The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-07-18

Ill anu HayS NOW get your mind oil this; go
out ana breath the fresh air; plunge derperin-
tn business" What poor advice! Get your
mind off it! When everything is upturnrl
with the bereavement, and everything re-
minds You of what you have lost, get your
mind ofit. They might ns well advise YOU
to stop thinking. You cannot stop think.
ing, nn,i You cannot stop thinking in tint
direction. Take II walk in the fresh air
Why, along Tint very street. or that very
rond she once accompanied you. out OF
that grnss'plat she plucked flowers. or into
that show window she looked. fascinated,
saying 'Fome see the pirtures.' 60 deep
er into business? Why. she was associated
with ali your business ambition. and since
sle has goney have no ambition lest. oh.
his clumsy world when ii tries to comfort a
broken heart can build rorliss engine
can paint II Rnphnel's madonna. can
play Brcthoven's "Eroica Symphony" as
easily az this world can comfort IL broken
henrt. And yet you have been comtorted
How was il done" Dill Christ come to You
nnl say. Get your mind off this: go out aud
breathe fresh air: plunge deeper into bus
iness??" No. There was a minute when liz
came to Non-perhaps in TIL. watches o. the
night, perhaps in your place %; business, per
maps along the Bt~rt-nnd he hrcat he'd
somrti hing into your soul that CAV. peace
rest. infinite quiet, SO that you could tuke
out the photograph of the departed one am,
one and say: "lt is all riglt she is better
oil; would not call her hack Lord. ltll,nk
thee that thou has coiu.ortrd INV poor
1 heart.
Again: remark that VIC are witnesses of
! the fact that religion has power to give COM
Iosure in the last moment. ! shall never
forget the first time con.rontr,l .rnti We
went arross the corntclds in the country.
was lrd by my fathers hand, and We came
to the farmhouse where the bereavement had
come. and we saw the crowd of wagons aud
carriages; hut there WAS one carrawe that
especially attracted my hoyish attention.
and 1t had hlark plumrs. said, Whats
TINT what s thar Why those black tas.
sells on The top" and after it was cxplnins
=" me, ! was lifted up to look upon he
bright tace u an aged Christian woman.
VIII" three days before had departed in tri.
umpli; tile whole scene made an impression
never forgot.
| In our sermons aud Ill our lay "xhnrta.
tioGs We are very apt, when WE want to brin
Illustrations dying triumph to go back to
some distn..u shed prrsonage-to n John
Knox ora Harriet Newell But | want you
'or witnesses. ! Sant to know Ii you have
ever s""n anything to make you hricve that
the religion otthrist can give cnlnpnsure in
the final hour. Now. in tie courts. attorney,
Jury and judg" wi! never admit mrie hear
say They 'leinan,l that the witness must
hive seen with his own eyes. or heard with
F! his own ears, and so am critical in my rx
ANIMATION of you now: aud | want to know
whether YOU hav" seen or h"nr'l hing
that makes You believe that the religion of
Christ gives compu-Irr in he final hour.
on Us, you say; II saw my father and
mot tlirr depart. There was II great iilirrrIl,n
in their 'lrathb"ds Standing by the one We
felt more vencratinn. by the other there
was more Tenderness Before the one You
bowed, perhaps. III awe. In the other case
YOU felt ns il yomwoull like to go along with
her low did they feel in that last hour?
How did they seem to nct' We're they very
much frightened! Did they take hold of this
world with both hands as hough they did
not want to give il up'' "Uh. nu." vOu say;
no, remember rs thouShit wrrcyrs,"rday.
Sli" had n kind word .urus ALL aud here wrr.
II lew me:m"nines distributed among the chill.
'!i,ii. and she told lis how kind We must lie
I" our f;,,lcr in his loneliness, aud then she
kissed lls good. bye and went to sleep us calm
ly ;iS II child in II cradle"
What made her 50 composed" Natural
courage No, you sny, mother wu> very
nrrvuns: when The carriage inclined To the
sid" OF the rond, she would cry out; sl,e WAS
always rather weakly" What. then. gave
her compnsurc' Was it because she did not
care much for you, and the pang of parting
was not greati" oh" yon say, she show,
cred upon us II wealth o affection: no mot H.
cr ever loved her children more than mutlc
loved us: she showed it by the way she n,irsrd
us when We were sick. and sllo toil..l fur--ns
until her strength gnve OUT Whnf.
