Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-09-18

or heaven and earth has not Is much SYM
pathy as the fish of the sea7 But you say:
81 am so near worn out, and ] am Of no use
lo God any more" Think the Lord knows
whether you are of any more use or not;
ifyou were Of no more use He would have
taken you before this. Do you think God
has forgotten you because he has taken
care Of you seventy or eighty years3 he
thinks more of you today than BE ever did,
because you think more him. May the God
Of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and Paul
the aged be your God for everl
But / gather all the promises todsy In
group, and ask the shepherds TO drive their
flocks OF lambs and sheep up TO the sparkling
supply. "Behold, happy is the man whom
yet will he have compassion "Many
are the Affections OF the righteous, but
the Lord delvereth them out of then,
ALL" weeping may endure for nj 'bt,
but Joy cometh in the morning." am de-
termined today that no one shall go away
uncontrolled. Yonder is . timid and shrink
ing soul who seems to hide away from the
consultations am uttering, as child with
sore hand hides away from the physician
lest he touch the wound too roughly, and
the mother has to go and compel the little
patient to come out and see the physician.
< So come to your timid and shrinking soul
today, and compel you to come out In the
presence OF the Divine Physician. He will
not hurt you. He has been healing wounds
for many years. and he will give you gentle
and omnpotent medcament. But people,
when they have trouble, go anywhere
rather than to God. De Quincy took
opium to get rid of his troubles.
Charles Lamb took to punch. Theodore
Hook took to something stronger. Edwin
i Forrest took to theatrical dissipation. And
men have run all around the earth, hoping
IN
| misfortunes. Ii has teen a dead failure.
| There is only one well that can slake the
thirst Of an afflicted spirit, and that is the
deep and inexhaustible well of the Gospel.
But some one says, In the audience,
Notwithstanding all you have said this
morning, | find no alienation for my
troubles" Well am not through yet.
have left the most potent consideration for
the last. am going to soothe you with
the thought of heaven. However talkatvie
we may be, there will come time when
the stoutest and most emphatic interrogation
will evoke from us no answer. As soon al
we have closed our lips for the final silence
no power on earth can break that taciturn-
ity; but where, oh, Christian, Will be your
spirit2 In a scene of infinite gladness. The
spring morning Of heaven waving its bios
SONS in the bright air Victors
fresh from battle showing their scars.
The rain Of earthly sorrow struck through
with the rainbow of eternal Joy. In one
group, God and angels and the redeemed
Paul and Silas, Latimer and Ridley, Isaiah
ard jeremiah, Payson and John Milton,
Gabriel and Michael the archangel. Long
line Of choristers reaching across the hills.
Seas OF joy dashing to the white beach. Con-
querers marching from gate to gate. You
among them.
oh, what great flock Of sheep God will
gather around the celestial well. No stone
on the wells mouth while the shepherd
waters the sheep. There Jacob will recog-
nize Rachel, the shepherdess. And standing
on one side of the well Of eternal rapture
your children, and standing on the other
side of the well of eternal rapture your
Christian ancestry, you will be bounded on
al sides by Joy 30 keen and grand that no
other world has ever been permitted to ex.
perience it.
Out Of that one deep well OF heaven the
Shepherd will dip reunion for the bereaved,
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 first
autumnal Sabbath of 1891 we were per.
mitted to study among the bleating 6ocks
and lowing herds of this fair ground the
ltory of Jacob and Rachel the shepberdess,
Vt the well in Mesopotama. Oh, plunge
iour buckets into this great Gospel wen
md let them come up dripping with that
water of which II man drink he never
Rain shall thirst.