Democratic messenger., 1892-12-31
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was no one TO cry to-" Ana so yOu some
times suppress your trouble because
there is no full resource of earthly SYM
pathy Eut rejoice 10 tell you that in
God you always have some one to cry 10.
He Will coudole 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, come
life or death, come time or eternity,
all's well, all's well. Keep your heart
right and all else will be right Men and
women have sometimes given strange
and whimsical directiSAls in regard To
what shall be done with their hearts after
death. Robert Bruce ordered his heart
TO Le sent to the Holy Land for burial.
The Earl Of Leicester ordered his heart
sent 10 Brackley hospital. Isabella,
daughter of the Earl of Pembroke, died
at Berkhampstead, but ordered her heart
taken To Tewkcsbury cathedral. Lord
Windsor, dying i'll Il foreign land, or
dered his heart inclosed in lead and sent
to England for burial in the chapel Of
Brakeman. Now what shall we de-
cree for ur heart? That it be the Lords,
and thei. 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 he grouped. May
nothing interfere with their felicities.
May they be so spent that they will be
food for pleasant reminiscence further
on. You know that after awhile the old
homestead will be broken up. For years
and years the children come home to
spend the holidays. and the house is
rummaged from garret 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 are
generally about two years between the
time of their going the other half of the
holiday season is broken up. Then the
old house goes into the possession Of
strangers. and the sons and daughters by
that time have homes of their own. They
plant their own Christmas trees, and
hang up their own chiidren's stockings
and twine their own holly and mistletoe,
and have their own good times. They
will perhaps be riding out on some of
those holidays either i'll sleigh or carriage
twenty or thirty years from now along
the places where we slumber the last
sleep, and may we have been so con-
siderate and sympathetic in our de-
meanOr toward them now that they will
then say one 10 another rs they pass the
silent mounds Of the village graveyard
or city cemetery. There rest as kind
father and as kind a mother as ever
wished their children merry Christmas
or happy new year.
Meanwhile we, their parents and grand
parents. will, hope, through the atone
ment of our blessed Lord, be keeping
holidays lvelier and higher up; in the
presence of the very Christ whose birth
the earthly Christmas commentaries,
and Of the Ancient of Days" who saw
the first year open, and will see the last
year close; in companionship with the
ever widening circle Of heavenly kin
dred, many already there and many soon
10 come, and the tables of that festivity
will purple with the grapes of Eschol,
and redden with 1.-THE new wine of the
kingdom" and glow with twelve man.
ner Of fruits from the trees of life, and
the gifts Of those holidays will be man.
s;ons and thrones and crowns of glory
that never fade away. Oh, that these
delightful holidays of earth may fit us
for those more delightful holidays OF
heaven.