The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-05-28

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ana iys 70 ."cn, Goa oiess and keep YOU.
my dear child The day of the obsednies
| comes, and the Officiating cleryvr,,n teiiJ
the story OF wifely aud motherly Sndnran,s
and many hearts on earth anI in benven
! ecno tho sentiment. aud as she is carried ofY
| the stage OF this NOR AZ life there arc crios
| OF Faithful unto death" "She hath done
Whal sue could. while uycrpowering all tho
NolcrS 9i earth anu heaven is tho plaudit OF
INTO 'nr you VINO watched her from first TO last,
saSlhS, well done, good and faithful ser
yant: thf hast been faithful over a feyy
thinSS. / will make thee ruler oyar ,panv
thlhS5' enter thou into the jov of thy LorIi''
but what becamc OF the father of thar
householdF He started rs a young man I'm
business ana had small income, ana huvin,
got little ahead sickness In tho fnmiIv
swept 1t all away. He went through nil tbSo
business panics Of forty years. met many
losses, and suffered many beirayaIs mi
kept right on trusting In God whether bus
mess was good or poor, setting has children
good example, and giving them tho b,st OF
cUunsel, ana never prayer did he Offer for
n'I those years but they were mentioned i'm
H. He Is old now and realizes 1t cannot be
Iohs before hc must quit all These scenes.
But ne Is going TO leave his children nm in
hrrltance OF prayer aud Christian principles
whlch all the dcfalcatons OF earth can never
'ouch; ana aS he goes out of the world tho
snuIch OF God blesses him ana the poor ring
MS dooroell TO see II he IL any better. AMI
MS grave Is surrounded by mutt
tude who went on foot ana stood
there before the procoSson VI carriages came
up, aud some say, "Thera will be no one 10
taRe MS place, and others say. "Who will
pity mo nowF' and others remark, 'He shall
be held In everlasting remembrance. And
rs the drama OF his life closes, all the yocit- |
GRAFTON and braves and oncores that ever |
shook the amphitheaters OF earthly snac,ncIa !
were tame and feeble compared with the 1
long, loud thunders OF approval that shall !
break from the cloud OF witnesses I'm tho
piled up gallery Of the heavens. Choose va
between the life that shall close by being
Missed OF the stage and tho life that shall
'lose amid acclamations supernal and arch
angelic. "'N"
on, men and women on the stage of llfe
many OF you In the first act of tho drama
and others in the second and some Of Won in,
ne third, and few in the fourth, and here
ind there one in the fifth, but all OF Won he
ween entrance and exit, | quote 10 Won ma
ne peroration OF this sermon tho most sug-
'estlye passage that Shakespeare ever wrotC
Ithough you never heard IL recited. rho
'uthor has often been claimed rs inGdal ana
'theistic, so tbs quotation shall bo not only
heipiul to ourselves but grandy
OF tho great dramatist. / 0uoto
rom his last will and testament:
I'm the name Of God, Amen. |. William
OF Stratforl-upon-Avon in the
ounty OF warwick, gentleman. in nerfect
ealth ana memory (Gol bo praised), do |
lake this my last will aud Testament. I'm
lanner and form following; First. / com.
iehd my soul into the hands OF tiod, nv
reator, hoping aud assuredly believin1
trough the only merits OF Jesus Christ. nv
sting"