The Penn's Grove record., 1895-02-01

ND O6IWSdu ZIG AtiCk hnAtOo
or in the Institutions OF mercy and grandeur
set up by His ransomed people. Discouraged
work will meet with defeat. Expectanf ane
buoyant work will gain the victory. Star
out with the idea that all men are liars n
scoundrels, and that everybody is as bad a.
he can be, and that society, the churcn
and the world are on the way to demolition |
and the only use you will ever Be to tn,
world will be to increase the value Q
lots in a cemetery. We need @ mort
cheerful front in all our religious work |
People have enough trouble already an
do not want to ship another cargo oftrouoh
In the shape OF religiosity. II religion MAJ
lion and a low. say so. Say It by word o.
by pen In your han !, by face illu'
mined with a divine satisfaction. II thii
world Is ever to be taken for Col, 1t will MOI
lie by groans, but by hallelutahs. IL W.
leouli present the Christian religion as y
really is, in its true attractiveness, an IN,
people would accept 1t, and accept It righ
,wav. The cities, the nations would crJ
,ut |: "Gfye us that, give 1t to us In all III
aoly magnetism and gracious powerI Pu
hat saIye on our wounisi Throw back tn,
,hutters for that morning light. Knock OF
Ehese chains with that silver hammer CIV
is Christ-His pardon, His peace. HIS com.
lori, His heaveni Give us Christ In song
Christ in sermon, Christ In book, Christ In
living exampleF
fatned one inch OF progress. As a tech
hlcaIity 1t befogs more than 1t irradiates. Al
dogmatism 1t Ia an awful failure. But az .
tact, as a reinforcement, as . transngufa.
lion. IL is the mightiest thing that even
Rescended from the heavens or touched tnt
Earth, Exsmpiify 1t In the life of a good
man or q good woman, and no one can help
but like II. A city missionary visited a house
In London and found a sick and dying boy;
There was an orange lying on his bed, and
The missionary said, where oid you FL :,
10 me, He comes here often and reads the
lBible to me and prays with me and brings
me MOS things to eat" "What IL bis
hame?' said the city missionary. ~
forget his NAME" said the sick boy,
hbut he makes great speeches over IN
that great building" pointing to the
l~sionary asked, "was his name Mr.. Glad
~,toneY" "oh, yes" said the boy, ''that ID
lis nsme-Mr. Gladstone |" Do you tell mt
i man can see religion like that and not like
k2 There Is an old fashioned mother In a
.arm house. Perhaps she 10 somewhere In
The seventies, perhaps seventy-fve or sew
rnty-six. It 1s the early evening hour,
Through spectacles No. 8 she Is reading I
newspaper until toward bedtime, when SHIT
lakes up a well-worn book, called the Bible
know from the illumination In her face
,he IL reading one Of the THANKSGIVING
|, psalms, or In Revelation the story OF th'
, Twelve pearly gates. After awhile she close
The book and folds her hands and thinks owe
Ihe past and seems whispering the names o
her children, some OF them on earth an
some of&hem In HEAVIER. Now a smile Is q
her face. and now tear, and sometimes tn
!: ltmtle catches the tear. The scenes Of a Ion
. life come back ( o her. One minute sh
!, lees all the children smiling around hei
!, with their toys and sports and strange qqea
ftioninga, Then she remembers several Q
!, Them down sick with infantile disorders
: Then she sees a short grave, but over It gu
. In marble, "Suffer them to come to Ne.
! Then there Is the wedding hour. and tn
! l~heighbors IN, and the promise OF 81 will,
. and the departure from the old homestead
, then a scene Of hard times, and scant brea
, and struggle. Then she thinks OF a fe'
: rears with gush OF sunshine n fittings {
/ lark shadows and yicissitudes.
Then she kneels down slowly, for man
! rears have stiffened the joints, and the II
a ,esses of a lifetime have made her less sur
I Die. Her prayer is a mixture OF thanks fc
sustaining grace during all those years, an
a hanks for children good and Christian
q md kind, and a prayer for the wanderin
n boy. whom she hopes to see come home b.
