The Penn's Grove record., 1891-03-27

as she used 10 look twenty years ago; but /
do wish you would take these things away.
They annoy ms 50. | can hardly talk.
Won't you take them awayt' I Il neit down
and prayed. consc!ou; OF tne fact that he did
not realize what l was saying. I got up, l
said, ''Good-by; l hope your will be better
soon" He said, 'Good-by. good-by."
That night his soul went to the God who
gave it Arrangsmsnts were made for the
obsequies. Some said, Don't bring him In
the cnurch; be was too dissolute. "'on,"1
said "orlng hin- He was q good friend
OF nina while he was alive, and I shsll stand
BY hlLa n " that he Ia dead Bring him 70
the t3ur.h.1
As 1 sat In the pulpit and saw bis body
coming up through Toe aisls Ifet As IL !
could weep tears OF blood. l told tue psopls
that day: This man had his virtues, and q
good many Of them He had his faults, and
. good many OF them, butt It thersi Is any man
in this audience who Is without sin let him
cast the nrst stone at this coffin i'd" On one
sids the pulpit sat that little child. rosy,
swest faced, as beautiful as any Little child
that sat at your table this morning,
fully, not knowing the tull sorrows
Of an orphan child. Oh, her ooun-
tenancs haunts me to-day like soms sweet
face looking upon US through . horrid dream.
On tins other side Of tbs pulpit were tbs men
wno had destroyed him. Thsrs they sat-
koAa v<akoa= Shp "a " paw kE0u Va
hausttng disease, some OF them flushed until
10 seemed a. II tbs fires OF iniquity famed
through tbs cheeks and crackled the lips.
They were the men wac had done tho work.
They were the men who had bound him hand
and foot. They mad kindied tns nres. They
orphans cup. Did they wsept No. Did
they sigh repentinglyt No. Did they say:
Nv pity that such q brave man should
be slainr No, no: not one bloated hand was
lifted 70 wipe q tear from q b.oateds cheek.
Thsy sat and looked at the coffin Ike yul-
lures gazing at the carcass Of . lamb whose
heart they had ripped outi I cried In their
ears as plainly as could: "Thers q . God
n . Judgment dayw Did they usmblsi
Oh, nc, no. They went back from the hcuss
OF God, and that night though their victim
lay IN Oakwood Csustsry. I was told that
they blasphemsd. and they drank, and they
gamblsd, and there wa. NOT one Is,s
destroyed man was a Samson in physical
strength, but Deltiah shearsi him, and the
PhtiisEines OF evil companionship dug his
eyes out and threw hin into the prison Of
evil habits. But In the hour Of his death he
rose VI and took hold Of the two pillarsd
cleanness, and threw himself for ward, until
down upon him and his companions there
came the thunders of an eternal catastrophe.
Again, any anussmsnt That gives you Q
distaste for domestic life is bad. How many
bright domestic circles have been broken up
by sinful anusemsnrsl The father went Of,
the mother went of, the CHILD went OF,
There are to-day the fragments before me Of
blasted households. On. II you avs wan.
dered away / would lite to cnarm you bacx
by the sound OF that one word, home" Do
you not know Coat you have but little more
time to give to domestic welfarsf Do you
not see, father, that your children are soon
70 ar ont in RI IA trnplA anil III fha ,ra..
for good you are to have over them you must
have nowi Death will break in on your cor.
3ugal relations and, al1sl IL you have 70
over the grave Of ons who perishsd
from your neglect
saw a Maynard husband standing at the
Of his Christisn wife and l saw her
point TO a ring on her finger, AMI heard her
say to her husband, do you see that ringr'
He replied. ''Yes, l see it," ''Well," said
she, do you remsmber who put 10 thereys
Yes said he, 'l put it there" and all the
past seemed to rush upon him. By the mem.
DRY Of that day wnen. IN tue presencs OF men
and angsls. you promised to Do faithful in
Joy ana sorrow, and in icsnsss and In health:
by the memory OF those pleasant hours when
you ast together in our nav noun talking
Of . bright future; by the cradle and the
Joyful hour when our life was spared and
another given; by tnat sick bed. when ths
little one lifted up the voice and called Tor
ASRk eu4 ySo Abt" ~ ~ A<uy - Pob Sk4U
arm around each Of your uscks and brought
you very near together In that dying hss; py
the little grave in Greenwood that you aevsr
think Of without . rush Of tears; by the |
family Bible, where, amidst stouss Of
love II the orisf but expressive
record Of births and deaths; by the nsgiecss |
of the past and by the sgoniss Of the future: |
By . Judgment day, when husbands and
wlves, parents and children, In Immortal
groups, will stand to be caught up in shining
lrray or to shrink down into darkness; b
that, I beg you 70 give 20 noms your bsss
afections.
Ah, my friends. there 10 an hour coming
Rhsn our past life will probably pass bstore
~ In review. Il will be our Last hour. Il
rom our death pillow we have to loox back
Gee . life spent 10 sinful amusement
will b. q dart that will strike through |
,ur sou sharper than the dagger with which
Vrgiuius slew his child. Tbs iniquities and
through WHICH We have passed viii
come upon uS wstrd AMI skeleton a. Meg
Merriiiea. Death, tbs old Sbylo:k, will de- /
paud and take the remaining pound OF '
lesh, and the remaining drop OF blood and |
upon u last opportunity Tor repentance
md our last chance for heaven ths curtain |
viii forever drop. |