The Forrest City times., 1890-07-12

stop thtnkin2, and you cannot stop think ing i'd that direction. Taxe . walk in thu fresh air Why along that very street, oi that very road, she oncs accomp inici you. Out Of that gras s-plat she plucked iiowers or into that show win low she looked, fascl- mated, saying, Come s,e the rictures." Go deepor Into husinessi Why, she was associated with all your business ambition and since she has eode you have no smbi. ton left Oh, this is d clumsy world when it tries to comfort broken heart can build Corliss's engine, l cau paint Raphaels "Madonna,"I ctu play Beet. hovcn's "Erooi Sym pt)ny" as oAsily as this world can comfort a broken heart And yet you have been comforted. How was 1t dcne' Did Christ como to you an say, ''Get your mind of this. go out and breathe fresh air plunge deeper into bust, ncssP No. There was minute when He came to you-perhaps in the watches of the night, perhaps in your place of bust ness, perhaps along the street-aud He breathed something into your soul that gave peace, rest, infinits quiet so that you could take out tho photograph of the de parted one and look into th, eyes and the face of the dear on,, and say, "lt is all right; she is better off would not call her back. Lord I thank thee that thou hast ccmfortod my poor heart"
 Again: remark that we are witnesses of tho fact that religion has power to give compesure in the last moment 1 never shall forget the first time i confronted death We weut across tho cotn fields In the country. was led by my fathers hand and we came to the farmhouse where the bereavement had conc and we saw the crowd of wagons and carriages; but there was one carriage that especially attracted my boyish attention, ana 1t had black plumes l sand, What's thati what's thatl Why those black tas ,els on ths topi" and after 1t was explainel 10 me, l was lifted up 10 look upon the bright facs Of au aged Christian woman, who three days before had departed in triumph; the whole scene made an impress on l never forgot
 In our sermons and In our lay exhorts tons we arc very apt, when we want to bring illustrations of diving triumph, to go back to some distinguished parsonage to | John Knox or Harriet Newell But | want you for witnesses, 1 want to know if you have ever seen anythine to m ike you believe that the religion Of Christ can givs composure in the final hour. Now, in the courts, attorney, jury and judge will nevcr admit mere bcarsay. They demand that the witness must have seen with his own eyCS, VT uSaTu Witt us uWn tHESt So am critical in my examination oi you now ; and want to know whether you navo se,u or heard anything that makes yol believe that the religion Of Christ gives composure in the final hour.
 "Oh, yes" you say, .l saw my father and mother depart There was great diff ference in their death beds Standing by the one we felt more yeueration. By the other, there was moro tenderness" Before tho one, you bowed perhap, in awe, In the other case you felt as If you would like 10 go along with her, How did they feel in that last houri How did they seem to act. Wcrs they very much frightened Did they take hold Of this word with both hands as though they did not want to give 1t upi "Oh, no" you say. mo, fremembcr as though it were yesterday; she Lad a kind word for us all, and there were few memcntoes distributed among the children, and then she told us how kiad we must bo to our father in his loneliness and then shc kissed us good by and went asleep as calmly as child in a cradle"
 What made her so compos,di Natural ,ourages Nc" you say, mother was very nervous; when the carriage inc incd io tho side of tho road, she would cry out, she was always rather weekly N hat. then, gave her composurci Was It because she did 10, care much for you, and the paas of parting was not grestl "Oh.n you say, she showcrei upon us wealth of affcc tiou: no mother ever loved her childraa moro than mother loved us; sho showed t by the way shs nurssd us when WIG were sick, and ahc toilcd for us until her strength gave out What then, was it that gave her tomposuro In els>t hauri Do not hide !t Bc frank and let me know. "Oh,n you say, e'it was bee luso she seas so good sue made the Lord her portion, and she had faith that she would eo straight 60 glory. and that We should all meet her al last at tho foot or tho threna 2
 Hero arc people who say. Fl saw a Christian brother die. and he triumphed. l" And some cue else. II saw Christian sis ter die, and she triumphcd Somc ono clsc viii say "i saw a Christian daughter die sni sha triamphedn Come, ali "a who have seen tho last moments of a Christian. and give testimony. in this cause on trial Uncover your heais, put your hand on tho old fam ly Bible from which they usci to road tho promises, and prom. isc iu the presence of hi h heaven that yoa will toll the truth. tho whole truth, and nothing but the truth With wha, you have seoa with your own eyes. and from what you have heard with your own cifs, is thcrc power in this Gospel io give calmuess and triumph in the last eNlgency, The response comes from all sides from young, and old and middle aged 'ae arc witnesses''
 You sec, my friends 1 have not put he fore you today an abstraction, or chmers, or anything like gues, work l present yo, afitavi,s Of Inc test men and women. living and deal. Two witnesses in court will establish fact Here arc not twS witnesses, bat thousands of witnesses on earth millions Of witnesses, and in heaven great multitude ot witnesses that no man can number, tesufyiug that there is power in this religion to convert tho soul, to give comfort in trouble. and to affonl cemposura in tna last hour, IT ten men should como 10 you when you are sick with appalling sickness, and say ey had the sime sick, ness, and took certain medicine, and il cured them. you would probably take it. Now, suppose ten other men should coms up and say. 'He don't believe thero ia anything in that medicine "Wcii. " say. Have you ever tried itt' No. l never tried H. but 1 den'' believe ,hcrc Is anything in it.n Ol course you dscrcdit thcir testimony. The skeptlc may como and say. "rhcre is no power in your religion.
 
 Have you tried itt' ''No no "Then, avauntn Let me taks tho testimony of tho millions ot souls that have bcoa converted to God, and comforted in trial. and soIaecsi in the last hour We will take their ,nslE mony as they cry. We are wltnesses,H
 Some timc ago Professor Henry, ol Washington, discoversi a now star, and the tdings sped by submarine telegraph, and all tho ohservatorlcs ot Europe wore watching for that now star Oh nearer, iooxing out through the darkness of thy soul today, canst thou see bright lighl beamlng on tnea. "A hereh you say, swhere, How can fnd iti' Look along by the line of tho cross of the Son Of tod Do you not sec it trembling with all ten. derness and beaming with all hopci It is the Star Of Bethlehem.
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