The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-07

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r I have been a great deal among olu peoPIe,
"A and l know how they feel ABOUT thelr
5 failing health and about tuon
+: parted friends and about the loheiIuoSS I t
{ sometimes strikes through their sOui. [AIVoi
two persons have lived together Ior IorIF or
a 6ftv years. ana one of chem IL taken away,
b what desolation! l shall not forget the CRY OF
I the late Rev. Dr. De Witt OF New ORR When
/ he stood by the open grave OF ms Oei9Ved
4 wife. and after the obsequIes had ehdeu' ne
- looked down into the open place anu saiu'
q "FsregeI. my honored, faithful and be-
| loved wife The bond that bound US Is
| severed Thou art in glory, and am here
n | ON earth. We shall meet again. fareWelL!
Fare welll To lean on prop Tor nfty
years, and then have 1t broken under you!
There were only two years difference De-
tween the deaths of my father and mother.
After my mothers decease my father used
TO 20 around as though looking for some
1 thing; aud he would often get up
from one room, without any seeming
reason, and. go to another room;
and then he would take his cane ana start
out and some one would say: Father,
where are you goingT' and he would an
sBer: Il don't know exactly where | am
going" Always looking for something
| Thodgh he was a tender-hearted man, |
| never saw him cry but once, and that was
at the burial of my mother. After sixty
| years living together, it was hard to part.
And there are aged people to-day who are
| feeling Just such a pang as that. | want to
tell them there is perfect enchantment in
the promises of this gospel; and l come to
| them and | offer them my arm, or take
| their arm and | bring them to this gospel
well. Sit down fataer or mother, sit
down. See if there is anything at the
well for you. Come. David, the psalmiss,
have you anything encouraging to offer
them9 Yes says the psalmist, they
shall still bring forth fruit in old age, they
shall be fat and fiourishing, to snow that
the Lord is upright, he is my rock. and
there is no righteousness in me-" Come,
Isaiah, have you anything to say out of your
prophecies for tuese aged people! YES"
says Isaiah down to old age | am with
thee, and to hoary hairs will carry thee
Well, il the Lord is going to carry you, you
ought not to worry much about your fail
ing eyesight and failing limbs. You get a
little worried for fear some time you will
come to want, do youa Your children and
grandchildren sometimes speak a little
sharp at you because of your ailments. The
| Lord will not speak sharp. Do YOU thiuk
you will come to wantl Who do you think
the Lord isl Are his granaries empty.
Will be feed the raven and the rabbit. and
the lion in the desert, and forget you Why,
} naturalists tell us that the porpoise will not
Q forsake its wounded and sick mate And do
| you suppose the Lord of heaven and earth
| uOb as IuuCu rs inc LSu OF
1 | the Seaf But you say: II am so near worn
a out. and am of no use to God any more. y
Q l think the Lord knows whether you are CT
q any more use or not. If you were Of
= no more use he would nave taken you be-
d fore this. Do you think God has forgotten
you because he has taken care OF the seventy
or eighty years! He thinks more of you to-
day than he ever did, because you think
more of him. May the God OF Abraham,
and Isaac. and Jacob, and Paul the aged be
your God for ever!
h But gather all the promises to-day in q
% group, and ! ask the shepherds to drive
their fiocks of lambs and sheep up to tbs
|, sparkling supply. behold, happy is tn,
= man whom God correcteth.n Though ht
+ cause grief, yet will he have compassion.
e "Mnny are the Affections Of the righteous
@ but the Lord deliyereth him out of then
all" Weeping may endure for a night
D. but joy cometh in the morning" ] am de
ID termined to-day that no one shall go ava
u, uncontrolled. Yonder is a timid aud shrink
at ing soul, who seems to hide away from til
i'd consultations | am uttering, as a child wit
fv q sore hand hides away from the physician
h lest he touch the wound too roughly, and til
r. mother has to go aud compel the little De
er tient TO come out and see the physician. S
d, | come to your timiG and shrinking sou
r to-day, and compel you to come out in til
X presence OF the Divine Physician He wi
% not hurt you. He has been healing wound
" for many years, and he will give you gentl
X and Qmnipotent medicament But people
is when they have trouble,g anywhere rathe
II than TO God. De Quincy took opium to ge
re rid of his troubles. Charles Lamb took t
T. punch. Thaodore Hook took to somethin
J. stronger. Edwin Forrest took to theatrica
III dissipation. And men have run all aroun
10 the earth, hoping in the quick transit to re
i'd away from their mlSfortunes. 1t has bee
rs dead failure. There is only one well tina
lis oan slake the thirst OF an afflicted spirit
al and that is the deep and inexhaustible vel
Of of the gospel
a But someone says in the audience: mot
be withstanding all you have said this morr
O. ing, find no al eviation for my troubles.
ho Well, am not through yet. l have lei
on the most potent consideration for the las
I'D | am going to soothe you with the though
yh of heaven. However talkative we may b.
2: there will come time when the stoute
,se and most emphatic Interrogation wi
o. evoke from US no answer. AS soon as v
he have closed our lips for the final silence L
he power on earth can break that taclturntl
Nj But where, q Christian, will be your spiri
b, In scene of infinite gladness. III
We spring-morning Of heaven waving
el. blossoms in the bright air. Victors FREE
"a from battle showing their scars. The raj
ng of earthly sorrow struck through with tt
I'D rainbow OF eternal joy. In one group, Go
n: and angels aud the redeemed-Paul al
Nv Slas, Latimer and Ridley. Isaiah and Jert
u imiah, Payson and John Milton, Gabri
Oh and Michael the archangel. Long line
SO choristers reaching across the hills. Seas
lst Joy dasbing to the white beach. Conque
ng ors marching from gate to gate. VI
MS among them.
ist o, what flock of sheep God will gath
an around the celestial well. No stone on I
mt wells mouth, while the shepherd waters Z
zen sheep. There Jacob will recognize Racht
list the shepberdess And standing On one ST
th, Of the well of eternal rapture, your ch
he dren; and standing on the other side Of I
well of eternal rapture, your Christian a
We cestry, you will be.bounded on all sides
we a joy so keen and grand that no other wor
at has ever been Permitted to experience
is Out of that one deep we'll of heaven, t
asst shepherd will dip reunion for the
are reaved, wealth for the, poor, health I
ur the sick, rest for the weary. And then
)ur the flock of the Lords sheep will lie doy
eff. in the green pastures and world witho
Ill, end we Will praise the Lord that on this iii
res autGmnal Sabbath of 1891 we were pt
ace mitted to study among the beating foe
sed and lowing herds of this Fair Ground I
ity story Of Jacob and Rachel tho shepherd
the a; the well in Mesopotsmia. Q, plunge yo
Oh buckets into this great gospel well aud
Sed them come up dripping with that water
ice which if a man drink he never again sh
the thirst.
sb. Death OF Legislator.
err STAUNToN. VA. Sept 6-Hon. A.
lie, | Ii1htner q member of the NirCinia leg