The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-09-11


thrown among the popalace, Hut
Christ today steps on one side the
scales, and on the other side are all the
treasures OF the universe, and he says,
Gan are yours--all height, all depth,
all length, all breadth, all eternity; all
are yours, We don't appreciate the
promises Of the Gospel.
When an aged clergyman was dying
IA man very eminent in the church
a young theological student stood by
his side, and the aged man looked up
and said to him, Cant you give me
some comfort In my dying hourf'
mo" said the young man; II can't
talk to you on this subject; you know
all about 1t and have known it's long"
"Well, said the dying man, Just recite
to me some promises, The young
man thought moment, and he came to
this promise, ''The blood of Jesus Christ
cleanseth from all SIM" and the old
man clapped his hands, and in his
dying moment said; That's Just the
promise have been waiting for. The
blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all
sim oh, the warmth, the grandeur,
the magnificence OF the promisesl
COME ALL yE TROUBLED.
Come, also, to this Gospel well, all
ye troubled. lido not suppose you have
escaped. Compare your view of this
life at fifteen years Of age with what
your view of it is at forty or sixty or
seventy, What great contrast of
opinion! Were you right then, or are
you right now9 Two cups placed In
your hands, the one a sweet cup, the
other sour cup. A cup of Joy and a
cup of grief. Which has been the near
est to being full, and out of which have
you the more frequently partakenl
What different place the cemetery is
from what it used to be. Once it was
to you grand city improvement, and
you went out on the pleasure excursion,
and you ran laughingly up the mound,
and you criticised in light way the
epitapu.
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,
and there is flood of rushing memo
ries that suffuse the eye and overmas
ter the heart Oh, you have had trou.
bic, trouble, trouble. God only knows
how much you have had, 1t is won
der you have been able to live through
it. 1t is wonder your nervous system
has not been shattered and your brain
has not reeled Trouble, trouble. If
| could gather all the griefs, of all
sorts, from this great audience, and
could put them in one SCROLL neither
man nor angel could endure the recita-
ton.
Well, what do you wanta Would
you like to have your property back
againa mo" you say, as a Christian
man; II was becoming arrogant, and
l think that is why the Lord took it
away. don't want to have my prop
erty back" Well, would you have
your departed friends back againi
"No," you say; II couldn't take the
responsibility of bringing them from a
fearless realm to realm of tears /
couldn't do it," Well, then, what do
you wanta A thousand voices In the
audience cry out, Comfort; give us
comfort" For that reason l 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 and
bereft ones have come.
WE SHALL MEET AGAIN.
All" says some one, you are not
old enough to understand my sorrows,
You have not been in the world as long
as | have, and you can't talk to me
about my misfortunes in the time OF
old age" Well, | have been great
deal among old people, and know
how they feel about their failing
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 one of then
is taken away, what desolation!
shall not forget the cry of the late
Rev. DR.. De Witt of New York, wher
he stood at the open grave of his below
ed wife, and after the obsequies hat
ended, he looked down into the oper
place and said: Farewell, my honored
faithful and beloved wife. The bono
that bound us Is severed Thou art il
glory and am here on earth. We shall
meet again Farewell FAREWELL" Tt
lean on a prop for fifty years and ther
have 1t break under you'll
There were only two years differenc'
between the deaths of my father anc
mother After my mothers deceas
my father used to go around as though
looking for something, and he woult
often get up from one room, withou
any seeming reason, and go to anothe
room; and then he would take his can
and start out, and some one would say
Father, where are you going" and b
would answer, 81 don't know eXactl
where | am going" Always lookin
for something. Though he was ten
der hearted man. never saw him cr
but once, and that was at the burial @
my mother After sixty years Twin
together 1t was hard to part
And there are aged people today VIII
are feeling Just such pang as that
want to tell them there is perfect er
cbantment in the promises of this Go,
pei, and I come to them and oIe
them my arm, or take their arm, an
bring them TO this Gospel well. 81
down, father or mother. sit down Sc
If there is anything at the we'll for you
Come, David, the psalmist, have 70
anything encouraging to offer them
Yes, says the psaimist. They sha
still bring forth fruit In old age The
J shall be fat and fIourishing, to sho'
that the Lord is upright, ne is my rocE
: aud there is no unrighteousness in me.
Come, Isaiah, have you anything
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