Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-07

| granted that the work is done, and now
the sheep.
Come, all ye thirsty! You have an unde
fined longing in your soul. You tried money
making; that did not satisfy You. You tried
Office under government; that did not satisfy
| you. You tried pictures and sculptures, but
works of art did not satisfy you. You are as
much discontented with this life as the cele.
brated French author who felt that he could
not any longer endure the misfortunes of the
! world, and who said: "At four O'Clock this
afternoon. shall put an end to my own ex
istence. Meanwhile, / must toll on up to
that time for the sustenance of my family
And he wrote on his book until the clock
struck four, when he folded up his manu-.
script and, by his own hand, concluded his
earthly life. There are men here who are
perfectly discontented. Unhappy in the
past, unhappy to-day, to be unhappy for
ever, unless you come to this gospel we'll.
This satisfies the soul with high, deep, all
absorbing and eternal satisfaction.
In the far East there was king who used
once year to get on scales, while on the
| otner sl0e the scales were placed gold and
| silver and gems; indeed, enough were placed
| there to balance the king; then, at the close
| OF the weighing, all those treasures were
| thrown among the populace. But Christ TO-
| day steps on one side the scales, and on the
| other side are all the treasures of the uni
verse, and he says: "All are yours-all height,
| all depth, all length, all breadth, all eter-
n1ty; all are yours"
| THE COMFORT IN PROMISES.
We don't appreciate the promises of the
Gospel. When an aged clergyman was
dying-a man very eminent in the church
young theological student stood by his
| side, and the aged man looked up and said
to him: Cant you give me some comfort
in my dying hour? NO. said the young
man, II can't talk to you on this subject;
you know all about it, and have known it so
long" "Well:' said the dying man, 'just
recite me some promises The young man
thought moment, and ne came to this
promise: "The blood of Jesus Christ clean
seth from all SIM and the old man clapped
his hands, and iE his dying moment SAID:
That's just the promise have been wait
ing for. THE blood OF Jesus Christ cleansetl
from all SIM" Oh. the warmth, the gran
deur, the magnificence of the promises,
Compare your views of this life at 10 years
of age with what your view of it is at 40,
60, or 20. What great contrast of opinioni
Were you right then, or are you right now?
Two cups placed in your hands, the one
sweet cup, the other sour cup. A cup-of
joy and cup of grief. Which has been the
nearest to being full and out of which have
You the more frequently partaken: What
different place the cemetery is from what it
used to be- Once it was to you a grand city
improvement, and you went out on the
pleasure excursion, and you ran laughingly
up the mound, and you criticised in a light
way the epitaplI. But since the day
when you heard the bell toll at
it is a sad place, and there is a flood
of rushing memories that suffuse the eye and
oyermaster the heart; Oh, you have had
trouble, trouble. trouble. God only knows
how much you have had. Well. what do you
want? Would you like to have your proper
ty back again! NO. you say as Christian
man, i was becoming arrogant, and think
that is why the Lord took it away. L don't
want to have my property back" Well,
would you have your departed friends back
again? NO" you say, Il couldn't take the
responsibility of bringing them from a tear
less realm to a realmof tears. couldn't doit."
Well, then, what do you want? a thousand
voices in the audience cry out: Comfort,
give us comfort" For that reason l have
rolled away the stone from the wells
mouth. Come. all We wounded of the flock,
pursued of the wolves, come to the fountain
whers the Lords sick and bereft ones have
come.
THE GREAT SORROW OF PARTING.
"Ah," says some one, "you are not old
enough to understand my SORROWS. You
have not been in the world as long as have,
and you can't talk to me about my mis-
fortunes in the time of old age" Well,
have been great deal among old people
and 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 per- /
sons have live-t together for 40 or 50 years, !
tion! l shall not forget the cry of the late |
Rev. DR.. DE Witt. of New York. when he |
stood by the open grave OF his beloved wife, |
and, after the obsequies had ended, he |
looked down into the open place and said: |
Farewell my honored, faithful and be- |
loved WIFE The bond that bound us is |
severed. Thou art in glory, and 1 am here
on earth. We shall meet again. Farewell! |
FAREWELL" To lean on a prop for so years,
and then have it break under you!
There were only two years difference be- !
After my mothers decease my father used |
to go around as though looking for some
thing: 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: al don't know exactly where
am going" Always looking for something
Though he was a tender-hearted man, 1 |
never saw him cry but once, and that was at
the burial of my mother. After 20 years
there are aged people to-day who are feeling
just such pang as that. L want to tell them
there ID perfect enchantmentint in the promises
of this gospei: ana L come to them and l
offer them my arm, or l take their arm and
l bring them to this gospel well.
Sit down, father, or mother, sit down. See
Come. David. the psalmist, have you any
thing encouraging to offer them? YES"
says the psalmist; "they shall still bring
forth fruit in old age, they shall be fat and
right. he is my rock, and there is no un-
righteousness in me-" Come Isaiah, have |
you anything to say out Of your prophecies
"down to old age 1 am with thee, and to
hoary hairs will carry thee"
THE LORD NEVER FoRGETs.
Well, if the Lord is going to carry you,
you ought not to worry much about your
failing eyesight and failing limbs You get
4 little worried for fear sometime you will
come to want, do you? Your children and
grandchildren sometimes 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
5he Lord is? Are his granaries empty? Will
he feed the raven and the rabbit, and the
ion in the desert and forget you? Why
tell us that the porpoise will not
forsake its wounded and sick mate. And do
you suppose the Lord of heaven and earth
mas not as much sympathy as the fish of the
sea- But you say 81 am so near worn out, |
md / am of no use to God any more" |
.hink the Lord knows whether you are of
my more use or not; if you were of no more
use he would have taken you before this
le has taken care of you 20 or so years. He
thinks more of you to-day than he ever did,
because you think more of Him.
But some one says, in the audience: Mot
all you have said this morning, |
find no alienation for my troubles" Well, |
am not through yet 1 have left the most |
potent consideration for the last. am 60
heaven. However, talkative we may be-
here will come time when the stoutest |
md most emphatic interrogation will evoke
rom us no answer. As soon as we have
losed our lips for the final silence, no power
IN earth can break that taciturnity. But
yhere, o Christian, will be your spirit? In |
Gene of infinite gladness The spring
morning of heaven waving its blossoms in
he bright air. Victors fresh from battle
howing their scars The rain of earthly