Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-09-07


ter the heart Oh, you have had trou-
BILE, trouble, trouble God only knows
how much you have had 1t is won
der you have been able to live through
it, It is a wonder your nervous system
has not been shattered and your brain
has not reeled Trouble, trouble. If
| could gather all the griefs, of all
could put them in one scroll, neither
man nor angel could endure the recita-
ton.
We'll, what do you want? Would
you like to have your property back
again? mo, you say, as a Christian
man; Il was becoming arrogant, and
| think that is why the Lord took it
away. | don't want to have my prop
.rty back = Well, would you have
YOUR departed friends back again?
mo" you say; Il couldn't take the
responsibility of bringing them from a
fearless realm to a realm of tears |
couldn't do it. Well, then, what do
YOU want? A thousand voices in the
audience cry out, Comfort; give US
rolled away the stone from the wells
mouth Come, all we wounded of the
flock, pursued of the wolves, come to
the fountain where the Lords sick and
bereft ones have come.
WE SHALL MEET AGAIN.
''Ah," says some one, you are not
old enough to understand my sorrows
W ! ILL.,, IL L.,
as | have, and you can't talk to me
about my misfortunes in the time of
old age" Well, have been a great
deal among old people, and 1 know.
how they feel about their failing
health, and about their departed
friends, and about the loneliness that
sometimes strikes through their soul.
After two persons have lived together
for forty or fifty years, and one of them
is taken away, what desolation!
I shall not forget the cry of the late
Rev. Dr. De Witt of New York, when
he stood at the open grave of his below
ed wife, and after the obsequies had
place and said: Farewell, my honored,
faithful and beloved wife The bond
that bound us is severed. Thou art in
glory and [ am here on earth. We shall
meet again. Farewell! FAREWELL" To
lean on prop for fifty years and then
have it break under you'll
There were only two years difference
between the deaths of my father and
mother. After my mothers decease
my father used to go around as though
looking for something and he would
often get up from one room, without
any seeming reason, and go to another
room; and then he would take his cane
and start out, and some one would say,
''Father, where are you going?" and he
would answer, II don't know exactly
where | am going" Always looking
for something. Though he was a ten
der hearted man, | never saw him cry
but once, and that was at the burial of
my mother. After sixty years living
together it was hard to part
And there are aged people today who
are feeling just such a pang as that. l
want to tell them there is perfect en-
chantment in the promises of this Cos
pei, and | come to them and | offer
them my arm or take their arm, and
l bring them to this Gospel well. Sit
down, father or mother sit down. See
if there is anything at the well for you
Come, David, the psalmist, have you
anything encouraging to offer them?
Yes" says the psalmist ''They shall
still bring forth fruit in old age; they
shall be fat and fourishing, to show
that the Lord is upright, he is my rock,
and there is no unrighteousness in me-"
Come, Isaiah, have you anything to
say out of your prophecies for these
aged people2 Yes" says Isaiah;
''Down to old age l am with thee. and
to hoary hairs will l carry thee" Well,
if the Lord is going to carry you, you
ought not to worry much about your
failing eyesight and failing limbs. You
get a little worried for fear sometime
you will come to want, do you? Your
children and grandchildren some times
speak little sharp at you because of
your ailments. The Lord will not
speak sharp. Do you think you will
come to want? Who do you think the
Lord is? Are his granaries empty? Will
he feed the raven and the rabbit, and
the lion in the desert, and forget you?
poise will not forsake its wounded and
sick mate. And do you suppose the
Lord of heaven and earth has not as
much sympathy as the fish of the sea?
But you say, 81 am so near worn
out, and | am of no use to God any
more" think the Lord knows whether
you are of any more use or not. If you
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
years2 He thinks more of you today
than he ever did, because you think
more of him. May the God of Abra-
ham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and Paul,
the aged, be your God forever!
DRIVE THE FLoCKs TO THE WE'LL.
But I gather all the promises today
in a group, and ask the shepherds to
drive their focks of lambs and sheep
up to the sparkling supply. ."Behold,
happy is the man whom God correct
eth" Though he cause grief, yet
will he have compassion" Many are
the Affections of the righteous, but the
Lord delivereth him out of them ALL
weeping may endure for night, but
joy cometh in the morning." 1 am de-
terInined today that no one shall go
away uncontrolled.
Yonder is a timid and shrinking soul
who seems to hide away from the con-
solutions I am uttering, as child with
a sore hand hides away from the ply
sician lest he touch the wound too
and the mother has to go and
compel the little patient to come out
and see the physician. So I 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 heal
ing wounds for many years, and he
will give you gentle and omnipotent
But people, when they
have trouble, go anywhere rather than
to God.
De Quincy took opium to get rid of
MS troubles Charles Lamb took to
punch. Theodore Hook took to some
-hinU stronoar Edwin FOrreSt took To