Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1894-05-25

home lifeess. The whole church bewailed
him. The solemn procession moved aroun,
to loos upon the still face thAt once hal
beamei the messages OF salvation. LIN,
children were lifted up 10 look at him. And
some Of those whom he hat conioHed IN
days OF sorrow. when they passed that silent
form, made the place dreadful with theii
weeping Another village emptied Of Its
lowers-some Of them put in the shape OF a
cross to symbolic his hope Others put In the
shape OF a crown to symbolic his triumph.
hundred lights blown out in one strong
gust from the open door OF a. sepulchre
Zlklag In ashes
| preached this sermon to-day because
want to rally you, rs David rallied his men,
for the recovery OF the loved and the lost.
want not only to win heaven, but want all
this congregation to go along with me. Ifeel
that somehow l have "A responsibility In your
arriving at that great city. Do you really
want TO Join the companionship OF your love
ones who hav5 gomez Are you as anxious
to Join them as David and his men were Il
join their families? Then am here, In tho
name OF God, TO say that you may and "a
tell YOU how.
| remark In the first place, II you want to
Join your loved ones In glory, you must
travel tho same way they went No sooner
had the hall dead Egyptian been resuscitated
than he plintc the way the captors aud tbs
captivrS hal gone. and David and his mer
followed after. 81 our Christian friends
have gone into another country. and II We
want TO reach their 60 mp lnionship We must
take the slne rotd. Thay repented. We
must repent They prayed. We must pray.
They trusted in Clrist. Wa must trust In
Christ. They lived religious life. Wemust
live religious life. They were In some
things like ourselves. | know, now they ara
gone, there IL Il halo around their names,
but they hid their faults. They said and
did things they ought nsvsr to have said or
done. They were sometimes :ebellious,
sonetim AZ east down. They were far from
being perfect. SO | suppose that when wa
have gone somO things In us that are now
only tolerate may be almost iesplendent.
But as hey wrrs ike uS IN deficiencies wd
on ,ht to b. Ike them in taking u supernaI
Christ to maze up to- this deficits. Had II
NOT been For Jesus they would have all
persisted. but Christ confronted them AMI
sail. Il AN the way an | they TOOK 1t.
have also to say to you TINT the path that
these captives troll WAS q troIbled path and
that David AM his men had to go over the
slms difii ,ut way. While these captives
were being taken orthey said, "Oh. we ara
So tired; wO are 80 sick; we are 50 hungry w
Bat the men who hal cnarse OF them SAID
"Stop this crying. Go on ~ DAVID and his
men also foua 1t harl way Taey had to
travel 1t. Oar frien Is have gone into glory,
an IL Is through much tribulstion that We
are to enter into tue klngio n. How our
loved on IS use TO nave to struggle How
their Old hearts ached How sometimes
they hal tus'le for breai! In our child
hoo W. won tered why there were so many
wrinkles on their faces. We did not know
that what were c1lle crows iset' on their
fac As were thu marks OF the black raven OF
trouble. Did you ever hear the old people,
'e1te by the evening stan ], talk over their
early trials, their hur isnps, the asst
ien'' tho hurials, the disappointments. tins
empty -four barrel when there WERE so many
hungry ones To feel, the sickness almost
unto Heath, where the next dose OF morphine
decided between CHASTITY bereavement and
m unhroicn no circle? Oh, yes 1t was
trouble that whitenei their hiir II was
trouble that shooS the cup In their hands. 1t
was trolble that washed the luster from
their eyes with the rain OF tears until they
needed spectacles. IL was trouble that made
the cane a necessity for their journey. Do
you never remem Der seeing your OF | mother
sittin; on Soma rainy day looking out OF the
window, her elbow on tho win low sill, her
hant to her brow, looking out, not seeln (
the falling shower AT all (you we'll knew she
was looking into the distant past until the
apron came up to her eyes because the mem.
Dry WIS too much for her?
oft thu biz unbl lden tear
Stealing down the fuTruwe cheek,
T"l I IN clhqueucs sinc'rr
ales OF woe they COuli not speak.
But this scene of weeping DER
Past this scene OF toll aud pain,
They shall feel distress more,
Never never weep u.
"Who are those under the altar" tn.
question was asked, and the response came.
These are they which came out OF great
trbulation and have washed their robes anu
mud" them white In the blool OF the Lamb. "
Our friends went 10y path OF tears into
glory. Be not surprised II We have to travel
the same pathway
| remark again, II we want to win tho So
clety OF our friends in heaven, we will not
only have to travel a path of faith and pat
OF tribulation, but we will also have to posi-
lively battle for their complnionship. David
and his men never wanted sharp swords. and
nvunerable ahields, an thick breast plat e.
50 much as they wanted them on the day
when they came down upon the Amellkites
II they had lost that battle they never would
have got their families back. suppose thai
one glance at their loved ones Ia captivity
hurled them into the battle with teniold
courage and energy. They said I'VE mus
win 1t. Everything Deepen Is upon 1t. Lei
each one take man on point OF spear OIL
sword. We must win II. Aud | have e
tell you that between us AN coming into the
companIonship OF our loved ones who ar,
departed there is an Austerltz, there Ia a
Gettysburg, there Is = Waterloo. War with
the world, war with the flesh, war with tn
devil. We have either TO conquer our trou
NrN, Al
will either Stay the Amalekites, or the Amale
kites will SHAY David. Aud yet is not tn
fort to be taken worth all the pain, all tn
peril, all tho beslegemen;2
Look! Who are they on the bright hill
OF heaven yonder2 There they are. thos
who sat at your own table, the chair nov
vacant. There they are, those whom yol
rocked In infancy in the cradle or hushed [,
sleep In your arms. There they are, thos
in whose life your life was bound up. Their
they are, their brow moro radiant than eve
before you saw II, their lips waiting for tn,
kiss OF heavenly greeting, their cheek roseat
with the health Of eternal summer, thei
hands reckoning you up the steep, the fee
bounding with the mirth Of heaven. Tn
pallor OF their last sickness gone gu; Of thei
face, nevermore to he sick, nevermore I,
cough, nevermore to limp, nevermore to b.
old, nevermore to weep. They are wat chin
from those heights TO see II through Chris
you can take that fort, and whether you will
rush In upon them-victors. They know
that upon this battle depends whether yo,
will ever join their society. up Strik
harder Charge more bravely Remembe
that every inch you gain puts you so mucl
farther on toward that heavenly reunion.
II this morning while | speak you coul,
hear the cannonade Of foreign enem
which was to despoil your city, and II the
really should succeed In carrying you
families away from you, how long would W
take before we resolved TO go after them
Every weapon, whether fresh from tn,
armory or old and rusty In the garnet. woulC
be brought out, and we would urge on, anC
coming In front OF the foe We would look al
them and then look at our families, and tn,
cry would be. Victory or death - and wher
the ammunition was gone we would take tn,
raptors on the point OF the bayonet or unde
the breech OF the gun.
II you would make such struggle To-
ia han at, Ii. N.Ga