The Penn's Grove record., 1895-08-23

I Nttl u AVlthNltAl%V NItLA Sb'Ns w.. WI Ia Z
know our own weakness or Gods sired IN
until the last plank breaks. IT IL conta Il ~.
bic in us when there is nothing else e. tg4e
hold of that we catch hold "t Col in'".
Why. you do not know h the Lori isl H.
Is not an autocrat seated far IN in a nal H'r
from which He energies once u year, "rrr ti+,
by heralds swinging swords to Gle If Tho yEay
No. But n Father willing. at our cap Il.
stand by us in every crisis AMI ire tea bent
OF life. l tell you what some Of yon ltIa.
ness men make me think OF. A young tn1@
goes OF from home to earn his fortune. III,
goes with his mothar's consent nil heneI lar.
tion. She has large wealth, but his wantE t
make his own fortune. He goes far atav
falls sick. gets ont OF money, He sonisl tot
| the hotel keeper where he IL staying, asding
for lenience, and the answer Ito gels j., 4
you don't pay up Saturday night, you'i b.
removed to the hosntt9i"
The young man sends 70 ura- t@C
same building. No help. He writes TO
| banker who was a friend OF his deceAsr5
! father, No relief. He writes to an tu't
| schoOlmate, but gets no help. Satur iOy
night comes. and hc is moved othe hospital
Getting there, he Is frenzied with grief
and he borrows a sheet of paper and n post
nge stamp, and he sits down, and he write
! home, saying: "Dear neither, 1 am sick un
| to death. Come" 1t is ten minutes OF II
o'clock when she gets tho letter. At IL
| o'clock the train starts. She is 1--WE minnie
from the depot. She gets there IN time t'
nave five minutes to spare. She won, en-
| why n train that can ge thirty miles an hOal
cannot go sixty miles an hour. She ru'het
into the hospital. She says: "Mysoh, whai
does all this mean2 Why didn't YOU sehd fol
me? You sent to everybody but me. You
| knew l could and would help you. Is thi'
| the reward | get for my ndne5s to you nj
| ways?" She bundles him up, takes ti.r
home and gets him well very soon. Now
some of you trent God just rs that yodns
man treated his mother. When you get into
| q financial perplexity, you call on the han.
ker, you call on the broker. YOU call on ypW
creditors, you call on your lawyer for iesa
counsel: you call upon everybody, and wher
you cannot get any help. then you go to Got
You say: go, Lord, I come to Thee. Holy
me now out ofmy perpiexity." Andthel t5ri
comes, though It is tho eleventh hour. re
\ says: "Why did you not send for Me before:
As one whom his mother comforteth, 80 will
[ comfort you" 1t is TO throw us back upon
| God that we have this ministry of tenrs.
Again, 1t is the use of trouble to capari
| :ate us for the Office OF sympathy. The
| priests, under the old dispensatlon. wcro set
| apart by having water sprinkled upon theiI
| hands, feet and head. and by the sprinkling
| ofteurs people are now set apart to the ollie
| OF sympathy. When we are In prosperity We
! Ike to have q great many young people
around III, and we laugh when they laugh,
and we romp when thoy romp, and we ilnq
| when they sing; but whom We have trofble
we like plenty Of old folks around. Why
rhey know how to talk.
Take an aged mother, seventy years OF jse
| aud she Is almost omnipotent in com1pit
Why2 SAe has been through it all. Al
I o'clock In tho morning she goes Over
to comfort a young mother who has Just jost
hor babe. Grandmother knows all a4out
| that trouble. Fifty years ago she felt It'll Al
IL o'clock of that day she goes over TO cbm.
| tort a widowed soul. She knows all ahPut
that. She has been walking in that dark
valley twenty years At 4 o'clock In Ithe
afternoon some ono knocks at the dfor
| wanting bread. She knows all about THAT
4 Two or three times In her life sho camd tc
| her last loaf. AT 10 o'clock that night isht
, goes over to sit up with some one sevetelJ
sick. She knows all about 1t. She knlw.
| all about fevers aud pleurisles and broken
bones. Sh has been doctorlng all her HE,
| spreading plasters and pouring out bftei
| drops and shaking up hot pillows and DON
[ irving things to tempt u poor appetite.
