Connecticut western news., 1891-09-10

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 chantilent in the promises of this Cos pei. and l come to them and l offer them my arm, or take their arm. and Ibring 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 thelni "Yes," says the psalmist They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and hourishing, to show that the Lord is upright. he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in me"
 Come Isaiah, have you anything to say out of, your prophecies for these aged peoplef Yes" says Isaiah; Down to old age am with thee. and to hoary hairs will carry thee" We'll, 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 you3 Your children and grandchildren some times speak little sharp at you because oi your ailments. The Lord will not speak sharp. Do you think you will come to want3 Who do you think the Lord isf Are his granaries emptyY Will he feed the raven and the rabbit, and the lion in the desert, and forget youi Why, naturalists tell us that the DOT. boise 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 seal
 But you say. II am so near worn out, and am of no use to God any more." think the Lord knows whether you arc 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 yearsi He thinks more of you today than he ever did, because you think moro of him. May the God of Abra, ham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and Paul, the aged, be your God foreverl '2
 DRIVE THE FLoCKs 1o THE WE'LL
 But gather all the promises today In a group, and l ask the shepherds to drive their hocks of lambs and sheep up to the sparkling supply. Behold, happy Is the man whom God correct. eth" Though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion" Many are the aflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth him out of them all !" Weeping may endure for . night but joy cometh in the morning." I am de- termined today that no one shall go away unconforted. th
 Wonder Is timid and shrinking soul who seems to hide away from the con. solutions am uttering, as child with a sore hand hides away from the .phy sician lest he touch the wound too roughly, and tho mother has to go and compel the little patient to come out and see the physician. So come to your timid and shrinking soul today. and compel you to como out in the presence of the Divine Physician. He will not hurt you. He has been heal ing wounds for many years, and he will give you gentle and omnipotent medicament. But people, when they have trouble, go anywhere rather than to God.
 De Quincy took opium to get rid of bis troublea Charles Lamb took to punch Theodore Hook took to some thing stronger. Edwin Forrest took to theatrical dissipation And men have run ell around the earth, hoping in the quick transit to get away from their minortunea It has been a dead fall ure. There Is only one well that can slake the thirst of an afflicted spirit, and that Is the deep and inexhaustibls well of the gospel.
 But some one says in the audience, Notwithstanding all you have said this morning, find no alleviation for my troubles" Well, am not through yet have left the most potent con- dderation for the last I am going to soothe you with the thought of heaven However talkative we may be, there will come time when the stoutest and most emphatic interrogation will evoke from us no answer. ,4..y -d
 As soon as we have closed our lips for the final silence, no power on esirtf can break that taciturnity. But where, Oh, Christian, will be your spiritf In scene of infinite gladness The spring morning of heaven waving its blossoms in the bright air. Victors fresh from battle showing their scara The rain of kl,I D<u <t,n rainbow of eternal joy. In one group, God and angels and the redeemed Paul and Silas Latimer and Ridley Isaiah and Jeremiah, Payson and John Milton. Gabriel and Michael the archangeL Long line of choristers reaching across the hills Seas of joy dashing to the white beach, Conqnerors marching from gate to gate. You among them.
 AROUND THR CELESTIAL WE'LL
 Oh, what great flock of sheep God will gather around the celestial we'll No stone on the wells mouth, while the shepherd waters the sheep There Jacob will recognize Rachel the shep- herdess And standing on one side of the well of eternal rapture your chil- dren, and standing on the other side of tho we'll of eternal rapture your Chris tian ancestry, you will be bounded on all sides by joy so keen and grand that no other world has ever been per mitted to experience 1t.
 Out of that one deep well of heaven the shepherd will dip reunion for the bereaved, wealth for the poor, health for the sick, rest for the weary. And then all the flock of the Lords sheep will lie down in the green pastures, and world without end we will praise the Lord that on this first autulnnal Sab