Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-05-01

CONDUCTED BY
REV. ROBERT LATHAM.
THE HIDDEN SORROWS.

The open griefs we all see. Some persons
spread them out before the public. Others
cannot hide them, or do not try to do so,
and the world knows all about them. The
mourners 90 about the streets. Thousands
of faces are written all over with their sto-
ries of sadness, so that he who runs may
read. The Grape on the door, the funeral
procession, the falling tears-these and many
other signs Of woe are so plain that there is
no mistaking them. Theyare powerful APP
peals to sympathy, and, to the honor of hui
manity let it be spoken, they quicken the
spirit of friendliness in uncounted hearts.
But there are sorrows that never show
themselves. AS keen and sore as any that
pass under the public eye, they yet hide
themselves away, eating their way more
deeply into the hearts of those who endure
them, and hurrying on the end that is in the
direction of them all. Sometimes they are
not even suspected. Externally all is peace,
the school of life having taught the lesson of
perfect self-contrOl. Even gaiety often SO
deceives society by it's smile and laugh that
it thinks of perennial spring of JOY where
there is only fostering sore and ranking
the most imperfect manner. What IS Vlsl-
BILE is only suggestion. The real trial is
out of sight.
This hiddenness is often inevitable and
unavoidable. There may not be friends to
90 to. or if there are the troubles are Of such
character that they cannot be explained.
The secrecy of life is burdened with this
kind of misfortune. A holy thing in itself,
and bringing, too, in it's usual exercise,
MANY of the pleasures that are most desira-
BILE, it carries with it the necessity of pain
that cannot go outside of itself for human
relief. Very often, on the other hand, it IS
permitted to continue, either through a
false pride or in loyalty to an affection that
shrinks from an exposure of the object of it's
devotion. There are wives who see with
awful anguish the beginnings and progress
of fatal habit in their husbands, but never
permit it to be known. While they are en-
We'd for their apparent stores of happiness,
thew are trembling under the severity of
their misery. Mothers hide away the sins
of their children; children seek to cover
the infirmities of their parents; friends
strive to shelter the reputation of their
friends, and in them all there is grief, un-
seen and perhaps not conceived, that IS
turning their joy into bitterness. In many
of these cases it would be relief to tell 1t
out and get the help that would so readily
be given. The needless hiding is part OF
the pain. That this is not done, however,
should not be too severely blamed, for there
is something heroic after all in the spirit
that determines to fight out it's battles with
out assistance, and especially when it is
standing guard over the waning good name
of one who is beloved.
1t is the privilege of all, and happy one
too, to carry their troubles to the Lord. He
is the burden-bearer, upon whom every one
can lay his load. What is kept hidden from
earth is made open to heaven. The sorrow
never mentioned even to the nearest earthly
associate is constantly told in the ear of the
Heavenly Father. That ear is ever open
to the cry of the distressed. The suffering
that no human hand is trying to alleviate,
because the existence of it is not known, is
receiving the healing touch of him who has
the pity of father, and if it do not entirely
remove the sore it will so far mitigate It's
pain that the sufferer will not be tried with
more than he can bear. There would be
many a broken heart that now is only
heavily subdued, ifitwere not that the pains
which to human ears must remain unspo-
ken can be so confdingly told to Him who
says to US all, "Come unto me all we that la
Dor and are heavy laden, and 1 will give
Won rest st.n-Jnited PRESBYTERIAN.