The Brussels Post, 1889-5-17, Page 3}
MAY 17, 1880. I HE BR ,r SELS POST
OTHER DAYS LIVED OVER, { reach the borne of the good in potions been gratified ? God help
iPerhaps your early home was in isoence, and lot IIia morcy fall up- gi (
TUUrlIIJ°1'A+ ltii1HND4lt\eltB 8UCtLLED the oily. It may have boon in the on your Haul if your kiudnooe leas
hoavon you to -day in your arlemu remtn
tivo profession Or atioupation, or
ornate app aro! on a commodious
rosielenco—ovorytbiug you put your
!Janda to ueoms to turn to gold. 13ut
diem,' aro others of you who are like
on the paront on the wrinklos of the ship ou which Paul sailed whore
whose fuoe is written Ilia story of o two setts met, awl you are brolton by
ebild's cm, Gee, slave mercy coo the the vroloues of the wave. 13y on
mother who, in addition to llor unadvised indorsement, or by a oan-
other paw, had toe pangs of a junction of uuforoeeen emits, or by
obild'e iniquity. Ah, there oro iiro, or storm, or a 80u8e1088 panic,
many, nonny sad Bound,' in dint sad you havo been flung headlong, and
where you once dispensed great
charities now you have hard work
to make the two ends meet,
have you forgottou to thank Goc1
for your days of prosperity, and that
through you trials sous of you have
made lUvostmouts which will con-
tinuo after the lust bank of this
world leas exploded, and the silver
and gold are molter in the fires of
a burning world ? .Have you, nrnld
all your lassos and dieeouragomonte,
forgot that there woe bread on your
table this morning, and that there
is air for your lunge and blood fur
your heart, and light for your eye,
and a glad and glorious and tri
umpliaut religion for your 8001 ?
Perhaps your last troublo was a
bereaverneut. That heart which iu
childhood was yoar refuge, the par.
ental heart, nal ithich has beeu n
source of the quickest eympathy ever
since, has 8nddonly hoot= silent.
forever, and now sometimes, when.
ever in sudden annoyance and with-
out deliberation, you say, "I will go
and tell mother," the thought flashes
ou you, "I have no mother ;" or Rho
father, with voice less fonder, but
as staunch and earnest and loving
as ever, watchful of all your ways,
exultant over your success without
saying much, although the old
people do talk it over by themselves,
his trembling intuit ou that staff
which you now keep as a family
relic, his memory embalmed iu grate
fol hearts, is taken away forever.
But cheer up iu the name of the
Lord Jesus Christ, the comforter.
He will not forsake you. Did the
Lord take that child out of our
arms ? Why, He is going to shelter
it better thou you could. Ho ie
going to array it 10 a white robe,
and with palm branch it will be all
ready to greet you at your coming
home. Blessed the broken heart
that Josue heals, Blessod the im•
portuuate cry that Josue comps
siouates. l3leseod the weeping eye
from which the soft hand of Jesus
wipee away the tear.
I was sailing down the St. John
rivar•, Canada, which is the Ithine
and the Hudson commingled in ono
scene of beauty and grandeur, and
while I was on tho deck of the
steamer a gentleman pointed out to
me the places of interest, and ho
said, "All this is interval laud, and
it is the riohost land in all the pro-
vinces of New Brunswick and Nova
Scotia."
"What," said I, "do you moan by
interval land ?" "Well," he said,
"this laud is submerged for a part
of Rho year ; spring freshets come
down, and all thesa,plarus are over-
flowed with ilio Witter, and the water
leaves a rich deposit, and when the
waters 000 gone the harvest springs
np, Rind there is the grandest harvest
that was over reaped." Ancl I in-
stantly tbou;ht, 'tl1 is not the
heights of the church and is not tho
heights of Ibis world (bat is the
scene of this prosperity, but the
soul over whioh the floods of sorrow
have gong, the soul oyer wbicb the
freshets of tribulatiou have torn
their way, that yields the greatest
fruits of righteouanees, and the
largest harvest for time, mud the
richest harvost for eternity, Bloss
God that your soul is interval land.
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— „ days whon (:anal street, Now boon 111 requitod. Clod havo mercy
.1 JO rnetleelll'e ,'glume - "Tbon. Bhau ate. York, was far up town and the site
ftbie church was an oxouralae in
IuenIbrr .111 Rile WO' a'bicI, the
Lewd Thy' /sod Led Ther,"
At the Ilrooltlyn tabernacle loot
Sunday Rev. T. DeWitt 'Talmage,
preached a Fermou on tho snbjact,
Other Days Lived Over.
