Telegram-herald., 1891-07-20

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COMPASSION snd - sysnp4lastie lafi iasacss ara
/ eoa6iasd
{ That cid esziF has stoppesi rocking for
gessd mAny years Il taay be SCI up Ia the
F loit oF the garret. bat IL ho..ia qaeenly
+ power yet. When q. nsldns, Bt yoa ~enI
7 into thst groS shop 70 get tie intoxicating
/ dFsaghL did yoa not hear voice that said.
Ny ssa. Nay 10 Ia thereE Aud t2uder
I taaa tiss ooisseroas sacore of the Bsaee 81
ssnfa! amusement a yolcs ssy,ax My
/ son. wbaI do you % keres And when
I ycu weEt into tss house Of abandon meat,
/ a voice saying Nv lat woald your mother
4 do II she knew Yea we're here And Yea
wers provoked with yourself. AID you
charged yourself wita superstition aud Ia
nagiclsm and your head got hot with your
own thoughts. aud you went home and
y0a went TO bed. and no sooner bad you
( touched ths bel than a voice said; Whats
a prsyerisss psll0Ss Aaa! what 10 the
maEssrs'' rhis. You are too near yoar
notssF's rocking chair.
oh, pshaNF yoa say There's moth
4 ing la that. Inl i've hundred miles OF
( from where | was bora I'm three thou
sand miles OIL from the church. whose bell
Was the first music ever heard" can
/ not help that. loa ara too near your
mothers rocking chair. .Oh." you say,
/ There can't Dc anything ia that. That
/ chair has been vacant great while" |
4 cannot help that. it is all the mightier for
I that. IL Is omniposent, that vacant moth
( ers chair. Ii whispers. II speaks. il weeps, is
( carols. it mourns. 10 prays. It warns, il
I thunders. n young man went off and
/ broke his mothers heart, and while be was
I away from home his mother died, and the
{ telegraph brought the son, and he came
! into the room where she lay and looked
/ upon her face, aud he cried out: "Oh,
mother, mother. what your life could not
/ do your death shall ELECT This moment
/ give my nesrt 70 Cod" And he kept bis
/ promise. Another victory for the vacant
/ chair. With reference to your mother the
words Of my text were fulfilled, Thou
shalt be missed. because thy seat will be
empty"
THE ISyALID's CHAIR
/ 20 on little further and come to the
invslid's chair. What How long have
you been siek' "Oh! have been sick ten.
twenty. thirty years" Is it possible.
What story OF endurance. There are In
many Of the families of my congregation
these invalids' chairs The occupants OF
them think they are doing no good in the
world. but that invalid chair is the mighty
pulpit from which they have been preach
ing. all these years, trust in God. The first
time | preached here at Lakeside, Ohio,
amid the throngs present. there was moth
ing that so much impressed me as the spec
I tacle Of just one face-the face OF an in
valid who was wheeled in on her chair
said TO her afterward. Madam, how long
I have you been prostratedy" for she WAS
lying fat in the chair Oar she replied,
IL have been this way fifteen years" said,
"Do you suffer very much," "Oh, yes"
! shs said, IL suffer very much; | suffer all
the time; part of the time | was blind.
always suffer" Well" said, ''can you
keep your courage upi" "Oh, yes" she
said. Il am happy. very happy indeed" Her
face showed it. She looked the happiest Of
any one on the ground.
Oh. what "a means OF grace 10 the world,
these invalid chairs. On that field OF hui
man suffering the grace of God gets its
victory. Edward Payson, the invalid,
and Richard Baxter, the invalid. and
Robert Hall, the invalid, and the ten thou
| sand OF whom the world has never heard,
, but of whom all heaven is cognizant. The
most conspicuous thing on earth for God 5
! eye and the eye of angels TO rest on, is not
throne Of earthly power, but it is the in
vslid's chair. Oh, these men and women
who are always suffering but never COM
! plaining-these victims OF spinal disease.
and neuralgic torture, and rheumatic ex-
| cruciation will answer TO the roll call OF
the martyrs, and rise to the martyrs
! throne. and will wave the martyrs palm.
But when one Of these invalids' chairs
becomes vacant how suggestive it Isl No
more bolstering up OF the weary head. No
| more changing from side TO side to get an
easy position. No more use of the band
age and the cataplasm aud the prescrip-
ton That inyalid's chair may be folded
up or taken apart or set away, but it will
never lose It's queenly power: it will al
submission. Suffering all ended now.
With respect 20 that invalid the words Of
my text have been fulfilled. Thou shalt
be missed, because thy seat will be empty.
THAT EMPTY HIGH CHAIR
pass on and | find one more vacant
chair IL is high chair. 1t is the child's
chair IL that chair be occupied think it
Is the most potent chair in all the house,
hold All the chairs wait on it: all the
chairs are turned toward it. 1t means mora
than David's chair at Saurs banquet. AT
any rate it makes more racket. That is a
in il. How that child breaks mp the hard
worIdliness Of the place and keeps you
young TO sixty. seventy and eighty years Of
age n 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 n cheerful
starting. and its glee at night will give tha
| day cheerful close. You do not like chill
drens Then you had better stay out Of
heaven. for there are so many there they
would fairly make you crazy. Only about
| FIVE hundred millions of them. The old
crusty Pharise-s told the mothers to keep
the children away from Christ. "You
bother him." they said; 'you trouble tho
/ Master" Trouble hint He has filed
heaven with that kind of trouble.
| A piorser in California says that for the
! first year or two after his residence in
Sierra Nevada county there was not a
! single child in all the reach Of hundred
miles. But the Fourth Of July came. and
I the miners were gathered together and
! they were celebrating the Fourth with ora
ton and poem and a boisterous brass band.
aud while the band was playing an infant 8
I voice Was heard cryiag. aud all the miners
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~iekness "a they heard the babe cry.
But the music went on, and the child cried
louder aud louder. and the brass hand
played louder and louder. trying 70 drown
/ out the infantie interruption. when =
swarthy miner, The tears rolling down his
'ace. got MP snt shook his h-s and sasd,
4 "sStop that nai-v nand. aud give the baby a
I chance" On. there was patbps IN u, az
well "a good cheer ia IL There is nothing