The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-07-14
FARMVILLE VA. FRIDAY. JULY If. 1899.

] 10 your room. ana YOU SAID: Tod. save
my child. God. save my childl" The
world seemed going out i'm darkness.
You said: 81 can't bear it; can't bear
IT," You felt as if YOU could not put
the long lashcs over the bright eyes.
never to see them again sparkle. If
you could have taken that little one in
your arms and with itreaped the grave.
how gladly you would have done IL. If
you could let your property 60, your
houses go. your land and your store
house go, how gladly You would have all
lowed them TO depart If you could only
have kept that one TREASURED
But one day there came mp chill
blast that swept through the bedroom.
and instantly an the lights went out.
/ qnd there was darkness thick. muryv.
impcnctrabn. shuddering darkness.
Tut God did not leave YOU there. Mercy
/ spoke. As you took up the bitter cum
to put it to your lips God said: LET it
pass and forthwith. as by the hand of
angels. another cup was put into your
hands. IT was the cup of Gods con-
ISOLATION. And as YOU have sometimes
lifted the head ola wounded soldier and
poured wine into his lips. so God puts
Ills left arm under your head and with
His right hand Tie pours into your lips
the wine of His comfort and His con-
ISOLATION. and You looked at the empty
cradle and looked az your broken heart.
and You looked mt the Lords chastise-
ment. and You said: "Even so. Father.
for so it seemcth good i'm Thy sight"
Al. IL was your first trouble. How did
you get over IT.? God comforted You.
You have been better man ever since.
You have been q better woman ever
since. ln the iar OF the closing gate of
the sepulchcr YOU heard the clangingof
the opening gate of Heaven, and YOU
felt am irresistible drawing Heaven
ward. You have been spiritually better
ever since that night when the little one
for the last time put its arms around
your neck and said Good night papa;
good night, mamma. Meet me i'm
Heaven"
But J must come TO your latest sor-
row. What was it.? Perhaps it was
sickness. The child's tread on the stair
or the tick of the watch ON the stand
disturbed you. Through the long
weary days YOU counted the figures in
the carpet or the flowers i'm thewall pa
per- oh. the weariness of exhaustion. /
oh. the burning panps. Would God IL /
were morning. would God IL were night. /
was your frequent cry. But you are /
better. or perhaps even we'll Have you |
thanked God that to-day YOU can come /
out i'm the fresh air; that YOU are in /
your place TO hear Gods name and to /
sing Gods praise and TO implore Gods /
help and 10 ask Gods forgiveness? /
Bless the Lord who healeth an our dis
eases and redeemcth our lives from de
struction.
Perhaps your last sorrow was finan-
cial embarrassment. ! congratulate
some of You ON your lucrative profess
sion or occupation. on ornate apparel.
ON a commodious residence-every-
thing you put your hands ON seems 10
turn to gold. But there are others Of
You who are Ike the ship on which
Paul sailed where two seas met. and
you are broken by the violence Of the
waves. by an unadvisod Endorsement.
Or by conjunction of unforeseen
events, or by fire or storm. or a sense
less panic. YOU have been flung head
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great charities You now have hard
work 10 win your daily bread. Have
YOU forgotten to thank God for your
lays of prosperity and that through
your trials some of vou have made I'M
.cstmcnts which will continue after the
asst bank of this world has exploded
md the silver and gold are molten in
he fires ofa burning world? Have You.
mid an your losses and discourage Z
nents forgot that there was bread on
'our table this morning and that there
hall be a shelter for your head from S
he storm. and there is air for your
ungs and blood for Your heart and
light for your eye and a glad and glo-
ions and triumphant religion for your
oul?
Perhaps your last trouble was be-
oavemcnt That heart which i'm child
ood was your refuge. the parental
cart. and which has been a source Of +
be quickest sympathy ever since, has ]
uddenlv become silent forever And {
ow sometimes. whenever I'm sudden am s
oyance and without deliberation YOU {
ay: 81 will go and tell mother" the {
hought flashes on YOU: ~ have no /
iother.' Or the father. with voice less e
snder. but with heart as loving. watch !
ll of all your ways. eXultant over a
our success without saying much. al J
lough the old people do talk it over j
y themselves. his trembling hand on 4
lat staff which YOU now keep rs S
lmily relic. his memory embalmed in v
rateiul hearts-is taken away for @
yer. Or there was your companion in q
fe, sharer of your joys and sorrows, II
lken, leaving the heart an old ruin.
here the iIl winds blow over wild will s
srncss of dcsolation. the sands of the II
-sert driving across the place which f
nee bloomed like the garden of God. "
nd Abraham mourns for Sarah at the h
I'VE Of Machpelah. As you were NOV
q along your path i'm life suddenly, (:
ght before you. was an open grave. n
.ople looked down. and they saw it a
as only a few feet deep and a few feet ir
Idle. but 20 You il was q cavern. down
hich went an your hopes and an your e
peciaiions. But cheer up. i'm the fc
-me Of the Lord Lesns Christ. the Cnm- {.