The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1890-01-23

bright home. and put away IN the darknessg |
cannot bear darkness. At the first coming |
OF the evening must have the gas lit, and /
the further on in life l get the more like
to have my friends around about me. And
am 10 he put off for thousands Of years in
dark place, with no one TO speak TO? When
the holidays come, and the gifts are dis
tributed, shall add no Joy to the
YearY' All, do not point down TO the hole
in the ground, the grave, and call 10 a benuti-
ul place: unless there be some supernntur Il
illumination. l shu der back from Ny
whole nature revolts a. it, But now this
glorious lamp Is lifted above the grave, AMI
all the darkness is gone, and the way
is clear. look into it now without a
single shudder. Now my anxiety is
not about death: my anxiet Is that l
NAV live Alright, for | know that II
my 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 shall only be-
gin to live What power is there in anything
to chill mo in the last hour IL Christ wraps
around me the skirt of of His
own garment? What darkness can
fall upon my eyelids then, amid
the heavenly daybreakp q death, | will not
fear thee then Back 10 thy cavern Of dark
ness, thou robber of all the earth. Fly, thou
desDoiler of families. With this battle AK
hew thee in twain from hemlet TO sandal, tho
| voice of Christ sounding all over the earth.
| and through the heavens 80 death will
be thy plague. grave, l will TO thy de-
/ struction"
/ To be saved Is to wake up in the presence
| OF Christ You know when Jesus was upon
earth how happy He made every house He
went into and when He brings us up to His
house how great our glee His voice has
more music in IL than is to be heard In all the
| oratories OF eternity. Talk not about banks
[ dashed with etilorescence. Jesus is the chief
bloom Of heaven. We shall see the very face
that bcamed sympathy in Bethany, and take
the very hand tina. dropped its blood from
the short beam of the cross. q, ! want 10
stand in eternity with Him. Toward that
harbor l steer. Toward that goal
| run. shall be satisfied when
awake in His likeness oh. broken
hearted men and women, how sweet
it will be in that good land to pour all your
hardshps, and bereavements, aud losses into
the loving car Of Christ, and then have Hun
explain why 1t was best for you to be sick,
and why " was best for you TO be widowed,
and why IL was best for you 10 be prosecuted
and why it was best for you to be tried, and
have Him point 20 an elevation proportion
ate to your disquietude here, saying: "Nou
suffered with Ne on ,arth come up now and
be gloriliel with Ne in heaven
| Some one went into a house where there
Ind been n good deal of trouble and said q
the woman there: you seem 10 be lonely
Yes she said. II am lonely How many
in the familyY "Only myself Have you
had any children II had seven children.
Where are they" Gone" An gomez
"AI.' "Al deadg' "Alln Then sh,
breathed n long sigh into the loneliness, anC
said: 80. sir. I have been a good mother u
the grave.n And 80 there are hearts here tina
are utterly broken down by the bereavement
of life. lpoint you to-day % the eternal balm
of heaven. Are there any here that an
missing this morning. q, you poor waiting
maid! your hearts sorrow poured in no hu
man ear, lonely and sal! how glad you vii
he when Christ shall disband all your sor
rows and crown you queen unto God an
the Lamb forever, -, aged men and women
fed 10y His love and warmed by His grac
for thrce-ScOre- -years-aud-ten will not you
dccrepitude change for the leap of n har
when you come u look face 10 face upo
Him whom. having not seen, you lovey {
that will be the Good SheI
herd, not ont in the night and watct
ing 10 keep oif the wolves. but with th
lambs reclining on the sun lit hill That wi
be the Captain of our salvation, not amid th
roar, and crash. and boom of battle, bu
amid His dsbanded troops keeping victorou
, festivity. That will bs the Bridegroom Of tn
| Church coming from afar the bride leann
, upon His arm while He looks down into he
, face and says: "Bchold, thou art fair, III
love! Behold, thou art fair