The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-09-07
And am I to be put of for thousands

And am to be put of for thousands
of years In dark place, with no one to
speak tos When the holidays come and
the gifts are distributed. shall / add no
Joy to the Merry Christmas" or the
Happy New Yearf" All. do not point
down to the hole In tins ground, the
grave, and call 1t beautiful place. I'M
less there be some supernatural illumi-
nation ! shudder back from It. My
whole nature revolts at it. But now this
glorious lamp is lifted above the grave,
and all the darkness Ia gone, and the
way is clear. l look into 1t now without
a single shudder. Now my anxiety is
not about death; my anxiety is that l
may live Alright.
What power Is there in anything to
chill me in the last hour II Christ wraps
around me the skirt Of his own gar
ment? What darkness can fall upon my
eyelids then, amid the heavenly day
break? o death, l will not fear thee
then, Back to thy cavern of darkness,
thou robber of all the earth. Fly, thou
despoiler of families With this battleax
/ hew thee in twain from helmet to
sandal, the voice Of Christ sounding all
over the earth and through the heavens:
80 death, l will be thy plague, o
grave, will BIO thy destruction.
To be saved is to wake up In the pres
ence of Christ. You know when Jesus
was upon the earth how happy he made
every house he went into, and when he
brings us up to his house in heaven how
great shall be our gleel His voice has
more music in it than is to be heard in
all the oratorios Of eternity. Talk not
about banks dashed with eff'orescence.
Jesus is the chief bloom Of heaven. We
shall see the very face that beamed
sympathy in Bethany and take the very
hand that dropped its blood from the
short beam of the cross. Oh, want to
stand in eternity with him. Toward
that harbor steer. Toward that goal I
run. l shall be satisfied when awake
in his likeness.
GIorified In Heaven.
Oh, broken hearted men and women,
how sweet it will be in that good land
to pour all of yonr hardships and be-
reavements and losses into the loving
ear of Christ and then have him explain
why it was best for you to be 81 and
why it was best for you to be widowed,
and why it was best for you to be per-
secuted, and why it was best for you to
DO tried and have him point to an ele-
walton proportionate to your disquietude
here, saying, "You suffered with me Oh
earth; come up now and be glorified with
me in heaven.
Some one went into a house where
there had been a good deal of trouble
and said to the woman there, "You
seem to be lonely" Eyes," she said;
II am lonely" "How many in the fam
ily?" "Only myself" "Have you had
any children?'' II had seven children. )"
Where are they?" Gone" CAN
gomez GAIL" "All deadf" "All. ;"
Then she breathed long sigh into the
loneliness and said, ooh, sir, have
been a good mother to the grave"
And SO there are hearts here that are
utterly broken down by the bereave-
ments Of life I point you today to the
eternal balm of heaven. Oh, aged men
and women who have knelt at the
throne of grace for threescore years
and ten will not your decrepitude
change for the leap Of heart when you
come to look face to face upon him
whom having not seen you love? Oh,
that will be the Good Shepherd. not
out in the night and Watching to keep
off the wolves, but with the lamb re-
elining on the sunlit hill. That will be
the Captain Of our salvation, not amid
the roar and crash and boom of battle,
but amid his disbanded troops keeping
victorious festivity. That will be the
Bridegroom of the church coming from
afar, the bride leaning upoi, his arm
while he looks down into her face and
says: Behold, thou art fair, my Lowell
Behold, thou art fairl''