His text was Deuteronomy
2': "Thou Bluth remember all the
way which the Lord thy God led
the0." He Fold :
God lei the text advisee the people
to look book upon their past history.
It still du de all good to relioare°
the Fcenee betwee-� this May morn.
int; and our cradle, wllolher It was
rooked in country or tnwu. A row
daps silo, with my brother and
sifter, I visited the piaci, of my
boyhood. It woe cue of tho mot
emotionnl and absorbing daps of
wy life. There litantlsthe old hon ,e,
and ire .I ..ant, through tho roomy t
said, "I oonlel find my way hero
with my rya shut, although I have
Lot been here in forty years."
There woes the sirdiug room where
a large family group every evening
gathered, the most of thou" now in
a better world. There was the old
barn where we hunted for Easter
eggs, and the place whore the
horses] stood. There is where the
orohnrci was. only three or four
trees left of all the grove that mice
bore apples, and such apples, too.
There is the brook down which we
rode to the watering of the horses
bare back, and with a rope halter.
We also visited the cemetery where
min
any of our kdred are waiting for
the resurrection, the old peoplo aide
by side, after a jouruoy of sixty
years, only about three years be
ween the time of their. going. There
also sleep the dear old neighbors
who used to tic+ their horses under
the shod of the country meeting
house and sit at t110 end of the pow
singing "Duke Street," anti "Bal.
orlon," mid "Antioch." Oh, they
ware a glorious race of mon and
evomou, who did their work well,
raised a splendid lot of boys and,
aro now as to their bodies 10 Omit
aeighborllood ou earth, but as to
;fleasouls in jubilant neighborhood
before the throne of God. I 'eel
that my journey and visit last wool(
did mu good, and it would do all
good, if not in person then in
thought, to revisit the scenes of
boyhood or girlhood. "Thou shalt
remember all the way which the
Lord thy God led thee."
Youth ie apt too much to spend
all its time in looking forward. Old
ago is apt to spend too much of its
time looking backward. People in
mid-life and on the apex look both
ways. It would be well for us, 1
think, however, to spend more time
in reminieoenco. By the constitu-
tion of our nature wo spend most of
our time in looking forward, and
the vont majority of this audience
live not s0 much in the present as
in
tho future. I find that you.
meau to maks a reputation, you
mean to establish youreelf, and the
advantages you expect to achieve
absorb a great deal of your tune.
But 1 see no harm in this if it does
Lot make you discontent with the
present or disqualify you for exist-
ing duties.
It is a useful thing sometimes to
look back, and to see the dangers
wo have escaped, and to see the
sorrows we have suffered, and the
trials and wanderings of our earth-
ly pilgrimage, and to sum up our
•enjoyments. I mean this morning,
so far as God may help me, to stir
up your memory of the past, so
that in the review you may be en-
couraged) and humbled, and •urged
to pray.
There is a chapel in Florence
with a fresco by Guido. It was
covered up with two inches of stucco
until our American and European
artists went there, and after long
toil removed the covering and re
traced the fresco. And Ism aware
that the memory of the past, with
many of you, is all covered up with
ten thousand obleterationd, and I
propose this morning, so far as the
Lord may help us, to sake away the
covering) that the old picture way
shine out again,
I want to bind in ono sheaf all
your past advantages, and I want
to bind in another shoat all your
past advereitics. It is a precious
harvest, awl I must bo cautions how
1 swing tho soytho.
Among the greatost advantages
of your past fife was au 001131.. home
and its surroundings. The bad men
of the day, for tho most part dip
their heated .passions out of the
boiling spring of au unhappy
home. 'We are not surprised to
find that Byron's heart was a eon•
tteutration of sin, whoa wo hoar his
mother was abandoned, and that
sire called him 'tire 1anio brat.' lie
who has videos parents has to fight
every inch of the way if Ire, would
maintain his integrity, and at_ loot
0
to the country. That old !rouse in
the oity may have been demolisbod
or ohaugecl into stares, and it seem-
ed liko sacrilege to you, for there
woe mora incoming iu that plain
house, in that small boners, than
ui griulite mansion or a turreted
oatlwdral. Looking back alis morn-
ing, you roe as though it were yore
totality ---Elio sitting room where tho
loved Duos sat by the plain lamp•
light, Rho mother at the evening
stand, the brothers and sistore,
por•hapo loug ago gathered into the
slciee, then plotting mischief on the
floor or under the table, the 'abhor
with firm v.lice commanding m
silence that (egad half a minute.
Oh, these wore good days 1 If
you had your foot hurt your mother
alwteye sunt a soothing calve to
Boal it. If yon were wronged in the
street your flag ter was always ready
to protect you. The year was one
round of frolic earl mirth. Your
greatest trouble was like an April
shower, mora sunshine than shower.
