful it is. /
knew you would be with me when the time
came, and knew it would be sweet, but l
did not know it would be as sweet as it is.
The fact was he bad served his generation
in the Gospel ministry, and by the will of
God he fell on sleep. When In Africa,
| Msjwara, the servant looked into the tent
Of David Livingstone and found him on his
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disturb him in prayer, and some time after
went in and found MIN in the same posture,
and stepped back again, but after while
went in and touched him, and lol the great
traveller had finished his last journey aod
he had died in the grandest and mightest
posture man ever takes-on his knees
| He had served his generation by unrolling
the scroll of a continent, and by the will of
God fell on sleep. Grimshaw, the evangel-
ist, when asked how he felt in his last mo-
ments, responded: 'sAs happy as 1 can be
on earth and as sure of glory as if were in
it. have nothing to do but to step out of
this bed into heaven" Having served .hs
generation in successful evangelism by the
will of God, he fell on sleep.
In the museum of Greenwich Hospital,
England, there is fragment of a book
thar was found in the Arctic regions amid
|
perisbed amid the snow and ice, and the
! leaf of that piece of book was turned down
at the words: when thou passest through
the waters l will be with thee" Having
served bis generation in the cause of
science and discovery, by the will of God,
| he fell on sleep.
| Why will you keep us all so nervous
talking about that which is only dormi-
| tory and pillnwed slumberer, caDopied by
angels wings? Sleepl Transporting sleepl
Aud Bhata glorious awakeniHgi Y0u aud
[ have sometimes been thoroughly bewil-
dered after long and fatiguing journey:
we have stopped at friends house for the
night, and after hours of complete uncOa-
sciOusness we have opened our eyes, the
high risen sun full in our faces, and, before
we could fully collect our faculties, have
said: "Where am I, whose house Is this,
and whose are these gaTdens?" And then
it has fl sshed upon US In glad reality. Aud |
I should not wonder if, after we have serv-
ed our genefatiea. and by the will of God, !
have fallen on sleep, the deep sleep, the |
restful sleep, we should awake in blssful |
bewlderment and for little while say, |
Where am |? What palace is this? Who |
hung this upholstery? What fountains are !
these tossing in the light? Why, this looks |
like heaven! 1t is. II is. Why, there is a |
building grander than all the castles of
earth heaved into mountain of splendor, |
that must be the palace of Jesus. And, |
look there, at those walks lined with 2 |
foliage more beautiful than anything ever |
saw bsfo5e, and see those who are walking |
down those aisles of verdure. From what |
l have heard of them, those two arm in |
arm must be Moses and Joshua, him of
Mount Siual and him of the halting SUI
5aln hnI tnn 6irn
in arm must be John and Paul, the one 30
gentle and the other SO mighty. And those
two with the robes as brilliant as though |
made out of the cooled off flames of martyr
dom, must be John Huss and Hugh Lati-
mer.
HOUSE NOT BUILT WITH HANDS.
But must not look any longer at those
gardens of bsanty, but examine this build
ing in which bave just awakened. look
out OF the window this way and that and
up and down, and find it is mansion of
immense size in which am stopping. All
Us windows of agate and its colOnnades Of
porphyry and aabaster. Why, wonder
if this is not the house of ''many mansions"
of W hicb used to resd9 1t is, it is There
must be many of my kindred and friends
in this very mansion. Hark! whose are
those voices, whose are those bounding
feei? open the door ana see, ana lO@ tney
arc coming through all the corridors and
mp aud dONn all the stairs, our long absent
kindred Why, there is father, there is
mother, there are the children. All well
again. All young again. All of us together
again. And as We embrace each other with
the cry, "Never more to part! never more
| 10 partl' the arches, the aooves, the hall
ways echo aud re.echo the words, "Neser
more to part, Never more to part" Then
our glorified friends say, ''Come out with
MS aud see heaven" Aud some of them
bounding ahead of us aud some of them
skipping beside us, we start down the
ivory stairway. Aud we meet. coming mp,
one of the kings of ancient Israel, some
what small of stature, but. haviug a coun
tenance radiant with a thousand victories.
And as all are making obeisance to this
great one of heaven l cry out. "WhO is
He?" and the answer comes: "This is the
greatest of all the kings of Israel. 1t is
David, who after he had served his genera
tion by the will of God, fell on sleep"
She BrGke the Engagement
because she saw that he had ceased TO love
her. Her beauty had faded, her former
high spirits had given place to dull lassi-
| tude Wha had caused this change? Func-
tional arrangement; she was suffering from
those ailmsnts peculiar to her sex. And so