Milford chronicle., 1893-08-11

and acknowledgements, forgot that there was
bread on your table this morning, and that
there shall be shelter for your head from
the storm, and there is air for your lungs,
and blood for your heart and light for your
eye, and a glad and glorious and trium-
phant religion for your soulf
BEREAVEMENT.
Perhaps your last trouble was a bereave-
ment. That heart which IN childhood was
your refuge, the parental heart. and which
has been a source Of the quickest sympathy
ever since, has suddenly become silent for.
ever. Aud now sometimes, whenever in
sudden annoyance and without deliberation
you say, - win 80 and tell mother, ths
thought flashes on you, Il have nomother"
Or the father, with voice less tender, but at
heart rs earnest and ng-watchful Of
all your ways exultaf ter your success
without saying much, 1agh the old peo-
pie do talk il over by nselves-is taken
away forever.
Or there was your fapanion in life,
sharer Of your joys .t sorrows, taken,
leaving the heart an q riu, where the i'll
winds blow over a vide wilderness Of desc
lation, the sands of the desert driving across
the place which once Doomed like the gar
den of God And Abraham mourns for
along your path in life. suddenly right be
fore you was an open grave.
People looked down, and they saw it was
only few feet deep and few feet wide,
but to you it was achasm down which went
all your hopes and all your expectations.
But cheer up in the name Of the Lord
Jesus Christ, the Comforter. He is not 90
ing to forsake YOU Did the Lord take
that child out Of your armss Why, he is
going$o shelter it better than you could.
He is going to array it in white robe aud
give it palm branch and have it all ready
to greet you at your coming home. Blessed
the broken heart that Jesus heals, Blessed
the impOrJuuate cry that Jesus compassion
ates. Blessed the weeping eye from which
the soft hand OF jesus wipes away the tear.
Some years ago | WAS sailing down the
St. John river, which is the Rhine and the
Hudson cOmmingicd in one scene of beauty
and grandeur and while l was on ihe deck
OF the steamer a gentleman pointed out to
me the places of interest, and be said, "All
this is interval land, and it is the richest
land in all the provinces Of New Brunswick
and Nova Scotia"
''What, said /, do you mean by inter
val landg' "Wcll, he said "this land is
submerged for part Of the year. Spring
freshets come down, and all these plains
are overfiowed with the water. and the wa
ter leaves a rich deposit, and when the wa
ters are gone the harvest springs up, and
there Is the grandest harvest that was ever
reaped.n And | Instantly thought, ''lt is
not the heights Of the church and it is not
the heights of this world that are the
scenes of the greatest prosperity, but the
soul over which the foods of sorrow have
gone, the soul over which the freshets Of
tribulation have torn their way, that yields
the greatest fruits of righteousness, and
the largest harvest for time, and The rich
est harvest for eternity" Bless God that
your soul is interval land
THE FINAL "REMINISCENCES.
But these "reminiscences reach only TO
this morning There is one more point OF 1
reniniscenee, and that is the
last hour of life, when we have to look over
all our past existence. What a moment |
that viii be- / place Napoleons dying [
on st. Helena beside Mrs Jud- /
sons dying "reminiscences in the harbor of
St. Helena, the same island, 90 years after I
dying Renaissance was one Of I
ielirium as he exclaimed, Head of the I
armyf Mrs. Judson' sdying reminiscence, /
as she came home from her missionary toll /
and her life Of self sacrifice for God, dying I
IN the cabin of the ship in the harbor Of st. I
Helena, was, Il always did love the Lord [
Jesus Christ" And then the historian \
says she fell into a sound sleep for an hour /
and woke amid the songs of angels
place the dying reminiscence Of Angus
JUS Caesar against the dying reminiscence /
If the Apostle Paul. The dying reminis-
,ence of Augustus Caesar was, addressing
ais attendants, "Have l played my part
we'll on the stage of lifeso and they an
iwered in the affirmative, and he suid, 1
why, then, don't you applaud me22 The
lying reminiseence Of Paul the Apostle
vas; II have fought a good fight. ! have
inished my course. / have kept the faith
Ienceforth there is laid up for me a crown
# righteousness which the Lord, the right
ous Judge, win give me in that day, and
lot to me only, but to all them that love
Ms appearing"
Augustus Cesar died amid pomp and
reat surroundings. Paul uttered his dying
looking up through the roof
f a dungeon God grant that our dying
illow may be the closing of useful life
nd the opening Of a glorious eternity.