Z lore her departure. And then her tremblin
a lips speak Of the land of reunion, where sh
/ Expects to meet her loved ones alread
n translated, and after telling the Lord In vel
/. Iimple language how much she loves Hin
n md trusts Him, and hopes to see Him sooi
hear her ~pronouneeth the quiet "Amen," an
y The rises up-a little more dificuit emo
10 han kneeling down. And then she puts b,
read on the pillow for the night, and Il
u ingels OF safety and peace stand Sci
10 incl about that couch In the far
4 house, and her face ever an
I lnon shows signs Of dreams abo,
Ehe heaven she read OF before retiring. ]
10 he morning the days work has begun dow
,e made, Mother must have oversight he
elf." And tina grandchildren also mott,
ID NAT grandmother IL absent from her usu
re- place at the table. One OF the grandchiidrt
a toes to the foot Of the stairs and erie
g. aGrandmotherr But there 10 no answe
,e Fearing something IL the matter, they 20 !
Il, 10 see, and all seems right. The spectacl
O. and Bible on the stand, and the covers
the bed are smooth, and the face is calr
T. her white haiR on the white pillow case III
NOW on snow already fallen. But her so
70 Is gone up to look upon the things that I
,e hight before she had been reading OF In (
o. scriptures. What . Transporting look on b
u HKing in His beauty" She has been W
a. somed by the tIamb who was slain" Al
II her two oldest sons, having hurried :
stairs, look and whisper, Henry to deort
Il .'That IL rsligionF r. George to Henry, "Y'
hat Is religion u
Of There Is q New York merchant who !
ID ,een In business I should say forty or d
years, During an old-fashioned revival
religion in boyhood he gave his heart
n God. He did not make the CHASTITY and
Of Unite and everlasting mistake OF owl
twild oats, y with the expectation of sowi
Of good wheat later on. He realized the I
that the most Of those who SOW twild oai
= --~- Akkar nron he uta rtad Vii
and has kept right, He went down In Is
when the banks failed, but he failed.honea
OF and never lost his faith In God. Ups q
nd doWns-he sometimes laughs over then
but whether losing or gaining he was gre
~ Ing better all the time. He has been in ma
,rt business ventures, but he never ventured
"a. Experiment Of gaining the world and ]
,se Ing his soul. His name was a poy
nd both in the church and In tho busin
na world. He has drawn more checks for con
an buttons to asylums and chdrches and soho
en- Than any one, except God, knows. He
,rd kept many q business man from falling
I'D lending his name on the back Of q note
The crisis was past. All heaven knows alb
va him, for the poor woman whose rent he p
ses In her last days, and the man with consul
lion In the hospital to whom he sent flow
he and the cordials Just before ascention,
We. The people he encouraged In many ways,
,ng ter they entered heaven kept talking ab
| II, for the imm0rtais are neltner uehI
out dumb. Well, It Is about time for the
ne merchant himself to quit earthly resldei
in As II ia toward evening. he shuts the s
an puts the roll Of newspapers in his poe
'ou thinking that the family may like TO I
not them after he gets home. He folds up
it'll bill and gives 1t to the boy 10 carry to
Of ofthe car men who got his leg broken
mai be in need of q little money pui
his stamp on q letter to his grandson at coll,
OF i letter with good advice, and an inclo'
ure TO make the holidays happy, then X
Irea around the store or ONCE ana says 10
18th clerks, "Good evening"" and starts
the home, stopping on the way at q door to
res how his old friend, a deacon IN the o.
Try, church, 10 getting on since hts last q
'Wn tack OF vertigo. He enters his W no
led, and that ID his last evening on earth.
not does not say much No last words
+ nj necessary. His whole life has b
aIs. a testimony for God and righte'
ne ness, More people would like to att
10 his obsequiea than M house or chit
hes would hold. The ofnciating clergyman
ave gins bis remarks BY quoting from the PSI
nd ist, s.Help, Lord, for the cody man ceas
Ls for the faithful fall from among the chill
b OF men," Every hour In heaven for all
ths million years Of esernity that old merci