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

wei, ! .1al, can gDu aeep your
eouras upF- ~Oh. yes. she sid. Il
am happy. very happy. indeedT Her
. fses showed T. She boxed the hap
( plezf of any one On the ground
On, what a means of gTacs 70 the
World. thess invalid chairs On that
. 6eld u human suffering tho grace Of
F oiod gsts IT, vietory. Edward Payson.
tie Invalid. and Richard Baxter, tine in
Valid. and Robert Hall. the invalid,
and the ten thousand u whom the
word has never heard. but Of whom
Z all heaven IL c0Znizant. The most con
sofeuOUs thing on earth Tor Gods eye
and the eye d angels % rest on T. not
throne of earthly power. bat Il Is the
invalld's chair. Oh, these men and
I women vino are always suffering but
never nplaining- these victims Of
spinal disease and neuralgic torture and
riIeDmsfic e=cUciatiOn viii answer to
the roll call Of the martyrs aud rise to
the martyrs throne and will wave the
martyrs palm.
But when one Of these invaiids' chair
. becomes vacant, how suggestive 1t IL
[ 50 more bOistering up Of the weary
head. 30 more changing from side to
side To get an easy position. No more
nee of the bandage, and the cataplasIn,
and the prescription. That invalid's
chair may be folded mp, ortalsen apart.
o. set away. bat IT will never lose itf
queeniy power; It will always preach
Of trust 10 God and cheerful submis
siOn. Suffering all ended nov With
respect 10 that invalid the words Of my
. teHt have been fulfilled, Thou shalt
be missed. because thy seat will be
empty"
BABY's PLACE.
pass % and / find one more vacant
chair II i a high chair. II is the
clilds chair r. that chair BE- occupied
I I think Il Il the most potent chair in all
the household All the chairs wait Oh
I q; all the chairs are turned toward it.
Z II means more than David's chair at
Gaul's banquet At any rate. It nakes
more racket. That Is a strange house
that can be dull with a child in it,
I How that child breaks up the hard
wOrldIiness Of the place and keeps you
| young 70 sixty, seventy and eighty
I years Of age II you have no child Oi
I your own, adopt one; It will open
heaven 10 your soul II will pay it,
I way. It's growing In the morning viii
I give the day a cheerful starting, and
its glee at night will give the day o
cheerful close. You DO not like chill
I drenl Then you had better stay oui
I Of heaven, for there are so many there
they would fairly make you crazy
I Only about five hundred millions Of
theml The old crusty Pharisees told
the mothers 10 keep the children away
from Christ you bother him, ." they
said; you trouble the Master" Trou.
! bic himi He has filed heaven with
that kind Of trouble
a pioneer ia California says that. foi
/ tie first year or two after his residence
IN Sierra Nevada county. there was not
a single child in all the reach Of hun
dred miles But the Fourth Of July
came, and the miners we're gathered to
I gether, and they were celebrating the
| Fourth with oration and poem and a
I bOisterous brass band and while the
band was playing an infants voice was
/ heard crying and all the miners were
startled, and the swarthy men began to
I think Of their homes on the eastern
coast, and Of their wives and children
far away, aud their hearts were thrilled
with homesickness as they heard the
| babe cry.
But the music went on, aud the child
cried louder and louder, aud the brass
band played louder and louder. trying
I % d. yn out the infantile interruption,
when 3 swarthy miner, the tears rolling
down hls face got up and shook his
fist and said, stop that noisy band
/ and give the baby a chance" Oh,
there was pathOs Ia Il, as well as good
cheer IN IT, There Is nothing to arouse
and melt and subdue the soul like a
chllds voice. But when It goes away
from you the high chair becomes a
higher chair. and there Is desolatlon all
about you
In three fourths Of the homes Of this
congregation there Is vacant high
chair Somehow you never get over il.
There is no one 20 put 90 bed al night
no one 10 ask strange questions about
/ God aud heaven. Oh, what Is the use
OF that high chairi IL Is 20 call you
higher What a drawing upward Il Is
70 have children IN heaven And then
Il is such "a preventive against sin. II
father Is going away into sin he leaves
his living children with their mother
bat II father Is going away into ain
what Is he going 20 do with hls dead
children floating about him and hover
Ing over his every waywnrd stepl oh,
speak uuL vacant high chidr, aud say
Father, come back from sin, mother,
come back from worldlihess hm
watching yon. ann waiting for you.
With respect 90 your child the words OF
nay teat have been fulfilled. Thou
shalt DO missed, because thy seat will
be empty."
DEPARTED yoiCFs
Ny hearers, have gathered up the
yolces of your departed friends and
tried to intone them into oie Invitation
upward. ~ Ia array all the vacant
chairs ~ your homes and OF your 30
cial circle, and bid them cry cut thh
morning Time Il short Eternity Il
near. Take my Saviour b. az peaos
with ny God Come up where !
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