The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-03-14

! deal OF money and raise il quickly. He
oorrows on word and note all he can Dor.
| row; After while he puts mortgage on
ms mouse; after while he puts second
lien on his furniture; then he makes over
ms lie insurance; then he assigns all his
| property; then he goes to his father.
ln-law and asks for help. Well,
haying failed everywhere, completely
failed, he gets down on his knees
everybody and everything; now HELM me
out OF this financial troubled" He makes
God the last resort instead of the first re-
sort.
A young man goes off from home to earn
his fortune; He goes with his mothers
consent and benediction. She has large
! wealth, but he wants to make his own
fortune. lie goes far away, falls sick and
gets out Of money. He sends for the hotel
! Keeper where he is staying, asking for le.
nienee, and the answer he gets is, "If you
do not pay up Saturday night you'll be re-
moved to the hospital" The young man
sends to comrade in the same building:
no help. He writes to a banker who was
a friend OF his deceased father; no relief
Saturday night comes, and he is moved to
the hospital. Getting here, he is frenzied
with grief, and he borrows sheet of
paper and a postage stamp, and he sits
down, and he writes home: Dear mother
1
| ~ minutes of 10 o'clock when she gets the
letter. AT 10 o'clock the train starts. She
Is five minutes from the depot. She gets
there in time to have FIVE minutes to
spare. She wonders why the train that
can go forty miles an hour cannot 20
hospital She says; my son, what does
all this mean? Why did you not send for
| meY You sent to everybody but me. You
knew would and could help you. Is this,
the reward | get for my kindness to you
| alwaysY' She bundles him up, takes him
nome and gets him well very soon.
b Now, some of you treat God Just as that
| young man treated his mother. When you
get into, financial perplexity you call on
the banker, you cali on the broker, you
call on your creditors, you call on your
lawyer for legal counsel, you call upon
everybody, and when you cannot get any
help, then you go to God. You say, 80
Lord, l come to Thee Help me now out
Of my perplexity." And the Lord comes,
though It is in the eleventh hour He
says; why did you not send for Me be-
fore? As one whom his mother comfort
eth SO will comfort you" II is to throw
us back upon God that we have this minis.
| try OF tears.
| Your troubles are educational l 20
into the office of lapidary, an arti6cer in
precious stones, and ] see him at work on
one precious stone for a few minutes, and
he puts it aside finished / see him take
up another precious stone, and he works
on that all the afternoon, and | come in
the next day and still find him working on
II, and he IS at work on it all the week
say to him, "Why did you put only
twenty minutes work on that one precious
stone and put a whole week on this
other? oh" he says, chat one upon
which l put only twenty minutes work is
OF but little worth, and / soon got through
with it.. But this precious stone upon
which J. have put such prolonged and care
tul work is of vast value, and it is to flash
in kings coronet." So God let's one man
go through life with only a little cutting
OF misfortune, for he does not amount to
much, he is a small soul and of compare
lively little value, but this other Is OF
great worth, and it is cut of pain, and cut
of bereavement, and cut of persecution.
and cut of all kinds of trouble, and
through many years, and ask, Dear
Lord, why all this prolonged and severe
processT and God says; This soul is of
coronet. He shall be Mine in the day
when make up My jewels"
You know, on Widespread table the
food becomes more delicate at the last. |
have fed you to-day with the bread of con-
ISOLATION. Let the table now be cleared,
and let US set on the chalice of heaven.
Let the Kings cupbearers come in. "Oh, 4"
says some critic in the audience, "the
Bible contradicts itself. 1t intimates again
and again that there are to be no tears
in heaven, and if there be no tears in heav-
en- how is it possible that God will wipe
any away answer, Have you never
seen child crying one moment and laugh
ing the next and while she was laughing
you saw the tears still on her face" And
perhaps you stopped her in the very midst
of her resumed glee and wiped off those
delayed tears. So l think after the heav-
emily raptures have come upon us there
may be the mark of some earthly grief
and while these tears are glittering in the
light OF the jasper sea God will wipe them
away. How well He can do that
Friends, il we could get any appreca-
tion of what God has in reserve for us, it
would make us so homesck we would be
unfit for our everyday work. Professor
Leonard, formerly of Iowa University, put
IN my hands meteoric stone, a stone
thrown oil from some other world to this
How suggestive it was to me! And have
to tell you the best representations we
have OF heaven are only aerolites flung off
from that world which rolls on, bearing
the multitude OF the redeemed. We ana
lyze these aerolites and find them crystal
lizations of tears. No wonder, flung off
from heaven! God shall wipe away all
tears from their eyes"
Have you any appreciation of the good
and glorious times your friends are having
in heaven? How different it is when they
get news there of Christians death from
what it is here! 1t is the difference be-
tween embarkation and coming into port.
Everything depends upon which side of
the river you stand when you hear of a
Christians death. If you stand on this
side OF the river, you mourn that they go;
if you stand on the other side of the river
you rejoice that they come.
Do you not this moment catch glimpse
of the towers! Do you not hear note of
the eternal harmony? Some of you may
remember the old Crystal Palace in this
city of New York | came in from my
country home a verdant lad and heard in
that Crystal Palace the first great music
| had ever heard. Julien gave a concert
there, and there were 5000 voices and 5000
players upon instruments, and / was
nightly impressed with the fact that Jul
lien controlled the harmony with the mo-
ton of his hand and foot, beating time
with the one and emphasizing with the
other. To me it was overwhelming. But
all that was tame compared with the scene
and the sound when the ransomed shall
come from the east, and the west. and the
north, and the south and sit down in the
kingdom of God, myriads above myriads,
galleries above galleries, and Christ will
rise, and all heaven will rise with Him,
and with His wounded hand and wounded
foot He will conduct that harmony. Like
the voice of many waters, like the voice of
mighty thunderings, worthy is the Lamb
that was slain to receive riches and honor
and glory and power, world without end"
For Milady's Dinner.