Drs. Abernethy n Rush and Hossckhnt
Harvey were great doctors, but the grettest
doctor the world over saw is an old Christian
| woman. Dear me! Do we not remember
her about the room when we wero SICK il
our boyhood2 Was there any one fht
could ever 80 touch a sore without hurting
Il?
Where did Paul get the ink with whicktt
to write his comforting epistle? Where Hit
David get the Ink to write his comforting
Psalms? Where did John get the Ink to
write his comforting Revelations? They gOt
1t out of their WI tears. When a man mas
gone through the curriculum and has taken
a course of dungeons and im~prisonments
srd shipwrecks, he Is qualified for the work
Of sympathy.
When I began to preach, my u
The subject of trouble were all poetic AMI In
seni blank verse, but God knocked the blank
verse out of mo long 8 and I have found
myself have boon troubled. God make me-
he son Of consolation to the people, Il
would rather be the means OF soothing one
( perturbed spirit to-day than to play q tune
that would set all the sons Of mlrth reehna
In the dance.
Have you any appreciation OF the good ant
glorious times your friends are having in
heaven2 How different 1t Is when they get
news there Of a Christians death from Whist
It is here! 1t is the difference between en-,
oarkation and coming into port. Everything
depends upon which side Of the river you
stand when you hear OF u Oh ,~istian's dcsth.
II you stand on this side OF the river, you
mourn that they go. II you stand OF the
other side OF the river, YOU reIoice that they
come On tho difference between a funeral
on earth and a jubilee In h~eaven-betwten
requiem here and triumph thorc-par4ng
here and reunion therel Together! idve
you thought Of it7 They are together. hot
one Of your departed friends In one lind ind
another in another land, but together, ia lit-
ferent rooms of the same house-the house
Of many mansions. T~ogetherl
l never more appreciated That thought
tina I when we laid away IN her Inst slurbar
my sister Sarah. Standing there IN the VII
lage cemetery, 1 looked around aud SSH,
sThere is father. there Is mother, there "a
grandfather, there Is grandmother, there are
whole circles of kindred" and / though 10
myself, Together In the graye-together
in glory" / am so impressed with the
thought that 1 do not think 1t u any fauGtl-
elsm when some one is going from Tits
world to the next II you make them the
gone, saying, 'Giye my love TO my Parehts,
give my love TO my children, give I
love to my old comrades who are In GLE.
and tell them l am ttytxg to light fhe X j
fight OF faith and ! viii Join them gft,
awhile " l believe the MESSAGE will be-
hvered, and l believe II will increase !
gladness OF those who are before the thru
Together are they, all their tears gone.
My friends, taks this good cheer hd-
with you. Tt1 9 tears OF Bereavement Ii
course your cheek, and Of persecution, Sr'
of trial, are not always to be there. 7--
motherly hand Of God will wipe them u.
away. What IL the use, on the way to si"l
q consummation-what is the use OF fretd
about anything2 Oh, what an exlilaras
1t ought to be in Christian work. See y4
the p~innaeles against the SKYE 1t Is the uy
Of our God, AMI we are approaching H.. ia
let us be busy In the days that remain ior usi
l put this balsam on the wounds OF ypur
heart. Rejoice at the thought OF what Ysur
departed friends have got rid Of, and dat
you have q prospect Of soon making Yiur
own escape. Bear cheerfully the minlstrI OF
tears, and exult at tho thought that sod 1t
Is to be ended. |
There we shall march M tho heavenly stxe,
And ground our arms ut Jesus's feet.
A burglar whom George Steinbad ~