The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09

would md q monument with the Woru
Walter inscribed upon 1t, and
wreath of fresh flowers around the
name. / think there was not an hour
In twenty years, winter or summer
when there was not wreath OF Iresn
flowers around Walters name. But
the Christian mother who sent those
flowers there, having no child leit'
Sabbath afternoons mothered ten OF
twenty OF the lost ones OF the street.
That is beautiful That is what l cali
busy and triumphant sadness. Here
Is a man who has lost his property
He does not go to hard drinking. ne
does not destroy his own life. He
comes and says, Harness me Tor
Christian work. My moneys gone. l
have no treasures on earth. l want
treasures in heaven. l have a voice
and a heart to serve Cod" You say
that that man has failed. He mas not
failed-he has triumphed!
Oh. wish l could persuade all the
people who have any kind of trouble
never to give up. / wish they would
look at the midnight rider OF the text,
and that the four hoofs OF that beast
on which Nehemiah rode might cut to
pieces all your discouragements, and
hardships, and trials. Give up! Who
is going to give up, when on the bosom
of God he can have all his troubles
hushed? Give up! Never think or
giving up. Are you borne down with
poverty? A little child was found
holding her dead mothers hand In
the darkness of tenement house, and
some one coming in, the little girl
looked up, while holding her dead
mothers hand, and said, "Oh, do
wish that God had made more light
for poor folks" My dear. God will be
your light, God will be your shelter.
God will be your home. Are you
borne down with the bereavements or
life? Is the house lonely now that the
child is gone? Do not give up Think
OF what the old sexton said when the
minister asked him why he put so
much care on the little graves. in the
cemetery-so much more care than on
the larger graves, and the old sexton
said, "Sir, you know that of such Is
the kingdom OF heaven and 1 think
the Savior is pleased when he sees
so much white clover growing around
these, little graves" But when the
minister pressed the old sexton for a
more satisfactory answer. the old sex
| ton said. 'Sir, about these larger
| graves, l don't know who are the
Lords saints and who are not; but
you know, sir, it is clean different with
the BARNS" Oh, If you have had that
keen, tender, indescribable sorrow that
comes from the loss of a child, do not
| give up. The old sexton was right. 1t
is all well with the BARNS. Or if you
have sinned, if you have sinned griev-
out by the Church, sinned until you
have been cast out by society, do not
give up. Perhaps there may be in this
house one that could truthfully utter
the lamentation of another:
Once l was pure as the snow, but ]
fell
Fell like a snowflake, from heaven to
hell
Fell, to be trampled as filth in the
Fell, to be scoffed at, spit on and
beat;
Praying, eursing. wishing to die,
Selling my soul to whoever would buy
Dealing in shame for a morsel o.
bread,
Hating the living and fearing tn,
dead.
Do not give up. One like unto tn,
Son of God comes to you today, say
ing, go and sin no more;" while h
cries out to your assailants. "Let hin
/ that is without sin cast the first ston,
at her." Oh! there is no reason VIII.
! anyone in this house, by reason OF an.
trouble or sin, should give up
, Are You a foreigner, and in strang
land? Nehemiah was an exile. Ar
! you penniless? Nehemiah was poor
Are you homesick? Nehemiah wa
homesick. Are you broken-hearted
: Just see him in the text, riding alon
the sacrileged grave of his father, an
! By the dragon well, and through tn
fish gate, and by the kings pool, 1
| and out in and out, the moonligh
D falling on the broken masonry, whic
a throws long shadow at which tn
horse SHES, and at the same time ths
moonlight kindling up the features {
. this man till you see not only tn
: mark of sad Renaissance, but the coul
: age and hope. the enthusiasm of ma
: who knows that Jerusalem will be II
Z builded. pick you up today. out {
your sins and out of your sorrow, an
! put you against the warm heart {
Christ. ''The eternal God Is thy re
:, uge, and underneath are the everlas
= ing arms