News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-01-24


From all nations cur foreign popula-
lions have como, and they are homesick,
far away from the place Of their child
hood arl tho graves Cf their ancestors,
end oUr glorious religion presented to
them Alright will meet their needs and
/ fill their souls AID kindlo their enthusi-
Rsm. They shall come from amid tho
wheat sheayes of Dakota, and from the
ore beds CT Wyoming, and from the sill
yer mines of Nevada, and from the gold
en- gulches of Colorado, and from the
banks of the Platte, and the Oregon. and
the Sacramento, and the Columbia.
''They shall como from tho west"
InTited TO Sit Down.
But Wha. WI they do after they
rome? Hero is something GlGiously con-
lolatory that you have never noticed,
"They shall come from tho east, and
Tho west, and the north, and the south.
AID shall sit down." Oh, this il tired
world Tho most of people are kept on
tho run all their lifetime. Business keeps
them ON the run. Trouble keeps them
on tho run. Rivalries of life keep them
on the run. They are running from dis
aster. They arc running for reward.
And those who run the fastest and run
the longest seem best t0succeed. But my
text suggests a restful posture for all
Gods children, for all those who for a
lifetime have been on the run. "They
shall sit down." Why run any longer!
When a man gets heaven, what more
can he get? "They shall sit down" Not
alone, but picked companioIship Of the
universe; not embarrassed, though Sc
faph should sit down on ono side of you
and an archangel on the other.
There is that mother who, through all
the years of infancy and childhood, was
kept running amid sick trundle beds,
now to shake up the pillow for that
flaxen head, and now to give drink to
those parched lips, and now to hush the
frightened dream of a little one, and
when there was ono less of the children,
because the great lover of children had
lifted one out Of the Group into the easy
breathing Of celestial atmosphere, the
mother putting all tho more anxious care
on those who were left, SO weary Of arm
and foot and back and head, so often
crying out: II an1&o tired am so
tired" Her work done, she shall sit
down, and that business man for 80, 40,
30 years has kept on the run, not urged
by selfishness, but for the purpose Of
achieving q livelihood for the household
On tho run from store to store, or from
factory to factory, meeting this loss and
discovering that inaccuracy and suffer
ing betrayal or disappointment, never
more to be cheated Or perplexed or exas-
perated, he shall sit down, not in great
armchair of heaven, for the rockers of
such chair would imply ones need of
soothing, Of changing t0easy posture or
semi-invalidism, but throne, solid as
eternity and radiant as the morning aft
Br a night Of storm. '"They shall sit
down"
The Heavenly Rest.
notice that the most of tho styles of
Toll require an erect attitude. There are
the thousands of girls behind counters,
many such persons through the inhu-
manity of employers compelled to stand,
even when because of lack of custom
ers there is no need that they stand.
Then there are all tho carpenters and
the stonemGsonG and the blacksmiths,
and the farl- rs, and the engineers, and
the ticket agents, and the conductors.
In most trades, in most occupations,
they must stand. But ahead of all those
who love and serve the Lord is a resting
place, complete relaxation of fatigued
muscle, something cushioned and up
holstered and embroidered, with the
very ease Of heaven. "4hey shall sit
down." Rest from toll, rest from pain,
rest from persecution, rest from uncer-
tainty. Beautiful, joyous, transporting,
everlasting rest
Oh, men ard women IF the frozen
north, and the blooming south, and from
the realms Of tho rising ur setting sun,
through Christ get yon sins forgiven
and start fer the place where you may
at last sit down in blissful recovery
from the fatigues of earth, while there
roll over you the raptures Of heaven.
Many of you have had such rough tus-
sic in this world that if your faculties
were not perfect i'll heaYCn you would
some time forget yourself and say, 1T is
time for me to start on t1at journey"
or at must be time for Il ? to CONT out
the drops of that medicine. " or Il y. y.
der what Few attack there is o. 80
through the newspapers? ?r DC :,lu
think will save anything of those crops
from the grosshoppers, Or the locusts, or
the droughts?" or II wonder how much
l have lost III that last bargain!" or II
must hurry lest miss the train" No,
no! The last volume of direful, earthly
experiences will be finished. Yea, the
last chapter, the last paragraph, tho last
sentence, tie last word. Finisl
Frederick the Great, Notwithstanding
the mighty dominion over which
reigned WIS so depressed at times 10
could not speak without crying, and
carried a small bottle of quick pois Al
with which to end his misery when Lo
could stand it 10 longer But give Jod
this small vial of gospel anoSyne, &c
drop of which, not hurting either be ?
or soul, ought to sootho all unrest d
put your pulses into an eternal calr.
'They shall como from tho east, ard
from tho west, and from the north, and
the south, and shall sit down."
KARL,s @ee|G.