The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-04-15


side of the river" The next Sabbath we
buried her. We brought white flowers
and laid them on the coffin. There was
in all that crowded church but one real
ly happy aud delighted face, and that
was the face of Fanny.
Obi wish that now my Lord Jesus
would go through this audience and
take all these flowers of youth and gar
land them on his brow. The cedar is
fit refuge for birds of brightest plum
age and swiftest wing. See, they flyl
they tlyl "All fowl of every wing"
Again, remark. that the old may
come You say: Suppose man has
to go on crutches; suppose he is blind;
suppose he is deaf; suppose that nine
tenths of his life has been wasted"
Then / answer. Come with crutches;
come, old men, blind and deaf, come to
Jesus. If you would sweep your hand
around before your blind eyes, the first
thing you would touch would be the
cross. it is hard for an aged man or
woman to have grown old without re-
ligion, their taste is gone.
The peach and the grape have lost
their flavor. They say that somehow
fruit does not taste as it used to. Their
hearing gets defective, and they miss a
great deal that is said in their presence.
Their friends have all gone. and every
body seems so strange. The world
seems to go away from them, and they
are left all alone. They begin to feel
in the way when you came into the
room where they are; and they move
their chair nervously and say: II hope
am not in the way" Alas! that father
and mother should ever be in the way.
When you were sick, and they sat up
all night rocking you, singing to you.
administering to you, did they think
that you were in the way? Are you
tired of the old people? Do you snap
them up quick and sharp? You will be
cursed to the bone for your ingratitude
and unkindnessl
Oh! it is hard TO be old without relig-
ion-to feel this world going away, and
nothing better coming, If there be any
here who have gone far on without
Christ. / address you deferentially. You
have found this a tough world for old
people. Alas! to have aches and pains,
and no Christ to soothe them. l want
to give you n cane better than that you
lean on. 1t is the cane that the Bible
speaks of when it says: "Thy rod and
Thy staff, they comfort me-" l want
to give you better spectacles than those
you now look through. 1t is the spirit
ual eyesight of divine grace. Christ
will not think that you are in the way.
Does your head tremble with the palsy
of old age? Lay it on Christ's bosom.
Do you feel lonely now that your COM
panions and children are gone? think
Christ has them. They are safe in His
keeping.
Very soon he will take you where
they are. 1 take hold of your arm and
try to lead you to place where you
with me- Only little While longer
and your sight will come again, and
your hearing will come again, and with
the strength of an immortal athlete
you will step on the pavement of
Heaven. No crutches in Heaven; no
sleepless nights in Heaven; no cross
looks for old people. Dwelling there
for ages, no one will say: Father,
you know nothing about this; step
back; you are in the way" Oh, how
many dear old folks Jesus has put
to sleep! How sweetly He has closed
their eyes! How gently folded their
arms! How He has put hand on their
silent hearts and said, Rest new, tired
pilgrim 1t is all over. The tears will
never start again. Hush! hush!" So
He gives His beloved sleep. | think the
most beautiful object on earth is an old
Christian-thc hair white, cot with the
frosts of winter, but the blossoms of the
tree OF life. l never feel sorry for a
Christian old man. Why feel sorry for
those upon whom the glories of the
eternal world are about to burst? They
are gong to the goodly cedar. Though
their wings are heavy with age, God
shall renew their strength like the
eagle, and they shall make their nest in
the cedar. "All fowl of every wing"
Again: The very bad the outrage
ously sinful, may come. Men talk of
the grace of God as though it were so
many yards long and so many yards
deep. People point to the dying thief
as an encouragement to the sinner.
How much better it would be to point
to our own case and say: ''If God saved
us, He can save any body" There may
be those here who never had one earn.
est word said TO them about their
souls Consider me as putting my
hand on your shoulder and looking
You in the eye. God has been good to
you. You ask: "How do you know
that? He has been very hard on
me-" "Wherc did you come from?"