The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-03-09
While the tempest still Is nigh;
Hide me, o my Saviour, hide,
Till the storm o. life Is past,
Safe into the heaven guide,
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music out of a Wheeler & Wilson's sew
ing machine than ever before in their
life they could get out of Chicker1ng
grand or Steinway.
A minister of the Gospel came into
home where there was great poverty and
destitutiOn, and it was generally sup
posed that the poverty came from the
| fact that these people had married too
early; and afteI the minister had looked
around upon the utter want and deSti-
| tuition, and had rehearsed the misfOr-
tunes that had come upon the house
hold, he turned to the poor man and
said: Don't you now regret your early
marriage? Don't you think it was your
great mistake in life?" And the man
halted for moment, and his eyes filled
up with tears, and he looked up at his
poorly clad wife and said: mo, sir; she
has been the same to me all through
o! there are some of you who would
never have known what your home was
worth if God had not upset you, and
your soul had not been ranSacked of
trouble. That first touch of trouble
changed that wife who was too fond of
the gaieties and friyolitieS of the world
into soul that could rise in calm tri-
umph, like Miriam singing the victory
on the banks of the Red Sea. o, if you
have spoken of lightness, and frlyOllty,
and fOndness for display as the chief
characteristic of woman, you know not
of what you speak, and may have to cor
rect your mistake in some bitter day
when all other supports have failed you,
and you are upheld by the hands of a
Christian wife suddenly armed by the
Lord Almighty for that emergency.
Young man, rush not into that relation
without an appeal to God. II you ever
need His grace you need 1T there. Is
there a more beautiful spot on earth
than a new home in which those just
atlianced have begun the service Of GOdF
Blessed the family Bible in which their
names have Just been written. Blessed
| the hour of morning and evening prayer.
Blessed the angels of God who touch
wing tip to wing tip until the home is
all covered up with canopy of light,
and love, and Joy. Ii may have been
only yesterday when they clasped their
hands at the altar, but they clasped those
hands for ever. The orange blossoms
fade, and the fragrance will die on the
air, but they who marry in Christ shall
walk together in the day when the
Church, which is the Lambs wife, shall
take the hand of her Lord and King
amid the swinging of the golden cen
seTS!
The third great pass in life in which
q Young man wants religion is in the
time of his first success. You will, young
man, after while get through with the
drudgery of business, and some after
noon you will get into street car, your
face shining, and even strangers look
ing at you will know something pleas
ant has happened; and when you are
seated in a car lady comes in, and you
see she does not find accommodation,
and you rise up and say: Have this
seat, madam" and she says, very cOurte-
Ously, 81 thank you" What makes you
so happy that day? That is the day in
which you have had your first business
success. You say: Here have money
now of my own. What shall do with
it? What investments shall l make?
What house shall buyP What ward
robe shall greater What shall get?
What charities, what philanthrOpies,
shall favor? That is the crisis where
thousands of men upset. Some of them
rush into dissipatiOns. They swing off
into expenditures that swamp them
utterly. Others take on an arrogance
intOlerable, a whole caravan of camels
going through the needles eye of their
meanness. l have known men, before
their success, kind, and humble, and lOv-
ing and genial, and useful, and Oblig-
ing, and positively Christian, who, after
their success, became hard, and cruel,
and OYeTbeaTing, and intidel. A man
wants the grace of Christ at that crisis
to keep him rightly balanced. Joseph
was as much Christian in PharaOh's
cOurt as in the dungeon. Daniel forgot
not God amid the registering excesses of
the BabylOnian palace. Queen of Sheba
bowed down before the King of Heaven
amid the glitter of gold and the perfume
of gardens of frankincense. A man can
be as good walking upon Administer as
though he lived on the floor of a shanty.
There has been many man who has
ridden through in magnificent equipage
on earth, and at death got out of his car
riage only to mount the chariOts of sal
walton, in glory sweeping through the
streets of heaven. 1t is all nonsense for
men to talk against money as though it
had no uses. l wish had five millions.
But, my brethren, success in life of any
sort must be accompanied by the grace
of God, or it is ruin. Who was it that
said think it was Solomon that said:
"The prosperity of fools shall destroy
them" And where there are one hun
dred M n who can stand trouble, there
is not one man who can stand success.
/ have seen men coming to sudden for
tune get into their equipage, and dash
on faster and faster, and they lashed the
steeds: it was eight miles an hour, and
ten, and twenty miles an hour, and d
thousand miles an hour, and then they
reused up and saw that they were drawn
on Oy fiery hOOfs of eternal disaster that
came down cIattering on the pavements
of hell. The Israelites got along tOler-
ably well when they were hungry, and
when they were thirsty, and when they
were smitten in the desert; but after a
while they wanted something more
worthy of mastication, and they asked
for meat, and the Lord sent great flock
of quails, and they darkened the heavens
and they fell all around about the en-
campment, and the people said: ''Ah,
now what fine time we shall have"
and they ate of these quails, and they
ate and they died. They got through
with the hardship and the hunger, but
not so with the prosperity. And 1 see
scores of men who are going on in life,
now prosecuted, and tried, and set upon,
and they are maintaining their Chris
tian character; but give them a little
brilliant success and they are gone, 1t
is not the troubles of life that slay men,
it is the quailsl it is the quailsl
The fourth great pass in young
mans life when he needs the grace of
God is when he comes to his first sorrow.
There is no need of my prOphesying for
these young man smooth things. They
know that life cannot be bright all the