Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-04

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 notwithstanding all my
sins and wanderings, 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 | have learned-my utter helpless
ness before God and the all abounding 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 fatheress. | would like to
have your soul fitted out for eternity, SO
that If any morning or 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, answer, AYE, ayel
all ready"
LAST WORDS.
know not what our last words may be-
Lord Chesterfield prided himself on his po-
likeness, and said in his last moment, Give
Dayrolles chair" Dr. Adam, a diving
schoolmaster, said; ut grows dark The
boys may dismiss" Lord Tenterien, sup
posing himself on the bench of a court
room, said in his 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 Tenterlield 81 am now
ready to be offered, and the time of my de
parture is at hand. | have fought a good
fight, have finished my course have
kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up
for me crown of righteousness, which the
Lord the righteous Judge, shall give me"
The sooner to- last hour comes the bet
ter If we are fitted for entrance in the
celestial world. There is no clock in
heaven, because it is an everlasting day,
yet they keep an account of the passing
years, because they are all the time hear.
ing 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 bound?" and the
is, '"To bring up a soul from earth;"
and the question is asked, What soul?'
And family circle in heaven find that il
is one of their own number 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 friends 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
heavenl want none of it. Give me
place of infinite and eternal sociality My
feet free from the clods of earth, shall
bound the hills with gladness and break
forth in a laugh of triumph. Aha! ahal
We weep now, but then we shall laugh
"Abraham's bosom" means that heaven
has open arms to take us in Now we fold
our arms over our 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
| see a mother and her child meeting at
the foot of the throne after some years~ab
sence. The child died twenty years ago
but it is a child yet,
CHILDREN TO ALL ETERNITY.
think the little ones who die will re
main children through all eternity. 1t
would be no heaven without the little dar
lings. do not want those that are in heaven
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in the great song. And when we walk 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 child and its mother meeting. The
child long in glory, the mother just arrived
'How changed you are, my darlingr' says
the mother Yes" 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, mothorl The flowers
are 50 sweet, motherl The temple is so
beautiful, motherl Come, take me up in
your arms as you used to-" Oh, do not
know how we shall stand the first day in
heaven. Do you not think we will 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 com
ing" When heaven rises for the doXology
cannot see how we can rise with it if all
these waves Of everlasting delight come
upon the soul-billow of joy after billow
of Joy Methinks Jesus would be enough
for the first day in heaven, yet here he ap
proaches with all heaven at his back.
But must close this sermon. This is
the last January to some who are present.
You have entered the year. but you will
not close it. Within these twelve months
your eyes will shut for the last sleep.
Other hands will plant the Christmas tree
and give the New Years congratulations.
As Il proclamnt ion of JOY to some and us
warming to Others, | leave in your ears
these five words Of one syllable each, This
year thou shalt dep'
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