Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1881-01-20

| ITlGQu WlOm ne loves anu lOnOfSa cen"
sure of some careless word of his, and
his heart is pierced with pain. To
him
A clouded face
Strikes harder than an angry blow.
And he has trouble day and night until
that face is bright again. One man
loses few hundred dollars, and it
troubles him sorely. Another finds all
the slow accumulations of years swept
away in an hour. and it brings him no
serious sense of loss; vet he is in con-
stant trouble because of his loved son 8
misdOing. Is it for either of those
men to measure the force Of the other s
troubleP
What folly to say, "That man has no
trouble to be compared with mine, be-
cause he has no experience that dupli-
Gates mineV' What if he is free from
such physical pain as racks your frameP
Are you sure that he would not rather
be in physical pain until the day Of his
death, than endure the trial of his re-
mOrseful memoriesP What if he seems
supplied with all these sources of COM
tort-in family, and property, and pop
uIar favor the lack of which is the
cause of all your trOubleP Can you
say that he would not have felt less
keenly the death of those dearest to
him, and the loss of property and popu-
lar favor, than he feels the bitter be-
trayal of q friend, or the failure to be
true and noble on the part of one to
whom he lRd given the highest place in
his heart, as lofty idealP
All! how little we can Judge of the
hidden troubles of our fellows by the
calm exterior and the untroubled ap-
pearance which they present to us.
That frm-set face may represent con-
stant struggle to be firm That glow of
holy beauty may be from the light of
the refiner's fire which is burning day
and night in the heart below. Those
cheerful words and smiles may be the
rich harvest from seeds which were not
quickened unless they died, and were
not fruitful except as they were nour-
ished from hidden graves. 1t is this
thought that Lucy Larcom phrases SO
beautifully.
They said OF her, "She never can have folt
The sorrows that our deeper natures feel"
They said, "HGr placid lips have never spelt
Hard lessons taught by pain; her eyes re-
No passionate yearnihg, no perplexed appeal |
10 other eyes. Life and her heart have dealt |
With her but lightly. when tho Pilgrims |
First on these g} shores, lest savage hand
To precious graves with Decorating tread,
Tho buriaEteld was with the plowshare
And there the maize tor sllken tresses
tossed.
With thanks those Pilgrims ate their bitter
bread,
While Peaceful harvosts hid what they had
What If her smiles concealed from you her
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Each soul knows its own trouble
and only its own. 1t is not for us to
expect that others can measure our
trouble; nor have we the ability or the
right to pass upon theirs. We cannot
the cause or the extent of
the whirl in their hearts that makes it
seem as if the very foundations of the
earth were being swept away; nor can
Jhey realize how we can have quite as
severe trouble from quite a different
cause. But to them and to us there is
comfort at every such time in the
hought that One who fully knows our
rouble sympathizes with us in it all
most tenderly, and is able and ready to
BRING as safely through it.
God Is our refuge and strength,
A very present help in trouble.
Therefore will not we fear though the earth
70 removed,
And though the mountains be carried into
he midst of the sea;
Though the waters thereof roar and be
roubled,
Though the mountains shake with the SWELL
nE thereof.
The Lord Of Hosts is with us.
The God of Jacob is our refuge.
Lord, "give us help from trouble;
or vain is the help of mans. S. ,
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