The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-08-21

/ world, these invalid chairs. On tnaJ
field of human suffering the grace of
God gets its victory. Edward Payson,
the invalid and Richard Baxter, the in
valid, and Robert Hall, the invalid, and
the ten thousand of whom the world
has never heard but of whom all Heav-
en- is cognizant The most conspicuous
thing on earth for Gods eye and the
eye of angels to rest on is not a throne
of earthly power, but it is the invalids
chair. OF these men and women who
are always suffering, but never com
planning = these victims of spinal
disease, and neuralgia torture, and
rheumatic excruciation will ans
wer to the roll-call of the mar
tyrs, and rise TO the martyrs
throne, and will wave the martyrs
1 palm. But when ono of these invalids'
chairs becomes vacant how suggestive
ii is! No more bolstering up of the weary
head. No more changing from side to
side to get an easy position. No more
use of the bandage. and the cataplasm,
and the prescription. That invalid'si
chair may be folded up, or taken apart,
or set away, but it will never lose its
qucenly power; it will always preach of
trust in God and cheerful submission.
Suffering all ended now. With respect
TO that invalid the words of my text
have been fulfilled: Thou shalt be
missed, because thy seat will be empty
pass on. and find one more vacant
chair. 1t is a high chair 1t
is the childs chair. If that
chair be occupied, think it is the most
potent chair in all the household All
the chairs wait on it; all the chairs are
turned toward it. 1t means more than
David's chair at Saurs banquet At
any rate it makes more racket.
That is a strange house that can be
dull with child in it. How that child
breaks up the hard worldlincss of the
place, and keeps you young to sixty,
seventy and so years of age! If you
have no child of your own, adopt one:
it will open Heaven to your soul. 1t
will pay its way. It's growing in the
morning will give the day cheerful
will give the day cheerful
close. You do not like children! Then
you had better stay out of Heaven, for
there are so many there they would
fairly make you crazy! Only about
500, 900, 900 of them! The old crusty
Pharisees told the mothers to keep the
children away from Christ. You
bother Him." they said; you trouble
the Master" Trouble Him! He has
filed Heaven with that kind of
trouble. ga ....
A pioneer in California says that for
the first year or two after his residence
in Sierre Nevada county there was not
single child in all the reach of 100
miles. But the Fourth of July came,
and the miners were gathered together,
and they were celebrating the Fourth
with grafton, and poem, and a bolster
Gus brass band. And while the band
was playing an infants voice was
heard crying, and all the miners were
startled and the swarthy men began to
think of their homes on the easternil
coast and of their wives and chill
dren far away, and their hearts !
were thrilled with home sickness |.
as they heard the babe cry. But |
the music went ON, and the child |
cried louder and louder, and the brass |
band played louder and louder, trying |
to drown out the infantile interruption,
when swarthy miner, the tears roll
ing down his face, got up and shook his !
fist and said: "Stop that noisy band |
and give the baby a chance" Oh. there |
was pathos in it, as well as good cheer |
in it. There is nothing to arouse, and |
melt, and subdue the soul like a child's !
voice. But when it goes away from you,
the high chair becomes a higher chair,
and there is desolation all about you. |
In threefourths of the homes of this |
congregation there is a vacant high |
chair, Somehow you never get over il.
There is no one to put to bed at night; no
one to ask strange questions about God
and Heaven. oh, what is the use of
that high chair? 1t is to call you higher
What a drawing upward it is to have I
children in Heaven. ~ M
And then Il is such n preventive against
sim If father is going away into sin
he leaves his living children with their
mother; but If a father is going away
into sin, what Is he going to do with his
dead children floating about him, and
lowering over his every hayward step?
Oh, speak out, vacant high chair, and
say: Father, come back from sin:
mother, come back from worldliness, |
am watching you. am waiting for
YOU" With respect to your child, the
works Of my text have been fulfilled:
Thou shalt be missed, because thy
seat will be empty"
My hearers, l have gathered up the
voices of your departed friends and
tried to intone them into one invitation