The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-29

until after awhile he cries out "A star
"a morning star, star of comfort,
star of grace, a star of peace, the star of
the Redeemer" Peace for all trouble.
Balm for all wounds. Life for all dead,
Now Jesus, the great heart healer,
! comes into our home. Peacel Peace
that passeth all understanding. We
look up through our tears. We are com
forted. 1t is the morning star OF the
Redeemer. WHO broke off that flow
err" said one servant in tho garden to
another. WHO broke off that flower?"
| And the other servant said, The mas
/ ter" Nothing more was said, for if the
master had not right to break off
flower to wear over his heart or to set
| in the vase in tho mansion, who has
right to touch the flower? And when
! Christ comes down into our garden to
gather lilies, shall we fight him backp
Shall we talk as though he had no right
to come? If any one in all the universe
( has a right to that which is beautiful
/ in our homes, then our master has. ard
he will take 1t, and he will wear it over
his heart, or he will set it in the vase of
the palace eternal. THE Lord gave,
and the Lord hath taken away; blessed
be the name of the Lord" Peace, trou-
bled soul! l put the balm on your
wounded heart tonight. The morning
star, the morning star of the Redeemer.
Again, Christ heralds the dawn of
millennial glory. 1t is night in China,
night in India, night in Siberia, night
for the vast majority of the worlds
population. But it seems to me there
are some limitations of tho morning.
All Spain is to be brought under the
influence of the gospel. What is that
light l see breaking over the top of the
| Pyreneesr The morning! Yea, all Italy
shall receive the gospel. She shall have
| her schools and her colleges and her
churches. Her vast population shall
surrender themselves to Christ. What
is that light see breaking over the top
of the Alps2 The morning. al inlia
shall come to God. Her idols shall he
cast down. Her juggernauts shall lie
broken. Her temples of iniQuity shall
be demolished What is that light
see breaking over the top Of the lima
| layas? The morning. The empurpled
clouds shall gid the path of the con
quering day. The Hottentot will come
out of his mud howell to look at the
dawn; the Chinaman will como up On
the granite cliffs, the Norwegian will
| get up on the rocks, and all the beach
of heaven will be crowded with celes-
| tial inhabitants come out to see the sun
rise over the ocean of the world S
agony. TIL y shall como from the east,
and from the west, from the north, and
from the south, and sit down in the
kingdom of God. These sweltered I'M
der tropical suns. These shivered I'M
| der Icelandic temperature. These pluck
ed the vineyards in Italy. These pack
| ed the teaboxes in China. These were
aboriglnes lifting up their dusiy faces
in the dawn. And the wind shall wait
it, and every mountain shall become a
TRANSPORTATION, and the sea will become
the walking place OF him who trod the
wave cliffs of stormy Liberals, aud the
song of JOY shall rise toward heaven.
and the great sky will become sound
ing board which shall strike back the
shout of salvation to the earth until it
rebounds again to the throne of the Al
mighty, and the morning star CT Chris
tian hope will become the full sunburst
Of millennial glory.
Again, Christ heralds the dawn Of
heaven upon every Christians dying
pillow. | suppose you have noticed
| that the characteristics of people in
their healthy days are very apt to be
/ their characteristics in their dying days.
The dying words of ambitious Napoleon
were, Head of the army" The dying
words of poetic Lord Byron were, Il
must sleep now" The dying words of
affectionate Lord Nelson were, Kiss
me, Hardy" The dying words Of Vol
taire were, as he saw one whom he sup
posed to be Jesus in the room, Crush
that wretch" But have noticed that
the dying words of Christians always
mean peace. Generally the pain is all
gone, and there is great quietude
through the room. AS one Of these
brothers told me of his mother in the
last moment: She looked up and said,
pointing to some supernatural being
that seemed to be in the room, Look
at that bright form. Why, they have
come for me now.
The lattice is turned SO that the light
is very pleasant. 1t is peace all around,
You ask yourself: Why, Ssn this be
dying room? 1t is so Gf5erent from
anything ! ever expected. And you
walk the floor. and you look out of the
window, and you come back and look
at your watch. and you look at the face
of the patient again, and there is no
change, except that the face is becom-
ing more radiant, more illuminated
The wave of death seems coming up
higher and higher, until it las touched
the ankle, then it comes on up until it
touches the knee, aud then it comes on
up until it reaches the girdle, and then
it comes on ~ until it reaches the lip,
and tho suul Is about to be foated away
into glory, and you roll back the pa
tents sleeve, and you put your finger
on the pulse, and it is getting weaker
and weaker, and the pulse stops. and
you hardly know whether the life has
gone or not. Indeed, you cannot tell
when she goes away, she goes away so
calmly. Perhaps it is o'clock in the
morning, and you have the bed wheel
ed around to the window, and the dy-
ing OF e looks out into the night sky,
and she sees something thata tracts her
attention, and you wonder WHAT it is.
Why, it is star. 1t is a star that
out of its silver rim is pouring super
natural light into that dying expert
ence. And you say, What is it that
, you are looking at?'' She says, 1T is
star" You say, What star is it that
seems so well to please you?" "Oh, "
she says, that is the morning star
Jesus!' would like to have my death
bed under that evangelistic star
! would like to have my eye on that star,
SO l could be assured of the morning.
| Then the dash of the surf of the sea OF
death would only be the billowing up
of the promise, when thou passest
through the waters, will be with thee,