Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-12-18

io were never marred with earth
n SOUNDS. Oh, the brightest evcs
heaven will be those that never saw
earth The ears most alert in bo,v,
:, VIII be those that in this world hen,
neither voice Of friend nor thrpm
narp nor carol Of bird nor dorologv
. congregations.
v A Iad who had been blind from !,
: lancy was cured. The oculist operate
s upon the lad and then put very beav
a Dandage over the eyes, and after a fat
/ weeks had gone by the bandaee was :,
moved and the mother said to her child
Willie, can you seer" He said. "Ob
mamma, is this heaven9" The contras
between the darkness before and tb,
brightness afterward was oyerwbelm
ing. And tell you the glories of HEAVIER
VIII be thousandfold brighter for thos.
VINO never saw anything on earth
While many with good vision closed
their eyes in eternal night, and MANY
who had a good, artistic and cultured
ear went down into eternal discord.
these afflicted ones cried unto the Lord
In their trouble, and he made their sor.
rows their advantage, and so "the lame
took the prey"
In the seventh century there was L.
gend OF st. Modobert. 1t was said that
his mother was blind, and one day willis
looking at his mother he felt so symps-
thetic for her blindness that he rushed
forward and kissed her blind eyes, and
the legend says her vision came imms-
diately. That was only legend, but il
is truth, glorious truth, that the kiss
OF Gods eternal love has brought to
many blind eye eternal illumination.
HOPES OF THE FUTURE.
A step farther: There are those In all
communities who toll nightly for . live
iihood. They have scant wages. Per-
haps they are diseased or have physical
infirmities, so they are hindered from
doing a continuous days work. A city
missionary finds them up the dark al
ley, with no fire, with thin clothing, with
very coarse bread. They never ride in
the street car; they cannot afford the s
cents. They never see any pictures save
those in the show window on the street,
from which they are often jostled and
looked at by some one who seems to say
in the look: Move onl What are you
doing here looking at pictures?"
Yet many of them live ON mountains
IF TRANSPORTATION. At their rough table
le who fed the 5000 breaks the bread.
They talk often of the good times that
re coming. This world has no charm
or them, but heaven entrances their
pirit. They often divide their seant
rust with some forlorn wretch who
nocks at their door at night, and on the
last Of the night wind. as the door
pens to let them in, is heard the voice
him who said. II was hungry. and he
ID me-" No cohort Of heaven will be
70 bright to transport them. BylGod's
slp they have vanquished the Assyrian
ost. They have divided among them
le spoils. Lame, lame, yet they took
ie prey.
MORE CASES IN POINT.
Twas riding along the country road
ne day, and / saw man on crutches.
overlook him. He was very old. He
as going very slowly. At that rate it
'ould have taken him two hours to go a
lile. said, Wouldn't you like to
DEF" He said: "Thank you, would.
Iod bless you" When he sat beside
le, he said: "You see, l am very lame
nd very old, but the Lord has been =
ood Lord to me. have buried all my
hildren. The Lord gave them and the
ord had right to take them away.
'lesssd be his namel / was very sick,
nd had no money, and my neishbors
anne in and took care of me, and wanted
othing. Isuffer a great deal with pain,
ut then have so many mercies left.
he Lord has been good Lord TO me-"
And before we had got far / was in
oubt whether l was giving him ride
r he was giving me q ridel He said:
Now, If You please, I'll get out here.
ust help me down on my crutches, II
on please. God bless you. Thank you,
II. Good morning. Good morning.
'ou have been feet to the lame, sir, you
ave. Good morning"
Swarthy men had gone the road that
ay. do not know where they came
Mt, but every hobble Of that old man
,as toward the shining gate. With his
Id crutch he had struck down many
of temptation which has
Mastered you and me. Lame, 50 fear
ully lame, 80 awfully lame. but he took
be prey.
ounities many orphans. During our
ast war and in the years immediately
ollowing, how many children at the
,orth and south 1--WE heard say, "Oh' my
ather was killed in the war" Have you
ver noticed-I fear you have not-how
veil those children have turned outf
starting under the greatest disadvan-
age. no orphan asylum could do Tor
hem what their father would have done
lad he lived.
The skirmisher sat one night by the
ieht Of fagots in the swamp, writing a
etter home, when a sharpshooters onl-
Il ended the letter which was never
oIded never posted and never read
rhose children came up under great dis
advantage. No father to fight their way
or them. Perhaps there was in the oia
amily Bible an old yellow letter pasted
,L;oh told tha story of that fathers