Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-09-11

meet again. FAREWELL! FAREWELL To
lean on prop for fifty years, and then
have it break under you! There were
ONLY two years. difference between the
deaths of my father and mother. After
nv mothers decease my father used to
20 around as though looking for some-
thing: and be would often get up from
one room without any seeming reason
and go to another room; and then he
would take his cane and start out and
some one would say, "Father, where are
don't know exactly where / am going"
Always looking for something. Though
he was tender-hearted man, / never
saw him cry but once, and that was at
the brutal of my mother. After sixty
wears living together, it was hard to part.
| And there are aged people to-day who
are feeling just such pang as that l
want to tell them there is perfect en-
/ chantment in the promises o: this Cos
pei: and come to them and offer them
my arm, or l take their arm and brink
them to this Gospel we'll. Sit down,
father or mother, sit down. See il there
is anything at the we'll for you. Come,
| David, the psalmist, have you anything
encouraging to offer them? "Ycs," says
the psa,slist; "They shall still bring forth
fruit in old age, they shall be fat and
| tlourish'ng, to show that the Lord is up-
right, H* is my rock, and there is no UNI
righteousness in me- Come, Isaish,
have yo'. anything to say out of your
prophcc,s:' for these aged people? EYES,"
says Isai.h: "Down to old age am with
thee, ami to hoary hairs will carry
thee"
Well. :; the Lord is going to carry you,
HS 10, Ho,,
failing eycsght and failing limbs. You
you will come to want, do you? Your
children and grandchildren sometimes
speak little sharp at you because of
your ailments The Lord will not speak
+! sharp. DO you think you will come to
want? Who do you think the Lord is?
Are His granaries empty? Will He feed
the raven and the rabbit, and the lion in
the Desert, and forget you? Why,
naturalists tell us that the porpoise will
not fc1sakc it's wounded and sick mate
And dp you suppose the Lord Of Heaven
and earth has not as much sympathy as
the fish of the sea? But you say: II am
so ne;;r worn out, and 1 am Of no use to
God sny more / think the Lord knows
whether you are of any more use or noS;
if you were of no more use he would
have taken you before this. Do you
think God has forgotten you because He
has taken care of you seventy or eighty
years? He thinks more of you to-day
than He ever did, because You think more
of Him. May the God of Abraham and
Isaac and Jacob and Paul the aged be
your God forever!
in a group, and ask the shepherds to
drive their flocks of lambs and sheep up
! to the sparkling supply. ''Behold,
happy is the man whom God correcteth."
Though He cause grief, yet will He have
compassion" s'Many are the Affections
of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth
him out of them ALL" ''Weeping may
endure for night, but JOY cometh in
the morning." am determined to-day
that no one shall 90 away Uncontrolled.
Yonder is timid and shrinking soul who
| seems to hide away from the consultations
l am uttering, as a child with sore
hand hides away from the physician lest
he touch the wound too roughly, and the
mother has to go and compel the little
patient 70 come out and see the physi-
| clan.
| So come to your timid and shrinking
soul to-day. and compel you to come out
in the presence of the Divine Physician.
He will e.ot hurt you. He has been heal
ing wotl,.ds for many years, and He will
give you gentle and omnipotent mcdica-
ment But people, when they have
trouble, go anywhere rather than to
God. Dc Quincy took opium to get rid
of his troubles. Charles Lamb took to
punch. Theodore Hook took TO Sone-
| thing stronger. Edwin Forrest took to
theatrical dissipation. And men have
run all around the earth, hoping in the
quick transit to get away from their
misfortunes. 1t has been dead failure.
! There is only one well that can slack
the thirst of an afflicted spirit, and that
! is the deep and ineXhaustible we'll of the
| Gospel.
| But some one says in the audience.
| notwithstanding all you have said this
morning, l find no alienation for my
troubles" Well. am not through yet.
have left the most potent nsderatiop
for the last. am going to Soolhe YOU
with the thought of Heaven. However
talkative we may be. there will come a
! time when the stoutest and most en.-
! phatic Interrogation will evoke from MS
/ no answer. As soon as we have closed
/ our lips for the final silence no power ON
! earth can break that taciturnty hu,
] where. oh. Christian. will be your spirit.
i In scene of infinite gladncss. The
| spring morning of Heaven waxing its
blossoms in the bright air. Vir.ut
! fresh from battle showing their sears.
/! The rain OF earthly sorrow st,rr4-
through with the rainbow of etn;nai
J JOY. In one group. God and angels and
the redeemed-Paul and Silas. I.atimc:
and Ridley, Isaiah and jeremiah, Pay.
son and John Milton, Gabriel and Mich
ac' the archansel. Long line of chori>-
tcrs reaching across the hills. Seas OF
Joy dashng to the white beach Con.
querors marching from gate ~ gate.
+ You among them.
+! Oh, what il great foe; Of sheep God
VIII gather around the celestial wei!
NO stone on the Wells mouth whi: She
shepherd waters the sheep. There .,arou
VIII recognize Rachel the >!lepherless
ANA standing on one side OF the we'll If
eternal rapture Your children, ais:
standing on The other SIDE OF the wei! y!
eternal rapture your Christian ancestry.
you will be founded on all sides i,y Il 10;
50 Keen and grand that no ;hrr wori,
has ever been permitted to cX,n.rlnurc it.