The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-08-31
WORLDLY TROUBLES.
Dr.. Talmase on the Accumulatina
Troubles of Life.
Good Advice as to Surrounding Them
The Man Who Trusts in God viii Surely
Win the victory-Relief From
All Miseries.

On the one side and a sharp rock on the
other side"-l Samuel xiv. 4. He said:
The cruel army of the Philistines mus
De taken and scattered. There is Just one
man, accompanied by his body-guard, t.
do that thing. Jonathan is the hero Of the
scene. / know that David cracked the
skull of the giant with a few pebbles well
slung, and that 800 Gideonites scattered
10000 Amalekites by the crash of broker
crockery, but here is q more wonderful
conflict. Wonder are the Philistines on the
rocks Here is Jonathan with his tody.
guard in the valley. On the one side is q
rock called Bozez; on the other side is q
rock called Seneh. These two were a
famous in oldsn times as in modern times
are Plymouth Rock and Gibraltar. They
were precipitous, unscalabls and sharp
Between these two rocks Jonathan must
make his ascent. The day comes for the
scaling of the height. Jonathan. on hi.
hands and feet, begins the ascent. With
strain and slip and bruise, suppose, bu,
still on and up first goes Jonathan and
then goes his body-suard, Bozez on one
side, Seneh on the other. After q sharp
tug and push and clinging l see the head
of Jonathan above the hole in the
mountain. and there is a challenge and a
fight and a supernatural CONSERVATION.
These two men. Jonathan and his body
guard, drive back and drive down the
Philistines over the rocks and open cam
paign which demolishes the enemies of
Israel. l suppose that the overhangins
and overshadowing rocks on either side
did not belk or dishearten Jonathan or his
body guard. but only reused and filled
them with enthusiasm as they went up
There was sharp rock on the one side
and a sharp rock on the other side"
My friends. you have been. or are now,
some of you. in this crisis of the text. II
q man meets one trouble, he can go through
with it. He gathers all his energies. con-
centrates them upon one point, and in the
strength of God, or by his own natural
determination. goes through it But the
van who has trouble to the right Of him.
and trouble to the left of him is to be
bitied. Did either trouble come alone, he
hight endure it, but two troubles. two
disasters. two overshadowing misfortunes
are Bozez and Seneh. God pity him
There is a sharp rock on the one side. and
q sharp rock on the other side"
In this crisis of the text is that man
whose fortune and health fail him at the
same time. Nine-tenths of all our mer-
chants capsize in business before they
come to forty-i 1--WE years of age. There is
some collision in commercial circles, and
they stop payment 1t seems as if every
man must put his name on the back of a
note before he learns what fool a man is
who risks all his own property on the
prospect that some man will tell the truth.
1t seems as if a man must have a large
amount of unstable goods on his own
shelf before he learns how much easier it
is to buy than to sell. 1t seems as if every
man must be completely burned out before
he learns the importance Of always keep
ing fully insured. 1t seems as if every
man must be wrecked in q financial tenn
pest before he learns to keep things snug in
case of . sudden euroclydon. When the
calamity does come, it is awful. The man
goes home in despair, and he tells his fam
lily: "We1l have to go to the poor house. ~
He takes . dolorous view of every thing.
1t seems as il he never could rise. But a
little time passes and he SAYS: "why, I
am not so badly of after all; have my
family left"
Before the Lord turned Adam out Of
Z a outec hc koNc HsOs 81 lildl W Hcu
he lost Paradise he could stand it. Permit
one who has never read but few novels
in his life. and who has not a great deal Of
romance in his composition, to say that il,
when q mans fortunes fail, he has q good
Christian wife-he ought not to be
''O,r you saw, shat only in
creases the embarrassment, since you have
her also to take care Of" You are an in
CRATE, for the woman as often supports the
man as the man supports the woman. The
man may bring all the dollars but the
woman generally brings the courage and
the faith in God.
Well, this man of whom am speaking
looks around and he finds his familyis left,
and he rallies, and the light comes to his
eyes, and the smile to his face, and the
courage to his heart In two years he is
quite over il. He makes his financial
calamity the first chapter in a new era of
prosperity. He met that one trouble
conquered it. He Shutdown for little while
under the grim shadow of the rock Bozez:
yet he soon rose and began. like Jonathan,
to climb.
But how often 1t is tina. physical ailment
comes with financial embarrassment. When
the fortune failed it broke the mans spirit
His nerves were shattered. His brain was
stunned / can show you hundreds of men
in New York whose fortune and health
failed at the same time. They came pre-
to the staff. Their hand tren-
blsd with incipient paralysis. They never
saw. well day since the hour when they
called their creditors together for COM
promise. II such men are impatient and
and i--vf- hla stnvv
Rad two troubles, either one OF which they
health went the fortune had been retained
it would not have been so bad. The man
could have bought the very best medical
advice, and ne could have had the very
best attendance, and long lines Of carriages
would have stopped at the front door to
inquire as to his welfare. But poverty on
the one side and sickness on the other are
the Bozez and Ssneh, and they interlock
their shadows and drop them upon the
poor mans way. God help him, There
is q sharp rock on the one side and a sharp
rock On the other side"
Now, what is such a man to do. In the
name of Almighty God, will tell him
what to do. Do as Jonathan dii-climb:
climb up into the sunlight of Gods favor
and consolation. / can go through the
churches and show you men who lost
fortune and health at the same time and
vet who sing all day and dream Of Heaven
Ill night If you have any idea that sound
digestion. and steady nerves, and clear
eyesight, and good hearing, and plenty of
friends are necessary to make a man
happy you have miscalculated- / suppose
that these overhanging rocks only made
Jonathan scramble the harder and the
fAster to get up and out into the sunlight,
and this combined shadow OF invalidism
and financial embarrassment has often
sent . man up the quicker into the sun
light OF Gods favor and the MONDAY Of
His glorious promises. II is q difficult
thing for a man to feel his a ,nerda1ce