News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-01-07

her out very rough1y~S<<Wo%d he
had no grapes to sell. Sh~<%ent off
and sold a blanket and got some
more shillings and came back and
tried to buy the grapes. But the
gardener roughly assaulted her and
told her to be off. The kings daugh-
ter was walking in the garden at the
time and she heard the excitement,
and, seeing the poor woman, said to
her, My father is not merchant
to sell, but he is a king and gives.
Then she reached up and plucked the
grapes and dropped them into the
poor woman's apron. So Christ Is a
king and all the fruits of his pardon
he freely gives They may not be
bought Without money and with
out price take this sweet cluster from
the vineyards of God.
am coming to the close OF my ser
mon. | sought for text appropri-
ate to the occasion. | thought OF
taking one in Job, My days fly as a
weaver's shuttle" of a text in the
Psalms, so 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
wear ALSO" but pressed upon my at
tention first of all and last OF all
and above all were the words, This
wear 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 hope that, notwith-
standing all my sins and wanderings,
I shall, through the infinite mercy of
my Saviour, come out at the right
place. | have nothing to brag of
by way of Christian experience; but
two things l have learned-my utter
helplessness before God, and the all
Astounding grace of the Lord Jesus.
If the text means some of you, my
| hearers, | do not want you to be
caught unprepared. I would like to
have you, either through money you
have laid up, or a 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 father
less. | would like to have your soul
fitted out for eternity, SO that if any
morning OF noon or evening or night
of these three hundred and sixty five
days death should look in and ask,
Are you ready" you might with
an outburst of Christian triumph an
swer, AYE, ayel all ready"
CHARACTERISTIC LAST WORDS.
l know not what our last words
may be. Lord Chesterfield prided
himself on his politeness and said in
his last moment, Give DayrOlles a
chair" Dr. Adam, a dying school
master, said: 1T grows dark. The
boys may dismiss" Lord Tenterden,
supposing himself on the bench of a
courtroom, said in lis last moment,
Gentlemen of the jury, you will
now consider your verdict. A dying
play actor said: Drop the curtain.
The farce. is played out. !"
would rather have for my dying
words those of one greater than
Chesterfield or DR.. Adam or Lord
Tenterden: Il am now ready to be
offered and the time of my departure
is at hand. | have fought good
fight, | have finished my course,
have kept the faith; henceforth there
is laid up for me crown of righteous
ness 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 nc
clock in heaven, because it is an
everlasti ! day; yet they keep an ac
count of the passing years because
they are all the time hearing from
our world. The angels flying through
heaven report 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
bound2" and the answer is, ITO bring
up a soul from earth. And the ques
ton is asked, What soul2" And 6
family circle in heaven find that it is
one of their own number that is to be
brought up, and they come out tx
watch, as on the beach we now watch
for ship that is to bring our friend;
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