The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-09-05


has saved me. Don't cry, mamma.
l shall go right straight up to Heaven"
And then they gave him n glass of
water to cool his hot lips and said:
Mamma, shall take draught from
the water of life after awhile, of which
if one drink lie shall never get thirsty
again. lay myself at Jesus feet and
l want Him to do just what He thinks
best TO do with me-" In those days,
Rest for the Weary" was new hymn,
and he had learned it; and in per-
feet ecstasy of soul, in his last hour, he
cried out,
In the Christians home in glory
There remains n land OF rest:
There my Sayiour's gone before me
TO tlfull my souls request;
There is rest for the weary,
There Is rest for you.
Sing. sing. We heirs OF glory,
Shout your triumphs rs you go:
lions gates are open for you. .[N
You shall lind an entrance through
There is rest for the weary.
Oh, there is nothing sad about a
child's death save the grief in the par
ents' heart. You see the little ones go
right out from world of sin or suffer
ing TO a world of JOY. How many sor-
rows they escape, how many tempta-
tions, how many troubles! Children
dead are safe. Those that live are in
peril. We know not what dark path
they may take. The day may come in
which they will break your heart; but
children dead are safc-safe for
ever. Weeping parents, do not
mourn too bitterly over your child
that has gone. There are two
kinds of prayers made Mt u child's sick
bed. One prayer the Lord likes; the
other prayer He does not like. When
soul kneels down at child's sick
bed and says: 20, Lord, spare thi lit
tie one; he is very near to nv heart;
l don't want to part with him, but
Thy will be done"-that is the kind
of prayer the Lord loves. There
is another kind of prayer which
l have heard men make in sub
stance when they say: 30
Lord, this isn't right; it is hard TO take
this child you have no right to take
this child spare this child; can't give
him up, and / won't give him up"
The Lord answers that kind of
prayer sometimes. The child lives on
and lives Oh, and travels off in paths
of wickedness to perish. AT the end of
every prayer for child's life say:
"Thy will, o, Lord, be done" m
The brightest lights that can be
kindled Christ has kindled. Let us.
old and young, rejoice that Heaven is
gathering up so much that is attractive.
In that far land we are not strangers.
There are those there who speak our
name day by day, and they wonder why
So long G;c tarry If Guild count up
the names of all those who have gone
out from these families into the King.
dom of Heaven, it would take me all
day to mention their names A great
multitude before the throne. You
loved them once; you love them now:
and ever and anon you think you hear
their voices calling you Upward. All,
yes, they have gone out from all
these families, and you want no
book to tell you of the dying
experience of Christian children.
You have heard it; II it has been
whispered in your ear, father, o
mother, o brother, o sister. Toward
that good land all Christians are bear.
ing. This swapping OF heart strings,
this fight of years, this tread of the
heart, reminds us that we are
passing away. Under spring bios.
SONS, and through summer har.
vests, and across oitumnal leaves,
aud through the wintry snow
banks, we are passing on. o, rejoice
at it, children of God, fejQicel How
we shall gather them up.l the loved
and the lost! Before we mount our
throne, before we drink of the foun.
tain, before we strike the harp of our
eternal celebration, we will cry out:
Where are our beloved and lost?"
And then, how we shall gather them
upl Oh, how-wc shall gather them up!
In the dark world OF SIN pnd pain
We on'y meet to part again;
But when we reach tho Heavenly shore
We there shall meet to part no more.
The hope that we shall soc THAI day
Should chase our present griefs away;
When these short years of pnin are past
Vol meet before the throne ~ Last