Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-03-12

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will make them happy" AS I came
out of the room, louder than all the
sobs and wailings of grief ] heard the
clear, sweet, glad voice of tho dying
girl: "Good night; we shall meet again
on the other 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 really happy
and delighted face, and that was the
face Of Fanny.
Again: I remark that the old may
come. You say: suppose man has
to go on crutches; suppose he Is blind;
suppose he is deaf; suppose nine-tenths
OF his life has been wasted" Then l
answer, come with crutches; come, old
man, blind and deaf, come to Jesus II
you would sweep your hands 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 religion.
Their taste is gone. The peach and
the grape have lost their flavor. They
say somehow fruit does not taste Ms it
used to. Their hearing gets defective,
and they miss great deal that is said
in their presence. Their friends have
all gone, and everybody seems so
strange. The world seems to go from
them, and they are left all alone. They
begin to feel in the way when you come
into the room where they are; and they
move their chair nervously, aud say,
II hope am not in the way" Alas!
that mother and father should ever be
in the way. When you were sick and
they sat up all night rocking you sing
ing to you, administering to you, did
they think you were in the way? Are
you tired of old people? Do you snap
them up quick and sharp? You will
be cursed to To, bone for your ingrati-
tude and unkindness!
o! it is hard to be old without relig-
ion-to feel this world going away and
nothing better coming. II there be any
here who have gone on far without
Christ, / address you defcrentially.
You have found this tough world for
old people. Alas! to have aches and
pains, and no Christ to sooth them.
want to give you a cane bstter 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-" /
want to give you better spectacles than
those you now look through. 1t is the
spiritual eyesight of divine grace.
Christ will not think thatyou are in the
way. Does your head tremble with the
palsy of old age? Lay it on Christs
bosom. Do you feel lonely now that
your companions and children are
gone? think Christ has them. They
are safe in His keeping. Very soon He
will take you where they are. l take
hold of your arm and try to lead you to
a place where you can put down all
your burden. Go with me. Only little
while longer and your sight will come
again, and your hearing will come again,
and with the strength OF IN athlete, you
will stop 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 moth
ing about this; step back; you are in
the wayr' O, 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
His hand on their silent hearts and
said, "Rest, now, tired pilgrim. 1t is
all over. The tears will never start
again. Hush! hush!" So He gives His
beloved sleep. think the most beauti-
full object on earth is an old Christian
the hair white, not with the frosts OF
winter, but the blossoms OF the trees
of life. never feel sorry for Chris
tan old man. Why feel sorry for
those upon whom the glories of the
eternal world are about to burst? They
are going 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 outrageous
" sinful may come. Men talk of the
grace of God rs though it were so
many yards long, and so many yards
deep. People point to the dying thief
Us 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 anybody" There
may be those here who never had one
earnest word said to them about their
souls. Consider me as putting my hand
on your shoulder and looking in your
eve. You ask: "How do you know
that? He has been very hard on me-"
"Whers did you come from?" Home"
"Then you have a home. Have you
ever thanked God for your home?
Have you children?" eyes" Have
You ever thanked God for your
children? Who keeps them safeP
We're you ever sick?" "YeA"
GgVVho mazda Won vvall9 Hava Won