Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-07

Well, then, what do you wantf A thou
sand voices In the audience cry out, Com
fort, give us comfort" For that reason |
have rolled away the stone from the Wells
mouth. Come, all ye wounded Of the
flock, pursued OF the wolves, come to the
fountain where the Lords sick and bereft
ones have come.
DEsoLATIoN OF THE BEREAvED.
"Ah," says some one, ''you are not old
enough to understand my sorrows You
have not been in the world as long as |
have, and you can talk to me about my
misfortunes in the time of old age" Well,
have been great deal among old people,
and know how they feel about their fail
ing 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 desolation
| shall not forget the cry Of the late Rev
DR.. De Witt, of New York, when he stood
by the open grave of his beloved wife, and,
after the obsequies had ended, he looked
down into the open place and said; Fare
well, 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 Farewellp
To lean on prop for fifty years, and then
have it break under you'll 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 with
out 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 goingS" and he
would answer, 81 don't know exactly
where / am going" Always looking for
something Though he was Il tender heart
ed 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 today who are
feeling just such pang as that want
to tell them there is perfect enchantment
in the promises of this Gospel; and come
to them and Ser them my arm, or take
their arm and bring them to this Gospel
well. Sit down, father or mother sit
down. See if there is anything at the we'll
for you. Come, David, the psalmist, have
you anything encouraging to offer themf
"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 peopleP
YES" says Isaiah; down to old age 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 your Your children
and grandchildren sometimes speak a little
Sharp at you because of your ailments
The Lord will not speak sharp. Do you
think you will come to want2 Who do
you think the Lord Is? Are his granaries
empty2 Will he feed the raven and the
rabbit and the lion in the desert, and for
get your Why, naturalists tell us that the
porpoise will not forsake its wounded and
sick mate. And do you suppose the Lord
of heaven and earth has not as much sym
pathy as the fish of the seaP But you
say; 81 am so near wornout, and | am OF
no use to God any more" 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. Doyou
think God has forgotten you because he
has taken care of you seventy or eighty
yearsP He thinks more of you today 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 everi a4sa.