Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-09-07

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
IL taken away, what desolationl
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
ended. he looked down into the open
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 youl
There we're only two years difference
between the deaths Of my father and
mother After my mothers decease
my father used to 20 around as though
looking for something, and he would
often get up from one room. without
any seeming reason, and 90 to another
room; and then lie would take his cane
and start out. and some one would say,
Father. where are you goingl' 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 inst such a pang as that.
want TO tell them there is perfect en-
clIantInent in the promises Of this Cos
/ pei. and ] come to them and | offer
them my arm, or take their arm, and
| bring them TO this Gospel we'll Sit
! down. father or mother. sit down. See
! If there is anything at the well for you.
Come, David, the psahnist, have you
anything encouraging to offer them
Yes, says the psalmigt. ''They shall
still bring forth fruit in old age; they
shall be fat and 1ourishing, to show
that tie 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 peoplel Yes" says Isaiah
Down to old age am with thee and
to hoary hairs will carry thee" Well
If the Lord is going to carry you, you
ought not to worry much about you
failing eyesight and failing limbs. You
get a little worried for fear sometime
you will come TO want, do youl You
children and grandchildren some time
speak little sharp at you because o
your ailments. The Lord will no
speak sharp. Do you think you vii
come to want2 Who do you think tn,
Lord is1 Are his granaries emptyt -.
he feed the raven and the rabbit, aDC
the lion in the desert, and forget you
Why, naturalists tell us that the por
poise will not forsake its wounded anC
sick mate. And do you suppose the
Lord Of heaven and earth has not a
much sympathy as the fish of the seat
But you say, II am so near worr
out, and | am of no use to God any
more" think the Lord knows whether
you are of any more use or not. If yol
were of no more use he would have
taken you before this. Do you think
God has forgotten you becau| he has
taken care of you seventy or eighty
yearsl lie 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 foreverl
DRIVE THE FLoCKs TO THE WELL
But gather all the promises today
in group, and | ask the shepherds tc
drive their flocks of lambs and sheer
up to the sparkling supply, Behold
happy is the man whom God correct
eth" Though he cause grief, YET
will he have compassion. MANY art
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." am de
termined today that no one shall GO
away uncontrolled.
Yonder is a timid and shrinking soul
who seems 10 hide away from the con
solations | am uttering as a child with
sore hand hides away from the ply.
sician lest he touch the wound too
roughly, and the mother has to 60 and
compel the little patient To come out
and see the physician. 80 | come 10
your timld 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
medicameut Bat people, when they
have trouble go anywhere rather than
to God.
De Quincy took opium 10 get rid OF
his troubles, Charles Lamb took 10
punch. Theodore Hook took TO some
thing stronger Edwin Forrest took to
theatrical dissipation. And men have
run all around the earth hoping in the
quick transit TO get away from theiI
misfortunes Il has been dead fait
ure, There is only one we'll that can
slake the thirst of an afflicted spirit,
and that is the deep and inexhaustible
well OF the gospel
But somo one says In the audience,
Notwithstanding all you have said
this morning, J Ind no alienation foI
my troubles" Wen, ann not through
yet have left the most potent con
Alteration for tina last 4 am ooino Il