News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-07-16

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! ION,
you say, ''she showered upon us
wealth of affection; no mother ever
loved her children more than mother
loved us; 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 last hour? DO
not hide it. Be frank and let me know
ooh" you say, lit 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"
UNBELIEVERS HAVE NEVER TASTED 1T.
Here are people who say, Il saw
Christian brother die, and he tri-
umphed." And some one else, 4 saw
a Christian sister die, and she tri-
umphed." Some one else will say, u
saw Christian daughter die, and she
triumphed." Come, all We who have
seen the last moments of q Christian,
and give testimony in this cause on
trial Uncover your heads, put your
hand on the old family Bible, from
which they used to read the promises,
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 tri-
uInph in the last eXigency? The re-
Spouse comes from all sides, from young
and old and middle aged, I'VE are wit
nesses"
You see, my friends, l have not put
before YOU an abstraction or chimera,
or anything like guesswork. present
Won affidavits of the best men and
women, living and dead. Two wit
nesses in court will establish a fact.
Here are not two witnesses, but mil
lions of witnesses on earth and in
heaven testifying that there is power in
this religion to convert the soul, to give
comfort in trouble, and to afford com
posture 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 a certain medicine and it
cured them, you would probably take
it. Now, suppose ten other men
should come up and say, I'VE don't be-
Iieve that there is anything in that med
icine" ''Well," l say, ''have you tried
it?' mo, l never tried it, but | don't
believe there is anything in it," OF
course you discredit their testimony.
The skeptic may come and say, There
is no power in your religion" Have
you ever tried it2" mo, no." Then
avauntp Let me take the testimony
of the millions of souls that have been
converted to God, and comforted in
trial and solaced in the last hour We
will take their testimony as they cry,
I'VE are Witnesses"
Professor Henry, of Washington, dis
covered new star, and the tidings sped
by submarine telegraph, and all the OBJ
servatories of Europe were watching for
that new star. Oh, hearer looking out
through the darkness of thy soul, canst
thou see a bright light beaming on
thee9 "Where| you say, where?
How can | find itY' Look along by
the line of the Cross of the Son of God.
Do you not see it trembling with all
tenderness and heaming with all hope?
| 1t is the Star of Bethlehem.
Deep horror then my vitals froze,
Death struck | ceased the tide to stem,
| When suddenly star arose
1t was the Star of Bethlehem.
Oh, hearers, get your eye on it! 1t
is easier for you now to become Chris
tians than it is to stay away from
Christ and heaven. When Madame
Sontag began her musical career she
was Kissed off the stage at Vienna
by the friends of her rival, Amelia
Steininger, who had already begun to
decline through her dissipation. Years
! passed on, and one day Madame Son
tag, in her glory, was riding through
| the streets of Berlin, when she saw a
little child leading blind woman, and
she said: 'Come here, my little child,
come here. Who is that you are lead
ing by the hand?" And the little child
replied: 'That's my mother; that's
Amelia Steininger She used to be a
great singer, but she lost her voice, and
she cried so much about it that she lost
her eyesight." "Give my love to her"
said Madame Sontag, land tell her an
old acquaintance will call on her this
afternoon.
The next week in Berlin a 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
oculist, who is vain tried to give eye
sight to the poor blind woman. Until
the day of Amelia Steininger'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, immortal, poor and lost,
thou who, when the world and Christ
were rivals for thy heart, didst hiss
thy Lord away-Christ comes now tC
give thee sight, to give thee home, tC
give thee heaven. With more than a
Sontag's generosity, he comes now tc
meet your need. With more than @
Sontags music, he comes to plead fol
thv deliverance.