The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-02-02

and Thanks for children good, n
Christian, and kind; and a prayer for
the wandering boy. whom she hopes to
see come home before her departures:
and then her trembling lips speak of
the land of reunion where she expects
to meet her loved oncs already
translated; and after telling the
Lord in very simple language how
much she loves Him, and trusts
Him, and hopes to see Him soon, | hear
her pronounce the qniet Amen" and
she rises up-a little more difficult eff
fort than kneeling down. And then
she puts her head on the pillow for the
night, and the angels of safety and
peace stand sentinel about that couch
in the farm house: and her face ever
and anon shows signs of dreams about
the Heaven she read of before retiring.
In the morning the days W orls has be-
gun downstairs, and seated at the table
the remark is made: Mother must
have oversight herself" And the
grandchildren also notice hat grand
mother is absent from her usual place
at the table. One of the grandchil-
dren goes to the foot of the stairs and
cries: grandmother" But there is
no answer. Fearing something is the
matter, they 90 up to see, and all seems
right. The spectacles and Bible on the
stand, and the covers of the bed are
smooth, and the face is calm, her white
hair on the white pillow-case like SHOW
already fallen. But the soul is gone
up to look upon the things hat the
night before she had been reading of
in the Scriptures. What u transport
ing look on her dear old wrinkled facet
She mas seen the King in His beauty"
She has beer welcomed by the Lamb
who was slain" And her two oldest
sons, having hurried upstairs, look and
whisper, Henry to George: THAT is re-
ligion!' and George to Henry: ''Yes,
hat is religion
There is u New York merchant who
has been in business l should say forty
or fifty years. During an old-fashioned
revival of religion in boyhood he gave
his heart to God. He did not make the
CHASTITY, and infinite, and everlasting
mistake of sowing wild oats" with
the expectation of sowing good wheat
later on. He realized the fact that
most of those who SOW wild oats"
never reap any other crop. He started
right, and has kept right. lie went
down in 1857. when the banks failed,
but he failed honestly, and never lost
his faith in God. Ups and downs-he
sometimes laughs over them-but
whether losing or gaining, he was grow
ing better oil the time. He has been
In many business ventures, but he
w ventured the experiment of gain
ing the world and losing his soul. He
has kept many q business man from
failing by lending his name on the
back of q note till the crisis was past.
All heaven knows about him. for the
poor woman whose rem he paid in her
last days, and the people he ncour
aged in many ways, after they entered
Heaven kept talking about It; for the
immortals are neither deaf nor dumb.
Well, It Is about time for the old mer-
chant himself to quit earthly residence.
As 1t Is toward evening, he shuts the
safe, puts the roll of newspapers in his
pocket, thinking that the family may
like to read them after he gets home.
He folds up q IS bill and gives 1t to the
boy 10 carry to one Of the carmen who
got his leg broken, and may be in need
OF q little money; puts "A stamp on q
letter to his grandson at college, q let
ter with good advice and an Enclosure 10
make the holidays happy; then looks
around the store or Office and says
to the clerks, Good evening"" and
starts for home. He enters his own
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earth. lie does not say much. No
last words are necessary. His whole
life has been n testimony for God and
Righteousness. Every hour in Heaven
for all the million years of eternity
that old merchant will see the results
OF his earthly beneficence and fidelity;
while on the street where he did bust
ness, and in the orphan asylum in
which he was d director, and in the
church in which he was an officer,
whenever his geniality, and benefi-
cence, and goodness are referred to,
bank director will say to bank director.
and merchant to merchant, and neigh.
Dor to neighbor, and Christian to
Christian: ''That IL religion. Yes, that
Is religion"
There is a man seated or standing
very rear you. Only q few minutes
ago he came down off the steps OF a.
happy q home as there Is In this or any
othe city. Fifteen years ago. by rea.
son Of his dissipated habits, his home
was a horror t wife and children.
What that woman went through with
in order to preserve responsibility and
hide her husbands disgrace is a trag.
edy which it would require q Shake.
speare or Victor Hugo to write out in
five tremendous acts. Instead of his
supporting her, she supported him.
The children had often heard him
prayer. only in profanity. 1t was
the saddest thing on earth tina,
l can think of-a destroyed
home! Walking along the street
one day an representation of all
wretchedness, he saw q sign at the door
of q Young Mems Christian association,
Meeting for men only" He went in
hardly knowing why he did so, and sat
down by the door, and a young man
was 10 broken voice and poor grammar
telling how the Lord had saved him
from o dissipated life, and the man
back by the door said to himself, why
cannot l have the Lord do the same
thing for me? And he put his hands
all atremble over his bloated face, and
said, 20, God, want that! must have
that" and God said: lyon shall ha We
1t, and you have II now" And the man
came out and went home u changed
man. What changed that man? What
reconstructed that home? What took
that wife, who was a slave Of fear and
drudgery, and made her a queen on a
throne of affection? lear q whisper.
ing all through this assemhlage. ]
know what you are saying: That's
religion! Yes. that's religion!" My
Lord and my God, give us more of it!
Why, my hearers, from all parts of
the earth. do you not get this bright,
and beautiful, and radiant. and bliss
full. and triumphant thing for your.
selves, then go home telling all your
neighbors on the Pacific, or in Nova
Scotia, or in Louisiana, or Maine, or
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