The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-09-11

..Yes.s said Isaiah. down to cid srs
am with thee. and to hoary hairs viii
wen. "a the Lord is going to carry
ven. Won ought not to worry much
about your failing eyestght ana falling
limbs You get a little worried for
fear some time You viii come to want
do vou2 Your children and grandchil-
dreu sometimes speak a little sharp at
you because of your ailments The
Lord will not speak sharp Do you
think YOU will come to wantY Who do
YOU think the Lord is? Are His gran
aries empty? VIII He feed the raven
and the rabbit, and the lion in the des-
erE and forget you? Why, naturalists
tell ms that the porpoise will not for
sake its wounded and sick mate. And
do Won suppose the Lord Of Heaven and
earth has not as much sympathy as the
fish of the sea?
But 1 gather all the promises to-day
in a ryrouD, and I ask the shepherds 70
drive sheir hocks of lambs and sheep
up to the sparkling supply. Behold
happy is the man whom God correct
eth Though He cause grief yet viii
He have compassion MANY are the
Affections of the righteous but the
Lord deIivereth him out of them all"
weeping may endure for a night but
termined today that no one shall go
away uncontrolled.
So 7 come to your timid and shrink
ing soul to-day and compel you to come
out in the presence Of the Divine Phys
ician. He will not hurt you. He has
been healing wounds for many years
and He viii give you gentle and omnip-
Otent medicament But people when
they have trouble, 90 anywhere rather
than IN, Cod Ia Quincy TnnkE IN
get rid of his troubles Charles Hamb
took to punch. Theodore Hook took TO
something stronger. Edwin Forest
took to theatrical dissipation. And
men have run all around the earth,
hoping in the quick transit to get away
from their misfortunes. 1t has been q
dead failure. There is only one well
that can Stake the thirst Of an afflicted
spirit and that is the deep and mex
haustible well of the gospel.
But some one says in the audience:
Notwithstanding all you have said
this morning I find no alienation for
my troubles" Well, L am not through
yet. I have left the most potent con-
sideratiou for the last I am going to
soothe you with the thought of Heaven.
However taIkative we NAY be, there
will come tims wher %ae stoutest and
most emphatic interrogation will pro-
yoke from us no answer. As soon as
we have closed our lips for the final Sc
lence, no power on earth can break that
taciturnity. But where, Christian,
will be your spirit? Ia a scene of
infinite gladness. The spring morning
of Heaven waving its blossoms in the
bright air. Victors fresh from battle
showing their scars. The rain of earth
ly sorrow struck through with the rain
bow of eternal JOY. In one group, God
and angels and the med-Paui
and Silas, Latimer and Ridley, Isaiah
and Jeremiah, Payson and John Mil
ton. Gabriel and Michael the arch
angel Long line of choristers reach
ing to the white beach. COnquerOrs
marching from gate TO gate. You
among them.
o, what a 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 viii recognize Rachel the shep-
herdess. And standing on one side of
the we'll of eternal rapture, your
children; aud standing on the other
side of the well of eternal rapture,
your Christian ancestry, you viii be
bounded on all sides by JOY so keen
and grand that no other world has ever
been permitted to experience it Out
of that one deep we'll of heaven the
Shepherd viii dip reunion for the be
reaved, 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 autumnal Sabbath OF 1891
we We're permitted to study. among the
bleatiug fioclSs and lowing herds of
this fair ground the story of Jacob
and Rachel the sheDherdess at
the well in MesoPotamia. o, plunge
your buckets into this great gospel well
and let them come up dripping with
that water of which if a man drink he
never again shall thirst.