Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-15

thluSs ne NOulu Ollcn get up from ulc
room without any seeming reason and 20
to another room, and then he would take
his cane and start out, and some one
would say, Father where are you GO
ing" and he would answer, 81 don't
know exactly where l am going" AL
ways looking for something! Though he
| was n tender hearted man ! never saw
him cry but once and that was at the
burial Of my mother After GO years
living together 1t was hard to part. And
there are aged people today who are feel
ing just sucNa pang as that; I want to
tell them thee 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
well for you. Come, David, the psalm
list. have you anything encouraging to
offer them? "Yes." says the psalmst;
they shall still bring forth fruit in old
age; they shall be fat and ilourishing. to
show that the Lord is upright. lie is
my rock, and there is no unrighteousness
in him." Come, Isaiah, have you any
thing to say out of your prophecies for
these aged people? YES" says Isaiah;
down to old age l am with thee. and to
hoary hairs will | carry thee" WE'LL if
the Lord is going to carry you. you ought
not to worry much about your ailing eye
sight and failing limbs.
Trust In Gods Providerccs.
You get a little worried for fear that
some time you will come to want, do
you? Your children aud grandchildren
sometimes speak little sharp to you be-
cause 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 it's 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, 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 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 10 or so years? He
thinks more of you today than he ever
did because you think more of him. May
the God of Abraham and Isaac and Ja-
cob and Paul the aged be your God for
eyerl But | gather all the promises to-
day in a group, and l ask the shepherds
to drive their hocks of lambs and sheep
up to the sparkling supply. Behold,
happy is the man whom God correcteth."
Though he cause grief, yet will he have
compassion" MANY are the Affections
of the righteous, but the Lord dclivereth
him out of them ALL" weeping may
endure for night. but joy cometh in the
r,,,i,, I I,t
shall go out of this house uncontrolled.
Yonder is tmid and shrinking soul
who seems to hide away from the conso-
lations | am uttering as child with a
sore hand hides away from the physician
lest he touch the wound too roughly. and
the mother Vas to go and compel the lit
tie patient to come out and see the physi-
clan. SO | come to your tiInid and
shrinking soul today and compel you to
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 &c
anywhere rather than to God. De Quin-
cey took opium to get rid of his troubles
Charles Lamb took to punch. Theodore
Hook took to something stron ger. 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 a dead failure. There is only one
well that can Stake the thirst Of an af-
ficted spirit, and that is the deep and
iuexhaustible well of the gospel.
But some one in the audience says,
notwithstanding all you have said this
morning. ! find no alienation for my
troubles" Well, | am not through yet.
] have left the most potent consideration
for the last. ! am going to soothe you
with the thought of heaven. However
talkatye we may be, there will come n
time when the stoutest and most en-
phatic 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 taciturnity. But
where, o Christian, will be your spirit
In scene of infinite gladness. The
spring morning of heaven waving its
) blossoms in the bright air. Victors fresh
t 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
Paul and Sias, Latimer and Ridley
5 Isaiah and jeremiah, Payson and John
} Milton. Gabriel and Michael the arch
angel. Long line Of chorsters reaching
| across the hills. Seas of JOY dashinS tc
! the white beach. Conquerors marching
from gate to gate. You among them
3 Oh, what a great flock God will gather
I around the celestial well. No stone OF
4 the wells mouth while the Shepherd
t waters the sheep. There Jacob will rec
ognize Rachel the shepherdess AnC
e standing on one side OF the well of eter
! nal rapture your children. and standing
, on the other side of eternal rapture youl
= Christian ancestry. You will be bounded
= on all sides by JOY so keen and CRANE
that no other world has ever been per
mtted to experience it. Out Of that on,
deep well of heaven the Shepherd vii
, dip reunion for the bereaved wealth fol
, the poor, health for the sick, rest for tn,
weary. And then all the flock of tn,
i Lords sheep will lie down in the greer
l. pastures, and world without end we vii
J. praise the Lord that on this summer Sab
D., beth morning we were permitted to study
the story OF Jacob and Rachel at the we'll
. copyright. 1901, by Louis Klopsch, N. VI
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