Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-12-12

abont their seafaring experiences, So
you who have been the shut ms of earth
will add unbounded interest to the
conversation of heaven by recalling and
reciting your earthly experiences, and
the rougher those experiences the more
thrilling will they be to yourself and
others who listen. AS when we sit amid
group Of soldiers and hear their story
OF battle or a group Of sailors and hear
their story of cyclones we feel stupid
because we have nothing in our life
worth telling, how uninteresting will
DO those souls in heaven who had smooth
sailing all their lives and no accidents,
while Noah tells his story of the deluge
and Lot his story of escape from de-
stroyed cities and Paul his story Of the
Alexandrian corn ship and you tell your
story OF the days and nights and years
OF the times when you were shut in
You will be interesting and sought after
in heaven in proportion as you are mar
tyrized of persecution and pain on earth
And surely you do not want to get the
advantage of heavenly association and
consideration without yourself adding
some interest to the interview. | hail
all the shut ms because they will be the
come outs. Heaven will be all the
brighter for your earthly privatious and
environments. For man who has al
ways lived in a mansion and walked in
fine gardens and RECALLED his appetite on
best fruits and had warmest furs for
winter attire and coolest linens for Au
gust heat and brilliant earthly sur.
roundings heaven will not be SO much
a change of scene He will be disposed
to say: "Why, am used to this! Don t
show me the gardens! Why, was
brought up at Chatsworth Don't invite
me into chariot; always had splen,
did turnout Don't invite me to the
feast. l have been accustomed to Bel
shazzarian banquets. 1t would be re-
lief to me If could leave heaven lit
tie while and rough it in some other
world"
But what heaven it will be for those
whose limbs were 60 rheumatic they
could not take step when they get
wingsl What heaven it will he for
those who were always sick, when they
are always we'll, and after 20 years Of
pain to have millions Of years of health
What light will be the light of heaven
for those who on earth could not see
their hand before their facesl And
what will the music of heaven be to
those the tympanum Of whose ears for
many years had ceased to vibrate! De-
MED on earth the pleasure of listening
to Handel and Haydn and Mendelssohn'
symphonies, at last reaching world
where there has never been discord.
and hearing singing where all are per
feet songsters, and oratorios in which
all the nations of heaven chant! Great
heaven 1t will be for all who get there,
but hundred times more Of heaven
for those who were shut in.
Divine Sympathy.
Meanwhile you have all divine and
angelic sympathy in your infirmities
That satan thoroughly understood poor
human nature was evidenced when in
plotting to make Job do wrong the great
master Of evil, after having failed in
svery other way to overthrow the good
man, proposed physical distress, and
then the boils came which made him
swear right out. The mightiest test Of
character is physical suffering Critics
are impatient at the way Thomas Car
lyle scolded at everything. His 70 years
If dyspepsia were enough to make any
man scold. When you see people out OF
patience and irascible and lachrymose,
inquire into the case, and before you
get through with the exploration your
ypercriticism will turn to pity, and to
he divine and angelic sympathy will
Dc added your own. The clouds of your
which were full of thun-
lerbolts, will begin to rain tears of pity
BY strange providence, for which
'hall be forever grateful, circumstances
With which l think you are all fla
niliar, have admission through thu
newspaper press week by week to tens
If thousands of Gods dear children
Who cannot enter church on the Sab
bath and hear their excellent pastors
because of the age of the sufferers, OF
heir illness, or the lameness of foot, or
heir incapacity to stay in one position
IN hour and half, or their poverties,
" their troubles Of some sort will not
ct them go ont of doors, and to them
8 much as to those who hear me I
reach this sermon, as l preach many
+ my sermons, the invisible audience
lways vaster than the visible, some of
hem tossed OIL wilder seas than those
hat tossed the eight members of Noah's
amily, and instead of 40 days of storm
nd five months of being shut in. as
hey were, it has been with these in.
Aids five years of "shut in" or ten
ears of "shut in," or 20 years of
shut in" Oh, comforting Godl Help |
ne to comfort them! Give me two
ands full of salve for their wounds
When we were 800 miles out at sea, a
hurricane struck US, and the lifeboats |
we're dashed from the davits and all the |
lights in the cabin were put out by the |
olling of the ship and the water which
trough the broken skylights had poured
d. Captain Andrews entered and said
o the men on duty: "Why don't you
light up and make things brighter, for
We are going to outride this storm?
PASSENGERS. cheer upl Cheer up!' And
Q struck a match and began to light
he burners He could not silence either
be wind or the waves, but by the
triking of that match, accompanied by
ncouraging words, we were all helped.
Light In Darkness.
And as l now find many in hurricanes
trouble, though I cannot quiet the
form, / can strike match to light up
IN darLnoca mud I strika a matnh