Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-12-26


logical fact that we are all fhe time COLE
ing nearer 10 the worlds edeaization
first and then 10 It's incinerstioa, 10 IT.
redemption and its demolition And so !
expect that 1893 VIII be a greater year
than 1892 rs wedding bells viii be
merrier. rs obsequies viii be sadcer.
Its scientific discoveries more brilliant.
It's properties more significant. It's
opening more grand. It's termination
more stupendous. Look out for 1893.
Let printers have in their cases Of type
plenty Of exclamation points 10 set up a
sudden paragraph. Let the conservatories
have profasiou of flowers that can be
twisted into garlands. Let churches have
plenty OF room for increased assem- biagcs.
Let men and women have more religion
10 meet the vaciIlstions, and the exigen-
cies, and the demands. and the raptures.
and the woes of this coming 1898. In
what mood shall We open the door OF the
new year: With faith. strong faith.
buoyant faith. triumphant faith, God
viii see you through. His grace win be
suficien. If you trust him. You can 90
to him at any time and find sympathy.
lily little child got hurt one morning
during her mothers absence. We looked
after the case as well rs we could. To-
ward night her mother returned, and
for the first time the child cried aud
cried vociteroasly. Some one said 10
her: What do you cry fori You did
not cry all day" Her reply was, There
was no one To cry to- And 60 you some
times suppress your trouble because
there is no full resource of earthly SYM
patty. But rejoice TO tell you that IN
God you always have some one TO cry 10.
He will condole aud help in every crisis.
Come, now, let me unstrap that KNAPP
sack Of care from your shoulders. Come
prosperity or adversely, come wedding
or burial, come health or sickness, cone
( life or death, come time or eternity,
all's well, all's we'll! Keep your heart
1 right and all else will be right. Men and
/ women have sometimes given strange
and whimsical directions in regard 10
/ what shall be done with their hearts after
! death. Robert Bruce ordered his heart
| to be sent to the Holy Land for burial.
! The Earl of Leicester ordered his heart
sent to Brackley hospital. Isabella,
daughter of the Earl Of Pembroke, died
at Berkhampstead, but ordered her heart
taken to Tewkesbury cathedral. Lord
Windsor, dying in foreign land, or
dered his heart inclosed in lead and sent
to England for burial in the chapel Of
Brakeman. Now what ehsll we de-
cree for our heart? That it be the Lords,
and then it makes no difference what
else becomes Of it. Living and dying,
may it all be his.
YOUTH HAS ITS LESSONS FOR AGE.
Thus in three chapters have coun-
seled that the holidays be grouped. May
nothing interfere with their felicities.
May they be so spent that they viii be
food for pleasant Renaissance further
on. You know that after awhile the old
homestead will bs broken up. For years
and years the children come home to
spend the holidays, and the house is
rummaged from garnet to cellar, and
the scenes Of childhood are rehearsed,
and we laugh till the tears come as we
talk over some boyish or girlish freak
or cry over some old trouble ended; but
the heart swings back again to mirth,
for it does not take half second for d
tear of the eye to strike the smile Of the
lip. For few years the grandchildren
make the holidays merry. One of the
many uses of grandchildren is to KEEP
the old folks young. Then after few
years the annual gathering at the old
homestead is half broken up, for father
or mother is gone.
About two years after for there art
generally about two years between tn,
time Of their going) the other half of thu
holiday season is broken up. Then The
old house goes into the possession O
strangers, and the sons and daughters b.
that time have homes of their own. The,
plant their own Christmas trees. ant
hang up their own childrens stockings
and Irvine their own holly and mistletoe
and have their own good times. The,
will perhaps be riding ont on some o
those holidays either in sleigh or carriag
twenty or thirty years from now alon'
the places where we slumber the las
sleep, and may We have been so con
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meanor toward them now that they will
then say one TO another rs they pass III
silent mounds Of the village graveyar
or city cemetery, There rest as kind
, father and as kind mother as eve
, wished their children merry Christina
or happy new year."
Meanwhile We, their parents and grand
, parents, will, hope, through the atone
, ment of our blessed Lord, be keepip
holidays livelier and higher up; in th
presence Of the very Christ whose brit
, the earthly Christmas commemorate
, and Of the Ancient OF Days" who SAY
, the first year open, and will see the las
year close; in co,npanionship with I'll
ever widening circle of heavenly kir
, dred, many already there and many 800
! TO come, and the tables Of that festivit
will purple with the grapes Of Escho
, and redden with 'the new wine Of I'll
{ kingdom" aud glow with twelve mar
ner of fruits" from tho trees Of life. an
= the gifts of those holidays will be MAJ
. sions and thrones and crowns of glor
that never fade away. Oh. that thes
: delightful holidays of earth may fit I
: for those moro delightful holidays {
= heaven!
CRAzEO BY THE cOHET.