Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-07-20

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Sozneafle efrsae ! saw n TIE French
palaoe. and n fis ttFD1s ron, tfle
ef.slr tat Hzpolson uesd tO Ooeupy,
4 gas bes1fff1l eilzlr. BAT the nOst
s'gri1esnt perf n 4 aeas tie litter =
erabsoG1ers5 fnt0 tis baek n tie eiIais
10 psrpis aod zoid Ard g0-r fstheTs
"a eflsiF ~ n tie fsr9Ds rom n
yo1f hesyf. snd yo1F adseriore have
eubFDs1eFsd fato tic heek u tie chair
% Dzrp1s a1d Qold TIE ietter r.
Haze slJ TIE pgagers u fset old eiaiT
ben aneEersdf Have al tie eoun1els
u fiiat ID eiaalr been pEsetieed1 2 speak
outg Cd asE1ehzfr.
HietoFy tells ~ II an ID man Eboes
three s0ns we're Tietogs r. tie Oiympil
9zmes< arld wien thsy cane back. tbees
fbrss soE.s With fiseir gaTiands, pat
them % tbe5y fsfssesfs brOg. ard the
"a nan va - rs,olesd a. the victOries
n he three ehil3ssn filzt BE- feiI deao
Ia TIER agz1G And are yoo. . man,
ring 10 brfDz q wreath u ~ and
Ci8fistlan 1ssfBlsSsss and PIT Il On yOuI
faalseF's bsoB. Og O0 the vacant chair.
og % the memory II Oae depaTtedi
Gpeak out. Cd sETneilaiTi With refer
e1es 20 yOur father. the words Of my
teKt have been fulfilled, ''Tbou shalt
be missed, becanss thy seat viii ~
empty"
NOTBEg's CHAIR
Igo a little further On in yOur house
and I find tie EoOtisF's chair. II Il
yery apt ~ be a rocking chair. She
had ~ nanT eares and troubles u
soofbe that it must have rockers. r.
nenber Il well II Nas 40 Old chair,
asld the rockers were almost worn out.
for wa tie yOuDgest, and the clIaii
had Focked the whole family. u mads
a crsating noise ~ Il moved, but tbers
was m1s,e in tie soBnd Il yas just
high enough 70 ALLOW ~ children tOpui
or heads into her lap That was thf
bank where We depOelted all our hurts
and worries. All what q chair that
was. II Was different from the father'i
chair; Il wa entirely different. YOE
ak nc how. caDnot tell, bat We aI
felt Il was different Perhaps there
vas about this chair more gentleness
more tenderness. more grief when w
had done wrong When We were way
ward father seolded, but mother cried
II was a very wakefuI chair In tie
sick days Of children other chairs could
not keep awake; that chair always
kept aWaks--kept easily awake. That
ehssiT knew al tiIs old iullabiea and ali
those wOrdiess songs which mOthen
sing % their sick ehildren-sOngs n
which all pity and compassion and sym
pathetic influences are combined.
That old chair has stopped rocking
for a good many years IL may BE- sei
up IN the loft Or the garnet. but II holds
a queenly power yet When az mid
night you went into that grog shop r.
get the Intoxicating draft, did you NOD
hear a voics that said. Ny con, why
60 in fbereT And louder than ths
bOlsterons encore Of the place Of sinful
Amusement, a voice saying, my son,
what do you do hereT And when you
went into the house Of abandonment,
voice saying. "What would your
mother do n she knew you were here r.
And you were provoked with yourself.
and you charged yourself with super.
stitiOn and fanaticism and yOur head
got hot with your own thoughts, and
You went home and you went 10 bed,
and 40 sooner had you touched the
bed than a voice sald what prayer
legs plllOwl Mani what Il the matter +
This. You are too near your mother'l
rocking chair.
"Oh, pshaw" you say. There,
nothing la that; I'm i've hundred miles
OF from where I was born; I'm three
thousand miles Of from tho church
whose bell was the first music ever
heard" cannot help that; you are
too near your mothers rocking chair
"Oh," you say, "there can't bo any.
thing Ia that, that chair has been va.
cant "A great while" cannot help that
Il Is all the mightier for that Il Is ON.
nipotent, that vacant mothers chair.
IL whispers, Il speaks, IL weeps, Il
carols, Il mouns, II prays, IL warns.
II thunden. A young man went on
and broke his mothers heart, aud while
he was away from home hls mother
died. and the telegraph brought the
son, and ho came into the room whore
she lay and looked upon her face, aud
ho cried out "Oh, mother mother
what your lifo could not DO your death
shall effect This moment | give my
heart 10 God" And he kept his promise.
Another victory Tor ihe vacant chair
With references 10 your mother, the
words OF my toKi were fulfilled, Thou
shalt bo missed, because thy seat viii
DO empty
Az lNyALIp's usEFULNKss
20 on a little further and / come
20 the inyalid's chair. WHAT How
long have you been slcki "Oh, have
been sick ton, twenty, thirty years
l. L p0sslblei What story of endnr
aneol There are Ia many Of the fami
lies of my congregation these inyalids
chairs The occupants Of them think
tlley aro doing no good la tho world
bat that inyalld's chair l. the mighty
pulpit from which they have been
preaching al thess years, trust la God
Tho first ilno pneacllod here AZ Lake
aide, Ohio, amid the throngs present
thera ~as nothing that ~ much iln
pressed lno ~ tho spectacle of just one
iaoo che faoe " an Invalid who was
wheeled in on her chair / sald 60 heI
ailofwari Madam, how long have