Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1897-08-20

teliigence, ardent strivers after that
wili-o' -the-wisp-fortune-and Of one
Of these would speak. He was a young
Enghshman of 90 or "a years, who
came to New York. where he had no ac-
luaiulauces, with barely sufficient to
keep him q couple Of weeks lie had
been tenderly reared, p, haps l should
say TOO tendeTly, and was not used to
earning MS living and found it ex-
tremely difficult to get any position that
be was capable OF filling. After many
vain efforts IN this direction he found
himself on a Sunday evening in Brook
Ign, near your church, with about SO
left Of his small capital. Providence
seemed to lead him TO your door, and
he determined TO go in and hear you
He told me his going to hear you
that night was undoubtedly the turning
point in his life, for when be went into
your church he felt desperate, but while
listening TO your discourse his better
nature got the mastery. | truly believe
from what this young man told me that
Your sounding the depths of his heart
that night alone brought him back to his
God whom he was so near leaving.
A Great Reality.
That is the echo of multitudes | am
not preaching an abstraction, but a
great reality o friendless young man,
o prodigal young man, o broken
hearted young man, discouraged young
man, wounded young man, | commend
TO you Christ this day, the best friend
q man ever hadl He meets you this
morning. Despise not that emotion ris-
ing in your soul; it is divinely lifted.
Look into the face of Christ Lift one
prayer to your fathers God, to your
mothers God, and this morning get the
pardoning blessing Now, while /
speak, you are at the forks of the road,
and this is the right road, and that Is
the wrong road, and l see you start On
the right road.
One Sabbath morning at the close OF
the service l saw gold watch of the
world renowned and deeply lamented
violinist Ole Bull. You remember he
died in his island home off the coast Of
Norway That gold watch he had
wound up day after day through his
last illness, and then be said to his COM
paniun, Nov, l want to wind this
watch as long as can, and then when
am gone ! want you TO keep II wound
up until it goes to my friend, DR.. Dore-
mus, in New York, and then he Will
keep it wound up until his life is done,
and then want the watch to 20 to his
Young son, my especial favorite.
The great musician who more than
any other artist had made the violin
speak, and sing, and weep, and laugh,
and triumph-for it seemed when he
drew the bow across the strings as II
all earth and heaven shivered in de-
lighted sympathy-the great musician,
IN a room looking off upon the sea, and
surrounded by his fayorite instruments
Of music, closed bis eyes in death.
While all the world was mourning at
bis departure lG crowded steamers fell
lltD llc VI luutlAl pANeto14oA W ~e'A-'
his body to the mainland. There were
80, 600 Of bis countrymen gathered in
an amphitheateT Of the hills waiting TO
hear the eulogium, and it was said
when the great orator Of the day with
stentoIian voice began to speak the 3d.
600 people on the hillsides burst into
fears. On, that was the close Of a life
tiat bad done so much to make the
world bappyl But baye TO tell yen,
young man. if you live right and die
right. that was "a tame scene compared
witl that which will greet yea VIXEN
nou the galleries Of heaven The Ia
600 shall accord with Christ in crying,
"Well done, thou good and faithful
servant" And the Influences that on
earth You pat in motion will 90 down
from generation to generation, the III
Guences you wound up handed to your
children, and their influences wound
I'D and handed 20 their children, until
watch and clock are no more needed to
mark the progress, because time itself
shall be no longer