Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-05-12

ed like the garden Of God And Abra'
ham mOurns for Sarah at the cave or
Machpelah AS you were moving along
your path in life, suddenly. right be-
fore you. was an open grave. People
looked down. and they saw it was only
a few feet deep and few feet wide,
but to you it was a cavern down which
went all your hopes and all your expec-
tations. But cheer up in the name OF
the Lord Jesus Christ. the Comforter.
He is not going to forsake you. Did the
Lord take that child out of your armsf
Why. he is going to shelter it better
than you could He is going to array it
in white robe and palm branch and
have it all ready to greet you at your
coming home Blessed the broken heart
that Jesus heals Blessed the importu-
nate cry that Jesus compassicnatesl
Blessed the weeping eye from which the
loft hand of Jesus wipes away the teari
Glorious Eternity.
Some years ago was sailing down
the St. John river, which is the Rhine
and the Hudson commingled in enc
scene of beauty and grandeur, and while
was on the deck of the steamer a gem
tleman pointed out to me the places OF
interest. and he said: All this is inter-
val land, and it is the richest land in
all the provinces Of New Brunswick and
Nova Scotia" What" said /, "do
you mean by interval land " "Well,
be said, "tbis land is submerged for
part of the year; spring freshets come
down, and all these plains are over
flowed with the water. and the water
leaves a rich deposit, and when the wa
ters are gone the harvest springs up.
and there is a richer harvest than l
know of elsewhere. And | instantly
thought, at is not the heights Of the
church. and it is not the heights Of this
world that are the scene Of the greatest
prosperity, but the soul over which the
foods Of sorrow have gone, the soul
over which the freshets Of tribulation
have torn their way, that yields the
greatest fruits of righteousness and the
largest harvest for time and the richest
harvest for eternity" Bless God that
your soul is interval landl
There is one more point Of absorbing
reminiscence, and that is the last hour
of life. when we have to look over all
our past existence. What moment
that will bel place Napoleon 5 dying
reminiscence on st. Helena beside Mrs
Judson dying Renaissance in the har-
Dor Of St. Helena, the same island, 20
years after. Napoleon's dying reminis-
cence was one Of delirium-"Tete d ar
mee"-"Head of the army" Mrs. Jud-
sons dying reminiscence, as she came
home from her missionary toll and her
life Of self sacrifice for God, dying in
the cabin Of the ship in the harbor of
st. Helena, was, Il always did love the
Lord Jesus Christ. And then the his
torian says she fell into a sound sleep
for an hour and woke amid the songs
of angels place the dying reminis-
cence Of Augustus Caesar against the
dying Temlnlscence OF the apostle raul
The dying reminiscence Of Augustus
Caesar was. addressing his attendants,
Have l played my part well on the
stage Of life : and they answered in the
affirmative. and he said "Why, then.
don't you applaud meG" The dying
reminiscence of Paul the apostle was, 81
have fought good fight, have finished
my course. have kept the faith; hence
forth there is laid mp for me a crown
Of righteousness. which the Lord. the
righteous Judge, will give me in that
day. and not to me only. but to all
them that love his appearing. " Angus
tus Caesar died amid pomp and great
surroundings. Paul uttered his dying
reminiscence locking up through the
wall of a dungeon. God grant that our
dying pillow may be the closing OF a
useful life and the opening Of a glcri-
ous eternity.