The Penn's Grove record., 1894-05-11
PENIS GROVE, j., FRIDAY. A Il. 1894.

c%ruciled in the massacre OF His modern dis
ciples, and the disabled Juggernaut un-
wheeled by Christianity, and to see IL the
Tai which the Emperor Sha Jehan built In
honor of his empress really means any more
than the plain slab we put above our dear
departed. 1 want to see the fields where
Havelock and Sir Colin Campbell won the
day against the sepoys. 1 want to see the
world from all sides. How much OF it is In
darkness, how much OF 1t is in light, what
the Bible means by the "ends of the earth,
and get myself ready to appreciate the eS-
tent of the present to be made to Chrlst as
spoken OF In the Psalms, "Ask of me, and L
shall give thee the heather for thine Inherit
tance and the uttermost parts of the earth
for thy possession" and so l shall be ready
to celebrate in heaven the victories OF Christ
in more rapturous song than L couid nave
rendered had l never seen the heather
denominations before they were conquered.
Aud so I hope to come back refreshed, re-
enforced ar d better equipped, and TO do IN
! ten wears more effectual work than l have
lone in the last twenty-five.
And now, in this twenty-ffth anniversary
! sermon. / propose TO do two thtngs-hrst, TO
| put a garland on the grave OF the genera
ton that has just passed OF and Their to put
q palm branch In the hand OF the generation
lust now coming on the field OF action, for
my text Is true, "One generation passeth
away. and another generation coneth;" on,
| how many we reyered and honored nn1lovei
In the last generation that quit tine earth /:
Tears fell at the time OF their going, an l
| dirges were sounded, and signals OF MOURN
ing were put on, but neither tears nor dirgo
| nor somber veil told the half We felt. Their
| going left a vacancy In our souls that has
| never been filled up. We never get used TO
their absence. There are times when the
sight of something with which they were as
| sociated-a picture, or a book, or a garment,
or a staff-breaks us down with emotion, Dut
| we bear it simply because we have TO pear IL.
oh, how snow white their hair got, ahu now
| the wrinkles multiplied, and the sight grew
more dim, and the hearing less alert, and the
| step more frail. and one day they were gone
| out OF the chair by the Preside, and from tine
| plate at the meal, aid from the end OF the
| church pew, where they worshtped with us.
| Oh, my soul, how we miss them Buzz iet US
] console each other with the thought thai we
| shall meet them again in the land OF saiuata-
ton and reunion.
And now l tw.St q garland for that de.
parted generation. 1t need not be costly,
perhaps, Just a handful OF clover blossoms
from the held through which they used to
walk, or as many violets as you could hold
between the thumb and the forefnger,
plucked out of the garden where they used
10 walk in the cool OF the day. Pat these old
fashioned flowers right Town over the heart
that never again will ache, and the feet that
will never again be weary, and the arm that
has forever ceased to toll. Peace, father
Pence, mother Everlasting peace! AL that
for the generation gone
But what shall we do with the PAIN
branch? That we will put in the hand OF the
generation coming on. Yours Is to be the
generation for victories. The last and the
present generation have been perfecting the
steam power, and the electric light, and the
electric forces. To these will be added trans
portation. 1t will be your mission TO use
all these forces. Everything Is ready Tor you
to march right up and take TINS worla iot
God and heaven. Get your heart right py
repentance and the pardoning grace OF the
Lord Jesus, and your mind right by elevat.
ing books and pictures, and your body right
by gymnasium and field exercise, and
plenty OF ozone and by looking as often as
you can upon the face of mountain and o.
bea. Then start In Gods name, start AM
here is the palm branch. From conquest to
conquest, move right on and right. up. lou
will soon nave the whole Held Tor your
self. Before another twenty-five years nave
| gone. we will be out of the pulpits. and the
offices, and the stores, and the factories, anc
the benevolent Institutions, and you WA
be at the front. Forward into the battle! l.
God be for you, who can be against you
ale that spared not His own Son, but dsliv
cred Him up for US all, how shall He ne'
with Him also freely give US all things?
And, as for US who are now at the front,
having put the garland on the grave OF the
last generation, and having put the pain
branch in the hand of the coming genera
tion, we will cheer each other in the remain
ing onsets ard go into the SHINING gatt
somewhere about the same time, and greeted
by the generation that has preceded us w
will have to wait only a little while to gree
The generation that will come after US. Ant
will not that be glorious2 Three generation
in heaven together-the grandfather, thu
son and the grandson the grandmother, TN
IIauehter and the granddaughter. AND 81
With wider range and keener faculty w
bhall realize the full Significance of the text
Zone generation passeth away, and another
generation cometh."