Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-16

! s'No,' you say; 'smother was very
| nervous; when the carriage inclined to
the side of the road she would cry out:
she was always rather weakly" What
gave her composure? Was it because
| she did not care much for you, and the
pang of parting was not great? cob"
you say, ''she showered upon US wealth
of affection; no mother ever loved her
! children more than mother loved u.s. she
! showed it by the way she nursed us when
we were sick, and she toiled for US until
her strength gave out" What, then,
was it that gave her composure in the
I last hour? Do not hide it. Be frank
and let me know. "Oh," you say, 'it
! was because she was SO good; She made
! the Lord her portion, and she had faith
| that she would go straight to glory, and
that we would all meet her at last at the
foot of the throne"
Here are people who say, 81 saw
Christian brother die, and he triumphed."
And some one else, 81 saw a Christian
sister die and she triumphed." Some one
else will say, 81 saw Christian daughter
die, and she triumphed." Come, all We
who have seen the last moments of
Christian, and give testimony in this
cause on trial. Uncover your heads put
from which they used to read the prom
Uses, and promise in the presence of high
heaven that you will tell the truth, the
whole truth and nothing but the truth.
With what you have seen with your own
eyes and what you have heard with your
own ears, is there power in this Gospel
to give calmness and triumph in the last
exigency? The response comes from all
sides, from young and old and middle
aged, eve are witnesses"
You see, my friends, have not put be-
fore you an abstraction or chimera, or
anything like guesswork. l present you
affidavitS of the best men and women,
living and dead. Two witnesses in court
will establish fact. Here are not two
witnesses, but millions of witnesses Oh
earth and in Heaven testifying that there
is power in this religion to convert the
soul, to give comfort in trouble, and to
afford composure in the last hour.
If ten men should come to you when
you are sick with appalling sickness and
say they had the same sickness and took
certain medicine and it cured them,
you would probably take it. Now, sup
pose ten other men should come up and
say, ''We don't believe that there IS
anything in that medicine" 'Well, l
say, nave you JTlCu IL. NOs lLGNCl
tried it, but l don't believe there is any
thing in it, OF course you discredit
their testimony. The skeptic may come
and say, ''There is no power in your re-
ligion.'' ''Have you ever tried it?" "No,
no." "Then avaunt!" Let me take the
testimony of the millions of souls that
have been converted to God, and COM
forted in trial and Solaced in the last
hour We will take their testimony aS
they cry, 1--WE are witnesses!'
Prof. Henry. of Washington, diScov-
cred new star, and the tidings sped by
submarine telegraph, and all the OBJ
servatores of Europe were watching for
that new star. Oh, nearer, look ont
through the darkness of thy soul, canst
thou see bright light beaming on thee?
"Where?" you say, ''where? How can |
find it?' Look along by the line of the
Cross of the Son Of God. Do you not see
it trembling with all tenderness and
beaming with all hope? 1t is the Star of
Bethlehem.
Deep horror then my vitals froze,
Death struck l ceased the tide to stem.
When suddenly a star arose
1t was the Star of Bethlehem.
Oh, hearers, get your eye on it! 1t is
easier for you now to become Christians
Heaven. When Madam Sontag began
her musical career she was Kissed off the
stage at Vienna by the friends Of her
rival, Amelia Steininger, who had al
ready began to decline through her dissi-
patton. Years passed on, and one day
Madam Sontag, in her glory, was riding
through the streets of Berlin, when she
saw little child leading blind woman,
and she Said 'Come here, my little
child, come here. Who is that you are
leading by the hand?' And the little
child replied: ''That's my mother; that's
Amelia Steininger. She used to be Il
great singer, bnt she lost her voice, and
she cried SO much about it that she lost
her eyesight." "Give my love to her."
said Madam Sontag, 'and tell her an
old acquaintance will call on her this
afternoon"
The next week in Berlin vast as
semblage gathered at benefit for that
poor blind woman, and it was said that
Sontag sang that night as she had never
sung before And she took q skilled
oculst, who in vain tried to give eyesight
to the poor blind woman. Until the day
of Amelia Steinnger's death Nine.
Sontag took care Of her and her daughter
after that. That was what the queen of
song did for her enemy. But, oh, hear
a more thrilling story still Blind, i'm
mortal, poor and lost, thou who, when
the world and Christ were rivals for thy
heart, didst hiss thy Lord away-Christ
comes now to give thee sight, to give
thee home, to give thee Heaven. With
more than Sontag's generosity, He
comes now to meet your need. With
more than Sontag's music, he comes to
plead for thy deliverancc
A Faithful MnSSnnrnr