News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-02-12

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lszssA st3aesss !ssea4A blowing the broat
seas; and it il
less singular that the machinery o
our existence should cease to oper
ate' than that it should operate at all
HOW surprising that one should live
an hour to say nothing of three score
years and ten!
Strango that a harp Of thousand string.
Should keep in tune so long"
when we thus reflect, it is not to be
wondered if, like David, we some
Ilines put the question as to what we
are waiting for?
our Experiences Last Year.
Puttlng the question to ourselves, is
It enough for boys and girls to say
that they are waiting to be men and
women? Or, for youths to say that
they are waiting to get a start in life
ana settle down? Or, for fathers and
mothers to say that they are waiting
10 see their children educated and es.
tabllshed? Or, for others that there
are enterprises to whose success their
presence is still necessary? Are these
contracted carnal things really what
we are waiting for?
Let US ask God the question, as Da-
Vid did, and he replies
1. 1t may be that you are waiting to
be saved, for God is not willing that
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come to repentance and live. How he
has been pleading with some Of you
during the past year! Was there no
sermon, no hymn of invitation or warn
ing, no loss of a friend by death, no
providential escape from bodily peril
or serious illness, to remind you of
your mortality, and plead with you to
accept Christ?
2 1t may be that you are waiting to
bear fruit. By the grace of God you
are already saved let us suppose. but
for what purpose are you saved? Why
did he not call you to himself at the
moment of your conversion? AS a
saint, for what are you waiting? "Ye
have not chosen me-" said Christ, but
l have chosen you, and ordained you
that We shall 60 and bring forth fruit,
and that your fruit should remain"
John 1850 Is it for this reason you
are waiting here? Is the dresser of
the vineyard pleading that you be let
alone this year also, that if you bear
fruit it shall be well, and il not, then
after that shalt thou be cut down?
The Second Coming of Christ.
8. 1t may be that you are waiting
for his coming. The coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ, personally and Wis
IDLY, for his saints, has ever been the
hope of the true church, and blessed |
is the man whose heart is animated |
bv it. Blessed is he, who like the |
mother of Sisera, only with a holier |
expectation. is looking out of the win |
dow and crying through the lattice:
why is his chariot so long in coming?
Why tarry the wheels of his chariot"
Oh. blessed be God that from his
,wn word the cheerful announcement
S made yet a little while, and he
hat shall come, will come, and will !
lot tarry."
You have seen the luscious fruit
hanging from the Dough long after the
ligging and the pruning have been
,nded, waiting for the genial sun to
MT the final bloom upon its beauty,
md beget the sweetness and mellow
less of completed growth. Something
ike this is often true in human life,
nd NAV be true in yours I'VE all do
ade as the leaf" but the fading of
ONE is often illumined by the gran
eur of an autumnal sunset. God
rant this TO be true of you, young and
Id, rich and poor. first and last. May
on have a Happy New Year" in the
ighest and truest sense. Happy is
he people whose God is the Lord" Ac.
ept him. serve him, wait for him. 1t
, only as we stand in such relation.
hin to him that. after employing the
salmist's question, And now Lord,
hat wait for?" we can equally apply !!
,e comfort of that which follows 1t,
nd add. my hope is in thee"
Upheld by hope"-a glorious hope,
AS DAYS and years roll by;
he coming of our Lord and King
Is surely drawing nigh.
rrnheld by hope" all toll is sweet
with this glad thought in view.
he Master may appear tonight
To call his servants true.
trpheld bv hope" in darkest days, |
Faith can the light descry; ,
he deepening glory in the East
Proclaims deliverance nigh!
Upheld by hope" how glad the hearti
My soul is on the wing!
en now his hand is on the door,
he comes-my glorious Kingl
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