Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-03-29

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mine eyes have seen Thy salvation"
"Pshaw," says the father, Il never felt
so much like living in my life as now.
| want to see what that fellow IS going
on to do he has begun so well.
Q. men and women here assembled.
1 you brag sometimes how you have
/ fought your way in the world but
! think there have been helpful intiu-
ences that you have never fully ac-
lknowledged. Has there not been some
influence in your early or present
home that the world cannot see? Does
| there not reach TO you from among the
New England hills or from western
prairies, or from southern plantation
or from English or Scottish or Irish
home. a cord of influence that has kept
you right when you would have gone
astray and which, after you had made
crooked track, recalled you? The
rope may be as long as thirty years or
five hundred miles long or three thou
sand miles long, but hands that went
out of mortal sight long ago still hold
the rope. You want very swift
horse, and you need to rowel him with
sharpest spurs. and to let the reins lie
loose upon the neck, and TO give
shout to a racer, if You are going to
ride out of reach of your mother
prayers Why, ship crossing
he Atlantic in seven days cam
sail away from them! A sailor finds
them on the lookout as he takes
his place, and finds them on the mast
as he climbs the ratlines TO diseutangle
a rope in the tempest, and finds them
swinging on the hammock when he
turns in. Why not be frank and ac.
Knowledge 1.-THE most Of us would
long ago have been dashed 70 piece
mad not gracious and loving hands
steadily and lovingly and nightly
held the rope.
But there must come time when we
shall find out who these Damaseenes
we're who lowered Paul IN the basket
and greet them and all those who have
readered to God and the world unreeog-
lized and unrecorded services. Thai
is going TO be one of the glad excite
nents of Heaven-the hunting up and
picking olt of those who did great
.ood on earth and got no credit for it
Here the church has been going o.
nineteen centuries, and this IS prob |
ABLY the first sermon ever RECOGNIZING |
4he services of the people in that Da- /
nascus balcony. Charles G. Finney |
said to a dying Christian: Give m5 |
owe To ST. Paul when YOU meet him |
When you and | meet him as we viii /
shall ask him to introduce me to thost /
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Gene peril
once for thirty-six hours we eN
5eeted every moment to GO the bottom I
# the ocean The waves struci .
through the sl5ylights and rushe
lown into the hold of the ship and I
Kissed against the boilers 1t was at
lwful time: but by the blessing OF God [
md the faithfulness Of the men in
'harge, we came out of the cyclon
md we arrived at home. Each one be.
ore leaving the ship thanked Capt
Andrews, / do not think there was
man or woman that went off that shif /
without thanking Capt. Andrews, and
when years after | heard of his death
was impelled to write letter OF con
,olence to his family in Liverpool
Everybody recognized the goodness
The courage, the kindness of Capt. An
irews; but IL occurs to me now tina
we never thanked the engineer. lie
stood away down in the darkness amid
kissing furnaces doing his whole duty
Nobody thanked the engineer, but COD
recognized his heroism and his con
tinuance and his fidelity, and there
viii be just as high reward for the en-
gineer who worked out Of sight as the
captain who stood on the bridge o.
the shin in the midst Of the bowling
tempest.
A Christian woman was seen going
along the edge of a wood every even
tide, and the neighbors in the country
did not understand how mother with
so many cares and anXieties should
waste so much time as to be idly Sam
tering out, evening by evening. 1t twas
found out afterward that she went
there to pray for her household and
while there one evening she wrote that
beautiful hymn. famous in all ages for
cheering Christian hearts:
love to steal a VIII lie away
From every imbering care,
And spend the hours OF setting day.
In humble, grateful prayer
Shall there be no reward for such un.
yet everlasting service?
We go into long sermons to prove
that we will be able to recognize peo-
pie in Heaven. when there is one reason
we fail to present, and that is better
than all-God will introduce us We
shall have them all pointed out You
would not be guilty of the impoliteness
Of having friends in your parlor not
and celestial politeness viii
demand that we be made acquainted {
with all the heavenly household. What
of old times and recital of
stirring "reminiscences. If others fail !
to give introduction. God will take us
through, and before our first twenty
four hours in Heaven-if it were ealcu.
lated ny earthly timenieeRs-havaH