then, was it that gave her conposnre i'll the
last hour? "Oh. you say. sit is because
she was so good she made the Lord her por-
iion. and she had ;nith that she would 20
straight t" glory, aud that We should all
Nee, her ut last at the foot of the throne
Here are people who sny II saw !; Chris
tinn brother die, and he triumphed.' And
some one else, II saw n Christian sister diu,
and she triumplcl. Some oIleclsc will say,
saw "a Christian daughter die. and she tri.
umphe'l.' Conn, n y" whn hnve seen the
last moments o :thristinn mud give tes,i-
mony in Ibis cause on trial. Uncover your
heads, put y"nt hand ON the old family Bi.
bic from which they used to read the prom
ises. and promise IN the presence of high
henvcn that y"n will tell th"trnth. the whole
truth, and nothing but III" truth. With
what you have seen with your owncycs, and
from wlint YOU have heard with your own
ears, is there power in this gospel tn give
rhlmness aud triumph in the last exi.rncy?
The response comes from ull sides from
young. and old, and mddle-ngeI: I'VE ARE
witnesses
ion see, my friends, have not put before
you to-lay an abstraction. or chineia, or
anything like guess. work. present you nf-
fidnvits or the best men and women, living
and dead Two witnesses in court will
tnblisl II tact. Here are not two witnesses
hut thousands o! witnessrs-on earth mil
lions OF witnesses, and in heaven II great
multitude OF witnesses that no man can mum.
her. test flying that there is power in this re-
ligion .n convert 'h" soul To give comfort
in trnuiple and to afford runpo>ure in tll"
last hour. If 10 men should rome to you
when you are sick with appalling sickness
aud say they had the sam" sickness. and
took n certain medicine and it cured them.
10 other men should come up and say, I'VE
don't b"ev" there is anything in that meli
cine We'll say. "hnvs You ever tried
il" NO. | never tried it, but ! don believe
There is anything III il. OF course you dis.
credit their testimony. The skcptic mny
come ANA say. There is no power in your
religion. Have you ever tried it?' '.Nn.
No. .:rhen, ayannt"' Let me take tn"
testimony u the millions o. souls that have
been converted to God and comiortcd in
trnl. and solared in ti" last hour. We will
take their testimony as they cry, I'VE are
Witnesses
Some time ago Prof Henry. of Washing
ton. discovered Il new star. and the tilinrs
sped by submarine telegraph, AMI nll the
ubsorvatories OF Europe We're watching :or
that ne. star oh. henrer. looking out
through the darkness of thy soul today.
rist thou s"e Il bright light bcamimg on
thee -" here" you say, where IIow
can tnd ~ LOOK along by tile me- -
,he cross o! the Son of God. DO yom no, see
il trembling with nil tenderness and bcaming
with all hope" 1t is the star OF Bethlehem.
deep horror then my vtuls Grozc
Deatii-struck, ceased the tide to STEM
Whrn suddenly Il star arose
III WAS the Star of Bethlehem
Oh, lcnIer, get your eye on it. 1t is easier
for yom nos to become Christians Than To
stay away from Christ md heaven
When Mime. Sontag began her musical
career she was Missed of the stage at
Vienna by the friends ot her rival, Amelia
S,cin;ngcr. who hnl already begun to de-
cline through her dissipation. i-nrs passed.
on. nn'! one dny Nine. Sontn-. in her glory,
WAS riding through the streets Of Berlin.
when she saw IL little child leading n blind
woman, and she said. Come here, my little
child. come here. Who ,s that You are
leading hy thr liniil?" And the little child
replied. That my mother; that's Amelia
St"inngrr. She used to he IL great singer.
but sh" lost her voirs. AMI sle cried SO much
about it thnt she los: her cycsi~ht. Give
tell her an old acquaintance will call on her
vast asscmhlngs gathered Mt benefit for
tim, poor blind woman, and it WAS sud that
Madame Sontng sag that night rs she had
never sun. before. And sho took II skilled
Oculst who in vain tried to give eyesicht to
the poor blind woman. Until the day OF
Amelia Steilngcr's death, Madame Son,ng
took care OF her. aud her daughter after her
That was what the queen of song did tor her
enemy But oh. hear more thrilling story
still. Blind immortal, poor and lost, thou
Who when the world and Christ were rivals