The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-10-27

,nodesly and humility. dressed them, even
on the scaffold, in robes Of eternal honor.
And surely he who takes an instrument 10
his hand, which is not TO slay him, but win
which he may work out the model ana
perfection Of every virtue in him, snouio
lake il with resolution and courage; should
say, "with this sore pain or bitter sorrow,
is good and noble work for me to DO, ana
we'll and nol,ly will strive to do it. Will
not blench nor fly from what my Father
above has appointed me. will not drown
nv senses and faculties with oPiates 10
escape it. | will not forsake the post Of
trial and peril.' Do you remember that
noble boy who stood on the burning deck
at the batileof Nile? Many voices around
said, "come down!-come awayF But
| the con6ding child said, 'iather, shall
Gomez" Alas! that fathers voice vas hush
ed in death; and his child kept his post I'LL
he sunk in the whelming fame. Oh! no
BILE child! thou teachest US firmly to stand in
our lot, till ths great word Of providence
bids us fly, or bids US sink!
But while l speak thus, think me not
linsensible to the severity OF mans suffer
Iings. | know what human nerves and
sinews and feelings are. When the sharp
sword enters the very bosom, the iron enters
the very SOUL see what must follow. B
see the uplifted hands, the writhed brow.
the written agony in the eye. But Gods
mercy, which "tempers the blast to the
shorn lamb" does not suffer these to be
the ordinary and permanent, forms OF affic
ton. No, thou sittest down in thy still
chamber, and sad memories come there, OF
il may be, strange trials gather under thy
brooding thought. Thou art TO die; or thy
friend must die; OF worse still, thy friend Is
faithless. Or thou sayest that coming life
is dark and desolate. And now as thou
sittest there, will speak to thee; and |
say-though signs will burst from thy
almost broken heart, yet when they come
back in echoes from the silent walls, let
them teach thee. Let them tell thee that
God wills net thy destruction, thy suffering
for its own sake-wills thee not-caDnot
will thee, any evil; how could that thought
come from tie bosom Of infinite love! No,
let thy sorrows tell thee, that God Wills thy
repentance, thy virtue. thy happiness. thy
preparation for infinite happiness! Let that
thought spread holy light through thy dark
I ened chamber. That which is against thee,
is not as that which is for thee. Calamity,
dark speck in thy sky, seemeth to be
against thee; but Gods goodness, the all
, embracing light and power of the universe.
forever lives, and shines around thee and
for thee.
"Evil and good, before him stand
Their mission TO Perform
The angel Of gladness is there; but the
, angel Of affection is there too-and both
alike for good May the angel of gladness
visit US as often as is good for us!-l pray
for it. But that angel Of affection! what
shall we say to III Shall we not say
"come thou too, when our Father wileth-
{ come thou, when need is-with saddened
brow and plying eye. come; and take US on
thy wings, and bear US up to hope, to hap
piness, TO heaven-to that presence where
is fullness OF joys-to that right hand, where
are pleasures for evermore!
, There is one further thought which
must not fail to submit to you, ON this sub
lject, before l leave it. The greatness OF
our suferings, points 10 a correspondent
greatness in the end to be gained. When
L see what men are suffering around me, /
canno, help feeling that it was meant not
only, that they should be far better than
they are, but far better than they often think
Of being. The end must rise higher and
brighter before US, before we can look
through this dark cloud Of human calami.
~. The struggle, the wounds, the carnage
and desolation Of battle, would overwhelm
me with horror, If it were not fought for
freedom, for the fre-side-to protect infan-
cy from ruthless butchery, and the purity OF
our homes from brutal wrong. So is the
battle of this life, a bewildering maze Of
misery and despair, till we see the high
prize that is set before it. You would not
send your son to travel through a barren
and desolate wilderness, or TO make long
and tedious voyage to an unhealthy cline,
but for some great object: say, to make a
fortune thereby. And any way, it seems to
your parental affection, a strange and al.
most cruel proceeding. Nor would the
merciful Father Of life, have sent his earth
ly children to struggle through all the sor.
rows, the pains and perils Of this world,
but to attain to the grandeur Of a moral
fortune, worth all the strife and endurance.
No. all this is not ordained in vain, nor in
reckless indifference to what we suffer, but
for an end, for high end, for an end high.
er than we think for. Troubles, disap-
pointments, affections, sorrows, press us on
every side, that we may rise upward. up-
ward, ever upward. And believe me, in
thus rising upward, you shall find the very
names that you give to calamity, gradually
changing. Misery, strictly speaking and
in its full meaning, does not belong 10 a
good mind. Misery shall pass into suffer
ing. and suffering into discipline, and dis
cipline into virtue, and virtue into heaven.
So let il pass with you. Bend now patti.
emily and meekly, in that lowly "wor.hip
Of SORROW" till in Gods time, il become
the worship Of joy-of p,oportionably
higher joy-in that world where there shall
be no more sorrow nor pain nor crying
where all tears shall be wiped from your
eyes-where beamings of heaven in your
counienance, shall grow brighter by com.
parison with all the darkness OF earth
Deioey.