Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1895-11-08

the bleating Of the fat lambs, and see
the Jewels CLINT in the sun. Itmakes me
laugh to think how you will be sur
prised when they throw chain Of gold
over your neck and tell you to go in and
dine with the king. / see you backing
out because you feel unworthy. 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 ont toward
you and say, Eyes; that man saved my
SOUL, ," or they will rush out and say,
ooh, yes; she was with me in the last
sicknessP' And then the cry will go
round the circle: "Come in, come in,
como in, come upl We saw you away
down there, old and sick and decrepit
and discouraged because you could not
20 to the front, but AS his part is that
goeth down to the battle, so shall his
part be that tarrieth by the stuff. "
Inc NGNtThuo anu hho ~NcbC0~os
There is high consolation also in this
for aged ministers. 7 SEQ some Of them
here today They sit in pews i'll our
churches. They used 10 stand in pulpits.
Their hair is white with the blossoms OF
the tree Of life, their names marked on
the roll Of the general assembly, or Of
the consolation, emeritus. They some
times hear a text announced which
brings to mind a sermon they preached
so years ago on the same subject. They
preached more gospel on $500 year
than some of their successors preach on
$4,000. Some Sunday the old minister
is in a church, and near by in another
pew there are husband and wife and a
row of children. And after the benedic-
ton the lady comes up and says, Doc
tor, you don't know me, do your"
well, " he says, your face is familiar,
but cannot call you by name. q"
"Why," sho says, "you baptized me,
and you married me, and you buried my
father and mother and sisters" "Oh,
yes" he says. my eyesight isn't as
good as it used to be-" They are in all
our churchcs--the heroes of 1920, the
heroes Of 1882, the heroes Of 1857. By
the long grave trench that cut through
half q century they have stood sounding
the resurrection. They have been in
more Balaklavas and have taken more
Sevastopols than you ever heard Of.
Sometimes they get a little fretful be-
cause they cannot be at the front. They
hear the sound Of the battle and the old
war horse champs his bit. But the CO.,
900 ministers Of religion this day stand
ing in the brunt Of the fray shall have
no more reward than those retired vet
Grams. my father, my father, the chart
OTIS Of Israel and the horsemen thereof. "
GAS his part is that goeth down to the
battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth
by the stuff. "
Cheer up, men and women Of unap-
preciated services. You will get your
reward, if not here, hereafter. When
Charles Wesley comes up to judgment,
and the thousands Of souls which were
waited into glory through his songs
shall be enumerated, he will take his
throne. Then John Wesley will como
up to Judgment, and after his name has
been mentioned in connection with the
salvation CT tho millions Of souls
brought God through the Methodism
which he founded he will take his
throne. But between the two thrones Of
Charles Wesley and John Wesley there
will be throne higher than either, on
which shall sit Susannah Wesley, who,
with maternal conservation in Epworth
rectory, Lincolnshire, started those two
souls on their triumphant mission Of
sermon and song through all following
ages. Oh, what a day that will be for
many who rocked Christian cradles with
weary foot, and who patched wornout
garments aid darned socks, and out Of
a small income made the children COM
Portable for the winter. What a day that
will be for those to whom the world
gave the cold shoulder and called them
nobodies and begrudged them the least
recognition, and who, weary and worn
and sick, tainted by the brook Besor.
Oh, that will be a mighty day when the
Son of David shall distribute among
them the garlands, the crowns, the scep-
tiers, the chariots, the thrones And
then it shall be found out that all who
on earth Gerved God in inconspicuous
spheres receive just as much reward as
those who filled the earth with uproar
Of achievement Then they shall under
stand the height, the depth, the length,
the breadth, the pillared and domed
magnifcence Of my text, GAS his part
is that goeth down to the battle, so
shall his part be that tarrieth by the
stuff. "