The hood had not been ransacked
by troubles, nor had sickuess brok-
en it, and no Iamb bad a warmer
sheepfold than the homo in which
your childhood nestled.
Perhaps yon were brought up in
tbo oonutry. You stood now today
in memory under the old tree. You
clubbed it for fruit that was not
quite ripe beoanso you could not
wait any longer. Yoa hear the
brook rumbling aloug over the
pebbles. Yon step again into the
furrow where your father en hie
shirt sleeves shouted to the lazy
oxen. You frighten the swallows
from Rho rafters in the barn, and
take just ono egg, and silence your
conscience by saying they won't
miss it. Yon take a drink again
out of the very bucket that the old
well fettled np. Yon go for the
cows at night and fled them wag-
ging their lteado. through the bars.
Ofttimes in the dusty and busy
streets yon wish you weirs home
again in the uld farmhouse, through
whioh tborr was the breath of new
mown hay or the blossom of buck-
wheat.
You may havo iu your window.;
note beautiful plants and flowers
brought from across the spas, but
not one of them stirs in your soul
so much charm itnd memory as the
old ivy peal the yellow sunflower
that stood sentinel along the garden
wall, mud the forget-mo.00ts played
hide -and soek mid tbo long grass.
The father, who need to come in
suuburut from the fields and set
down on the door sill and wipe the
moat from his brow, may have gone
to his everlasting rost. The mother
who used to sit at the door a little
boot over, cap and spectacles on,
her face mellowing with the vicis-
situdes of mauy years, may have
put down her gray head on tho
pillow in tbo valley, but forgot that
home yott never will. Hove you
thanked! God for it ? Have yon ro.
hearsed all these blessed remin•
isconoes ? Ob, thank God for a
Christian father, thanlc Gori for a
Christian mother, thank God for
an early Christian altar at which
you were taught to kneel ; thank
God for an early Christian home.
I bring to mind another passage
in the history of your life. Tho clay
came when you set up your own
household. The days passed along
in quiet bleeseduess. Yon twain
sat at the table morning and even.
lag and talked over your plans for
the future. The most insiguifioent
affair iu your. life became the sub.
jest of mutual consultation and ad-
visement. You were so happy you
felt you never could be any happier
Oneday a dark aloud hovered over'.
your dwelling and it got darker and
darker, but out of that blood the
shining messenger of God;descendod
to incarnate au immortal spirit.
Two little feet started do an eternal
journey, and you were to lead them
—a gent to flash in heaven's eon.
net, and you to polish it; eternal
ages of light and darkness watching
tbo starting out of a newly created:
creature. You rejoiced and you
trembled ab the responsibility that
in your possession an immortal
treasure was placed'. Yoti prayed
and rejoiced, and wept and wonder-
ed; you tyere earneet in suppli-
oation that you might lead it through
life luso the kingdom of God. There
was a tremor in your earnestness.
There was a double intorost in that
!tome now. There was an additiou-
al intorost why you should stay
tboro and be faithful, and when in
a few monthe your house was filled
with tho anusie of the child's laugh-
ter, you were amok through with
the fact that you bad a stupendous
mission.
Have you kept that vow ? Have
you uegleotod any of theeo ditties ?
y much to you as it i fenancial etnbarraasmont. aolti
l oon• fTIulr "Si ,.
Is our bonne its m •�. �•
used to. be ? ITavil' 'tbosc autiot• gratillato Baine of you on your lucre -
,),Tow York Uroaory,
world, but the saddest sound that
18 ever heard. is tho brooking of a
niotber's heart. Are there any born
who es:minbor that in that !iotno
they were unfaithful ? Aro tbero
those who wandered off from that
early home, and left the mother to
die with a broken boort ? Oh, I
stir that reminiseenoo to day.
Some of you havo not aiwaya had
a smooth life, Some of you aro
now in the eltadow. Others had
their troubles years ago, you are a
mero wreck of what you once woro.
