The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-09-08

n Dan over the distressed and afflicted. There
are tunes Ia grief when ono cheerful face
dawning upon mans soul Il worth
thousand dollars 60 him. DO not whine over
the afflicted. Taxi the promises Of the Coz
pei, and utter them In manly tone. 10 not
be afraid 70 smile II YOU feel Ike II. DO not
drive any more heafscs through that poor
soul. DO not tell him the trouble was fore
ordained; II will not be any comfort 10 know
IL was million years coming. In YOU want
TO lind splintS for broken bone, do not take
cast iron. DO not tell them II IL Gods JUS
tice thai weighs out grief They want now
10 hear Of Gods tender merry. Ia other
words, do not give them aqua FORTS when
they need yalcrian.
Again | remark that those pcrsons are
poor comforters who have never had any
trouble themselves. A larksrur cannot
lecture on the nature OF snowilake-it new
or saw snowflake; and those people who
have always lived in the summer OF pros
perity cannot talk 20 those Who are frozen
In disaster. God keeps aged people In the
world, / think, for this very work OF SYM
pathy, They have been All through these
triils They know all that which irrliatcs
and all that which soothe.. III there are men
and women here who have old people In the
house, or near az hand 20 that they can easily
reach them. congratulate them. Some OF
"a have had trials In life, and, although we
have had many friends around about us, we
still alive that we might 60 and tell them,
Perhaps they could not say much, but II
would have been such comfort to have
them around. These aged ones who have
been all through the trials OF life know how
10 give coincidence. Cherish them let them
lean on your arm--thce aged people. H.
when YOU speak 10 them, they cannot hear
just what you say the first time, and you
have 10 say IL second time. when you say
IL the second time do not say IL sharply. IL
you do you will G sorry for II on the day
when YOU take the last look and brush back
the silyery locks from tie wrinkled brow
just before they screw the lid on. Bic sset
be God for the old people. They may not
have so much strength t0 20 around, but
they are Gods appointed minister OF com
fort To- a broken heart.
Peop'e who have not had trials themselves
cannot gave comfort to Others. They may
talk very beautifully, and they may give
YOU n great deal OF poetic sentiment; but
while poetry is perfume that smells sweet,
IL makes very poor sllyc. III you have "A
grave In your pathway, and somebody comes
and covers y all over with flowers, IL is a
grave vet. Those who have not had grief
themselves know not tho mystery OF a bro
ken heart. They know not the meaning OF
childlessness, and the having no one 10 put
TO bed nj night. or the standing I'm "A room
where every book and picture and door Is
fun of memories the door mat where she
sat, the cup out OF which she drank the
ID ace where she stood at the door and
ciapped her hands the cd figures that she
scribbled-the blocks she built into n house.
All, no; you must have trouble yourself be-
fore you can comfort trouble In others. But
come all VIC who have been beIeft and We
who have been comforted IN your sorrows,
ana stand around these afflicted souls, and
say 90 them; II had that very sorrow my
self. God comfortcd me and he viii comfort
you;' and that VIII go right To the spot. In
other words, 10 comfort others we must have
faith in God, practical experience and good,
sound common sense.
But there are three or four considerations
that | will bring this morning TO those who
ale sorrOwful and distressed and that we
can always bring To them, knowing that they
VIII effect a cure. And the first considers
ton T., that God sends our troubles In love.
| often hear people IN their troubles say,
"Why, l wonder what God has again't meV
They seem 10 think God has some grudge
against them because trouble and misfortune
have come. oh no. DO you not remember
that passage OF Scripture. Whom the Lord
loycth he chastcneth2" A child comes In
with a very bad splinter In its hand, and you
try TO extract n. IL slavery painful opera
ton. The child draws back from YOU, but
you persist You are going % take that
splinter out, SO YOU take the child with a
gentle but firm grasp; for although there
may be pain In IL the splinter must come
out. And IL il love that dictates IL and
makes you persist My friends, ! really
think that nearly all our orrows In this
world are only the hand OF our Father ex-
tracing some thorn. II all these sorrows
were sent by enemies | would say arm
yourselves against them; and, ms i'm the
trop.ctl cline. when n tiger comes down
from the mountains and carries of child
from the village, tho neighbors band to-
gcther and 90 into the forest and hunt the
III
these mlsfortuncs were sent by an enemy, go
out and battle against them Iui no; they
come from Father so kind 80 loving, so
gentle, that the prophet, speaking OF his
tenderness and mfr'y, drors the idea Of a
father, and says. "As ono whom his mother
tomforteth so will comfort yon."
Again remark, there Is comfort in the
thought that God, by all this process IL go
ing 10 make you useful. DO YOU know that
those who accomplish the most for God and
heaven have all been under the harrow
show me man that has done anything for
Christ In this dsy, I'm public or private
place who has had no troubleand whose path
has been smooth. All, no.
once went through an AK factory AMI
saw tneln take the bars OF iron an thurst
them into the terrible furnaces Then be-
sweatcd workmcn with long tongS stirred I nc
blaze. Then they brought out a bar OF on
| and put it into n crushin machine AID then
| tnev put u between JaWsthi III ~ III twain.
| THIN they put II on an anvil, and there were
| great hammers swung by machinery each
! one half ton In weigst-that went thump
thumpl thumpl III hat iron could have
SPOKEN. IL would have said. "Why all this
| beatlngi Why must be pounded any more
than any other irony" The worxmcn would
| have said. I'VE want 60 mako axes ont of
YOU ke n sharp axes-axcs with winch 10
| hew down the forest and build the ship AMI
erect houses and carry on a thousand enter
| rrise- of ciyilix ltion. That's the reason We
| pound YOU" Now. God puts soul into the
| furnace OF trial. aud then IL Is brou SlIt out