The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-02-12

.. Waiting until the Lord calls
me- am happy now. ! shall be
happy there"
What is il that gave that aged man
SO much satisfaction and peacei Phys
ical exuberancel No; it has all gone.
Sunshine He cannot see it, The voices
of friends He cannot hear them. 1t
is the grace of God, that is brighter
than sunshine and that is sweeter than
music II u harpist takes harp and
finds that all the strings are broken but
one string. he does not try to play upon
it. Yet here | will show you an aged
man the strings of whose JOY are all
broken save one, and yet he thrums it
with such satisfaction, such melody
that the angels of God stop the swift
stroke of their wings and hover about
the place until the music ceases, Oh, re-
Ggion's ways are ways of pleasantness,
and all her paths are peace" And if
you have not the satisfaction that is to
be found in Jesus Christ | must tell
you, with all the concentrated emphasis
of my SOUL "One thing thou lackest."
CHRIST CALLS YOU TO USEFULNESS.
remark, again, that you lack the
element OF usefulness. Where is your
business9 You say it is No. As such a
street. or No. $50 such a street, or No.
300 such astreet My friend immortal,
your business is wherever there is a
tear to be wiped away or a soul to be
saved You may, before coming to
Christ. do great many noble things,
You take loaf of bread to that starv
ing man in the alley, but he wants i'm,
mortal bread You take pound of
candles to that dark shanty. They
want the light that springs from the
throne of God, and you cannot take it
because you have it not in your own
heart. You know that the fight of an
arrow depends very much upon the
strength of the bow, and | have to tell
you that the best bow that was ever
made was made outo of the cross of
Christ. and when religion takes a soul
and puts it on that, and pulls it back
and let's it fly, every time it brings
down Saul or Goliath.
There are people here of high social
position, and large MEANS and cultured
minds, who if they would come into
the kingdom of God, would set the city
on fire with religious awakening Oh.
hear you not the more than million
voices of those in these two cities who
are ulconvertedl Voices of those who
in these two cities are dying in their
sins2 They want light. They want
bread They want Christ. They want
heaven Oh, that the Lord would
make you flaming evangell AS for
myself. have sworn before high
heaven that will preach this gospel as
well as can, i'll all its fullness, until
every fiber of my body, and every fac
ulty of my mind, and every passion OF
my soul, is exhausted But we all
have work to do cannot do your
work, nor can you do my work. God
points us out the place where we are to
serve, and yet are there not people in
this house who are thirty, forty, fifty,
and sixty years of age, and yet have
not begun the great work for which
they were createdl With every worldly
equipment. "One thing thou lachest. y
Again, you lack The element of per
sonal safety. Where are those people
who associated with you twenty years
ago2 Where'are those people that fiji
teen years ago used to cross South
ferry or Fulton ferry with you to New
York; Walk down the street where
| you were in business fifteen years age
and see how all the signs have changed
Where are the people gone? How
many Of them are landed in eternity
cannot say, but many, many. went
to the village of my boyhood. The
houses were all changed. passed one
house in which once resided man
who had lived an earnest, useful life,
and he is in glory now. In the next
house miser lived. He devoured
widows houses, and spent his whole
life in trying to make the world worse
and worse. And he is gone-the good
man and the miser both gone to the
same place. All did they go to the
same place? 1t is an infinite absurdity
to suppose them both in the same
place. If the miser had a harp wha'
tune did he play on it2
4 Oh, my friends, commend to yor
this religion as the only personal safety
When you die where are you going to
When we leave all these scenes, upor
what scenes will we enter? When We
were ON shipboard, and we all felt tha
we must go to the bottom, was l righ
in saying to one next me, Il wonder i
we will reach heaven if we do go dow
to-nightT Was | wise or unwise il
asking that question: tell you thai
man is fool who never thinks of tin
great future.
THE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE.
If you pay money you take n re
eeipt. If you buy land you recort
the deed. Whyl Because everything
is so uncertain you want it down il
black and white, you say. For hous
and lot twenty-five feet front by on
hundred feet deep, all security; bu
for soul, vast as eternity, nothing
nothingl Ii some man or woman
standing il. some of these aisles, shoul'
drop down, where would you go to
V. Which is your destiny? Suppose
re man is prepared for the future world
Id hat difference docs il make to hin
is "rther he goes to his home today O
lie s'e,into gloryl Only this difference
re y ne lies he is better off Where h
en- ..';uS 10y on earth he will have
no 'ni'% y 4e:yen. When he has
lid ''i,''l Pfl,e mere he will have a gran
lbs spn'as yen Perhaps it would cos
on you sA.A N9rpnehundred. or one hui
itv area ana ifty dollars to have you
!, Of charge OFF, s sur and yet free {
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