Milford chronicle., 1901-11-22


ants, ''They rest not day nor night" Why /
rest when they work without fatigue? /
Why seek pillow when there is no night /
there? l want to see you after the pedes-
trianism of earth has been exchanged for /
power of flight and velocities infinite and /
enterprises interstellar, interworld.
I suspect that the telescope Of that OBJ 1
servatory brings in sight consultations /
that may comprise ruined worlds which |
need looking after and need help sanity /
and missionary. There may be worlds |
that, like ours. have sinned and need to |
be rescued, perhaps saved by our Christ |
or by some plan that God has thought out |
for other worlds as wise, as potent, as
lovely, as the atonement is for our world
The laziness which has cursed US in this
world will not gain the land of eternal
activities-so much tonic in the air, so
much inspiration in the society. so much
achievement after we get the shackles Of
the flesh forever off. Do not dwell so
much on opportunities past, but put your
emphasis on opportunities to come. Do
not count the battles lost, but scour your
musket for victories to come.
Freed From Limitations.
Am l not right in saying that eternity
can do more for US than can time? What
ers of locomotion shall be quickened into
the immortal spirits speed? Why should
a bird have a swiftness of wing when it
is of no Importance how long it shall take
to make its aerial way from forest to for
| est and we, who have so much more i'm
| pOrtant errHnd in the world, get on so
/ slowly? The roebuck Outruns us, the
I hounds are quicker in the chase, but wait
until God let's us loose from all limita-
! tons and indictments. Then we will fair
| ly begin. The starting post will be the
/ tombstone. Leaving the world will be
| graduation day before the chief work Of
our mental and spiritual career. Hope
sees the doors opening, the victOr's foot
in stirrup for the mounting. The day
| breaks-frst flush of the horizon. The
mission of hope will be an everlasting
mission, as much Of it in the heavenly
hereafter as in the earthly now. Shall we
have gained all as soon as we enter
| realms celestial-nothing more to learn,
no other heights to climb, no new an
thems to raise, a mOnOtony of existence,
the same thing over and over again for
endless years? No! More progress in
that world than we ever made in this.
Hope will stand on the hills Of heaven
and look for ever Frightening landscapes,
II DEMONSTRATIONS
ries rolling over the scene, new celebra-
tons of victories in other worlds, heaven
rising into grander heavens, seas of glass
mingled with fire, becoming a more bril-
liant glass minging with a more flaming
fire. (which hope"
Now, let me introduce this feeling into
the lives Of some who are at times hope
less. There is a family whose son has
gone wrong. Father and mother have
about given him up, he seems so head
long, so ungrateful, so dissipated, and the
old folks do not know half the story Of
moral precipitation. He has ceased writ
ing home, but they hear of him through
people who like to carry bad news, and
every time the report is more deplOrable.
He swears, he CANDLES, he drinks, he
goes into all the shambles Of sin. His for
mer employer says there is no hope for
him, and all outside the family agree in
thinking he will never reform. The father
/ and mother have not quite given him up
: and these words are TO strengthen theil
hope. That boy is going to come back
J You have a hold on him that you must
not relax. Through-prayer you may win
: the eternal God for your side Of the
|, struggle. You must enlist all the heaven
ly dominions, cherubim and seraphim anC
archangel, in the movement to save YOU
son. Some day or some night he will cal
d halt to his infamous practices. Some
thing will happen to him, as happened il
. a New York hotel to a son of one Of the
Z most distinguished clergymen Of Scotland
and one of the queens chaplains. 'WheI
can | see your said distinguished
looking young man at the close of one O.
my services in Brooklyn tabernacle.
: said, 'You can see me now" He said
4 mo; | want private conversation witt
: you at your own house. When can
y comet" I said, Tomorrow night" "You
a name" ! asked. He gave me his name
: the exact name Of his father, whose nam
= was known and is known through tn
y Christian world. though years ago he dc
!. parted this life. Returning home, too
. up a book of which his father was tn
!. author. and in the picture at the Openin
i1 Of the book l found that the young ma
. had most markedly his fathers features
= So l was sure there was no deception.
+ Return of Lost Sheep.
m On the following evening he came. Fl
N | said that he was the black sheep Of I'll
IN family flock. He had wandered the wOrl
]" over and been in all kinds Of wickednes
he but a few nights before. after reading
q. letter from his mother in Scotland,
he had retired for sleep, but in the adjOiniI
he room he heard some young men in sue
OF horrible conversation he could not slee
Va He was shocked as he had never befO
been by the talk of bad men. He arOs
ke struck a light, took out the letter fro
re. his mother and knelt down by his bedsi'
90 and said, 20 Lord, God Of my mothe
We have mercy on me!' He said that sim
ey that prayer he was entirely changed al
yn loved what be before hated and hate
as what he before loved and asked what
I'd thought it all meant. I replied, ''YC
have become a Christian" He said
he might be called at any time to leave Il
.ty city. never saw him again, but it seer
o. ed to me that he had turned his ba'
n upon his wicked past and had started
en- the right direction. And it may be so wi
mt your boy Write him often. Tell him he
Mt. you are all thinking of him at home, an
nd it may be, your letter in hand, he M
yes call upon his mothers God to help a
no save him. Hope, you of the gray hal
nd | and wrinkles! Heaven has its thOusan
,av | Of souls who were once as thorough
wrong as your boy is. They repented, a
they are with the old folks in the healt
Z. air of the eternal hills, where they m
- become young again. Hope on. al
= though yea may never hear Of your 50
80 reformation and others may think he
-, left this life hopeless, who knows but Il
- in the last moment, after he has ceased
~, speak and before his soul launches aw
!. your prayer may have been answered Q
- he be one of the first to meet you at
ios. shining gate. The prodigal in the para
:, got home and sat down at the feast, wi
= the elder brother who never left the
- place, stood pOuting at the back door ,
,;Js did not 60 in at all.
To another class Of persons I intrOd
-. the angel of Hope, and they are the in
= :. lids Perhaps after long watching
overwork or towering grief your nerv
re- system is ruined Perhaps you hav
are hidden disorder that the world kn'
sses nothing about and which you cannot v
ned any delicacy speak Of. Perhaps it may
the a rheumatism that distorts and infal
we or a neuralgia which runs its sharp X
the along the temples Of your forehead.
any haps it is an indigestion causing
nat which is a recrperation to others to
you come a torture to you. Perhaps it Is
the insomnia which keeps you as wide aw
stul- at u o'clock at night as at II o'clocl
one noon, and hour after hour, like one in
ONE Bible times, you cry, would Coz
says were morning"
gone I cannot take the diagnosis Of your
you order, but let hope cheer you with on
that two thoughts Such marvellous cures
d in being wrought in our day through II
niger cation and surgery that your invalid
TINS may yet be mastered Persons as il
that you have got well. Cancer and tuberC
] IN sis will yet give way before some
use discovery. ] see every day people ST
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