West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-09-13

tutb Slc StflDDlcl--tno docks Sno Dult into
n house Alb, no; you must have trouble
yourself before you can comfort trouble In
others. But come all ye who have been be-
reft and we who have been comforted in
your sorrows, and stand around these afflicted
souls, and say TO them: 81 had that very
sorrow myself. God comfortcd me, and He
will comfort you,n and that will 90 right TO
the spot. In other words, TO comfort others
we must have faith In God, practical expert
ence and good, sound common sense.
Again, remark, there is comfort in the
thought that God, by all this process, Is going
to make you useful. Do YOU know that those
VINO accomp ish the most for God and heaven
have all been under the harrowi Show me
man that has done anything for Christ in
this day, in public or private place, who
has had no trouble and whose path has been
smooth. All, no.
once went through an AK factory, and l
saw them take the bars OF iron and thrust
them into tho terrible furnaces. Then
besweated workmen with long tongs stirred
the blaze Then they brought out a bar of iron
and put IL into crushing machine, and then
they put 10 between jaws that bit IL In twain.
Then they put ID on an anvil, and there were
great hammers swung by machinery--each
one a half ton I'm wei0ht--that went thumpl
thumpl thumpl IL that iron could have
spoken, it would have said: "Why all this
beatingi Why must be pounded any more
have said: I'VE want - make axes out OF
you, keen. sharp axes-axes with which TO
how down tho forest, and build the ship, and
erect houses, and carry on thousand enter
priscs OF civilization. That's tho reason we
pound you" Now. God puts soul into the
furnace OF trial. and then IL is brought out
and run through tho crushing machine, and
then II comes down on the anvil, and upon it
blow after blow, blow after blow, and the
soul cries out: ooh. Lord what does all this
moan" God says II want TO make some-
thing very useful out OF you You shall be
something TO hew with and something to build
with; 1t is practical process through
which ] am putting you.n Yes. my Christ
tian friends, we want more tools in the
church of God. Not moro wedges TO split
with; we have enough of these. Not more
borcs with which to drill; we have.too many
bores. What we really want is keen sharp
well tempered axes and IL there be any other
way OF making them than in the hot furnaces
and on the hard anvil, and under tho heavy
hammer, l do not know what it is Remem-
her that IL God brings any kind of chastise-
mont upon you, it is only to make you use
tuI 10 not SIC down discouraged and say:
VI have no more reason for living. i wish
were dead" Oh, there never was so much
reason for your living as now! BY this or.
deal you have been consecrated a priest of
the Most High God. Go out and do your
whole work for the Master
There is also great deal of comfort In the
fact there will be a family reconstruction
in better place. From, Scotland, or Eng
land, or Ireland, a child emigrates to this
country. 1t is very hard parting, but he
comes, after while writing home as to what
good land it is. Another brother comes a
sister comes and another, and after while
the mother comes and after while tho
father comes, and now they are all here, and
they have n time OF great congratuation and
very pleasant reunion. Well, it is just so
with our families; they are emigrating TO a
better land. Now one goes out Oh, how
hard it is TO part with himl Another goes.
Oh, how hard it is TO part with herl And
another, and another and we ourselves will
after while go over, and then We will be
together. Oh, what a reunionl Do you be
lieve thati Yes" you say. You do noti
You do not believe it as you believe other
things. If you did, and with the same
emphasis, why, it would take nine-t enths
of your trouble Off your heart The fact
Is, heaven TO many OF us is a great fog. IL
away of somewhere, filed with an uncertain
and indefinite population. That is the kind
OF heaven that many of us dream about; but
1t is the most tremendous fact in all the
universe-this heaven OF the Gospel. Our
departed frien1s are not ahoat The resi-
dence in which you live is not so real as the
residence in which they stay. You are afloat,
you who do not know in the morning what
will happen before night. They are housed
and safe forever. Do not, therefore, pity your
departed friends who have died in Christ.
They do not need any ofyour pity. You might
as we'll send n letter of coincidence to Queen
Victoria ON her obscurity, or to the Rotbs-
childs on their poverty. as to pity those who
have won the palm. Do not say of those
who are departed: Poor child "Poor
fatherp Poor mothers" They are not
poor. You are poor-you whose homes
have been shattered-not they You do
not dwell much with your families in this
world. All day long you are oil TO business.
Will it not be pleasant when you can be to.
gether all the whilei If you have had four
children and ono is gone, and anybody asks
how many children you have, do not be so
infidel as TO say three. Say four-one in
heaven. Do not think that the grave is I'M
friendly. You 60 into your room aud dress
FOR some grand entertainment, and you come
forth beautifully appareled; and the grave
IS only the place where you 60 to dress for
the glorious resurrection, and we will come
out radiant, radiant mortality having boz
come immortality. Oh, how much condol-
ence there is in this tnoughtl j expect to
see my kindred in heaven. 1 expect to see
them as certainly as / expect TO go home TO.
day. Ay, shall more certainly see them.
Eight or ten will come up from the graveyard
back OF Somerville; and one Will come up
from the mountains back of Annoy, China;
and another will come up from the sea Off
Cape Hatteras; and thirty will come up from
Greenwood: and / shall know them better
than / ever knew them here. And your
friends~theY may be across the sea. but the
trumpet that sounds here will sound there.
on VIII come up on just the Same day.
Some morning you have oversight yourself
and you open your eyes and see that the sun
is high IN the heavens and you say, "I have
oversight and must be up and Off" SO you
viii open your eyes on the morning Of the res
direction in the full blaze of Gods light and
you viii say: 81 must be up and away.n Oh
yes, you viii come mp and there will be- re-
union, q reconstruction Of your family
like what Halburton, think it was-gOod
old Mr. Halburton- in his last moments.
u thank God that / ever lived and that I
have father in heaven, aud a mother i'm
heaven. and brothers i'm heaven, and sisters
IN heaven, and am now going up to see
remark once more: Our troubles in this
world are preparatiye for glory. What a
transition 10 was for Paul-frOm the slippery
deck of laundering ship 70 the calm pres
enco OF Je8usl What n transition 10 was for
Latimer- from the stake 20 a thrOnel What
transition 70 was for Robert Hall-from
insanity 70 glOryi What q transition Il was
for Richard Baxter--from the dropsy 70 the
saints everlasting restn And what n
transition u viii bo for you-from world
OF sorrow toa world Of Joy John Holland,
whom DO was dying, said. "What means tlns
brightness I'm the rooml Have you lighted
not lighted any candlesn Then said he.
Welcome heaven r. the light already beam
ing upon bis pillow o 70 who are perse-
cuted To this world your enemies viii get
on the track after a while and an
VII spe8k we'll Of You among tho thrones
no yc VINO are sick now, NO uediciuo ~ take
there One breath ~ the o.ernai hills will
thrill you with immortal vigor And 70
VINO are lonesome now, there viii be "a thou
sand spirits - welcome you into their com
partnership o ye bereft soulsi there viii 10
no grave diggers spade that viii cloave tho
si1e OF thnt hil, and there viii be no dirgs
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