Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1891-08-08

rcttcaei TIE bed than a voice SAN "ha't
a u-ayerless pillow? Man! whas Is the
matter This. You are too rear your
mother srocking-chair,
.41h pShaw YOU say. There ; nothing |
il ..as I'm five hundred miles of from
were was born. I'm three hundred miles
CT from the church whose beii was tie
first music | ever heard" I cannot help
ina, You are too near your mothers
rocglng cnar. Ut, you say. tneFe
can't be anything ia that. That
chair has been vacant q great "nLe- |
cannot help that. 1t is all the nsightler for
that Its olnipotent, that vacant mother
er's chair. 1t whispers, il speaks. 1t weep i
carols, il mournS, it prays, II warns, II
thuniers. a young man went Oh AM
prose MS motnsrs nearI. Il wnue ne wa
away from home his mother died AM the
t@tszraph brou mt the son. ana Ne cane
into the room where she lay ana io7N+l
u,5n her fac, aud he cried out;
mother, snother. what your lie couii no as
vat5-,f-a-h shall effect This moment l give
III. f!.,rt 70 God And he kept bis pro u
j. Another victory for the vacant cAij.
N,ta ref.r-nre II v0ur mother the W'rt- u
~ t-xt were IulTnieo, ..1nou hnait %
inset, because thy seat will be empty.
10 "a a little further, and l come T. the
inx..i1's chair. What How long have you
ben SIX: oh | have been sick ten, twenty,
thir. years Is it possible? What a story
OF e.fiIrance. There are In many OF the
fan.. If my congregation. these 1nFallIs
chtl.. The occupants of them think they
ar cong no good in the world but that in
yaI,31 chair is the mighty lulpl-
fr3.a which they have been preafl
in all these wears, trust in God. The II ss
tIn.l preached here at Lakeside, ONO, = ~
IN r.r5nr. present. there was nothing ia5
81 ~ ]! impressed me as the spect x 81
i34r.n4 face the face OF ali lnvail4 Who
VA whaale in on her chair said = Ter
A5f.t,-, hoy LONG h4-s .)1
hen prostrated| for she was lying ~ III
tn chair. Oh she replied, u rave
b,e!l this way fifteen years AT.
.D3 YOU suffer very much in
sha said. Il suffer very much; sun = Al
tie time part OF the time | was DIM
al.ay, suffer" z'tWeli, | said, can 59u
k.e. Your courage up Oh. yes. she ~,
Il an. happy, very happy indeed" H isee
shovel it. She looked the happle-t amy
one ca the ground.
Oh. what a means Of grace to the world,
these Invalid chairs. On that fell OF hui
man suffering the grace Of God gets its
victory Edward Payson, tie Invalid.
AMI Richard Baxter, the invatii, and
it0iert Hall, the invalid, and the tn thou.
SAM Of whom the world has never heard,
bat u whom all heaven Is cognizant. The
most conspicuous thing Oh earth fui t1o1s
eye and the eye Of angels to rest on is not
Il throne OF earthly power, but 1t is the in
Nitil , Sidii- oH. biitSb men anu WOMEN
who are always suffering. but never COM
liainia--these victims Or spinal DISEASE,
AMI 1leuralglc torture, AMI rheumatic ex-
cfieilttofl VIII answer to the roll cill OF
the martyrs, an1rise to the martyrs throne,
az Will Wave the martyrs palm.
Blt 8 hen one Of theoe lnvaliiS chairs be-
comes vacant how suggestive it isl No
n3f@ clustering up Of the weary head. No
NOR hanging from side to side to get an
e2~} p%>>ltion. No more Use of the bandage
ant the cataplasln and the prescription.
HAT lliyalli clall may he folded M or
tasen apart, Of 80 awtT, but il will.
HeleI lose Its qd-eniy poser. il VIII always
Iiatrti Of trust III Cot AMI eli erful subnis.
siaI Suffering ali ended nov. With re-
s'-cGt ID that invalid the words of my text
have been fulfilled, Thou sir.lt b. missed
because thy seat vii! be empty.
/ pass on and Tin / on moe vacant chair
II Is a high chair. IL IS the chilt's chair.
II that chair be occupie thinN it i, the
most potent chair in ali the household. Ali
the chairs wait on il all tue chairs are
turned toward il. 1t means more than
Davii's chair at SauIs banquet. At any
rat II makes more racket, That is d strange
house that can be dull with a child
Ill It How that child breaks up The hard
worldilness OF tho place and keeps you
young 10 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 a cheerful
starting, and its glee at night will give the
day a cheerful close. You do not like chill
drens Then you had better stay out of
heaven, for there are so many there they
woall fairly make you crazy. Only about
I'VE hundred millions of them. The old
crusty Pharisees told the mothers to keep tho
children away from Christ. You bother
Him, they said; you trouble the Master
Trouble Himl He has filled heaven with
that kind OF trouble.
\ pioneer in California says that for tbs
first Year or two after his residence in
Sierra Nevada county there was not a
single child in all the reach of a hundred
miles. But the Fourth of July came, AMI
the miners were gathered together AMI
they were celebrating the Fourth with ora.
ton and poem and a boisterous brass hand.
ami while tho band was playing an infants
voice heard crying, and all the m!;ipr@
were startled, and the swarthy men began
to think OF their homes ON the eastern coast
|. and OF their wives and children far away,
and their hearts were thrilled with home
sickness as they heard the babe cry. Bu,
the music went on, and the child erie
louder and louder, and the brass BAN
played louder and louder, trying to drown
!, out the infantiie interruption, when a
sWarthy miner. the tears rolling down us
face, got up and shook his fist ami said.
stop that noisy band, and give the baby
chance" Oh, there was lathos in it, ii.
a well as good cheer in it. There is nothing
to arouse and melt and suDdue the son
like a child's voice. But when it goe:
away from you the high chair becomes
higher chair and there is desolation all abou
yoa
IN threefourths of the homes Of this COZ
gre-ation there is a vacant nigh chair.
Somehow YOU never get over it. There i
noone to put to bel at night. no one to as.
strange questions about God aud heaven
, On. what is the Use of that high chair Il !:
t. call YOU higher. What a dvawinI 10
J Warllt Is to have children in heaven IN.
tnen tits >u1i a preventive gains sin Il
af.}h"r@ l. going away into sin he l"1v.
lie lrlur chlldreu with their mother. ul
J II 4 fata-r is going away into sin wnatl
10. .u- u l. with his dead ~cu!llrea Il a.
: Ink tt.a4t hlm All heTeriu- over his a. r
/ Wsa>&ari step. ON. speak out, vaca.t mig
2 char and say. Father. come hac fco.I
-. Ta-@0-, -Trs uacN Tu1r"urIultl->
aat catching you am waiting for YOU
w respect t. your child the wori~o OF m
l. 'tave been fulfilled, Thou shaft /
mi. because thy seat viii be empty