I must gather up the sorrows of
your poet life ; but how shall I do
it ? You say that it io impossible,
144 y00 Have had 80 many trouble,'
and adversities, Thou I will just
taste two, the first trouble and the
last trouble. As when you are
walking along the streets and there
has been music in the distance, you
unconsciously find yourself keeping
step to the mtiaio, so when you start
life your very life was a musical
time beat. The air was full of joy
and hilarity ; with the bright clear
oar you made the boat skip ; yon
went on, life grew brighter until
after a while suddenly a voice from
heaven said, "Halt l" and quick as
the sunshine you bolted ; you grew
pale, you confronted your first
sorrow. You had no idea that the
flush on your child's cheek was an
unhealthy flush. Yoa 'aid it can't
be anything serious Death in
olippered feet walked round about
the cradle. You did not hear the
tread ; but lifter a white the truth
flashed on you. You walked the
floor. Oh, if yoti could, with your
strong, sunt )rand, have wrenched
the child from the destroyer. You
went to your ronin and you said,
"God, save my child 1 God, save
my child." The words seemed go.
ing out in darkue4. You said, "I
can't bear it ; I can't bear it." Yon
felt as if you could not put the long
lashes over the bright ogee, Inver
to sea them sparkle again. 011, if
you could have taken that little ono
iu your urine and with it leaped the
grave, how gladly yon would havo
clone it 1 •01t 1 if you could let your
proparty go, your house go, your
land and your storehouse go, how
gladly yon would have allowed them
to depart if you could only have
kept that cue treasure !
But our day there arose from the
hoavene a chill blast that swept over
the bedroom, and instantly all the
light went out, mud there was dark-
ness' -thick, murky, impenotrable
shuddering darkness, But God
didn't leave' you there. Mercy
spoke. As you took up the cup, and
was about to put it to your lips,
God said : "Let 1t pose," and forth•
with, as by the hand of angels, au
other cop was put into your bands;
it was the cup of God's oonsolatiou.
And as von havo sometimes lifted
the head of a wounded soldier, and
poured wine into his lips, so God
put his loft hand under your head,
and with his eight hand he poured
into your lips the wine of His tom
fort and His consolation, end you
looked at tho empty cradle and look-
ed at the Lord's chastisement, and
you said, "Even so, Father, for so
it seemeth good in Thy sight."
• Ale, it was your first trouble.
How did you ever got over it ? God
comforted you. You have been a
bettor man ever since. You have
been a hatter woman ever eines. Iu
tinier of the closing gate of the
sepulchre you heard the clanging of
the opening gate of heaven, and
you felt an irresistible drawing
heavenward. You havo been purer
of mind ever since that night when
the little ono for the hast time put
'its arms around your neck and said
"Good night, papa ; good night,
, mamma. Meet mo in heaven,"
Bat I must oom0 on down to
your latoot 0Ol'r1W. what was it?
Perhaps it was your own sickness.
The child's tread on the stairs, or
the tick of Rho watch ou the stand
disturbed you. Through Rho long
worry days you counted the figures
in the carpet or the flowers in tbo
wall paper. 011, the weariness, the
exhaustion 1 Oka, the burning pangs I
Would God it wove morning, would.
God it woro night, were your fro.
pont cry. But you aro bettor, or Glassevaro of all kinds sold at
wimp oven well. Have you clticed
thanked God that to clay you don reprices.
come out in tbo fresh ale ; that you
are in this place to !near God's name Also a largo quantity of Tea.
and to Bing God's praise and implore winch wo will sell at COST.
God's help and to ask 'God's fol- Tea from 14i cents to
givenoss ? lIloes the Lord who ---50 cents.---
healoth all our disoasos, and. ro ---
deomth our lives from destruction' UuII in and sea elle Goods.
Perhaps your last sorrow was a
TUU !ORI(
i{ROlERY,
Talk a
LOOKat the
Bargains.
Dinner Sots at $ $9.11.100, 00formorly sold
Chinn. Tea Sets $$6,50 to $7.50,
formerly sold itt .$S.00 and
$9.00.
Deoorated Tea Sots fi i.00 to $1.50
formerly sold at $5.50.
White Stoneware Sets .x$2.00,
formerly sold at $2:50.
Chamber Sets, 9 pieces, $.1.00,
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CARTS, CROQUET SETS
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All the necessary School Supplies
kept in Stock,
The 'Cloklexl. radio*:
Every Housekeeper should
Call at McHAY & Co.'s
HARD -STARE STORE and
See the New
Carpet Stretcher.
It is a Dandy and may be
securest at a Low Prise.
n Stook of Lath, Shingles
and Builders' Supplies always
on Hand.
We have a Handsome Line of
S.TL T.E,.P T'TIJR.E,
very Suitable for Birthday
or Wedding Presents.
I 'CALL IN ANI) SEE IIS.
A. M. McI£AY & Co.
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The undersigned having completed tho change from the stone to
the celebrated Hungarian Syctom of Grinding, has now thole ill in
First -Class Running Order
and will bo glad to see all his oldscustomers awl as many nms
ones as possible.
Flaw and Peed) Alwavo on Zan, „
TTinlles:t Price 'paid for any quantity ooffGo/,od Grain. ,{ y
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