Christian herald and signs of our times . went off andbroke his mothers heart, and while hewas away from home his mother died,and the telegraph broup-ht the s< came into the room where she lay andlooked upon her face, and he cried out:Oh, mother! mother! what your life couldnot do your death shall effect. Thismoment I give my heart to God. Andhe kept his promise. Another victory forthe vacant chair. With reference to yourmother, the words of my text were ful-filled: Thou shalt be missed, because thyseat will be empty. I go on a little further, and I come to theinvalids chair, What! How long
Christian herald and signs of our times . went off andbroke his mothers heart, and while hewas away from home his mother died,and the telegraph broup-ht the s< came into the room where she lay andlooked upon her face, and he cried out:Oh, mother! mother! what your life couldnot do your death shall effect. Thismoment I give my heart to God. Andhe kept his promise. Another victory forthe vacant chair. With reference to yourmother, the words of my text were ful-filled: Thou shalt be missed, because thyseat will be empty. I go on a little further, and I come to theinvalids chair, What! How long haveyou been sick? O! I have been sick ten,twenty, thirty years. Is it possible?What a story of endurance. There are inmany of the families of my congregationthese invalids chairs. The occupants ofthem think they are doing no good in theworld; but that invalids chair is the mightypulpit from which they have been preach-ing, all these years, trust in God. Thefirst time I preached here at Lakeside,Ohio, amid the throngs present, there was. MOTHERS ROCKING CHAIR. nothing that so much impressed me as thespectacle of just one face—the face of aninvalid who was was wheeled in on herchair. I said to her afterwards: Madam,how long have you been prostrated? forshe was lying flat in the chair. O !she replied: I have been this way fifteenyears. I said: Do you suffer verymuch? O, yes, she said: I suffervery much; I suffer all the time; part of thetime I was blind. I always , I said: can you keep your cour-age up? O yes, she said: I am happy,very happy indeed. Her face showed looked the happiest of anyone on theground. O! what a means of grace to the world,these invalid chairs. On that field ofhuman suffering the grace of God gets itsvictory. Edward Payson the invalid, andRichard Baxter the invalid, and RobertHall the invalid, and the ten thousand ofwhom the world has never heard, but ofwhom all heaven is cognizant. The mostconspicuous thing on earth for Gods eyeand the
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