Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-09-17

ems placed in your hands. the one a sweet
-,n fheo other a soul cup. A cup OF JOY
and = cup o. grief. Which has been the
nearest 70 being full. and out Of which
nave sou the more frequently partaken'
What a different place the cemetery IS
from what il used TO be, Once IL was 70
YOU a grand city improvement, and you
went out on the pleasure excursion. ana
ran laughing up the mound, ana you crltl'
cised IN a light way the epitaph.
But since the day when you heard the
bell toll at the gate as you went IN with
the procession, it IS a sad place, n tnere
i a dood OF rushing memories that suffuse
the eve and overmaster the heart. On,
Won have had trouble. trouble. trouble.
God only knows how much you have bad.
n i a wonder you nave been able to live
1 through IL. 1t is a wonder your nervous
system has not been shattered and your
brain has not reeled. Trouble, trouble. II
could gather all the griefs OF all sorts
from this great audience and could put
them in one scroll, neither man nor angel
couId endure the recitation. Well, what
do YOU WANT Would you like to have
your property pack agains No you
saw. as a Christian man: II was becoming
/ arrogant, and | think that is why the Lord
took il away. | don't want to have my
property back" Well, would you have
your departed friends back again. NO"
you say: 81 couldn't take the responsible
ty OF bringing them from a fearless realm
10 a realm Of tears. ! couldn't do il"
Well. then, what do you wanti A thou
sand voices in the audience cry out, Com
fort. give US comfort For that reason !
have rolled away the stone from the wells
mouth. Come, all ye wounded Of the
flock, pursued Of the wolves, come TO the
fountain where the Lords sick Il bereft
ones have come.
DEsOLATIoS OF THE ~BEREAyED.
"Ah. says some one, you are not old
enough 10 understand my sorrows. You
have not been IN the world as long as |
have, and you can talk TO me about my
misfortunes in the time OF old age" Well,
| have been a great deal among old people.
and | know how they feel about their fail
ing 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 n of them is
taken away, what desolationi
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: Fare
well, 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 a prop for fifty years, and then
have il break under you'll There were ouly
two years difference between the deaths of
my father aud mother. After my mothers
decease my father used 10 go around as
though looking for something; and he
would often get up from one room with
ont any seeming reason and 20 TO another
room. and then he would take his cane
and start out and some one would say,
Father. where are yon ~goingf" and he
would answer, IL don't know exactly
where | am going" Always looking for
something. Though be was a tender heart
ed man, | never saw him cry but once, and
that was at the burial Of my mother. After
sixty years living together, il was hard TO
part
And there are aged people today who are
feeling just such a pang rs that. | want
to tell them there IS perfect enchantment
ia the promises Of this Gospel: and / come
70 them and | offer them my arm, orI take
their arm and | bring them to this Gospel
well. Sit down. father or mother, sit
down. See IL there is anything at the well
for you. Come, David, the psalmist, have
you anything encouraging to offer themi
Yes" says the psalmist; 'They shall
still bring forth fruit in old age. they shall
be fat and hourishing, to show that the
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 peoples
Yes says Isaiah, Down to old age | am
with thee. and to hoary hairs viii / carry
thee
Well, If the Lord is going TO carry you.
you ought not to worry much about your
eyesight and failing limbs. You
get a little worried for fear sometime you
will come to want, do your Your children
and grandchildren sometimes speak n little
sharp at you because Of -FOUR ailments.
The Lord will not speak sharp. Do you
think you viii come to want; Who do
you think the Lord iss Are his ~granaries
emptyf Will be feed the raven and the
and the lion in the desert, and for
get your Why. naturalists tell US that the
porpoise will not forsake its wounded and
sick mate. And do you suppose the Lord
81 heaven and earth has not as much SYM
patty as the fish of the scar But you
say; Il am so near wornout, and | am OF
40 use to God any more" ! think the
Lord knows whether you are of any more
use or not; il you were of no more use he
would have taken you before this. Do you
.hink God has forgotten you because he
las taken care Of you seventy or eighty
Tearss He thinks more OF you today than
le ever did, because yoa think more OF
Tim. May the God Of Abraham and Isaac
ind Jacob and Paul the aged be your
for everl
GATHER YOUR FLocKs.
But | gather all the promises today in a
,roup, and | ask the shepherds to drive
heir fiocks Of lambs and sheep up to the
parking supply. Behold, happy is the
nan whom God correcteth." Though he
ause grief, yet will he nave compassion"
Many are the Affections Of the righteous,
mt the Lord delivereth him out of them