The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1901-08-17

- i from what IL used 10 bel
o. "A was to YOU a grand city I'M
movement and you went out on 'ne
n,easure excursion. and you ran
i.ughingly up the mound, and you
criticised in a light way the epa.apn'
Blu, since the day when you heard 'ne
bell ton at the gate when you VEN
IN with the procession il is a ssu
Mace. and there is a Hood o rusn'
inc memories that suifuse the eye
and overmas,er the heart. On you
have had trouble. trouble, u
Cod only knows how much you have
had II Is a wonder you have been
able to live through IT.
II 1 could gather all the griefs OF
all sorts from these crowded streets
and could put them in n croli'
neither man nor angel could endure
the recitation. Well, what do you
wsntP Would you like TO have your
property back again? No you say
as a Christian man; Il was becoming
arrogant and l think that Is why
the Lord took it away. / don't want
70 nave nv property back" Weii'
wouN YOU have your departed friends
hack again? NO." you say;
eouldp / take the responsibility Oh
bringing them from a fearless realm
To a realm o. tears. l couldn't do II.
Well. then. what DO you want? A
thousand voices in the audience cry
out: Comfort Give US comfortl'
For hat reason / have rolled away
the stone from the wells mouth.
Come. all We wounded of the flock.
pursued Of the wolves, come to h
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 l
have, and you can't talk to me about
nv misfortunes in the time OF old
age" Well, / may not have lived as
long as you, but I have been a 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 W erson have lived to-
gether for 10 or 50 years and one Is
taken away. what desolation! / shall
not forget the cry of DIR. 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
I am here on earth. We shall meet
again. Farewell, FAREWELL"
You get a little worried for fear that
some time you will come to want, do
YOU? Your children and grandchil'
dren sometimes speak a 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
r~ranaries empty? Will He feed the
raven and the rabbit and the lion In
the desert. and forget you? Why, nat
uralists tell us that the porpoise viii
not forsake its wounded and sick mate
And do you suppose the Lord of HEAVIER
and earth has not as much sympath,
as the fish of the sea? But you say
II am so near worn out. and | am o.
no use to God any more" ] think TIL
Lord knows whether you are OF an!
more use or not. II you were of NJ
more use, He would have taken yo'
before this. Do you think God has for
gotten you because He has taken car,
|. Of you 20 or so years? He thinks NOR,
| of you to-day than He ever did. be
cause you think more Of him. Ma.
, the God of Abraham and Isaac and ia
cob and Paul the aged be your God fol
ever! But / gather all the promises to
day in a group. and / ask the shepherd
TO drive their fiocks of lambs and shee
up to the sparkling supply. "Beholt
happy is the man whom God correcI
eth" Though He cause grief, yet wi
= He have compassion" MANY are tn
Affections Of the righteous, but tn
;. Lord delivereth him out of them all,
1 Weeping may endure for a night, BIT
!. Joy cometh in the morning" ] al
4 determined that no one shall 60 ont {
j.. this house uncontrolled. Yonder
. n timid and shrinking soul who seen
4 TO hide away from the consultations
=, am uttering as a child with a sol
a hand hides away from the physicia
. lest he touch the wound too roughl
and the mother has to go and comp
= the little patient to come out and 81
- the physician, So / come TO yo,
timid and shrinking soul to-day al
% compel you to come out in the pre-
ence OF the Divine Physician. He W
- not hurt you. He has been healil
20 wounds for many years, and lie W
90 give you gentle and omnipotent me,
=, cament.
ne But people, when they have troub
III go anywhere rather than to God.