Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-08-28

Wates out IN the SoCndieSS, snofeiesS, DOT
tomless ocean OF eternity.
II is trouble. my friends, that makes III
feel our dependence upon God. We do not
know our own weakness or Gods strength
until tho last plank breaks. 1t is contempti.
ole in us when there is nothing else to take
holl OF that we catch hold of God only.
Why. yor do not know who the Lord is! He
is not au autocrat seated far up in n palace,
from which He energes once year, preceded
bv heralds swinging swords to clear the way.
No. But n Father willing, at our call, to
stand 10y us in every crisis and rredicament
OF life. / tell You what some Of you bust.
Ress men make me- think of. A young man
goes OF from home to earn his fortune. He
goes with his mothers consent and benedic.
tion. She has inr-,e wealth, but he wants to
make his own fortune. He goes far away.
falls sick. gets out OF money. He sends fol
the hotel keeper where he is staying, asking
for lcnience, and the answer he gets is, "Ii
you don't pay mp Saturday night, you'll bt
-emoved to tha hosnit9i"
The Young man sends 60 -u----r,r-rr Il ras
same building. No help. He writes to
banker who WAS friend of his deceased
father. No relief. He writes to an oid
schoolmate, but gets no help. Saturday
uight comes. and he is moved TO the hospital
Getting thare he Is frenziel with grief
and he borrows a sheet of paper and n post
age stamp, and he sits down, and he writei
home, saying: "Dear mother, / am sick un
to death. Come" 1t is ten minutes of II
O'Clock when she gets the letter. At II
O'Clock the train starts. She is five minutes
from the depot She gets there in time tc
have five minutes to spare. She wonder
why n train that can go thirty miles an houi
cannot go sixty miles an hour. She rushes
into tho hospital. She says: MY son, what
does all this mean? Why didn't you send fol
me? You sent to everybody but me. Yor
knew I could and would help you. Is this
A.. 7 e.. 81 70 nj
ways?" She bundles him up, takes him
home and gets him well very soon. Now
some OF You treat God just rs that young
man treated his mother. When you get into
n financial perplexity, you call on the ban
ker. you call on the broker. you call on youi
creditors, you call on your lawyer for lesa.
counsel; you cail upon everybody, and wher
YOU cznnot get any help. then You go to God
You say: so, Lord. come to Thee. HelE
me now out ofmy perplexity." And the LORD
comes, though it is the eleventh hour. Ht
says: "Why did you not send for Ne beforei
As one whom his mother comforteth. so will
I comfort you" 1t is to throw Us back upon
God that we have this ministry of tears.
Again, il is the use of trouble to c1paci.
.ate us for the Office OF sympathy. The
priests. under the old dispensation, wcro set
apart by having water sprlnkled upon theii
hands, feet and head. and by the sprinklins
of tears people are now set apart to the office
Ike to havo great many young people
around u-, and VIC laugh when they laugh,
and we romp when they romp, and we sing
when they sing; but when we have trouble
we like plenty of old folks around. Why
They know how TO talk.
Tal;c an aged mother, seventy years OF age
and she Is almost omnipotent in comfort.
Why! she has been through 1t all. Al
+. o'clock In tho morning she goes ovei
10 comfort a young mother who has Just lost
her babe. Grandmother knows all about
that trouble. Fifty years ago she felt 1t. At
IL o'clock of that day she goes over to com.
fort a widowed soul. She knows all about
TINT. She has been walking in that dark
valley twenty years At o'clock in the
afternoon some ono knocks at the door,
wanting bread. She knows all about that
Two or three times in her life she came t
her last loaf. At 10 o'clock that night she
goes over to sit up with some one severely
sick. She knows all about it. She know:
all about fevers aud pleurisieS and broken
bones. She has been dOctoring ell her life,
spreading plasters and pouring ont bittel
frops and shaking up hot pillows and con.
irving things to tempt u poor appetite
Drs. Abernethy and Rush and Hosack and
Harvey were great doctors, but the greatest
doctor the world ever .w IL an old Christian
woman. Dear mel Do We not remember
her about the room when We werc sick IL
our bovhood? Was there any one wht
SOulu ever 50 tOuCH II SOIc WtlGiOu1
II?
Where did Paul get the ink with which to
TO write mis- comforting epiStie? Where die
David get the ink to write his comforting
Psalms? Where did John get the ink to
write his comforting Revelations! They got
1t oI: of their own tears. When man has
cone through the curriculum and has taken
= course of dungeons and imprisonments
srd shipwrecks, he is qualified for the work
OF sympathy.
When began to preach, my sermons on
she subject of trouble were all poetic and in
sert blank verse, but God knoc ked the blank
verse out of me long ago and have found
out that L cannot comfort people except as l
myself have been troubled. God make me
he son of consolation to the people!
would rather bo the means of soothing one
perturbed spirit to-day than to play tune
that would set all the sons of mirth reeling
In the dance.
Have you any appreciation of the good and
glorious times your friends arc having in
heaven? How different it is when they get
news there of Christians death from what
1t 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 IL Christians death.
If you stand on this side OF the river, you
mourn that they so. Ii you stand on the
other side of the river, You rejoice that they
come. On tho difference between a funeral
on earth and n jubilee in heaven-batween
requiem here and triumph thcre-parting
here and reunion there! Together! lave
you thought OF it? They are together No,
one of your depart ,d friends in one land and
another in another land, but togcth r, ID dit
ferent rooms of the same hou,e-the house
Of many mansions. Together.
/ never more appreciated that thought
tina when We laid away in her last ~iunber
my sister Sarah. Standing there in The vii
lage cemetery, looked around and said
"There is father, there Is mother, there is
grandfather, there is Grandmother, there arr
whole circles of kindred" and l thought tc
myself, Together in the grave-toSethel
in glory" l am so impressed with the
thought that do not think it is anJ fanati
cism when some one is going from thi:
world to the next il you make them the
bearer of dispatches to your friends who are
gone, saying, "Give my love TO my parents
give my love to my children, give my
love to my old comrades who are in glory
and tall them 1 am trytlg to fight the good
fight Of faith and l viii join them aftel
awhile l beiisve the massage will be de-
livered, and l balieSe 1. will increase the
gladnes5 of thos. who are before the throne
Together are they. all their tears gone.
My friends, taks this good cheer home
with you. .'t4 > tears of bereavement thai
course your cheek. AMI of persecution, and
of trial, are lot always to be there. Th'
motheriy hand of God will wipe them al
away. What is the use. on the way to suct
consummation-whati is the use OF frettinl
about anything! Oh, what IN exhilaratioI
II ought to be in Christian work! Sec YOU
the pinnacles against the SKY? 1t is the city
Of our Col, AMI we are approaching it. Oh
let US be busy in the days that remain for Us
put this balsam on the wounds OF you
heart. Rejoice mt the thought of what YOU
departed friends have got rid OF. and thai
you have n prospect OF soon making YOU
own escape. Bear cheerfully the ministry 0
tears, and eyult mt tho thought that soon
Is to be ended.
There we shall march up the heavenly stree
And ground our arms at yc5uss Gect.
A man in Sedalia, Mo, is callet
"the human Incubator" He Las mad
a wager to match a g1inca egg by car
ryfng it IN his pocket.
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