The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1901-08-17

| thousand voices in the audience cry
out: Comfort. Give us comfort!"
For that reason ] have rolled away
the stone from the wells mouth.
Come, all We wounded of the flock,
pursued of the wolves, come to the
fountain where the Lords sick and
bereft ones have come. "Ah," says
some one, you are not old enough to
understand my sorrows. You have
not been in the world as long as I
have, and you can't talk to me about
my misfortunes in the time OF old
age" Well, / may not have lived as
long as you, but have been great
deal among old people, and l know
how they feel about their failing
health and about their departed
friends and about the loneliness that
sometimes strikes through their
souls.
| After two persons have lived to-
gether for 40 or so years and one is
taken away. what desolation! / shall
not forget the cry of DR.. De Witt, of
New York, when he stood by the open
grave of his beloved wife and after
the obsequies had ended he looked
down into the open place and said:
Farewell, my honored, faithful and
beloved wife. The bond that bound
us is severed. Thou art in glory, and
1 am here on earth. We shall meet
again Farewell, FAREWELL"
| You get little worried for fear that
! some time you will come to want, do
| you? Your>ehildren and grandchil-
dren sometimes speak little sharp to
you because of your ailments. The
Lord will not speak sharp. Do you
think you will come to want? What
do YOU think the Lord is? Are His
granares empty? Will He feed the
raven and the rabbit and the lion in
the desert. and forget you? Why, nat
uralists tell MS that the porpoise will
| not forsake its wounded and sick mate.
And do you suppose the Lord of Heaven
and earth has not as much sympathy
as the fish of the sea? But you say:
81 am so near worn out, and l am OF
no use to God any more" think the
Lord knows whether you are of any
more use or not If you were of no
more use, He would have taken you
| DtlOTt tHls. DO you tnlHh pou LII
gotten you because He has taken care
of you 30 or so years? He thinks more
of you to-day than He ever did, be-
cause you think more of him. May
the God of Abraham and Isaac and ia
cob and Paul the aged be your God for
ever! But gather all the promises to-
day in a group, and ask the shepherds
to drive their flocks of lambs and sheep
up TO the sparkling supply. Behold,
happy is the man whom God correct
eth" Though He cause grief, yet will
He have compassion" MANY are the
Affections of the righteous, but the
Lord delivereth him out of them all"
weeping may endure for a night. but
Joy cometh in the morning" / am
determined that no one shall go out OF
this house uncontrolled. Yonter is
timid and shrinking soul who seems
to hide away from the consultations
am uttering as child with sore
hand hides away from the physician
lest he touch the wound too roughly,
and the mother has 10 go and compel
the little patient to come out and see
the physician. So j come to your
timid and shrinking soul to-day and
compel you to come out in the pres
ence of the Divine Physician. He will
not hurt YOU. He has been healing
wounds for many years, and He will
give You gentle and omnipotent medi-
cament,
But people, when they have trouble.
go anywhere rat her than to God. De
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troubles. Charles Lamb took to
punch. Theodore Hook took to some
thing stronger. Edwin Forrest took
to theatrical dissipation. And men
have run all around the earth, hoping
in the quick transit 10 get away from
their misfortunes. II has been a dead
failure. There is only one well that
can slake the thirst of an afflicted
spirit. and that is the deep and mex
haustible well OF the Gospel.
But some one in the audience says:
notwithstanding all you have said
this morning, find no alienation for
my troubles" Well, am not through
yet. i have left the most potent con-
sideration for the last. i am going
to soothe you with the thought of
Heaven. However laxative we may
be. there will come time when the
stoutest and most emphatic interroga-
tion will evoke from us no answer. AS
soon as~we have closed our lips for
the final silence no power on earth
can break that taciturnity. But where,
o Christian, viii be your spirit? In
scene of infinite gladness. The
spring morning of Heaven waving it's
blossoms in the bright air. Victors
fresh from battle showing their scars.
! The rain Of earthly sorrow struck
! through with the rainbow of eternal
| Joy. In one group Gou and angels and
the redeemed, Paul and Silas. Latimer
and Ripley, Isaiah and jeremiah, Pay
son and John Milton, Gabriel and Mi
chael the archangel. Long line of
choristers reaching across the hills.
Seas of joy dashing to the white beach.
Conquerors marching from gate to
gate. You among them. Oh, what
great flock God will gather around
the celestial well. No stone on the
wells mouth while the Shepherd wa
tiers the sheep. There Jacob will rec
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