The southern argus. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Cherokee County, Kan.) 1891-1???, 1892-01-07


teach us to number our DAYS that we
may apply our hearts unto wisdom;" of
the prayer of the vine dresser: Lord,
let it alone this year also" but, pressed
upon my attention, first of all, and last
of all, and above all, were the words:
This year thou shalt die
Perhaps it may mean me. Though
in perfect health now, it does not take
God one week to bring down the
strongest physical constitution. l do
not want to die this year We have
plans and projects on foot that / want
to see completed, but God knows best.
and he has thousand better men than
to do the work yet undone. have a
hope that. Notwithstanding all my sins
and wanderings, shall through the in
finite mercy of my Saviour come out at
the right place. have nothing to brag
OF by way of Christian experience, but
two things / have learned-my utter
helplessness before God and all
the Astounding grace of the
Lord Jesus. If the text means some of
you, my hearers, do not want You to
be caught unprepared. would like to
have you, either through money you
have laid up, or life insurance" be
able to leave the world feeling that
your family need not become paupers.
But if you have done your best, and
you leave not one dollars worth of
estate you may confidently trust the
Lord who hath promised to care for the
widow and the fatherless
| know not what our last words may be.
Lord Chesterfield prided himself on his
| politeness, and said in his last moment:
give Dayrolles chair" DIR. Adams,
a dying schoolmaster, said: 'It grows
dark. The boys may dismiss" Lord
Tenterden, supposing himself to be on
the bench of court room, said, in his
last moment: Gentlemen of the jury,
you will now consider your verdict"
A dying play actor said: drop the cur
tain. The farce is played out" would
rather have for my dying words those
of one greater than Chesterfield, or
DIR. Adams or Lord Tenterden: 81 am
now ready to be offered, an the time
of my departure is ut hand. l have
fought good fight. have finished
my course. / have kept the faith;
henceforth there is laid up for me a
crown of righteousness. which the
Lord, the righteous judge, shall give
me-"
The sooner the last hour comes the
better, if we are fitted for entrance in
the celestial world. There is no clock
in Heaven, bee ause it is an everlasting
day. yet they keep an account Of the
passing years, because they are all the
time hearing from the world. The
angels flying through Heaven re-
port how many times the earth has
turned on its axis, and in that way the
| angels can keep diary; and they say
| it is almost time now for father to come
up, or for mother to come up. Some
day they see cohort leaving Heaven
and they say: whittier bound?" and
the answer is, ito bring up a soul
from earth;" and the question
is asked: What soul?" And
n family circle in Heaven find
that it is one of their own mum Der that
is to be brought up, and they come out
to watch, as on the beach we now watch
for a ship that is to bring our frien DIS
home After while the cohort will
heave in sight, flying nearer and nearer.
until with great clang the gates hoist,
and with an embrace, wild with the
ecstacy of Heaven, old friends meet
again. Away with your stiff, formal
Heaven! want none of it. Give me
Ny feet free from the clods of earth, /
shall bound the hills with gladness,
and break forth in laugh Of triumph.
| Aha! aha! We weep now, but we
shall laugh "Abrahams bosom
means that Heaven has open arms
to take us in. Now we fold our
arms over her heart, and tell the world
to stand back, as though our bosom
was a two-barred gate to keep the
world out. Heaven stands not with
| folded arms, but with heart open 1t
is ''Abraham's BOSOM" / see a mother
and her child meeting at the foot of the
child died twenty years ago, but it is a.
child yet l think the little ones that
die will remain children through all
eternity. 1t would be no Heaven with
out the little darlings do not want
those that are in Heaven to grow up.
We need their infant voices in the
great song. And when we wax
out in the fields of light we want
them to run ahead. and clap their
hands. and pick out the brightest
of the field flowers. Yes, here is n
child and its mother meeting. The
child long in glory, the mother just ar
irving. "How changed you are, my
darlingr' says the mother. Eyes"
says the child. This is such happy
place, and Jesus has taken such care of
me, and Heaven is SO kind. got right
over the fever with which died. The
skies are so fair, mother! The flowers
are so sweet, mother! The temple is
so beautiful, mother! Come, take me
up to your arms as you used to-" Oh,
do not know how we shall stand the
first day in Heaven. Do you think we
shall break down in the song from
over delight! once gave out in church
the hymn:
There is a land of pure delight,
Where saints immortal reign,
and an aged man standing in front of
the pulpit sang heartily the first verse,
and then he sat down weeping. | said
TO him afterward: Father Linton.
what made you cry over that hymn?"
He said 81 could not stand 1.-THE joys
that are coming" When Heaven rises