News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-06-11

few people there are completely well.
Some of you, by dint of perseverance
and care, have kept living to this time
but how you have had to war against
physical ailmentsl Antediluvians, with
out medical college and infrmary and
apothecary shop, multiplied their years
by hundreds, but he who has gone
through the gantlet of disease in our
time, and has come to seventy years OF
age, is a hero worthy of palm.
The world seems to be a great hos
pital, and you run against rheumatisms
and consumptions and scrofulas and
neuralgias and scores of old diseases
baptized by new nomenclature. Oh,
how heavy q burden sickness is! 1t
takes the color out of the sky and the
sparkle out of the wave and the sweet
ness out of the fruit and the iuster out
of the night. When the limbs ache,
when the respiration is painful, when
the mouth is hot, when the ear roars
with unhealthy Instructions, how hard
it is to be patient and cheerful and as
siduousl Cast thy burden upon the
Lord" Does your head ache? His
wore the thorn. Do your feet hurt ?
His were crushed of the spikes. Is your
side painful? His was struck by the
spear. Do you feel like giving way
under the burden? His weakness gave
way under the cross.
While you are in every possible way
to try to restore your physical vigor,
you are to remember that more sOOth-
ing than any anodyne, and more vital
| izing than any stimulant, and more
strengthening than any tonic is the
| prescription of the text, Cast thy bur
den upon the Lord, and he shall sus-
tain thee" We hear q great deal of
talk now about faith cure, and some
people say it cannot be done and it is
failure | do not know but that the
chief advance of the church is to be in
that direction Marvellous things come
to me day by day which make me think
that if the age of miracles is past it is
because the faith of miracles is past.
A SAMPLE CASE.
A prominent merchant of New York
said to member of my family, MY
mother wants her case mentioned to
Mr.. Talmage." This was the case. He
said: MY mother had dreadful alb
scess, from which she had suffered I'M
told agonias, and all surgery had been
exhausted upon her, and worse and
worse she grew until we called in few
Christian friends and proceeded to pray
about it. We commended her case to
God and the abscess began immediate
ly to be cured She is entirely well
now, and without knife and without
any surgery" So that case has come
TO me, and there are a score of other
cases coming to our ears from all parts
of the earth. Oh, We who are sick, go
to Christ Oh, We who are worn out
with agonies of body, least thy burden
upon the Lord, and he shall sustain
theer'
THE BURDEN OF BEREAVEMENT.
Another burden some have to carry
is the burden of bereavement. Ali
these are the troubles that wear us out.
If we lose our property, by additional
industry, perhaps, we may bring back
the estranged fortune; if we lose our
good name, perhaps by reformation of
morals we may achieve again reputa-
ton for integrity; but who will bring
back the dear departed? Alas me for
these empty cradles and these trunks of
childish toys that will never be used
again. Alas! me for the empty chair
and the silence in the halls that will
never echo again to those familiar foot
prints. Alasl for the cry of widow
hood and orphanage.
What bitter Marahs in the Wilderness
What cities of the dead! What long
black shadow from the wing of death |
What eyes sunken with grief! What |
hands tremulous with bereavement! |
What instruments of music shut now |
because there are no fingers to play on
theml Is there no relief for such souls2 |
Aye, let the soul ride into the harbor of
my text.
The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose
will not, win not desert to its foes;
That soul, though all hell shall endeavor to
shake,
Now, the grave is brighter than the
ancient tomb where the lights were
perpetually kept burning. The scared
feet of him who was 1.-The resurrection
and the life are on the broken grave
hillock, while the voices of angels ring
down the sky at the coronation of an
other soul come home to glory.
Then there are many who carry the
burden of sin. All, we carry it until
in the appointed way that burden is
lifted We need no Bible to prove that
the whole race is ruined. What a spec
tacle it would be if we could tear off
the mask of human deflement, or beat
a drum that would bring up the whole
army of the worlds transgressions-
the deception, the fraud, and the rapine,
and the murder, and the crime of all
the centuries! Aye, if | could sound
the trumpet of resurrection in the soul
of the best men in this audience, and
all the dead sins of the past should
come up, we could not endure the
sight Sin, grim and dire, has put its
CIuICll pun lIlC SOII anu IIldl
clutch will never relax unless it be I'M
der the heel of him who came to de
stroy the works of the devil
Oh, to have a mountain of sin on the
soul! Is there no way to have the bur
den moved2 o yes. Cast thy burden
upon the Lord" The sinless One came
to take the consequences of our sin!
And know he is in earnest How do
l know it? By the streaming temples
and the streaming hands as he says,
Come unto me all ye who are weary
and heavy laden, and will give you
rest" Why will prodigals live Oh
swines' husks when the robe, and the
ring, and the fathers welcome are ready2
Why go wandering over the great Sa,
hara desert of your sin when you are
invited to the gardens of God, the trees
of life and the fountains of living wa
terri Why be houseless and homeless
forever when you may become the sons
and daughters of the Lord God Al
mightyf
Brides First Lesson.
A brides first lesson is to respect the
extreme sensitiveness of her husband
who doesn't woDt pooDlo 70 l-,,o.,r- L .