The Newtown bee., 1905-11-17
The Busy Store Co.

the widowed mother by the young mans bier at Main; with the loving sisters he had WepJ at Lazarus tomb. But there is a great difference between the sorrow of loneliness, sorrow for ourselves, and the sorrow of despair, sorrow for those who are taken away. This latter sorrow the Christian has no right to suffer. "Sorrow not,' says Paul to the Thessalonians, "even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so then also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.
 There is
 NO CONGREGATION, BELOVED, WHICH
 DOES NOT NEED THIS MESSAGE TO
 CONSOLE.
 Sweet word of comfort. One needs it to day, another tomorrow, in propor- tion as we fulfil the law of Christ by bearing one another'S burdens; we all need it continually. The unseen world IS daily opening to receive the friends we love, but though they pass from sight, it is only for season. They shall not return to us. Why should we wish them to, except to satisfy our selfish, lonely hearts. Free from sick ness, the Lord their God hath healed UuC". U lCC HUH " Cd NAcSS. UllC LOlu has become their wholesome strength. Free from accident, the beloved of the Lord shall dwell in safety; He shall cover them all the day long, and they shall dwell between his ShOui- ders. They have passed beyond the troubles of tranSitOry life: they have read the riddles of earth'S difficult, probationary day. Out of the clouds and darkness where they groped with eye of faith firm fixed upon the Lamb of God, they have passed to that eternal morning where the Lord giveth them perpetual light, and revealeth to them the righteousness and judgment which are the habitatiCn of his seat. Out of the storms which buffet us they nave found the man Christ Jesus d refuge from the storm, an hiding-place from the wind, a covert from the tenn pest. They shall not return to us. This is not the sad, but the comfort ing word of Holy Writ which we as Christians should bear in mind, es- pecially at this blessed season. of All Saints, when we take upon our lips those words of thanksgiving for the children or God who have been gath cred home: i've bless thy holy name for all thy servants departed this life In thy faith and fear" We shall go to
 
 which we should have especially in mind, when to-day we take upon our lips the prayer: We beseech thee to give us grace so to follow their good examples that with them we may be partakerS of thy heavenly kingdom. |"
 So as we think to-day of loved ones gone before,
 .'WhO live not in the past alone. But thread to day the unheeding street An stairs to sin anu famine known. Sing with the welcome of their feet,-" the meek, the lowly, the patient, the uncOmplalning, who ScOrned earth s gift of fame and power and gold so they could live the nearer to Gods heart,-Saints all of them, ,uncanoniZed, uncatalOgued,-
 THANK WE GOD FOR THE GOOD EXAM PLIES OF THEIR PATIENT, PURE, IN SPRING LIVES;
 pray we the Holy Ghost to give us His enabling grace that we may follow them in all those ways of pleasantness in which they followed Jesus Christ, in all those paths of peace in which they walked with God, 'until the shadows lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is huShed and the fever of life is over and Oul work is done;" until
 Shall change, shall become first a peace Then a liz ht, then thy breast. Oh thou son of my soul. l shall see thee | again
 And with God be the rest"