News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-05

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than it is appropriate to great multi
tude of people in this audience There
are many things in which you are not
lacking For instance, you are not
lacking in good home, 1t is perhaps no
more than an hour ago that you closed
the door, returning to see whether it
: was well fastened, of one of the best
homes in this city The younger chill
dren of the house already asleep, the
older ones, hearing your returning foot
steps will f;aassiiii'sssst the door to meet you.
And in these winter evenings. the
children at the stand with their lessons,
the wife plying the needle and you read
ing the book or the paper. you feel that
you have good home Neither are
you lacking in the retinements and
courtesies Of life You understand the
polite phraseolOgy of invitation. regard
and apology You have on appropriate
apparel shall wear no better dress
at the wedding than when come to
the marriage of the kings son If am
well clothed on other occasions | will
be in religions audience However
reckless may be abIIt my personal
appearance ut other times when
come into Il consecrated assemblage !
shall have on the best dress have
We all understand the prophecies of
everyday life and the proprieties of
Sabbath life
WORLDLY SUCCESS HAS IT'S VALUE
Neither are you lacking in worldly
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money as you would like to make, but
you have an income While others are
false when they say they have no in
come or are making no money, you
have never told that falsehood You
have had IA livelihood or you have
fallen upon old resources. which is Just
the same thing for God is Just as good
to us when he takes care of us by
surplus OF the past as by present sue
cess While there are thousands of
men with hunger tearing at the throat
with the strength of tigers paw, not
one of you is hungry
Neither are you lacking in pleasant
friendship You have real good friends.
| II the scarlet fever should come to
| night TO your house, you know very
well who would come in and sit up
with the sick one; or if death should
come, you know who would come in
and take your hand tight in theirs with
that peculiar grip which means, III
stand by you" and after the life has
fed from the loved one. take you by
the arm and lead you into the next
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wood they would stay in the house and
put aside the garments and the play
things tnatzI.,iglt bsing to your mind
too severely your great loss. Friends?
You all have friends.
Neither are you lacking in your ad-
miration of the Christian religion.
There is nothing that makes you so |
angry us to have Il man nalign Christ. |
You get red in the face and you say,
Sir, want you to understand that
though | am not myself a Christian. |
don't like such things said as that in
my store. p" and the man goes off, giving
you parting salutation, but You hard
ly answer him. You are provoked be-
yond all bounds. Many of you have
been supporters of religion, and have
given more to the cause of Christ than
some who profess his faith There is
nothing that would please you more
than to see your son or daughter stand
ing at the altar of Christ. taking the
vows of the Christian
1t might be little hard on YOU. and
might make you nervous and agitated
for a little while but you would be
man enough TO say My child. that is
right Go on. am glad you haven't
been kept back by my example | hope
some day to join you" You believe
all the doctrines of religion A man
out yonder says, ii am a sinner" You
respond, so ann L." Some one says,
i believe that Christ came to save the I
world You say. so do l." Look
ing at your character, at your sur
roundings find thousand things 3
about which to congratulate you, and !
yet must tell you in the love and fear f
OF God, and with reference to my last
account. One thing thou lackest." $
THE CHRISTIANS HAPPINESS. 4
Yon need. my friends, in the first Y
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day you feel wretched You do not v
know what is the matter with you y
ion say Il did not sleep last night. o
think that must be the reason of my Il
or Il have eaten some h
hing that did not agree with me, and IL
think that mast be the reason" And 81
on are unhappy. Oh, my friends, 81
appiness does not depend upon phys y
,al condition. Some of the happiest d
eople ilsr7e-1ssr@- t--s4own have been p
hose who have been wrapped in con- cl
lmptlon, or sTung with neuralgia, or il
urning with tie slow fire of some fever. ct
never 'shad forget one man in INV e,
rst parish, who in excruciation of
ody cried out: Mr. Talmage. | for IN
1t all my pain in the love and ioy of n,
asus Christ. can't think of my suf- OF
rings when | 5hink of Jesus" Why. IN
s face was iEaminedl There are IN
)ung men III this house who would III
We testimony to show that there is as
happiness outside of Christ while m
ere is great joy in his service There is
e young men who have not been of
lrlstlans more than two months who ca
ould stand up tonight, if l should ~
k them, and say in those two months lif
ey had more Joy and satisfaction IN,
an in all the years of their frivolity wi
d dissipation Go to the door of
at gin shop to night, and when the ch
ng of young men come out ask them thi
lether they are happy. They laugh in
ing the street, and they jeer and col
~ shout. but nobody has any idea vii
1t they are happy the
could call upon the aged men in
5 house to give testimony. There the
aged men here who tried the world, ant
i they tried religion. and they are tell
ling to testify on our side. 1t was ma
long ago that an aged man arose in Der
raging circle and said Brethren, arm
'st my son just as he graduated from his
lege, and it broke my heart; but in !
glad now he is gone He is ut rest foe
aped from all sorrow and from all the
uble And then. inaS57, | lost all In
property, and you see | am getting ride
and it is rather hard upon me; the
| am sure God will not let me suf- the