Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-08-14

now they teef ABOUT their failing health
and abont their departed friends aud
about the loneliness that sometimes
strikes through their souls.
After two persons have lived together
for forty or fifry years and one is taken
away, what 6eselation. ! shall not
forget the err Of Dr. DE Witt of New
York when he stood by the open grave
OF his beloved wife and after the obse-
quies had ended he looked down into the
open place aud SAID: Farewell. my hon
ored. faithful and beloved wife. The
bond that bound us severed. Thou art
IN glory. and / am here on earth, We
shall meet again. Farewell. FAREWELL
To lean on prop AR fifty years and
the" have it break under yor. There
We're only two years difference between
the death of my father and mother. After
my mothers deeease my father used to
go around as though looking for some
thing. He would often get up from one
room without any seeming reason and go
TO another room. and then he would take
his cane and start out, and some one
would say, Father. where are YOU GO
mgr and he would answer. Il don't
lnow exactly where | am going" AL
ways looking for something! Though he
was a tender hearted man / never saw
him cry but once, and that was at the
burial of my mother. After sixty years
living together ii was hard to part And
there are aged people to-day who are feel
ing just such Il pang as that. | want to
tell them there is perfect enchantment in
the promises of this gospel. and | come
TO them and offer them my arm, or take
their arm and bring them to this gospel
well. Sit down, father or mother. sit
down. See if there is anything at the
we'll for you. Come, David, the psalm
list. have you anything encouraging to
offer them: Yes says the psalmist:
they shall still bring forth frnit in old
age; they shall be fat and aourishing. TO
show that the Lord is upright. He Is
nay rock, and there is no unrighteousness
in him" Come, Isaiah, have you any
thing to say out of your prophecies for
thsse aged people: Yes" says Isaiah;
down TO old age | am with thee. and TO
hoary hairs viii / carry thee" Well, il
the Lord is going to carry you, you ought
not to worry much about your ailing eye
sight and failing limbs.
Trust in Gods Providcnces.
You get little worried for fear thai
some time you viii come to want, do
you? Your children and grandchildren
sometimes speak little sharp to you be-
cause Of four ailments. The Lord viii
not speak sharp. Do you think you will
come to want? What do you think this
Lord is? Are his granaries empty? VIII
he feed the raven and the rabbit and the
lion in the desert and forget you! Why,
.T..r IL
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 sea2 But you say. Il am
so near worn out, and am of no use TO
God any more think the Lord knows
whether you are of any more use or not.
If you We're of no more use. he would
have taken you before this. Do you
think God has forgotten you because he
has taken care of you seventy or eighty
years? He thinks more of you to-day than
he ever did because you think more of
him. May the God of Abraham and Isaac
and Jacob and Paul the aged be gour God
forever! But | gather all the promises to-
day in group, and / ask the shepherds
TO drive their fiocks of lambs and sheep
up TO the sparkling supply. Behold,
happy is the man whom sod correcteth.'
Though he cause grief, yet will he have
compassion" MANY are the Affections
of the righteous, bat the Lord deliverett
him out of them ALL Weeping may
endure for night, but JOY cometh in the
morning" | am determined that no one
shall go ont of this house uncontrolled.
Yonder is timid and shrinking soul
who seems TO hide away from the conso-
lations | am uttering as a child with
sore hand hid 5 away from the physician
lest he touch the wound too roughly, and
the mother has to 20 and compel the lit
tie patient to come out and see the physi-
cian So l come to your timid Ind
shrinking soul to-day and compel lou 10
come out in the presence of the Divine
Physician. He will not hurt you. He
has been healing wounds for many years,
and he will give You gentle and omnipo-
tent medicament
But people when they have trouble go
anywhere rather than to God. DE QuiD-
cey took opium to get rid of his troubles.
Charles Lamb took to punch. Theodore
Hook took to something stronger Ed
win Forrest took TO theatrical dissipa-
ton And men have run all around the
earth. hoping in the quick transit to get
away from their misfortunes. 1t has
been dead failure. There is only one
well that can slake the thirst of an af
fiicted spirit. and that is the deep and
inexhaustible we'll of the gospel
But some one in the ag.iienca says
notwithstanding all you have said this
morning. find no alienation for my
troubles. Well, | ann not through yet.
| have left the most potent consideration
FOR the last am going to soothe you
with the thought of heaven. However
talkative we may he, there will come
time when the sloutest and most EN-
phatie Interrogation 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 citurnity. But
where. O Christian. will hc your spirit
In scene of infinite Gladness. The
snriag morning of heaven waving it's
blossoms in the bright air, Nictors fresh
from battle showing their scars. The
rain Of earthly sorrow struck through
with the rainbow of eternal joy. In one
group God and angels and the redeemed.
The Marrow ness of Truth. Now,
must not be mi;construed ! am no ati-
yocate Of narrowness for lis own sake.
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