Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-12-05

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was the oarsman, dukes and duchesses and
mighty men sat down in tears in Alnwick
castle to think they never again might see
the face of Grace Darling.
No such deeds of daring will probably be
asked of you, but hear you not the howl of
that awful storm of trouble and sin that
hath tossed ten thousand shivered hunks
into the breakers? Know you not that the
whole eartll is strewn with the ship
wrecked-that there are wounds to be
healed, and broken hearts to be bound, and
| drowning souls to be rescued? Some have
| gone down, and you come too late, but 9TH
ers are clinging to the wreck, are shivering
| with the cold, are straugling in the wave,
are crying to you for deliverance. Will you
not, oar in hand, put out today from the
lighthouse?
When the last ships timber shall have
been rent and the last Longstone beacon
shall have been Numbered down in the
! hurricane, and the last tempest SHALL have
folded its wings, and the sea itself shall
have been licked up by the tongue of all
consuming fire, the crowns CT eternal re
ward shall be kindling into brighter glory
on the brow of the faithful. And Christ,
pointing to the inebriate that you re-
formed and the dying sinner whom you
taught to pray, and the outcast whom you
pointed to God for shelter, will say: "You
did it to theml You did it to mel"
| ENDURANCE OF MATERNAL LOVE.
Again, the scene of the text impresses
upon us the strength of maternal attach
ment Not many men would have had
courage or endurance for the awful mis-
sion Of Rizpah. To dare the rage of wild
beasts, and sit from May to October I'M
| oh ot,I 20, ,ta1{ If., %
buried children, was work that nothing
but the maternal heart could have accom-
| plished. 1t needed more strength than 10
stand before opened batteries or to walk in
calmness the deck of laundering steamer
There is no emotion so completely uIl-
selfish as maternal affection. Conjugal
love expects the return of many kindnesses
and attentions. Filial love expects pa
rental care or is helped by the memory of
past watchfulness. But the strength of a
mothers loveis entirely Independent of the
| past and the future, and is, of all emotions,
the purest The child has done nothing in
the past to earn kindness, and in the future
1t may grow up to maltreat its parent; but
still from the mothers heart there goes
forth inconsumable affection.
| Abuse cannot offend it; neglect cannot
| chill it; time cannot efface it; death cannot
| destroy It, For harsh words it has gentle
Gliding; for the blow it has benefcent
ministry; for neglect it has increasing
watchfulness. 1t weeps at the prison door
over the incarcerated prodigal, and pleads
for pardon at the governors feet, and is
| forced away by compassionate friends from
witnessing the struggles of the gallows.
Other lights go out, but this burns on
without extinguishment, as in gloom
struck night you may see a single star.
one of Gods pickets-with cleaning bayo,
net of light guarding the outposts %
| heaven.
/ The marchioness of Spadara when the
| earthquake at Messina occurred, was car
ried out insensible from the falling houses.
On coming to her senses she found that
her infant had not been rescued. She went
| back and persisted in the ruins. Illustration
of ten thousand mothers who in as many
| different ways have sacrificed themselves
for their children.
| Oh, despse not mothers love! If here
tofore you have been negligent of such an
one and you still have opportunity for rep
| aration, make haste. If you could only
| just look in for an hours visit to her,
you would rouse up in the aged one whole
world of blissful memories. What if she
| uOCS Slb lIltlII! hollC NtluSiNu
| you for many months when you knew
not how to talk at all What if she has
many ailments to tell about? During ff-
teen years you ran to her with every little
scratch and bruise, and she doctored your
little finger as carefully as surgeon would
bind the worst fracture.
You say she is childish now. / wonder
if she ever saw you when you were child
ish. You have no patience to walk with
| her on the street, she moves so slowly. !
wonder if she remembers the time when
you were glad enough to go slowly. You
complain at the expense of providing for
her now. Iwonder what your financial in
| come was from one year to ten years of age.
| Do not begrudge what you do for the Old
folks. / care not how much you did for
them; they have done more for you.
THE REUNION AFTER DEATH.
But from this weird text of the morning
! comes rushing in upon my soul thought
| that overpowers me. This watching by
Rizpah was an after death watching. 1
wonder if now there is an after death
| watching. | think there is. There are
Rizpahs who have passed death, and who
are still watching. They look down from
their supernal and gloritled state upon us,
and is not that an after death watching?
cannot believe that those who before their
death were interested in us have since their
| death become Indifferent as to what hap
| pens to us.
Not one hour of the six months during
| which RiZpah watched seated upon the
| rocks was she more alert or diligent or
armed for us than our mother, if gloritied,
is alert and diligent and armed for us. 1t
is not now Rizpah on rock, but Rizpah
on throne. How long has your mother
oeen deadi Do you think she has been
dead long enough to forget you? My
mother has been dead twenty-nine years.
| / believe she knows more about me now
than she did when stood in her presence,
and am no Spiritualist either The Bible
says, Are they not all ministering spirits
sent forth to minister to them that shall be
heirs of salvation?"
Young man, better look out what you
do and where you go, for your glorilied
mother is looking at you. You sometimes
say to yourself, "What would mother say
if she knew thisY" She does know. You
might cheat her once, but you cannot cheat
her now Does it embarrass us to think
she knows all about us nowp If she had to
put up with so much when she was here,
surely she will not be the less patient or
eXcusatory now.
Oh, this tremendous thought of my text
this after death watchingl What an up
lifting consideration And what a COM
forting thought Young mother, you who
have just lost your babe, and who feels the
need of nearer solace than that which
comes from ordinary sympathy, your moth
er knows all about it. You cannot run in