The Red Cloud chief., 1891-09-18

Yes" said Isaiah, "down 10 old age
am with thee. and 70 hoary hairs viii I
carry thee"
Well. IL the Lord Is going TO carry
you. you ought not 70 worry much
about your failing eyesight and failing
limbs You get . little worried for
fear some time you will come to want
do you? Your children and Rrandcbil-
dren sometimes speak . little sharp at
you because Of your ailments The
Lord will not speak sharp. DO you
think you will come 10 want? Who do
you think the Lord is? Are His gran
aries empty? Will He feed the raven
and the rabbit, and the lion in the des-
ert and forget you? Why. n~aturalists
tell US that the porpoise will not for
sake its wounded and sick mate. And
do you suppose the Lord Of Heaven and
earth has not as much sympathy rs the
fish of the sea?
But ] gather all the promises to-day
in q group, and I ask the shepherds TO
drive their fiocks of lambs and sheep
up TO the sparkling supply. Behold.
happy is the man whom God correct.
eth" Though lie cause grief, yet will
He have compassion" MANY are the
Affections of the righteous, but the
Lord delivereth him out of them all"
Weeping may endure for a night but
JOY cometh in the morning" am de-
termined to-day that no one shall go
away uncontrolled.
So come to your timid and shrink
ing soul to-day and compel you to come
out in the presence of the Divine Phys
ician. lie will not hurt you. He has
been healing wounds for many years
and lie will give you gentle and Omnip-
otent m~edicament But people. when
they rave trouble. go anywhere rather
than TO God DE Quincy took opium u
get rid of his troubles Charles Lamb
took TO punch Theodore Hook took TO
something stronger. Edwin Forest
took TO theatrical dissipation. And
men have run all around the earth,
hoping in the quick transit to get away
from their misfOrtuneS II has been a
dead failure. There is only one we'll
that can Stake the thirst OF an afflicted
spirit and that is the deep and mex
haustible well Of the gospel.
But some one says in tho audience:
Notwithstanding all you have said
this morning / find no alienation for
my troubles" Well. l am not through
yet have left the most potent cOn-
s%ideration for the last am going to
soOthe you with the thought OF Heaven.
However taikative we may be, there
will come a time when sAe stoutcst and
most emphatic interrogation will pro-
woke from us no answer AS sOon as
we have closed our lips for the final ST.
lence, no power IN earth "a break that
taciturnity. But where. o Christian.
will be your spirit? In a scene OF
infinite ~gladness. The spring morning
Of Heaven waving its blossoms i'm the
bright air. Victors fresh from battle
showing their scars. The rain of earth
ly sorrow struck through with the rain
bow Of eternal joy. In M group. God
and angels and the redeemed-Paui
and Silas, Latimer and Ridley. Isaiah
and jeremiah, Payson and John Mil
ton, Gabriel and Michael the arch
angel. Long line Of choristers reach.
ing across the hills. Seas of joy dash
ing to the white beach Conquerors
marching from gate to gate. You
among them.
o, what a great flock of sheep God
will gather around the celestial well.
No stone on the wells mouth, while the
Shepherd waters the sheep. There
Jacob will recognize Rachel the shep-
herdess. Aud standing On one side Of
the we'll of eternal rapture, your
children; and standing on the other
side of the well of eternal rapture,
your Christian ancestry, you will be
bounded on al! sides by a joy SD keen
and grand that no other world has ever
been permitted To experience it. Out
Of hat one deep well of heaven the
Shepherd will dip reunion for the be-
reaved. wealth for the poor, health for
the sick. rest for the weary. And then
all the flock of the Lords sheep will lie
down in the green pastures, and world
without end we will praise the Lord
that on this autumnal Sabbath of 1891
we were permitted To study among the
blcating fiocks and lowing herds of
this fair ground the story OF Jacob
and Rachel the shcpherdess At
the well in Mcsopotamia- o. plunge
your buckets into this great gospel we'll
and let them come up dripping with
that water of which il a man drink he
never again shall thirst