The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-10-19

the answer. Your soul eXclaims,
What! must | walk in darkness 2"
Your agonized soud eXclains, There
He comes. He comes and taking your
| hand in His whispers, He that follow
| eth Me shall not walk in darkness, but
shall have the light of life. Phillips
| Brooks says: In place of the answer
| to your prayer comes He to whom you
prayed. You have not got the solution
of your problem; it still floats in doubt.
| You have not got the sure prophecy of
the future; it is hid behind the Waver-
| ing and trembling veil. You have not
got the loved ones dear presence, for
whose life you cried and Wrestled, he is
walking beside the river of life in the
new light of heaven, You have not got
what you prayed for, but you have got
God!
You have got life with all its beauty
and it's blessedness and it's assurance
On my last journey home the train
passed through a section of country
where the forest fires were burning
fiercely. Great flames were leaplng
along the fences and weird tongues
shooting up from the grass, while back
ward over acres and acres of forest and
field there was nothing but the smoking
blackness Of terrible devastation. And
looked above where the smoke had
gathered in great banks of cloud, and
the late afternoon sun was painting
them with its glow, and | thought how
God always lightens and beauties with
heavenly splendor the spiritual sky that
arches above the heads of those who
bear patiently and trustingly the sor-
rows inseparable from life. He came
that We might have life and that we
might have it more abundantly. And
out of this earthly life Of pain, sorrow,
Distress broken hopes and broken
hearts there rises the spirit life noble
and majestic like the Rock of Ages
from the dark depths of the ocean.
Oliver Wendell Holmes in his later
years came to be striking example of
a Beautiful and powerful old age But
earlier in life he had noticed as you
also have observed, a certain charac-
teristic of the closing years. 'Do you
know that in the gradual passage from
maturity to helplessness the harshest
Christians sometimes have a period IN
which they are gentle and placid as
young children? I have heard it said
that the famous chieftain,
Lochiel was rocked in a cradle like
baby in his old age. An old man, whose
studies had been of the severest scholas-
tic kind used to love to hear little muir
sery stories read over and over to him.
One who saw the Duke of Wellington
in his last years describes him as very
gentle in his aspect and demeanor,"
The richest charm of old age is the re-
turn of the simplicity of childhood days.
The Father is bringing us into fuller
and more abundant life by leading us
back to the sweet faith of our boyhood
and girlhood, with the added experience
of the years. We love to sing the songs
we learned in the primary class.
II am so glad that our Father in heav-
Tells of His love in the Book He has
given:
Wonderful things in the Bible l see;
This is the dearest, that Jesus loves
me-.
Yes, yes and we murmur in our joy,
ooh. if there's only one song l can sing,
When in His beauty l see the great
King,
This shall my song in eternity be,
Oh, what a wonder that Jesus loves
me-
We love to repeat the simple prayer
of Now | lay me down to sleep" Do
not think this is the sign of weakness;
it is, indeed the token of abundant life.
All, safe and secure are the hearts that
in the evening of life turn the leaves of |
this blessed Bible and rest their clos
ing eyes upon the words in the Gospel |
of Mark, "They brought young chill |
dren to Christ that He should touch |
them And He said Suffer the little |
children to come unto Me, and forbid |
them not for of such is the kingdom of |
God Whosoever shall not re-
ceive the kingdom of God as little
child, he shall not enter therein And |
he took them UP in His arms, put His |
bands upon them and blessed them"