Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-07-22
should we struggle for sucn bau bIesY

enould we srLgE,e Tor such DauDles!
Another reason why we should culture
this spirit Of cheerfulness is the fact that
God knows what is best for his creatures.
You know what is best for your child.
He thinks you are not as lib, raj with
him as you ought 10 be. He criticises
your discipline. but you look over the
whole field, and you, loving that child,
do what il your deliberate Judgment is
best for him. Now, God is the best of
fathers. Sometimes his children think
that he is hard on them, and that he is
ist as liberal with them as he might be.
But children do not know as much as a
father. can tell you why you are not
largely aflluent, and why you have not
been grandly successful. It is because
you cannot stand the temptation. If
your path had been smooth, you would
have depended upon your own surefoot-
edness; bl God rougbeued that path, so
you have TO take hold Of bis hand. II
the weather had been mild, you would
have loitered along the water courses;
aIt at the first howl Of the storm YOU
QuIckened your pace heavenward, and
wrapped around you the warm robe Of
Saviour's righteousness. What have
done!n says the wheatsheaf to the farmer,
"what have done, that you beat me so
hard with your hailr The farmer
makes no answer. but the raie takes of
the straw, and the mill blows the chaf
to the wind, and the colder grain falls
| down at the foot of the windmill After
a while, the straw looking down from
the NOW upon the golden q IN banked
up on either side the floor. Understands
why the farmer beat the wheatsheaf
with the fail.
Who are those before the throne? The
answer came; These are they who, out
of great tribulation, had their robes
washed and made white in the blood Of
the Lamb" Would God that we could
| understand that our trials are the very
/ best thing for us. II we had an appreci-
alton Of that truth, then we should know
why it was that John Noyra, the martyr,
In the very midst of the flame reached
down and picked up one of the fagots
that was consuming him. and kissed it,
and said. blessed be God for the time
when | was born 10 this preferment.
They who suffer with him on earth shall
he glorifed with him in heaven. Be
content, then, with such things as you
have.
Another consideration leading US to
| the spirit of the text is the assurance
that the Lord will provide somehow.
VIII he who holds the water in the hol-
low of his hand allow his children to
die Of thirsti Will he who owns the
cattle on a thousand hills, and all the
earths luxuriance of grain and fruit
allow his children 10 staryel Go out to-
morrow morning at 8 O'Clock into the
woods and hear the birds chant They
have had no breakfast. they know not
where they will dine, they have no idea
where they will sup; but hear the birds
chant at 8 o'clOck in the morning. ''Be-
hold the fowls Of the air; for they
SOW not. neither do they reap nor
gather into harns, vet your heav-
enly Father fe"deth them. Are YOU not
much better than theyf" Seven thou
sand people IN Christ's time went into the
desert. They were the most IMPROVE
dent people ever heard Of. They de-
served to starve. They might have taken
food enough to last them until they got
back, Nothing did they take. 4 Lad,
who had more wit than all of them put
together. asked his mother that morning
for some loavcs of bread and some fishes.
They were put into his sachel. He went
out into the desert. From this provision
/ a. al 4 4 IL
more they ate the larger the loaves grew
until the provision that the boy brought
in one sachel was multiplied SO he
could not have carried the fragments
home in SIX sachels. 90" you say,
"times have changed, and the day Of
! miracles has gone i" reply that, what
God did then by miracles, he does now
in some other way, and by natural laws.
Il have been young" said David, "but
now ann old: yet have never seen the
righteous forsaken nor his seed begging
bread" It is high time that YOU people
wht are fretring about worldly circum-
stances, and who are fearing YOU are
| coming TO want, understood that the
oath # the eternal God is involved in the
fact that YOU are to have enough to eat
and tO wear.
Again, l remark that the religion Of
Jesus Christ is the grandest influence to
make man contented. Indemnity
against all financial and spiritual harmi
Ii calms the spirit. dwindles the earth
into insignificance and swallows up the
soul with the thought of heaven. 0ye,
who have been going about frcm place
20 place expecting 20 find in change Of
circumstances something TO give solace
20 the troubled spirit, commend YOU
this morning 20 the warm hearted, ear
nest, practical, common sense religion OF
the Lord Jesus Christ. There is no
peace, saith my God, for the wicked, :"
and as long rs YOU continue in your sin
you win he miserable. Come TO Christ.
Make him your portion, and start for
heaven, and you will be happy man
/ you will bcn happy woman.
Vet, my friends, notwithstanding all
these inducements 30 a spirit uf content
mcnt, have 10 tell you this morning the
human race is divided into two classes-
those who scold and those who get
scoldel The carpenter wants 10 be
anything but carpenter, and the mason
anything bUt "A mason, and the banker
anything hut a banker. and the LAWYER
anything but lawyer. and the minister
anything but a minister, and eyerybody
would he happy II he were only some.
body else. The anemono wants TO be q
sunIlowcr, and the apple orchards throw