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


taken care of you seventy or eighty
yearsi He thinks more of you today
than he ever did, because you think
more of him, May the God OF Abra.
ham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and Paul,
the aged, be your God foreverl
DRIVE THE FLocKs TO THR WILL.
But gather all the promises today
in group, and 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 he 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 night, but
Joy cometh In the morning" am de-
termined today that no one shall 20
away uncontrolled.
Yonder Is a timid and shrinking soul
who seems to hide away from the con,
solutions am uttering, as a child with
a sore hand hides away from the ply
stefan lest he touch the wound too
roughly, and the mother has to go and
compel the little patient TO come out
and see the physician. So l come to
your tlmid and shrinking soul today,
and compel you to come out In the
presence Of the Divine Physician. He
will not hurt you, He has been heal
ing wounds for many years, and he
will give you gentle and omnipotent
medicament But people, when they
have trouble, go anywhere rather than
to God.
De Quincy took opium to get rid OF
his troubles. Charles Lamb took to
punch. Theodore Hook took to some
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 fail
ure. There Is only one well that can
Stake the thirst of an afflicted spirit,
and that is the deep and inexhaustible
well of the gospel,
But some one says In the audience
Notwithstanding all you have said
this morning, | find no alienation for
my troubles" Well, ! am not through
yet. | have left the most potent con-
sideration for the last. am going to
soothe you with the thought of heaven.
However laxative we may be, there
will come time when the stoutest and
most emphatic Interrogation will evoke
from us no answer.
AS soon as we have closed our lips
for the final silence, no power on earth
can break that taciturnity. But where,
Oh, Christian, will be your spirit3 In
scene of infinite gladness The spring
morning of heaven waving its blossoms
in the bright air. Victors fresh from
battle showing their scars. The rain of
earthly sorrow struck through with the
rainbow of eternal joy. In one group,
God and angels and the redeemed-P
and Silas, Latimer and Ridley, Isaiah
and jeremiah, Payson and John Milton,
Gabriel and Michael the archangel.
Long line of choristers reaching across
the hills, Seas of joy dashing to the
white beach, Conquerors marching
from gate to gate. You among them.
AROUND THE CELESTIAL WELL
Oh what 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 And standing on one side of
the well of eternal rapture your chill
dren, and standing on the other side of
the well of eternal rapture your Chris
tan ancestry, you will be bounded on
all sides by Joy SO keen and grand
that no other world has ever been per
mitted to experience it.
Out of that one deep well of heaven
the shepherd will dip reunion for the
bereaved, 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 first autumnal Sab
bath of 1891 we were permitted to study
among the bleating flocks and lowing
herds of this fair ground the story OF
Jacob and Rachel the shepherdess at
the well in Mesopotamia. Oh, plunge
your buckets into this great Gospel
well and let them come up dripping
with water of which if man drink be
never again shall thirst