The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-18


 which have you the more frequently what ai different place the 1 cemetery is from what it used to be! Once it was to you a grand city im- proyement, and you went out on the pleasure excursion, and you ran laugh ingly up the mound. and you criticised in a light way the epitaph. But since the day when you heard the bell toll at the gate when you went in with she rroccssion 1t is a sad place, and there ia a flood of rushing memories that suffuse the eye ana overmaster the heart, Oh. you have had trouble. trou- ble. trouble. God only knows how much you have had. It is a wonder vou have been able{to live through 1t. If ia A wonder your nervous system has rot been shattered and your brain has not sreeles. Trouble, trouble.
 If Lcould gather all the griefs of all sorts from these crowded streets and could put them in one scroll, neither man nor angel could endure the recita- tion. Well. what do you want! would you like to have your property back again? "No," you say as Christian man. "I was becoming arrogant, ands4 think that Is why the Lord took stt, away, I don't want to have my proor ertv hack" Well, would you have your departed friends back agaip3s "No" won say. q couldn't take the IT, sponsibility of bringing them from se' fearless realm o a realm of tears. s1 couldn't do it." Well. then, what DO you want? 4 thousand voices in the audience cry out: "Comfort! Give us comfort" For that reason have roll cd away the stone from the wells mouth. Come. all ye wounded of the flock. pursued of the wolves. come to tbe fountain where the Lords sick and bareft 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 this, time of old age. We'll. I may not have lived as long as you. but have been great deal among old people. and I know how they feel about their failing health and about their loneliness that sometimes strikes through their souls. After two persors have lived together for 40 or 50 years and one of them is taken away, what desolution. I shall not forget the cry of -Dr. Dewitt of New York when he stood by the open grave of his be- loved wife. and after the obsequies had ended he looked down into the open place and said: Farewell my honor ed. faithful and beloved wife. The bond that bound us is severed. Thou are in glory and I am here on earth. We shall meet again. Farewell! Fare | well!"
 To lean on a prop for 50 years and then have it break under you! There ! were only two years difference be- | tween the death of my father and | mother. After my mothers decease, my father used to go aroune ao though | looking for something. He would often get up from one room without any seeming reason and go<o another room and then he would take his cane and start out. and some one would say
 Father. where are you going?" And l he would answer: T don't know exact ly where I am going" Always looking for something. Though he was ten der hearted man, never saw him cry | but once, and that was at the burinl of my mother. After 50 years living together it was hard to part. And there are aged people today who are feeling just such a pang q sthat. l want to | tell them there is perfect entertainment | in the promises of this gospel, and come to them and offer them my arm or l take their arm and l bring them to this gospel well. Sit down. father | OT blI uOWh. OCC II thCAO go anything at the we'll for you. Come, David. the psalmist, have you anything encouraging to offer 10 them? Yes, " says the psalmist; they shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and fiourishing to show. that the Lord is upright. He Is my rock, and tthere is no anrighteoueness in Him. Come. Isiah. have you anything to say out of your prophecies for these aged people? "Yes." says Isiah, down to old age am with you. and to hoary hairs will carry thee" Well, If the Lord Is going to carry you. you ought not to worry much about your ailing eyesight and failing limbs.
 The Gospel Promise.
 | You get a little worried for fear that sometime you will come to want, do you? Your children and grandchild- ren 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 gran aries empty? Will He feed the raven and the rabbit and the lion is the des- ert and forget you? Why, naturallsts
 tell us that the porpoise will not for
 sake Its wounded and sick mate. And do you suppose the Lord of heaven ana ] earth has not as much sympathy as the fsh of the sea? But you say. T am so near worn odt, and I am of no use to God any more" I 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 before
 this. Do you think God has forgotten
 yo ubecause he has taken care of you
 70 or 80 years? He thinks more of you
 todd ythan He ever did because you think more of Him. May the God of
 Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and