The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-11-07

heartbreak. and the load that is never
lifted from your soul Some Of you 20
about feeling like Mscaulay when he
wrote II | had another month Of such
days as | have been Speeding wouid o
impatient 10 get down into ny little. mar
row crib in the ground. Ike weary fac
tory child And there have been times
In your life when you wished you could
get out Of this life. You have said oh,
Ct the valley end wished you could pull
over you in your last slumber the coveTiet
Of green grass and daisies. You have said.
on, how beautifully quiet 1t must be Ia
the tomb l wish were there
Balm for the Brresyed.
"AH around about US are widowhood.
and erphange. and childlessness; sadness.
disappointment. perplextty. II could ask
all those TO rise who have felt no sorrow,
and been bufreted by no disappointment
II could ask all such to rise, how many
would rise? a widowed mother. with her
little child. went West. hoping to get bet
ter wages there: and she vas taken sick
and died. The overseer of the poor got
her body and put II in box and put Il in
a wagon and started down the street to-
ward the cemetery at full trot. The little
child-the only child-Tan after IL through
the streets, bareheaded, crying: Bring NE
back my mOtheri bring me back my
motherr And il was said that as the peO-
pie looked on and saw her crying after
that which lay in the box in the wagon
si! she loved on earth-it is said the whole
village was bathed in tears. And hun
dreds of people are doing now what that
child did-chasing the dead Dear Lord, is
there no appeasement for all this sorrow
that / see about meG Yes, the thought Of
resurrection and reunion far beyond this
scene OF struggle and tears. They shall
hunger no more, neither thirst any more
neither shall the sun light them, nor any
heat; for the Lamb which is in the midst
OF the throne shall lead them to living
fountains OF water and God shall wipe
away all tears from their eyes Across
the coucheS Of your sick, and across the
graves OF your dead | fling this shower
OF sweet spices. Queen Balkis, driving up
to the pillared pOrtico of the house az
cedar, carried no such pungency of per
fume as eXhales to-day from the Lords
garden. 1t Is peace. II is sweetness. Il
IS comfort. 1t Is infinite satisfaction.
This Gospel L commend 10 you.
Comfort in Christ,s Promises.
Some one could not understand why an
old German Christian scholar used TO BE-
always so calm and happy and hopeful
when he had so many trials and sickness
and ailments. man secreted himself in
the iOUSc SdlOg 4 mean 10 watch TntS
old scholar and Christian and he saw he
old Christian man go to his room and SIT
down on the chair beside the stand ana
open the Bible and begin to read. lie
read on and on, chapter after chapter
hour after hour. until his face was all
aglow with the tidings from heaven. and
when the clock struck twelve he arose
and shut his Bible, and said: Blessed
Lord, we arc on the same old terms yet
Goodnight. Goodnight o. you sia-
parched and you trouble-pounded, here is
comfort here is satisfaction Will You
come and get IT? l cannot tell you what
the Lord offers you hereafter so we'll as
] can tell you what he offers now. 1T
doth not yet appear what We shall be-
30, home of the blessed which God has
buiIded for your immortal sDiriti FOun-
dations of gOldl Arches of victory! Cap
stones of praisei And a dome In which
there are echCing and re-echoing the no
sannahs of the ages. And around about
that mansion is a garden-the garden OF
GOd-snd al the springing fountains are
the bottled tears of the church In the
wilderness. and all the crimson of the
flowers is the deep hue that was caught
up from the carnage OF earthly martyr
dOms, and the fragrance IS the prayer of
all the saints, and the aroma puts into
utter forgetfulness the cassia and the
spikenard, and the frankineense and the
word-renowned spices which Queen
Balkis, Of Abyssinia, flung at the feet of
King Solomon. Through obduracy on our
part, and through the rejection of that
Christ who makes heaven posi-
BILE. wonder il any of US
will miss that spectacle? The queen
of the south will rise up in judgment
against this generation AMI condemn IT,
because she came from the uttermost
parts of the earth TO hear the wisdom Oh
Solomon, and behold, a greater than Sol
ONION is hereI May God grant that
through your own practical experience
you may find that religions ways are
ways of pleasantness, and that all her
paths are paths CT peaee-that it is per-
fune now and perfume forever And
there was an abundance Of spice; neither
was there any such spice as the Queen of
Sheba gave TO King Solomon"