Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-11-21


lat DAYS were spent like princes
~ Won think my Lord Is going =
turn az His old soldiers because tncy
~ weak and worn and because they
tainted BY the brook Besor? Arc tney
going te, get no part OF tne spcn'
Of the victory? just look at them De
Won think those crevices in the face are
'wrinklesq No; they are battle scars
They fought against sickness, they
fought against trouble, they fough'
against sin, they fought for God, they
fought for the church, they fought 1oi
the truth, they fought for Heaven.
When they had plenty OF money thelf
names were always on the subscription
list. When there was any hard work
to be done for God, they were ready 70
take the heaviest part Of it. when
there came a great revival, they were
ready to pray all night for the anxious
and the sinstruck. They were ready
to do any work, endure any sacrince,
do the most unpopular thing that GOO
demanded Of them. But now they can
not 90 further. Now they have physi-
cal infirmities. Now their head trou-
bles them. They are weak and faint
bv the brook Besor. Are they to have
no share in the triumph? Are they to
get none of the treasures, none OF the
spoils of conquest? You must think
that Christ has very short memory II
you think He has forgotten their serv-
ices.
Fret not, We aged ones. just larry
by the stuff and wait for your share OF
the spoils. Yonder they are coming.
hear the bleating of the fat lambs and
see the jewels CLINT in the sun. II
makes me laugh to think how you will
be surprised when they throw a chain
of gold over your neck and tell You to
go in and dine with the King see
YOU backing out because you feel un-
worthy. The shining ones come up on
the one side, and the shining ones come
up on the other side, and they push
you on, and they push you up, and they
say: "Here is an old soldier OF Jesus
Christ and the shining ones will rush
out towards you and say: Eyes, that
man saved my SOUL" or they will rush
out and say: "Oh, yes, she was with me
in the last sickness" And then the cry
will 60 round the circle:"Comc in, come
in, come up; we saw you away down
there, old and sick and decrepit and
because you could not go
TO the front, but AS his part is that
goeth down to the battle, so shall his
part be that tarrieth by the stuff"
There is high consolation, also, in this
for aged ministers. see some OF them
here to-day They sit in pews in our
churches. They used to stand in pull
pits. Their hair is white with the
blossoms OF the tree Of life. Their
names marked on the roll Of the gen.
sral assembly, or of the consolation,
: Emeritus. They sometimes hear a
ext announced which brings to mind
/ sermon they preached fifty years
,go on the same subject. They
preached more gospel on $500 year
han some Of their successors preach
IN $4,000, Some Sunday the old min
ster is In church, and near by il
mother pew there is. husband anc
! wife and row of children. Ano
lfter the benediction, the lady comes
Up and says, Doctor, you don't know
ne, do you?" WELL" he says. your
ace is familiar, bat ! cannot call you
~ name. Why" she says, lyon bap-
lied me and you married me and yor
,uried my father and my mother and
listers" "Oh, yes" he says, my eye
light isn't as good as it used to be.
There are in all our churches the he
oes of 1920 the heroes of 1882. the he
oes of 1857. BY the long grave trenc
hat cut through half a century, thes
ave stood sounding the resurrection
they have been in more Sebastopols |
han you ever heard of. Sometimes
hey get little fretful because they
annot be at the front They hear the
ound Of the battle and the old war
lorse champs his bit. But the GO, O0C
minister's of religion, this day standing
n the brunt of the fray, shall have NO
more reward than those retired veter-
ms. my father, my father, the char
OF Of Israel and the horsemen there.
f." "As his part is that goeth down
o the battle, SO shall his part be that
arrieth by the stuff
Cheer up, men and women. of unap-
'reciated services. You will get your
eward, If not here, hereafter When
'harles Wesley comes up to Judgment,
nd the thousands of souls which were
waited into glory through his songs
hall be enumerated, he will take his
hrone. Then John Wesley will come
p to judgment, and after his name
as been mentioned in connection with |
he salvation Of the millions OF souls
rought to God through the Methodism
which he founded, he will take his
hrone. But between the two thrones
I Charles Wesley and John Wesley.
here will be throne higher than
ither, on which shall sit Susannah
Wesley, who with maternal conse-
ration in Epworth rectory, Licoln-
hire, started those two souls on their
mission of sermon ant.
ong through all following ages. Oh,
hat day that will be for many who
ocked Christian cradles with weary
Dot, and who patched worn-out gar