Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-04-06

the door. wanting bread. She knows
su about that. Two or three tinee
in her life she came TO her last loaf.
At ten o'clock at night she -ces over
to sit up with sorne one severely sick
She knows oil about IL. She knows
all about fevers and pleuris sizes and
broken bones. She has been doc
torinx all her life. spreading plaster>
and pouring our bitter drops and
shaking mp hot pillows and contri,
ing things 20 tempt a poor appetite.
Drs. Abernethy and Rush and UOsack
and Harvey were great doctors, but
the greatest doctor the world ever
saw Is an old Christian woman Dear
mel Do We not remember her about
the room when ~e were sick in our i
boyhood7 Was there anyone who i
could ever so touch sore without /
hurting IL? And when she lifted her |
speetacles against her wrinkled fore
head SO she could look closer at the |
wound &c Was three-foUrths healed. |
And when the Lord took her home.
although you MY have been men
and women 20. 80. so years Of age.
you lay on the coffin lid and sobbed
80 though you were only five or ten
years OF age.
Where did Paul get the ink with
which 20 write his comforting ePis-
ties7 Where did David ct the ink
20 write his comforting psalmsf
Where did John get the ink 90 write
his comforting Revelation? They got
ft out Of their own tears. when
man has gone through the curricu-
FUN and has taken a course OF dun
ifed for the work OF sympathy.
Jesus had enough trial 10 make him
sympathetic with al trial The
shortest verse in the Bible tells the
story. Jesus wept-" The scar on the
back OF his either hand. the scar on
the arch OF either foot. the row Of
scars along the line OF the hair. viii
keep all Heaven thinking. Oh, that
Great Weeper is just the one 90 si-
lence ali earthly trouble. wipe out
all stains OF earthly grief, Gentlei
Why His step is softer than the step
OF the dew. IL will not be a tyrant
bidding you hush your crying. 10
will be a Father who will take you
on His left arm. His face beamiu 2
into yours. while with the soft tips
Of the fingers Of the right hand lie
shall wipe away all tears from your
eyes.
. You have noticed when the children
} get hurt and their mother Is away
from home they always come 20 you
) the father. for comfort and SYM
- pathy. but YOU have noticed when
, the children get hurt and their
. mother is at home they 60 right pas'
you and TO her. and you are OF no ac
! count. So. wher the soul comes ul
> into Heaven out OF the wounds o
r this life. ia will not stop 10 look foi
p Paul or Moses or David OF John
4 These did very well once. but nos
D the soul shall rush past, crying
: "Where il Jesus? Where is Jesus -
- Have you any appreciation Of IN
Z good and glorious times your friend
J. are having in Heaven? How differen
$ IL Is when they get news there OF
> Christians death from what il
q here, It is the difference betwec
q embarkstion and coming into por'
Everything depends upon which sid
. OF the river you stand when You hea
). OF a Christians death. IL you stan
: on this side Of the river YOU mour
\. that they 20. IL YOU stand on th
/, other side OF the river. YOU rejOiC
- that they come Oh. the differeRy
= between a funeral on earth aud
Jubilee in Heaven-between requiel
n here and triumph there; parting heI
" and union therei Together, Hs'
- you ever thought of it? They Al
:. together. Not one OF your departs
a friends In one land and another
,t another. but together in differe'
- rooms OF the same house-the hou,
Il of many mansions! Togetheri
~ Take this good cheer home Wi
r you. These tears of bereavemel
p that course your cheek and OF pers
% cutiou and OF trial are not alwa.
= 90 be there The motherly hand
IN God will wipe them all away. VIII
IN Is the use on the way to such a co
b, summation-what is the use OF IRE
or ting about anything? Oh. what
- eXhilaration il ought TO be IN Chr
ia sian workl See you the pinnael
We against the sky7 IL is the city OF o
w God. and we are approaching il. @
. - let us be busy in the days that
a. main for usi
The Saxons and the Britons we
out TO bartle. The Saxons were
armed. The Britons had no weaP0
"a at all. and yet history tells us th
the Britons got the victory Win
,. They went into battle shouting thr
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