The Yale expositor., 1901-08-16

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 Gay,
Father, where are you going?" and he
would answer, II don't know exactly
where am going" Always looking for
something! Though he was tender
hearted man | never saw him cry but
once. and that was at the burial of my
mother. After 60 years living together
1t was hard to part. And there are
aged people to-day who are feeling just
such a pang as that. l want to tell
them there is perfect enchantment in
the promises of this gospel, and | come
to them and offer them my arm, or l
take their arm and bring them to this
gospel well. Sit down, father or
mother, sit down. See IL there is any
thing at the well for you. Come, David,
the psalmist, have you anything en-
couraging to offer them? Yes says
the psalmist; "they shall still bring
forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat
and flourishing, 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 carry thee" Well, if the Lord is
going to carry you, you ought not to
worry much about your ailing eyesight
and failing limbs.
Trust in Gods Providenccs.
You get little worried for fear thai
some time you will come to want, do
you? Your children and grandchildren
sometimes speak 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 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 so 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 forever! But
l gather all the promises to day in a
group, and | ask the shepherds to drive
their fiocks 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 af-
flictions of the righteous, but the Lord
delivereth him out of them all"
Weeping may endure for night, but
Joy cometh in the morning" / am de-
termined that no one shall go out Of
this house uncontrolled. Yonder is
timid and shrinking soul who seems to
hide away from the consultations l am
uttering as a child with a 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
slcian. So / 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
Theodore Hook took to something
stronger. Edwin Forrest took to the
atrical dissipation. And men have run
all around the earth, hoping in the
quick transit to get away from their
misfortunes. 1t has been a dead fail
ure. There is only one well that can
Stake the thirst of an afflicted spirit,
and that is the deep and inexhaustible
well of the gospel.
Gathering Cloves.