Morning journal and courier., 1886-11-29
HUMAN UNREST.

The True Secret or Human Happiness
 and Cure for Mental Disquietude-
 Notes of a Sermon by pr. Tw1tchell.
 The theme of the pastor Rev. Dr. Twitch- ell in his sermon of yesterday morning was the secret of human unrest. Taking for his text Psalm 116, 7, Return unto thy rest, O my soul" the preacher said: These are evil dently the words of one who knows what weariness of soul is. And, indeed, the knowledge is universal. There are few whose experience of life does not fall far short of their aspirations.
 A sense of poverty, of confinement, of op- pression is upon us. We see great heights before us that seem impossible of attainment. Anticipation does more for us than posses sion. The hope of something better than we now have stimulates effort among all classes and conditions of men. We are ever longing for the "good time coming" Theor- ists and philosophers have written of the coming golden age, and even the church of God has been cheered in her darkest days by the sublime prophecies of the coming nillen- ium. The causes of this universal unrest are various, though all traceable to one source. 1st. There are the sorrows of life. The biography of every human life must be writ A1OSoSos and disappointments come and leave their traces upon us. Monarchs and princely mer- chants may lift their heads proudly, devotees of fashion may smile, but one and all must learn the lesson that weariness of soul is 8 human inheritance. In my ministry have often found that beneath the gay exterior there is pain in the bosom.
 Sometimes it's cause is easily seen, but there are often strange, dark undercurrents beneath the surface. There is sense o1 soul hunger, of loneliness, a sense of exile darker and deeper than the more easily ex plainable causes. We may have no philoso phy of these things, but they are the signs O! the marvellous soul within us conscious of it's dethronement and that will not be satisfied with anything less than companionship with the Divine. This cry of unsatisied aspira tion proves that man is born of something above the earth, that he has within him something greater than the earthly, that he has in-fact kinship with God, that divine forces play upon hiun, and he never will be satisfied until he is reconciled to and comes into sympathy with God and into a realiza- tion of his heavenly inheritance.
 Our human experience of love kindles within us the longing for that which will never die. Notwithstanding the grand prog ress made in human knowledge we are still surrounded with shadows and mysteries that we cannot fathom and we call for school and teacher that will lift us with the light. However much we may gain in privaty we cannot be satisfied till every unholy desire is removed. We prize our freedom, but we are nevertheless fettered in many ways we are beset behind and before by obstacles, our hopes and schemes fail, we feel ofttimes like caged birds, we would have all these chains broken and enjoy further and far more per feet liberty than we have ever known. Do you ask, ought we not to be satisfied with divine condition? answer, yesi but never satisfied until we reach the divine con- dition and come into harmony with God.
 The center of all our sorrow and unrest is & sense of sin and guilt. This is universal.
 In every age man has asked the question. "Must I run out my being on this line with no day star and no dawn to enlighten the glooms"
 The gospel of Christ Jesus is the answer to the question, and the soul thereby finds it's home in the bosom of God.
 Dr. Twitchell dwelt very eloquent1y on Christian privileges and possibilities, and closed with earnest appeal to all to see to it that the great question of heritage wa. settled, as thus could the rest of soul spoken of in the text be understood and enjoyed.