Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-08-24

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 the time of old age"
Well, 1 may not have lived as long as
you, but 1 have been great deal
among old people, and know how they
feel about their failing health and
about their departed friends and about
the loneliness that sometimes strikes
through their souls.
After two persons have lived togeth-
er for 40 or so years and one is taken
away, what desolation. I 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 obse-
quies 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. Fare
well, farewell!"
To lean on a prop for so 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 around as though
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 going?" and he
would answer, 81 don't know exactly
where am going" Always looking for
something! Though he was a tender
hearted man 1 never saw him cry but
once and that was at the burial of my
mother. After 60 years living together
it was hard to part. And there are
aged people to-day who are feeling just
such a pang as that. I want to tell
them there is perfect enchantment in
the promises of this gospel, and 1 come
to them and offer them my arm, or I
take their arm and bring them to this
gospel well. Sit down, father or
mother, sit down. See if there is any
thing at the well for you. Come, David,
the psalmist, have you anything en-
couraging to offer them? eyes, says
the psalmist; 'tthey shall still bring
forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat
and f1ourishing, to show that the Lord
is upright. He is my rock, and there
is no unrighteousness in him." Come
Isaiah, have you anything to say out
of your prophecies for these aged peo-
pie? "Yes,'' says Isaiah; down to old
age am with thee, and to hoary hairs
will I carry thee WE'LL if the Lord is
going to carry you, you ought not to
worry much about your ailing eyesight
and failing limbs.
Trust in Gods Providences.
You get little worried for fear that
some time you will come to want, do
you? Your children and grandchildren
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 granaries
empty? Will he feed the raven and
the rabbit and the lion in the desert
and forget you? Why, naturalists tell
us that the porpoise will 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 sea? But you say. ''I am
so near worn out, and I am of no use
to God any more" / 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
you because he has taken care of you
20 or 80 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 your God foreveri But
1 gather all the promises to day in a
group, and ask the shepherds to drive
their flocks of lambs and sheep up to
the sparkling supply. Behold. happy
il the man whom God correcteth." :"
Though he cause grief, yet will he
have compassion" MANY are the af-
fiictions of the righteous, but the Lord
delivereth him out of them ALL"
weeping may endure for night, but
Joy cometh in the morning." I am de-
termined that no one shall go out OF
this house uncontrolled. Yonder is a
timid and shrinking soul who seems to
hide away from the consultations am
uttering as a child with sore hand
hides away from the physician lest he
touch the wound too roughly, and the
mother has to go and compel the little
patient to come out and see the ply
sIcian. So 1 come to your timid and
shrinking soul to-day and compel you
to come out in the presence of the Di-
vine Physician. He will not hurt you
He has been healing wounds for many
years, and he will give you gentle and
omnipotent medicament.
But people when they have trouble
go any where rather than to God De
| Quincy took opium to get rid of his
| troubles Charles Lamb took to punch.