The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-05-26

looked at YOUR broken heart. and you
looked at the Lords chastisement, and
YOU said. Even so, Father, for 50 1t
seemeth good in Thy sight"
Alb. it was your first roubIe. How did
you get over it? God confronted you. You
have been a better man ever since. You
have been a better woman ever since. In
the jar OF the closing gate OF the scpulcher
YOU heard the changing ofthe opening gate
Of Heaven. and you felt an Irresistible
drawing heavenward. You have been
spiritually better ever since that night
when the little ono for the last time put
its arms around your neck and said:
Good night. papa! Good night, mammal!
Meet me In Heaven!'
Perhaps your last sorrow was q financial
embarrassment. l congratulate some OF
you On your lucrative profession or occu-
patton, on ornate apparel, on a commodi-
Gus misunderstanding you put your
hands on seems to turn to gold. But there
are others OF you who are like the ship on
which Paul sailed where two seas met. and
you are broken by the violence Of the
waves. By an unadvised Endorsement, or
by arcoDjunction Of unforeseen events, or
by fire or storm. or a senseless panic, you
have been flung hcadlong and where you
once dispensed great charities now you
have hard work to win your daily bread.
Have you forgotten to han God for your
days Of prosperity, and that through your
trials some OF you have made investments
which will continue after the last bank OF
this world has exploded, and the silver and
gold are molten in the fires Of a burning
world? Have you, amid all your losses
and discouragements, forgot that there was
bread on your table this morning, and that
there shall be a shelter for your head from
the storm, and there IS air for your lungs,
n blood for your heart, and light for
your eye, and n glad and glorious and
triumphant religion for your soul?
Perhaps our last trouble was a bereave-
ment. That heart which In childhood was
your refuge, the parental heart, and witch
has been asource OF the quickest sympathy
ever since, has suddenly become silent for
ever. Aud now sometimes, whenever in
sudden annoyance and without deliberation
you say, Il will go and tell mother" the
thought flashes on you, 81 have no
mother" Or the father. with voice less
tender, but with heart as loving, watchful
OF all your ways, exultant over your success
without saying much, although the old peo.
pie do talk it over by themselves, his trem-
bling hand on that staff which YOU now keep
as q family relic, his memory embalmed in
grateful hearts-is taken away forever. Or
there was your %campanion in life, sharer OF
your joys and sorrows, taken, leaving the
heart an old ruin, where the i'll winds blow
over a wide wilderness of desolation. the
sands OF desert driving across the place
III OACo UlOOLucu Ako luO EHIUcn OF
God. And Abraham mourns for Sarah at
the cave of Machpc!ah. AS you were NOV
Ing along your path in life, suddenly, right
before you. was an open grave. People
looked down, and they saw it was only a
few feet deep and a fow feet wide, but to
you it was q cavern down which vent all
your hopes and all your expectations. But
cheer up in the name OF the Lord Jesus
Christ, the Comforter.
There is one more point OF absorbing
Renaissance, andthat Is the last hour OF
lie, when we have t. look over all our
past existence. What a moment tina will
be. L place NapOleon's dying reminis-
cence on st. Helena besides Mrs. Judson's
DYING reminiscence in the harbor OF St.
Helena, the same island, 20 years after.
Napoleon'S dying reminiscence was one OF
delirium-'Tete l'armee'-'Head of the
army" Mrs. Judson's dying reminiscence
as she came home from her missionary tot
and her life of self sacrifice for God. dying
in the cabin Of the ship in the harbor o.
81. Helena, was, Il always did love the
Lord Jesus Christ" And thea the his
Tor an hour and woke amid the song:
OF angels. | place the dying reminis.
cence of Augustus Caesar againt the
DYING "Reminiscences Of the apostle Paul.
mo dying "Reminiscences OF Ausustu.
Caesar was. addressing lis attendants
HtHe II 3Nti my part Well on the sag
O. ME- ;tnl they answered in the affirma
tive. and he said, WAY. then. don't y0r
applaud me- Tue dying reminiscence o
iaui the apostle was, 4 have fought :
good fight. have finished my course,
nave Kept the faith; henceforth there i
lali up for me a crown Of righteousness
which the Lord, the righteous Judge. vii
give me il that day, and not to me only
bat 70 all them that love His arpcarinc.'
Augustus Cesar died amid pomp and grea
surroundings. Paul uttered his dying re Ii
lniscence looking up through the wall OF
~dUOge0n. Goi grant that our dying Pitiog
NAV nc the closing OF Il useful lie and "a
olcHinS Of a glorious eternity.