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around, bat they are Gods appointed nluls-
tele ~ comfort - a broken heart
People " 10 have %. lad trails themselves
clulot give comfort - others They may
talk very beauLlully, and they may give you
great deal ~ poetic seUtlment, but whlia
poetry is perfume that smells sweet it makes
4 very poor salve. III you have a grave in
your pathway, and somebody comes and
covers it al over with nowess, 90 is grave
vet Those who have not had grief them
selves know not the mystery or a broken
heart. Ihey know not the meaning Of child
lessness. and the having 40 one 90 put % bed
a. night, or the standing IA room where
every book and picture and door IS full Of
memoTles-the door mat who're she sat the
cup out OF which she drank-the place
where she stood at the door and
ciapped her hands tho odd figures
that she scribbled-the blocks she built into
house An, no; you must have trouble
yourself before you can comfort trouble in
others. But come all ye who have been bo-
ret and We WHO have been cOmfortsd in
your sorrows, and stand around these afflicted
souls and say to them. Il haG that very
sorrow myself God ccrnforted NE, aud he
viii comfort you ard that viii 60 right 10
the spot. Ia other words, 20 comfort others
We must have faith n God, practical expert
ence and good, sound common sense
But there are thres or four considerations
that / viii bring this morning 70 those who
are sorrowful ard distressed, and that we
can always bring TO them, knowing that
/ they viii effect = cure. And the first con
sideration is, that God sends our troubles in
| love | often hear people In their troubles
I say. 'Whv, 4 wonder what God mss against
mem They seem 70 think God has some
/ CrulSe against them because trouble and
misfortune have come Oh 40. Do you not
remember that passage of Scripture, "W hom
the Lord loveth ne chastenethF A child
! comes in with very bad splinter in its
hand, and YOU try TO extract il. 1t is a very
/ painful operation. The child draws back
! from you, but you persist. You are going
% take that splinter our, 80 you take the
I child with gentle but firm grasp; for al
I though there may be pain IN II, the splinter
must come out And 1t IS love that dictates
7 il and makes YOU persist. Ny friends,
F really think that nearly all our sSrrows in
+ this world are only the hAud OF our Father
+ extracting some thorn II all these sOr
rows were sent by enemies | would
/ say, arm yourselves against them; aud, as in
/ tie tropical c!lmes, when a tiger comes down
from ths mountains and carries OF a child
/ from the village, the neighbors band together
/ aud 20 into the forest and hunt the monster,
/ 50 / would have you, IL ! thought these mis-
/ fortunes werc sent by an enemy, 60 cut and
Z battle against them. But no, they come
from a Father 50 kind, 50 loving so gentle,
! that the prophet, speaking OF his tenderness
I aud mercy, drops the idea OF father, and
says, "As one whom his mother comforuetb,
So VIII / comfort you"
} Again I remark. there is comfort in tho
thought that God by all this process, is going
to make you useful. Do you know that those
who accomplish the most for God and heaven
have all been under the harrowi Show me a
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. Al, no.
I once went through an ax factory, and
saw them take the bars of iron and thrust
them into the terrible furnaces. Then
besweated workrnen with long tongs stirred
the blaze Then they brought out q bar of iron
and pas it into crushing machine, aud then
they put Do between jaws that tit II lu twain.
Then they put it on an anvil. and there wers
great hammers swung BY machiDery-each
one q hall ton ia weight-that went thumpl
thumpf thump, II that iron could have
spo1sl it would have said, "Why al this
heatiugf Why MIST / be pounded any more
than auy other ironp The workmen would
have said. we want = mako axes cut II
you. keen, sharp axcs-szes vita which u
hev down the fores.. and build The ship. anl
erect houses and carry on thousand enter
rrises OK civilization. That's the reason "a
rluad you Now. God puts a soul into tha
furuecs II trial. and then it is bro1ghs o1'
and run through tie crushing machine, and
then u Genes down oa the anvil. and uYon Il
blow after bioE bsow after bow. aud tha
soul cr.es out, % Lord, vhat does az this
mesnT Cod SAYS. 4 want % MAKE soue-
td.ur very useful cut a. you T0u shcu "a
Something q hsw with ard sor1ething 70 build
vita. Is - practical process thr'g-a }
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