Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-03-28

be childlessness. You arc Cod send
dran. You say, "Why, does H1u where
children to that other housento,o oton and
thev are unwelcome and are peacen toien
banged about when L woniu na' 81 Won
them IN the arms OF my, aiiectlonr yonr
fry' nerhaps may be disigured countgg-
nance or face that is easily carlcatuleii
and Won saw. "T could endure anything u
only only I was good looking" And your t ta,a,
nnrbana is a violent temper, ana you nav
r. drive it like six unbroken horses any
the punpowder explosions OF great noti,
Jav and ever and anon it runs away WIN
Won Your trial is the asthma lou say,
3If Il were rheumatism or Neuralgia VI
o,.,.s;nalas' hut it is this asthma, and ID Is
such an exhausting thing to breathe
Yonr trouble is a husband, sharp, snap
nv and cross about the house and raising
a small riot because button Is OH. HoM
could YOU know the button Is on 1oui
trial is a wife ever in contest WIN VII Cne 81
wants. and she is sloven. lhouSh "i,e
was very careful about her appearance IN
your presence once, now she Is caieJoi
because, she says, her fortune ~ me- IN.
Your trial is a hard school lesson you can
not learn. and you have bitten your hnger
nails until they are a sight to behold.
They never cry in heaven because they
have nothing to cry about. There are no
tears of bereavement, for you shall nave
YOUR friends all round about you. Ihere
are no tears of poverty because each one
sta at the Kings table and has his own
chariot of salvation and free access to the
wardrobe where princes get their array
No tears OF sickness, for there are no
pneumonias in the air and no ma.arlal ex,
halations from the rolling river of life and
no crutch for the lame limb and no spllnt
for the broken arm, but the pulses throb-
bine with the health Of the eternal God IN
a climate like our June before the blossoms
fall or our gorgeous October before the
leaves scatter.
different modes OF thrashing. on, the
story of the staff that struck the ftches
and the rod that beat the cummln and the
iron wheel that went over the corn! Dan
iel will describe the lions and Jonah levia'
THAN and Paul the eimwood whips with
which he was scourged, and Eve will tell
how aromatic Eden was the day she lett
it. and John Rogers will tell of the smart
of the fame and Elijah of the fiery team
that wheeled him up the sky sleeps and
Christ of the numbness and the paroxysms
and hemorrhages of the awful cruclfixion.,
There they are before the throne of God
on one elevation all those who were
struck of the rod, Oh the highest elevation
and amid the highest attitudes of heaven
all those who were under the wheel. He
will not ever be thrashing it.
Is there not enough salve in this text to
make a plaster large enough to heal all
your wounds? When a child is hurt the
| mother is very apt to say TO it, Now: 1t
will soon feel better And that is what
| God says when He embosoms all our trou-
| bic in the hush of this great promise.
| Weeping may endure for a night, but
| Joy cometh in the morning YoI may
| leave your pocket handkerchief sopping
wet with tears on your death pillow. but
you will 60 Up absolutely sorrowless. They
will wear black, you will wear white; cy-
presses for then, palms for you. You will
say: 'Is it possible that am here? Is this
| heaven! Am [ so pure now | will never
| do anything wrong? Am ! so well that
will never be sick again? Are these com
Partnerships so firm that they will never
again be broken? Is that Mary? Is that
John? Is that my loved one [ put away
into darkness? Can it be that these are
the faces Of those who lay so wan and
emaciated in the back room that awful
night dying. Oh. how radiant they are.
Look at them! How radiant they arei
| Why, how unlike this place is from what
] thought when | left the world below
Ministers drew pictures of this land. but
| how tame compared With the reality! They
| tod me- on earth that death was sunset
| No, no. 1t is sunrise Glorious sunrise
] see the light now purpling the hills, and
the clouds fame with the coming day"
Then the gates of heaven will be opened
and the entranced soul, with the acuteness
| and power of the celestial vision, will look
thousands OF miles down upon the ban
nered procession, river of shimmerng
splendor, and will cry out, "Who are
they" And the angel of God, standing
close by, will say, "Do you not know who
they a.e?" NO" rays the entranced soul
Il cannot guess who they are The ange
will say, II will tell YOU, then, who they
are. These are they who came out of grea
tribulation, or thrashing, and their robes
washed and made white in the blood OF thu
limb"
Would that I could administer some o
these drops Of celestial anodyne to these
nervous and excited souls. If you woulC
take enough of it, it would cure all you
pangs. The thought that you are going tt
get through with this after awhile, all th
sorrow and all this trouble.
We shall have great many grand day
in heaven, but | will tell you which will b.
the grandest day of all the million ages o
heaven You say, care you sure You cal
tell me-" Yes, | can 1t will be the ds.
we get there. Some say heaven is growin
more glorious. | suppose it is, but | d.
not care much about that. Heaven now j
good enough for me.
History has no more .gratulatory seen
J than the breaking in of the English arm
upon Lucknow, India. A few weeks beior
a massacre had occurred at Cawnpur, ant
26O women and children had been put in
room Then five professional butchers wen
J in and slew them. Then the bodies OF tn
slain were taken out and thrown into
! we'll AS the English army came int
; Cawnpur they went into the room, ant
, oh. what horrid scene!
Sword strokes on the wall near the floor
; showing that the poor things had crouche,
: when they died, and they saw also that tn
floor was ankle deep in blood. The soldier
| walked on their heels across it, lest thei
shoes be submerged of the carnage. An
on that floor of blood there were flown
| locks of hair and fragments of dresses.
Out in Lucknow they had heard OF tn
, massacre. and the women were waiting TO
, the same awful death, waiting amid angus
, untold, waiting in pain and starvation, bu
, waiting heroicaliy, when, one day. Have
/, lock and Outram and Norman and ST
David Baird and Peel. the heroes of Tn
English army-huzza for them!-broke il
on that horrid scene, and while yet tn
, guns were sounding, and while cheers wer
issuing from the starving, dying people o.
the one side and from the travel worn an
powder blackened soldiers on the Other
{ right there, in front of the kings palace
there was such a scene Of handshaking an
embracing and boisterous JOY as would Vi
/ terly confound the pen of the poet and tn
r pencil of the painter. And no wonder
. when these emaciated women, who ha
suffered SO heroically for Christ's sake
! marched out from their incarceration, on
: wounded English soldier got up in his fl
{ tgue and wounds and leaned against tn
' wall and threw his cap up and shouted