New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-03-06

man, who was to have been his bride, her
father picked up q piece Of embroidery and
said: That is apiece ofpoor Matilda work
| manshlp, Washington Irving sank from
| hilarity into silence and walked away. Out
| OF that lifetime grief the great author dipped
his pen S mightiest reinforcement. 'sCalvin's
Institutes OF Religion than which a more
wonderful book was never written by human
hand, was begun by the author at 25 years
OF age because of the prosecution of Francis,
king of France. Faraday toiled for all time
on salary OF $50 year and candles. AS
every brick of the wall of Babylon was
stamped with the letter N, standing for Ne
buchadnezzar, SO every part of the temple of
Christian achievement is stamped with the
letter I, standing for trouble.
When in olden time manwas to behonored
with knighthood he was struck with the fact of
thesword. But those who have come to the
honor of knighthood in the kingdom of God
were first struck not with the fat Of the
sword but with the keen edge of the cimeter
10 build his magnifcence of character Paul
could not have spared one lash, one prison,
one stoning, one anathema. one poisonous
viper from the hand. one shipwreck What
is true OF individuals is true of nations. The
horrors of the American revolution gave this
country this side of the Mississippi river to
independence, and the conflict between Eng
land and France gave the most OF this coun-
try west of the Mississippi to the United
ooates. EidHce owned IL, Dut Napoleon,
learning that England would take it practi-
cally made present to the United States
for he received only SIS, OOOO OO-of Louisi-
ana, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska,
Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado, Dakota, Mon
tana, Wyoming, and Indian territory. Out
OF the fire OF American revolution came this
country east of the Mississippi, out of
the European war came that west
OF the Mississippi river. The British empire
rose to it's present overtowerng grandeur
through gunpowder plot and Guy Fawkes's
conspiracy, and Northampton Instruction,
and Walter Raleigh's beheadng, and Ba-
cons bribery, and Cromwells dissolution of
parliament and the battles of Edge Hill, and
Grantham, and Newberry, and Marston
Moore, and Naseby, and Dunbar, and Sedge-
moor, and execution OF Charles the First,
and London plague, and London fire, and
London insulrection, and Ryehouse plot
and the yicissitudes Of centuries So the
ate and beautiful residence for the human
family had, according to geology, to be
washed by universal daluge, and scorched
and made incandescent by universal fires,
and pounded by sledgehammer of icebergs,
and wrenched by earthquakes that split con
mountains, and passed through the catas-
trophies of thousands of years before Para
disc came possible and the groves could shake
out their green banner and the first garden
pour its carnage of color between the Gihon
and the Hiddeke. Trouble is a good thing
well as q good thing for individuals
Interrogation third: Why did good G cd
let sin and trouble come into the world when
he might have kept them out? My reply is,
he had reasons that he has never given us.
Hehad reasons which he could no more make
us understand in our finite state than the
father starting out on some great and elab-
carte enterprise could make the 2-year-old
child in it's armed chair comprehend it, One
was to demonstrate what grandeur OF char
acter may be achieved on earth by conquer
ing evil. Had there been no owl to conuuer
and no trouble to console. then this universe
would never have known an Abraham or a
Moses or q Joshua or an Ezekiel or a John
Milton or % John Howard, and a million vic
tories which have been gained by the conse-
Grated spirits of all ages would never have
been gained. Had there been no battle there
would have been no victory. 1 will not say
that | am glad that sin and sorrow
did enter, but l do say that after God
has given all his reasons to an assembled
universe he will be more honored than if sin
and sorrow had never entered and that the
nnfallen celestial will be outdone and will put
down their trumpets to listen, and it will be
in heaven when those who have conquered
sin and sorrow shall enter as it would be in
a small singing-schooI on earth if Ihalberg
aLu NOuIScHtIlk anu w aPner ana BeeGnOVGn
and Schumann should ell at once enter
But before leaving this interrogatory, Why
God let sin come into the world? let me say
that great BATTLES seem to be nothing but
suffering and outrage at the time Of their oc-
currence, vet after they have been a long
while past we can see that it was better for
them to have been fought, namely Salamis
lnkerman, Toulouse. Arbella, Agincourt
Trafalgar, Blenheim, Lexington, Sedan. So
now that the great battle against sin and
suffering are going on we can see mostly
that which is deplorable. But 10000 wears
from now. standing in glory, we shall apprc-
ciate that heaven is better off than it the
battle of this worlds sin and suffering had
never been projected.
Interrogation the fourth: Why do I have
it so hard, while Others have it SO easy?
Why do have SO much difficulty in gaining
livelihood, while Others go around with full
portemonnaie? Why must I wear these plain
clothes, while others have to push hard to
get their wardrobes closed, so crowded are
they with brilliant attire? Why should I
have to work so hard while others have 365
holidays every year? They are all PRACTICAL
ly one question. answer them by saying it
is because the Lord has his favorites and he
puts extra discipline upon you and extra
trials because he has for you extra glory,
extra enthronement, and extra felicities.
That is no guess OF mine, but a divine say-so,
"Well, says some one 81 would rather have
q little less in heaven and a little more here.
Discount my heavenly robe 10 per cent and
and let me now putt on, afur-ined overcoat;
put me in a less gorgeous room of the house
of many mansions and let me have a house
here in a better neighborhood. No,
no; God is not going to rob heaven,
which is to be your residence for 900,
00,00O,0 0O,O 100000 of years, to fix up
your earthly abode, where you may per-
haDs stay only ten years longer, or perhaps
only month more Now you had better
cheertully let God have his way for, you see,
he has been taking care of folks for near
1000 years. and knows how to do it, and
can see WHAT'S best for you better than you
can yourself. And God will make it all right
with you, and there is one song that you
will sing every hour your first ten years in
heaven, and the refrain of that song will be,
81 am SO glad God did not let me have it my
own way" Your case will be all fixed up in
heaven and there will be such a reversal of
conditions that We can hardly find each 9TH
err for some time. Some of us who have lived
in frst-rate houses here and in first rate
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