News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-09-10

escaped. Compare your view OF this
life at fifteen years of age with what
your view of it is at forty or sixty or
seventy. What a great contrast of
opinionl Were you right then, or are
you right now2 Two cups placed in
your hands, the one sweet cup, the
other a sour cup. A cup of joy and
cup of grief Which las been the near
est to being full, and out of which have
you the more frequently partaken2
What different place the cemetery is
from what it used to be. Once it was
to you grand city Improvement, and
you went out on the pleasure excursion,
and you ran laughingly up the mound,
and you criticised in a light way the
epitaph.
But since the day when you heard
the bell toll at the gate as you went in
with the procession, it is sad place.
and there is flood of rushing memo
ries that suffuse the eye and overmas-
ter the heart. Oh, you have had trou-
bic, trouble, trouble. God only knows
how much you have had 1t is a Won
der you have been able to live through
! it. 1t is wonder your nervous system
! has not been shattered and your brain
has not reeled. Trouble, trouble. If
| could gather all the griefs, of all
sorts, from this great audience, and
could put them in one scroll, neither
man nor angel could endure the recita-
! ton.
| Well, what do you want2 Would
you like to have your property back
again9 No" you say, as Christian
man; 81 was becoming arrogant, and
| think that is why the Lord took it
away l don't want to have my prop
erty back Well, would you have
! your departed friends back again2
No" you say; Il couldn't take the
responsibility of bringing them from
| fearless realm to realm of tears.
couldn't do it. Well, then, what do
you want? A thousand voices in the |
audience cry out, Comfort; give us
comfort" For that reason l have |
rolled away the stone from the wells |
mouth. Come, all We wounded of the
flock, pursued of the wolves, come to
the fountain where the Lords sick and |
bereft ones have come.
WE SHALL MEET AGAIN.
"Ah," says some one, you are not |
old enough to understand my sorrows.
You have not been in the world as long |
as l have, and you can't talk to me
about my misfortunes in the time of |
old age" Well, l have been a great |
deal among old people, and l know
how they feel about their failing
health, and about their departed
friends, and about the loneliness that
sometimes strikes through their soul.
After two persons have lived together
for forty or fifty years, and one of them
is taken away, what desolationl
shall not forget the cry of the late
Rev. DR. De Witt of New York, when
he stood at the open grave of his below
ed wife, and after the obsequies had
ended, he looked down into the open
place and said: Farewell, my honored,
faithful and beloved wife. The bond
that bound us is severed. Thou art in
glory and am here on earth. We shall
meet again. FAREWELL FAREWELL" TIC
lean on prop for fifty years and Their
have it break under you!
There were only two years difference
between the deaths of my father and
mother After my mothers decease
my father used to go around as though
looking for something, and he would
often get up from one room, without
any seeming reason, and go to another
room; and then he would take his cane
and start out, and some one would say,
Father, where are you going" and he
would answer, Il don't know exactly
where l am going" Always looking
for something. Though he was a ten
der hearted man, l 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 today who
are feeling just such pang as that.
want to tell them there is perfect en-.
chantment in the promises of this Cos
pei, and | come to them and | Offer
them my arm, or take their arm, and
bring them to this Gospel we'll Sit
down, father or mother, sit down. See
if there is anything at the well for you.
Come, David, the psalmist, have you
anything encouraging to offer themi
Eyes, says the psalmist. They shall
still bring forth fruit in old age; they
shall be fat and flourishing, to show
that the Lord is upright, he is my rock,
and there is no unrighteousness in me-
Come, Isaiah, have you anything tc
say out of your prophecies for these
aged people9 Yes, says Isaiah
Down to old age l am with thee, and
to hoary hairs will carry thee" Well,
if the Lord is going to carry you, you
ought not to worry much about your
failing eyesight and failing limbs. You
get little worried for fear sometime
you will come to want, do you2 You
children AL grandchildren some times
speak little sharp at you because OF
your ailments. The Lord will moi
speak sharp. Do you think you will
come to want2 Who do you think the
Lord ISL Are his granaries empty? VIII
he feed the raven and the rabbit, and
the lion in the desert, and forget YOU
Why, naturalists tell us that the por
poise will not forsake its wounded and
sick mate. And do you suppose the
Lord of heaven and earth has not as
much sympathy as the fish of the sea?
But you say, Il am so near worn
out, and | am of no use to God any
more" l think the Lord knows whether
you are Of any more use or not. If you
were of no more use he would have
taken you before this Do you think
God has forgotten you because he has
taken care of you seventy or eighty
years2 He thinks more of you today
than he ever did, because you think
more of him. May the God of Abra
ham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and Paul,
the aged, be your God forever!
DRIVE THE FLoCKs TO THE WELL.
But | gather all the promises today
in a group, and l ask the shepherds tc
drive their flocks of lambs and sheer
up to the sparkling supply. Behold,
happy is the man whom God correct
eth" Though lie cause grief, yet
will he have compassion" Many are
the Affections of the righteous, but the
Lord delivereth him out of them ALL =
Weeping may endure for a night, but
Joy cometh in the morning." | am de
termined today that no one shall &C
away uncontrolled.
Yonder is a timid and shrinking soul
who seems to hide away from the con