Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-08-13

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tha face of nm invalid who was wheeled
in on her chair. ! said to her AFTER
wards: Madam, how long have you
hean nrostrated?' for she was lying
Sat IN the chair. "O!' she replied: ..
have been this way Fl teen years .
said: "Do YOU suffer very nnch! O.
yes," she said: II suner veIy
much; suffer all the time: part OF Inc
time | was blind. l always sufrer."
"Well," l said: ''can you keep your
courage up?" 30 yes. she said: II I'm
happy. very happy indeed" Her race
showed it. Sac looked the hapPlest OK
anyone on the ground.
o, what a means Of grace to the
world, these invalid chairs. On that
field OF human suffering the grace OF
God gets its victory. Edward Payson
the invalid, and Richard Baxter tho
invalid, and Robert Hall the
invalid, and the ten thousand OF
whom the world has never heard, bu'
of whom all heaven is cognizant. The
most conspicuous thing on earth 1or
Gods eye and the eye of ;ngels to rest
on, is not throne of earthly power,
but it is the invalid's chair.
pass on. and find one more vacant
chair 1t is high chair. 1T is the
child's chair. If that chair be occu-
pied. think it is the most potent chair
in all the household. All the chairs
wait on it. 1t means more than Davids
chair at Saul's banquet. At any rate.
it makes more racket. That is a strange
house that can be dull with u child
in it. How that child breaks
up the hard worldliness of the place,
and keeps you young to sixty. seventy,
and eighty years Of age. If you have
no child of your own, adopt one: it will
open heaven to your soul. 1t will pay
its way. Its growing in the morning
will give the day cheerful starting,
and its Slee at night will give the day
a cheerful close. You do not like
children?
A pioneer in California says that for
the first year or two after his residence
in Sierra Nevada county, there was not
a single child in all the reach of hun
bred miles. But the Fourth of, July
came, and the miners were gathered
together, and they We're celebrating the
Fourth with grafton, and poem, and
boistrous brass band; and while the
band was playing, an infants voice was
heard crying, and all the miners were
startled, and the swarthy men began
to think of their homes on the East
ern coast, and of their wives
and children far away, and their
hearts were thrilled with home-siclS-
ness as they heard the babe cry. But
the music went on, and the child cried
louder and louder, and the brass band
played louder and louder, trying to
drown out the infantile interruption,
when swarthy miner, the tears roll
ing down his face, got up and shook
his fist, and said: "Stop that noisy
band, and give the baby chance"
Oh! there was pathos in it. as well as
good cheer in it. There is nothing to
aroese, and melt, and subdue the soul
like child's voice. But when it goes
away from you, the high chair
becomes a higher clair, and
there is desolation all about you.
My hearers, have gathered ND the
voices OF your departed friends and
tried to intonc them into one invitation
upward. lset in array all the vacant
chairs of your homes and of your social
circle. and / bid them cry out thi,
"Time is short. Eternity
S near. Take my Savior. BE at peace
With my God. Come up where i am.
We lived together on earth,
'ome let us live together in
ieaven.' We answer that in
'ltatlon We come. Keep seat for
is, as Saul kept seat for David, but
hat seat shall not be empty. And oh.
when we are all through with hi
world and we have shaken hands all
lround for the last time, and all our
mars in the home circle and in the
outside world shall be vacant, NAV we
Ne worshipping God in that place from
which we shall go out no more forever.
thank God there will be no vacant |
hairs IN heaven. There we shall meet |
gain and talk over our earthly heart
Freaks. How much you have been
through since you aw them last, On |
he shining shore you will take it all |
ver. The hcartachcs. The loneli-
less. The slc,plcss nights. The
weeping until your had no moro power
o weep, because the heart was withcr. |
a and dried up. Story of empty era
lie, and little shoe only half worn out
ever 10 be worn again, Just the shape
i the foot that once pressed it,
On, how they bound in these spirits !
'efore the throne! Some show with |
badness Some break forth into un-
ontrollable weeping for JOY. Some |
tand speeches. in their shock of de-
light. They sing. They culver with |
Scessive gladness. They gaze on the
emples, on the pale c.s, on the waters,
N each other. They weave their ioy
INTO garlands, they spring it into
riumphal arches, they strike in on |
brels and then all the loved ones
,ather in great circle around the |
hrone OF God -. fathers, mothers,
rothers, sisters, SINS and daughters |
overs and friends. hand to hand |
round about the throne of God-the |
ircle ever widcning-hand to hand. |
ooy to JOY jubilee to jubilee. victory to |
lctory, until the day break and tho |
hadows fee away. Turn thou. INV
eloved. and be like 70, or q Young
art upon the mountains of Bother"
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