Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-08-10

Quiet pdSSdHt III Jne history Oh your lie. ne
day came when you set up your own house
hold. The days passed along in quiet bless
edness. You twain sat at the table morn
ing and night and talked over your plans
for the future The most insignificant af-
fair in your life became the subject of mu-
tual consultation and advisement. You
were so happy you felt you never could
be any happier.
One day dark cloud lowered over your
dwelling, and it got darker and darker
But out Of that cloud the shining messen-
ger Of God descended to incarnate an i'm
mortal spirit. Two little feet started on
an eternal journey, and you were to lead
them. a gem to flash in heavens coronet,
and you to polish it, eternal ages of light
and darkness watching the starting out of n
newly created being.
You rejoiced and you trembed at the re-
sponsibility that in your possession an inn
mortal treasure was placed. You prayed
and rejoiced and wept and wondered and
prayed and rejoiced and wept and wondered;
you were earnest in supplcation that you
might laad it through life into the king
dom of God. There was tremor IN your
earnestness; there was double interest
about that home; there was an additional
interest why you should stay there and he
faithful, and when in n few months your
house was filled with the music Of the
child's laughter you were struck through
with the fact that you had a stupendous
mission.
Have you kept that vow? Have You
neglected any Of these duties? Is your
home as much to you as it used to be?
Have those anticipations been gratiied?
God help you today in your solemn REM
inaOcorpn nj lot biu t,arc, 70 imam vour
soul if your kindness has been ill rcquted.
God have mercy on the parent, on the wrin-
kles of whose face is written the story of a
child's sin. God have mercy on the mother
who in addition to her other pangs has the
pang of a child's iniquty. Oh, there are
many, many sad sounds in this sad world,
but the saddest sound that is ever heard is
the breaking of a mothers heart Are
there any here who remember that in that
home they were unfaithful? Are there
those who wandered off from that early
home and left the mother to die with n
broken HEARTY Oh, stir that Renaissance
today.
REPENTANCE.
find another point in your life history.
You found one day you were in the wrong
road; you could not sleep at night. There
was just one word that seemed to sob
through your banking house, or through
your office, or your shop, or your bedroom,
and that word was eternity" You said:
Il am not ready for it. O God, have mercy
The Lord heard. Peace came to your heart.
You remember how your hand trembled a.
you took the cup of the holy communion.
| You remember the old minister who con.
| secrated it, and you remember the church
officials who carried it through the aisle
You remember the old people who at the
! close of the service took your hand in theirs
in congratulating sympathy. as much as tC
say, "Welcome home you lost prodigal, u
and though those hands have all withered
away that communion Sabbath is resur
rected today; it is resurrected with all it,
prayers and songs and tears and sermon,
and TRANSPORTATION. Have you kept those
VOWS? Have you been a backslider? God
help you This day kneel at the foot Of
mercy and start again for heaven. Start
today as you started then. l rouse YOU
soul by that "Reminiscences.
But | must not spend any more of my
time in going over the advantages of YOU
life. l just put them all in one great sheaf
and bind them up in your memory Will
| one loud harvest song, such as reapers sing
Praise the Lord, ye blood bought mortal!
on earthl Praise the Lord We crowned
spirits of heavenl
But some of you have not always had ;
smooth life Some of you are now in thu
shadow Others had their troubles year
ago-you are a mere wreck of what yol
once We're. must gather up the sorrow
of your past life, but how shall | do it
You say that is impossible, as you hav
had so many troubles and universities
Then | will just take two, the first troubl
and the last trouble.
As when you are walking along tn
street and there has been music in the dis
lance you unconsciously find yourselye
keeping step to the music, so when yol
started life your very life was a musica
timebeat. The air was full of Joy and hi
larity. With the bright, clear oar you mad
the boat skip. You went on, and life grew
brighter, until, after awhile, suddenly
voice from heaven said, HALT" and va,
halted. You grew pale You confronte,
your first sorrow. You had no idea tina
the flush on your childs cheek was an ul
healthy flush. You said it cannot be any
thing serious Death in slippered fee
I walked round about the cradle You di,
not hear the tread, but after awhile tn
truth flashed on you. You walked tn
floor. Oh, if you>could with your strong
, stout hand, have wrenched the child fron
the destroyer.
You went to your room, and you said
God, save my child God, save my childl
The world seemed going out in dark ness
You said, II cannot bear it, | cannot bea
it." You felt as if you could not put tn
lashes over the bright eyes, never to Sc
r them again sparkle. Oh, if you could haY
taken that little one in your arms and wit
it leaped into the grave how gladly 20
would have done It'll Oh, if you could IL
t your property go, your houses go, your Ian
| pnd your storehouse go, how gladly yo
( would have allowed them to depart if 20
, could only have kept that one treasure!
l LIGHT IN DARKNESS
But one day there arose from the heaven
5 a chill blastthat swept over the bedroom
: and instantly all the light went out, an
| there was darkness-thick, murky, imper
f etrable, shuddering darkness. But God di
4 not leave you there. Mercy spoke. AS yo
1 were about to put that cup to your liz
e God SAID, Let it pass" and forthwith, 0
y by the land of angels, another cup was pt
n into your hands. 1t was the Gun of God