The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-02-19

mestic peace found a foretaste Of that
Heaven where panics never come. All! II
| II had not been for that help that you had,
| what would have been the result when you
/ told her of your financial embarrassment
and misfortune? She was cheerful, she
was sympathetic, she was helpful, she
helped You all through those dark days OF
trial, and after the piano went, she could
sing without the accompaniment just as
well as ever she sang with the accompani-
ment. There have been Christian women
who have so had their domestic troubles
sanctified that they could get more music
out of Wheeler & Wilson sewing-ma-
chine than ever in the days of their pros
perity they got out Of Chickering Grand
or q Steinway.
Walter Scott wrote something, half OF
which do not like, for II is sarcastic, but
the other half do like, for it is so true:
Oh, woman in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy and hand to please;
When pain and anguish wiring the brow,
A ministering angel thou.
Blessed that home in which the newly
married couple dedicate their souls to
Christ. 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
join wing tip to wing-tip over that home,
making q canopy of light and love and
blessedness. 1t may be only yesterday
that they clasped hands forever. The or
ange blossoms may fall and the fragrance
may die on the air, but they who marry in
Christ shall walk together ON that day
when the Church, which Is the Lambs
wife, shall take the hand of her Lord and
king amid the swinging Of the golden GEN.
sers.
Again, / remark: It 10 q tremendous pass
In life when man comes to his first great
success. You get in the cars some even
ing. Everybody that looks at you knows
there has something glad happened. You
sit down in the car, your face Illuminated,
and lady comes in. There is no place for
her to sit, and You get up in great cheer
and insist on her taking your place, and
with great courtesy she says, "Thank
YOU" and sits down. You say nothing to
anybody, but it is evident from your man
ner and appearance that great good for
tune has happened untoAyou. Now, that
il . crisis in your life. At such . time the
questions win arise: I'm what enterprise
shall / invest? What shall be the house
win live in: What shall be the library.
What shall be my wardrobe? What shall
do with my money!" ada
At that point hundreds Of men make q
final mistake. Some go into dissipation.
Some take on great arrogance, try to
make everybody feel how small they
are; whole caravans of camels going
through the needles eye OF their mean
ness. They walk through the street with
an air, as much as to say: SECT out Of the
way! here comes 500, OOO!" That IL the
crisis in life where so many fail, because
they have no God to direct them.
There are men who before their sue
cess are kind and amiable, and genial
and useful, who after their success are ar.
rogant and unbearable and unchristian.
Here is man who was once very useful
in society, but great success comes, and he
gets in hts equipage and he drives ON; he
lashes the fiery steeds; he goes faster
and faster, eight miles the hour, twenty
miles the hour, 100 miles the hour, faster
and faster, until in his last moments he
rouses up to find that he is drawn by the
fiery hoofs Of eternal disaster as they
come racketing down ON the pavements
of hell. O, young man or man in mid
life! you want God in iyour great success,
your first great success.
Another tremendous pass I'm our life il |
when we get our first sorrow.< Il would |
be foolish for me to talk to the young men
Of this day as though their life was GO
ing to be smooth all the way. You might |
as well start sea Captain in vessel |
without a carpenter, and without any |
tools, and without any cordage. Thak |
would do very well while the seq WAS |
smooth, but when the ship gets caught |
in the teeth Of . Northeastern, and |
the waves dash clear over the hur-
cane deck, when the Captain cries
out: Where's the carpenter? /
Where are the toolss Where are the /
ropes." the young men OF this day would /
that misrepresented the mat
ter, il I told them that their life was al
ways to be smooth. They know better.
They know from what they see Of the life
Of others that lie can mot always be I
smooth. Many mon came home from the
late war without scratch or bruise, but 1
IN the conflict Of Life it Il not %, we all
get wounded-wounded In the head, in the
hands, in the fset, in the heart. Life il !
,onflict. The Bible over and Over again
ltates that. Paul states il, and he writss
himself - in . war with the world, : war
with the flesh, and war with the devil,
md war AL the way through. Now, how
ire you going TO meet the first trouhles
That IL the question. Show me how You s
no to meet your 6rst trouble and win
how you how you meet al the other
roubles. Il 10 the first blow that sends
nan to drinking 10 drown HIS troubles, i
hat knocks the IRE out Of him, 90. Is +
Ipends the rest Ct his life cowed down.
Who 10 that weigher In that large COM
nercial establishment! He once owned
he store. Who Is that underlIng in q
arge manufacturing estsblishmsnt, gst-
ing $1,000 or 5000 . year. He once
,wned the factory; but nisfortuns came.
he nrst blow brought him 70 the dust aud
le never had the courage TO rise. Oh, how
important 10 the manner IN which we 10
eive the first soFrowi