Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-08-16

utf uttfttN uliI. 4 utNtI saw Dlfn cry
but once. and that was at the burial
or nay mother. After 60 years living
together II was bard to part. And there
are aged people today who are feeling
just such pang as that want TO
tell them there is perfect enchantruent
I'm the promises OF this gospel. aud
come TO them and offer them my arm.
or take their arm and 4 bring them
60 this gospel well. Sit down, father
or mother: sir down. See IL there Is
anything at the well for you. Come,
David. the psalmist. have you anything
encouraging TO offer them? Yes"
says the psalmist: 'thcy shall still
bring forth fruit in old age; they shall
be fat snd flourishing TO show that the
Lord Is upright He Is my rock. and
there Is no unrightcousness ia him"
Come. Isaiah. bnve you anything to
say out or your prophecies for these
aged people? "Ies." says Isaiah; down
to old age am with thee. and TO hoary
hairs will I carry thee" Well. If the
Lord Is going TO carry you. you ought
not to worry much about your ailing
eyesight and failing limbs.
God Never Fcrgets.
You get little worried for fear that
some time you will come TO want. do
you? Your children and grandchil-
dren sometimes speak little sharp to
You because of your ailments. The
Lord will not speak sharp. Do you
think you VIII come TO want? What do
you think the Lord is2 Are his gran
aries empty7 VIII he feed the raven
and the rabbit and the lion In the des-
ert and forget you? Why. naturalists
tell Us that the porpoise will not for
sake its wounded aud 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. 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 Ii you were OF no more
Use. be would have taken you before
this. Do you think God has forgotten
you because be has taken care of you
20 or so years7 He thinks more OF you
today than he ever did because you
think more of him. May the God Of
Ahra ham and Isaac and Jacob and
Paul the aged be your God forever.
But I gather oil the promises today In
n group. aud l ask the shepherds to
drive their focks Of lambs and sheep
up to the sparkling supply. Behold.
happy is the man whom God correct
eth Though be cause grief, yet will
he have compassion" MANY are the
Affections OF the righteous, but the
Lord delivereth him cut of them ALL
Weeping may endure for n night, but
Joy cometh in the morning. 1 am de-
termined that no one shall go out Of
this house uncontrolled. Yonder is n
timid and shrinking soul who seems to
hide away from the consultations l am
uttering as n child with q sore hand
hides away from the physician. lest he
touch the wound too roughly, and the
mother has Go go aud compel the little
patient 10 come out and see the physi-
elan. SO come TO your tlmid and
shrinking soul today and compel YOU
TO come out i'm the presence of the Di-
vine Physician. lie will not hurt you.
lie has been healing wotflSx fsT maNy
years. and he will give you gentle and
omnipotent medicament.
Well OF GIadnc~s.
But people, when they have trouble.
20 anywhere rather than 10 God. De
Quincy took opium TO get rid OF his
troubles. Charles Lamb took 10 punch.
Theodore Hook took 10 something
stronger, Edwin Forrest took TO theat-
rical dissipation, and men have run all
around the earth. hoping i'm the quick
! transit TO get away from their misfor.
tunes. 1t has been dead failure.
'Ibnrn ic 10 Il.
the thirst or an afflicted spirit, and that
Is the deep and inexhaustiDle well OF
the gospel.
Bat some one In the audience says.
/ Notwithstanding all you have said
this morning. find no alienation for
my troubles" Well. I am not through
yet. have left the most potent con
sidcration for the last. am going 10
soothe you with the thought OF heaven.
However talkative we may be, there
will come Il time when the stoutest and
most emphatic Interrogation will evoke
from us no answer. AS soon as we
have closed our lips for the final ST.
lcnce no power on earth can break that
tnciturnity. But where, o Christian,
will be your spirit? In scene OF in
-'N'~ e'",,'t't shN VI
heaven waving Its blossoms In the
bright air; victors fresh from battle
showing their scars; the rain OF earth
ly sorrow struck through with the rai In
bow OF eternal JOY; In one group God
and angels and the redeemed - Paul
and Silas. Latimer and Ridley, Isaiah
and Jeremiah. Payson and John NIL
ton. Gabriel and Michael. the archan-
gel; long line OF choristers reaching
across the hills: seas OF Joy dashIng TO
the white beach; conquerors marching
from gate to gate. you among them.
oh, what great flock God will gather
around the celestial well! No stone on
the wells mouth while the shepherd
waters the sheep. There Jacob will
recognize Rachel the shepherdess. And,
standing on one side OF the well OF eter-
nal rapture your children and stand
Ing on the other side OF eternal rapture
your Christian ancestry. you will he
bounded on all sides By joy SO keen
| and grand that no other world has ever
been permitted to experience 1t. Out of
that one deep well OF heaven the Shep-
herd will dip reunion for the berea we'd.
wealth for the poor. health for the sick,
| rest for the weary. And then all the
flock OF the Lords sheep will lie down
in the green pastures. and world with
out end we will praise the Lord that on
this summer Sabbath morning we were
permitted 10 study the story of Jacob
and Rachel at the we'll
lCopyrisht. iaol, by Louis Klopsch. N. VI
Franklin and the Nihye
When BENJAMIN Franklin was riii-