Milford chronicle., 1896-01-24


cheering word, go and tell them They
: may be almost ready to give up thoir mis-
sion. They may De almost in despair be
cause of the scanning lack of results. One
word from you may be an ordination that
will start thom on the chief work Of theil
lifetime. a Christian woman said TO hci
pastor: My usefulness is done. / 90 not
know why my life is spared any longer,
because 1 can do no good. Then tire
pastor replied, You do me great good ev-
cry Sabbath" She asked, "Eow do dc
you any good?' and ho replied, I'm the
first place you are always in your scat in
the church, and that helps me, and in tic
second place you are always wide awake
and alert looking right up into my face,
and that helps me; and in the third place
often see tears running down your
checks and that helps me-. What "a good
thing he did net wait until she was dead
before no said sol
Helpfuiness OF Appreciation.
Thoro are hundreds Of ministers who
have hard work 10 make sermons because
no one expresses any appreciation. They
are afraid of making him vain. The mo-
ment tho boncdiction is pronounced they
turn on their heels and go out. Perhaps it
was subject on which lie had put especial
pains. He sought for the right text, and
then did lis best to put the cid thought
into some now shape, He had prayed that
it might go to the hearts Of tho people
Ho had added to the argument the most
vivid illustrations he could think of. He
had delivered all with a power that left
him noryously exhausted Five hundred
people may have been blessed by it, and
/ resolved upon higher life and nobler pur-
poses. Yet all he hears is the olank of the
pew door, or the shutting of feet in the
I aisle, or some remark about the weather,
the last resort Of inanity. Why did not
/ that man come up and say frankly, You
I have done me good? Why did not some
woman come up and say, 3" shall go home
/ to take up tho burden Of life moro cheer
/ fully?" Why did not some professional
man come up and say THANK you, dom
inio, for that good advice? l will take it.
God bless you" Why did they not tell
him so? have known ministers, in the
nervous reaction that comes to some after
tho delivery Of a sermon with NO. seeming
result, to 60 home and roll ON the floor in
agony.
But to make up for this lack of out
spoken religion there needs to be and will
be a great day when, amid the solemnities
and grandeurs of listening universe,
God will say So D." Nostatistics can state
how many mothers have rocked cradles
and lowered over infanrile sicknesses and
brought up their families to manhood and
womanhoOd and launched them upon use
full and successful lives and yet never re-
ceived one 'Thank you'll" that amounted
TO anything, Tho daughters became
queens in social life or were aflianced in
highest realms of prosperity; tho sons took
tho first honors of the university and be-
pgma radiant in monetary or professional
spheres Now the secret Of all that up
lifted maternal influence must come out.
Society did not say so, the church did not
say so, the world did not say SO, but on
that day Of oil other days, the last day,
God will say so.
There are men to whom life is a grind
and n conflict, hereditary Tendencies to be
overcome, accidental environments to be
endured, appalling opposition to be met
and conquered, and they never so much
as bad a rose pinned to their coat lapel in
admiration. They never had a song dedi-
Gated to their name They never had a
book presented to thom with oompli-
montary word on tho fly leaf, All they
have to show for their lifetime battle is /
scars. But in tho last day the story will |
CQAlb OuNs anu Allihb 4ilH W III pun III AOlI
and transcendent rhythm, and their cour- |
age and persistence and faith and victory /
will not only be announced, butrewarded. |
"These are they that came cut of great |
tribulation and had their robes washed |
and made white in the blood of the Lamb. -
God will say so!
Last Judgment.
We miss ono of tho chief ideas Of a last
-. 4 L.
fire, and tho smoke and the earthquake,
and the descending angels, and the upris-
ing dead, but wo omit to put into the pic
ture that which makes the last Judgment
a magnificent opportunity. We omit the
fact that it is to be day of glorious OK
PLANTATION and commentator. The first
Justice that millions Of unrewarded and
and unappreeiated men and
women get will be ON That day when serv-
ices that never called forth so much as a
line of finest pearl or diamond
type as the printers term it, shall be
called up for coronation. That will be the
day of enthrOnoment for those whom the
world called "nobodies. - Joshua who
the sun and moon to stand
still, needs 10 last Judgment to got justice
done him, but those mon do need a last
Judgment who at times, in all armies, un
der the most violent assault, in obedience
30 command, themselves stood still Deb
5rah who encouraged Bnrak to bravery
in battle against the oppressors Of Israel,
needs no last judgment to get justice done
1er, for thousands of years have clapped
1er applause But tho wives who in all
ages have encouraged their husbands in
the battles Of life, women whose names
were hardly known beyond the next street
or the next farmhouse, must have Gcd say
to them; Z" You did Welt You did glori-
ouslyl saw yon down in that dairy.
watched you in the old farmhouse mend
Ing those clildren's clothes. heard what
you said in tho way of cheer when the
Breadwinner of the household was in de-
ipair. 1 remember all the sick cradles you
nave sung to. remember the hackGches,
Tho headaches, the hoartgches. | know the /,
story of your knitting needle rs well as /
know the story Of queens scepter. Your
,astle on the heavenly hill is all ready for 9
you. Go up and take itv Ar.1 turning
% the surprised multitudes Of heaven he s
will say, 'She did what she could. F" God l
will say SO. I
Personal TVsesmony. /
And now 1 close with giving my own 4
PERSONAL testimony, for / must not enjoin Y
lpon others that which / decline myself
o do Born at Bound Brook, n. j., of =
iarentage as pious as the world ever saw,
attest before earth and heaven th''t !.
ave always folt the elevating and re- =
training influence Of having had good 4
ather and good mother, and If lam able 9
o do half as we'll for my children as the !,
Id folks did for me l will be thankful =
orever The years Of my life passed on .
ntil, at about s years Of age, felt the y
ressure of eternal realities and after y
rayer and religious counsel passed into
7hat / took TO be q saved state and joined
be church, and l attest before earth and
eaven that ] have found it "a most helpful =
nd inspiring association. / like the COM !,
anionship so well that 1 cannot DO salts =
cd If have day less Of It than all etor- =
ity. After graduating at collegiate and n
theological institutions had tho hands Of &