Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-09-17

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nearest TO Ecing full, and ont Of which |
have yDu the more frequently parts seni
What 4 different place the csr' " is
from what it used 70 he! Once i: 70
you a grand city improvement a
went out on the pleasure exc.
ran laughing up the mound, .ls
cised in a light way Lhe epiJai
But since the day when 20. ard the
bell toll at the gate as you wrHt In with
the procession, il is sad place, and there
is a flood of rushing memories that suffuse
the eye and overmaster the heart. Oh,
you have had trouble trouble, trouble.
God only knows how much you have had.
1t is a wonder you have been able to live
through it. Il 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 recitation. Well what
! do you wantS Would you like to have
your property back again? NO" you
! say, as Christian man; 81 was becoming
arrogant, and think that is why the Lord
took it away. ! don't want to have my
property back" Well would you have
! your departed friends back again? NO."
you say; Il couldn't take the responsible
| ty of bringing them from a fearless realm
to a realm Of tears. | couldn't do it."
| Well, then, what do you want? A thou
sand voices in the audience cry ont, Com
fort, give lis SlmfOrt' For that reason
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 cOlle.
DEsoLATION OF THE BEREAvED.
"Ah," says some one, you are not old
enough to understand my sorrows. You
have not been in the world rs long as /
have and you can 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 fail
ing 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 them is
taken away, what desolation
shall not forget the cry of the late Rev.
Dr. De Witt, of New York, when he stood
by the open grave of his beloved wife, and,
after the obsequies had ended, he looked
down into the open place and said: Fare
we'll, my honored, faithful and beloved
wife. The bond that bound us is severed.
Thou art in glory, and | am here on earth.
We shall meet again. FAREWELL Farewellp'
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 my mothers
decease my father used to go around as
though looking for something; and he
would often get up from one room with
out 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 you goingw and he
: would answer, 81 don't know exactly
where 1 am going" Always looking for
something Though he was a tender heart
ed man, never saw him cry but once, and
that was at the burial of my mother. After
sixty years living together, 1t was hard to
part.
And there are aged people today who are
feeling just such pang as that. want
to tell them there is perfect enchantment
in the promises of this Gospel; and come
to them and offer them my arm, or take
: their arm and | bring them to this Gospel
well. Sit down, father or mother, sit
down. See if there is anything at the we'll
for you. Come, David, the psalmist, have
you anything encouraging to offer themF
"Yes," says the psalmist; "They shall
still bring forth fruit in old age, they shall
be fat and fourishing, to show that the
Lord is upright, he is my rock, and there
is no unrighteousness in me-" Come
!, y Isaiah, have you anything to say out ot
7 your prophecies for these aged peoplei
= "Yes,' says Isaiah; Down to old age am
:, with thee, and to hoary hairs will I carry
q thee"
4 Well, if the Lord is going to carry you
n you ought not to worry much about your
failing eyesight and failing limbs. You
!, get q little worried for fear sometime you
4 will come to want, do your Your children
and grandchildren sometimes speak little
= sharp at you because of your ailments
. The Lord will not speak sharp. Do yoU
4 think you will come to wantf Who dt
: you think the Lord is? Are his granarie!
h empty? Will he feed the raven and thu
" rabbit, and the lion in the desert, and for
a get you? Why, naturalists tell us that thu
s porpoise will not forsake its wounded ant
n sick mate. And do you suppose the Lore
n of heaven and earth has not as much sym
: pathy as the fish of the sea? But yOl
"a say: 81 am so near wornout, and l am o
\ no use to God any more" think tn
a Lord knows whether you are of any NOR
use or not; If you were of no more use b
w would have taken you before this. Doyol
- =. think God has forgotten you because h
az has taken care of you seventy or eight
q. years? He thinks more of you today thai
h. he ever did, because you think more O
ID him. May the God of Abraham and Isaa
40 and Jacob and Paul the aged be you
,d God for ever!
le GATHER YOUR FLoCKs.
s. But gather all the promises today in
lg group, and 1 ask the shepherds to driv
ut their focks of lambs and sheep up to th
st sparkling supply. Behold, happy is th
to man whom God correcteth." Though b
Of cause grief, yet will he have compassion.
I'd 'sMany are the affections of the righteoui
to but the Lord delivereth him out of ther
ne all" weeping may endure for nigh
N but Joy cometh in the morning." am d.
ny termined today that no one shall g
ne away uncontrolled. Yonder Is a timi
IL and shrinking soul who seems to hid
I'll away from the consultations am utterint
b, as child with sore hand hides ava
p from the physician lest he touch the woun
too roughly, and the mother has to go an
"a compel the little patient to come out an
lg see the physician.
Id So come to your timid and shrinhn
n: soul today, and compel you to come out
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