The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-29

is clear. L look into 1t now without a
single shudder. Now my anxietf is
not about death: my anxiet is that I
may live Alright, for I know that it
ny life is consistent when | come to the last
hour, and this voice is silent, and these eyes
are closed, and these hands with which beg
for your eternal salvation to-day are folded
over the still heart, that then l shall only be-
gin to live. What power is there in anything
to chill ME IN the last hour il Christ wraps
own garment? What darkness can
fall upon my eyelids then, amid
the heavenly daybreak? o death, I will not
fear thee theni Back to thy cavern of dark
uess, thou robber Of all the earth. Fly, thou
hew thee in twain from hemlet to sandal, the
voice of Christ sounding all over the earth,
and through the heavens; 20 death, I will
be thy plague. 0 grave, l will be thy de-
stf'1ctiontn
10 be saved is to wake up in the presence
Of Christ! You know when Jesus was upon
earth how happy lie made every house Eo
went into, and when He brings us up to His
house how great our glae. His voice has
more Music iii it than is to be heard in all the
oratorics Of eternity. Talk not about banks
dashed with eiIlorescance Jesus is the chief
bloom of heaven. We shall seethe very fac3
that heamel sympathy in Bethany, and take
ttlC NCly Halt WIKI utOppcu iS DlOOt AlOLA
the short beam of the cross. g; l want to
stand i'll eternity with Him. Toward that
larbor l steer. Toward hat goal
[ run. l shall be satisfied when I
awake III His likeness. Oh, broken
hearted men and women, how sweet
it will be in that good land to pour all your
lartlships, AMI bercaVenentS, and losses into
the loving ear Of Christ, and then have Him
explain why it was best for o 20 be sick.
and why it was best for you to be widowed,
and why it was best for you to be prosecuted,
and why it was best for you to be tried, and
have Him point to an elevation proportions
ate to your disquictude here, saying; You
suffered with Me on earth, come up nov and
be gloriied with Me in heaven"
Some one went into a house where there
had been good deal Of trouble aud said to
the woman there: "You seem to be lonely
Eyes, she said, Il am lonely" "Hcw many
IN the ramlly?' only myself" Have you
had any children?' Il had seven children"
Where are they?' Gone" A gomez"
Gail" GAIL dead9' GAIL" Thon she
breathed q long sigh into the loneliness, and
said: 20, sir, l have been q good mother to
the grave" And SO there are hearts hero that
are utterly broken down by the bereavements
Of life. Ipoint you to-day to the eternal balm
Of heaven. Are there any here that I am
missing this morning? Q, you poor waiting
maid! your hearts sorrow poured in no hui
man ear, lonely and sad how glad you will
be when Christ shall disbanl all your sor-
rows and crown you queen unto God and
the Lamb forever O, aged men and women,
fed by His love and warmed by His grace
for three-score-years-and-ten. will not your
decrepitude change for the leap of a hart
when you come to look face TO fac upon
Him whom, having not seen, you love? O,
that viii be the Good Shep-
herd, not out in the night and watch
ing to keep off the wolves, but with the
lambs reclining on the sun lit hill. That will
be the Captain of our salvation, not amid the
roar, and crash, md boom Of battle, but
amld His disbanded troops keeping victorious
festivity. That will be tho Bridegroom of the
Church coming from afar, the bride leaning
upon His arm while He looks down into her
face and says; "Dehold. thou art fair, my
Lowell Behold, thou art fair