Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-28

they hau dropped the stan OF inc
earthly pilgrimage.
And then the dear children. o! how
many have gone out of this church.
You could not keep them. You folded
them in your arms and said: "Oi God,
/ cannot give them NJ. Take all else,
take my property, Ia % my reputation,
but let me keep this treasure. Lord, I
cannot bear this"
o! if we could all die together, II we
could keep all the sheep and the lam bs
of the family fold together until some
bright spring day, the birds achant
and the waters aglitter, and then we
could altogether hear the voice of the
good Shepherd, and hand in hand pass
through the flood No, no, no, no! o.!
if we only had notice that we are all
to depart together, and we could say
to our families: The time has come.
The Lord bids us away" And then
we could take our little children to
their beds, and straighten out their
limbs, and say: NOW, sleep the last
sleep. Good night, until it is good
morning." And then we could go TO
our own couches, and say: 'Now, al
together we are ready TO go. Our
children are gone, now let US depart. "
No, no! 1t is one by one. 1t may be
in the midnight 1t may be in the
winter, and in the snow coming down
twenty inches deep over our grave. 1t
may be in the strange hotel, and our
arm, too weak to pull the bell for help.
1t may be so suddenly we have no time
even to say good by. Death is bitter
crushing, tremendous curse.
play you three tunes on the Gospel
harp of comfort. "Weeping may en-
dure for night, but JOY cometh in the
morning" That is one. "All things
work together for good to those who
love God" That is the second. "And
the Lamb which is in the midst of the
throne shall lead them. to living foun
tains of water, and God shall wipe all
tears from their eyes" That is the
third. During these twenty-four
years have tried as far as | could, by
argument, by illustration, and by
carioature, to fill you with disgust
with much of this modern religion
which people are trying now to substi-
tule fer the religion of Jesus Christ
and the religion of the Apostles. !
have tried TO persuade you that the
worst of all cant is the cant of scepti-
cism, and inst ad of your apologizing
for Christianity, it was high time thai
those who 90 not believe in Christianity
should apologize to you and | have
tried TO show that the biggest VILLAIN
in the universe are tho who would
try to rob us Of this Bible, and that the
grandest mis- sion of the church of Jesus
Christ is that of bringin souls to the
( Lord-a soul-saving church.
But now those years are gone. II
you have neglected your duty, if
have neglected my duty, it is neglected
forever. Each year has its work. II
the work is performed within the
twelve months, it is done forever. Ii
neglected, ii is neglected forever.
Roll on, sweet day of the world
eman ipation, when 1.-The mountains
and the hills shall break forth into
singing. and all the trees of the wood
shall clap tn iir hands, and instead o!
the thorn shall come up the fir-tree
and instead of the brier will come ur
the myrtle-trec, and it shall be unto
the Lord for n name, for an everlast.
ing sign that cannot be cut off,"
When a woman was dying, she said
"Call them back" They did not know
what she meant. she had been dis
ciple of the world. She said, 80, call
them back" They said, who do you
want us to call back?' 60 she said
"call them back. the days, the months
the years / have wasted. Call then
back" But you cannot call them
back; you cannot call year
back, or month back, or q
week back, or an hour back, or a second
back. Gone once, it is gone forever
When great battle was raging. a
messenger came up aud said to the
General, who was talking with an
officer. General, we have taken q
standard from the enemy" The Gen
eral kept right on conversing with bis
fellow-officer, and the messenger said
again, General, we have taken q
standard from the enemy" Still the
General kept right on, and the mes
senger lost his patience, not having his
message seemingly appreciated, and
said again, General: we have taken a
standard from the enemy" The Gen
eral then looked at him and said
Take another Ali forgetting the
things that are behind, let us look &c
those that are before. Win another
castle, take another standard, gair
another victory.