The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-08-30

aged mother, seventy years o. age
i and she is almost omnipotent IN com
fort. Why? She has been through =
all. At seven o'clock in the morning
she goes over to comfort young
mother who has just lost her BABE
Grandmother knows all about tha'
trouble. Fifty years ago she ieiI H.
At twelve o'clock of that day she goes
| over to comfort a widowed soul She
knows all about that. She has been
I; walking In that dark valley twenty
| years. At four o'clock In the after
noon some one knocks ut the door,
wanting bread. She knows all about
that. Two or three times in her lie
she came to her last loaf. At ten o'clock
that night she goes over to sit up
with some one severely sick. Sns
knows all about it. She knows all
about levers and pleurisies and broken
bones. She has been doctoring all
her life, spreading plasters and pour
ing ont bitter drops and shaking up
hot pillows and contriving things TO
tempt a poor appetite. Drs. Aber-
nethy and Rush and Hosack and Har-
vey were great doctors, but the great
est doctor the world ever saw is an OLD
Christian woman. Dear me! Do we
not remember her about the room
when we were sick in our ,boyhood?
Was there any one who could ever 50
touch sore without hurting it?
Where did Paul get the ink with which
to write his comforting epistle? Where
did David get the ink to write his
comforting Psalms? Where did John
get the ink to write his comforting
Revelation? They got it out OF their
own tears When man has gone
through the curriculum, and has taken
course Of dungeons and imprison-
ments and shipwrccks, he is qualified
for the work of sympathy.
am an herb doctor. ] put into the
caldron the root out OF dry ground,
without form of comeliness Then l
put in the rose of Sharon and the lily
of the valley. Then ! put into the
caldron some of the leaves from the
tree of life, and the branch that was
thrown into the wilderness marah.
Then I pour in the tears OF
Bethany and Galgotha; then stir
them up. Then l kindle under the
caldron fire made out of the wood of
the cross, and one drop of that potion
will cure the worst sickness that ever
afflicted human soul. Mary and
Martha shall receive their Lazarus
from tho tomb. The damsel shall rise.
And on the darkness shall break the
and God will wipe all tears
from their eyes.
Have you any appreciation of the
good and glorious times your friends
are having in Heaven? How different
1t is when they get news there OF q
Christians death from what it is here!
It is the difference between embarka-
tion and coming into port. Every
thing depends upon which side OF the
river you stand when you hear OF a
Christians death. II You stand on
his side of the river. You
MOURN that they 60. If you
stand on the other side of the river,
you rejoice that they come. oh, the
Inference between funeral on earth
ind a jubilee in Heaven-between
'equiem here and triumph there
parting here and reunion therel To
yether! Have you thought of it? They
ire together Not one of your depart
ID friends in one land and another in
mother land; but together, in differ
mt rooms of the same house--the
house of many mansions Together!
never more appreciated that
than when we laid away in
Ter last slumber my sister Sarah.
there in the village Gene
cry, looked around and said: ''There
s father, there is mother, there is
there is grandmother,
here are whole circles of kindred"
md thought to myself: Together
n The grave-together in glory" am
20 impressed with the thought that
do not think it is any fanaticism
when some one is going from this
world to the next if you make them
he bearer of dispatches to your
riends who are gone, saying: ''Give
ny love to my parents, give my love
o my children. give my love to my old |
who are in glory. and tell |
hem am trying to fight the good
ight of faith, and will join them af-
err awhile" | believe the message
will be delivered; and believe it will |
Increase the gladness of those who are
'efore the throne. Together are they,
ii their tears gone.
My friends, take this good-cheer
Iome with you. These tears Of bereave-
nent that course yocr cheek, and of
and of trial, are not al
Ways to be there. The motherly
and of God will wipe them all
way. What is the use, on the way to
uch consummation what is the use
( fretting about anything? Oh. what
n exhilaration it ought to be in Chris