The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1889-12-20
I handed over the reins to her, and I had to
admtrothe CLEO NTH which she drove. But
after q while Wo met a team md 1yn Ind m


I banded over the reins 70 her, and Ihad t.
after q while wo met a team and yo had t.
turn out. Theroad was narrow, and it was
sheer town on both sides; She handed the
coins over to me. and said: II think yon hat
DetIer take charge Of tho horse.p SO we are
all children; and on this road Of lifc wo like
to drive. IL gives ono such an appearance OF
superiority and power. It looks big. Bu,
after = Whilo re meet some obstacle, and W.
and it Is sheer down on both sides; aud then
we arc willing TINT God should 4 NSe Tho
feins and drive. Ahlmy friends, wo got up,
sot 50 often because wo do not hand over the
rolns soon enough.
Can you not toll whom you hear a man
pray, whother no has eyor had any troubIe9
4 can 1v,, ThS cadence tho phrascology indicate
Because they hayo had more trouble. Be.
foro n man has had any trouble, his nrsyer,
nro poetic, and no begins away up among the
sun, moon md stars, and gives the Lord a
must DO highly gratifying. He tben comes
lands to "forovor and over, anon But as.
tor a man has had trouble, prayer is with
ing out for help. I have heard earnest pray
ers on two or three occasions that I rcmem.
Der.
Once, on tho Cincinnati express train,
going at forty miles tho hour and tho
Grain jumped tho track, and we woro
noar q chasm eighty feet doep; and the
mon who, n few minutes before. had been
swearing and blasphoming God, began to
pun 81 aat ~ 5er !. g.. g. tho as bell rope, and got
out; 70 (Iod, save usw There was another
time, about eight hundred miles out Mt sea.
on q fonndoriilg steamer, after tho last
lIeboat bad been split iincr than kindling
SO often hear people, in r%cciting tho last OK
perienco Of some friend, say: lilo mndo tho
most beautiful prayer l over hcard?' What
makes II beautiful 1t is the carnostness Of
his stripped and naked soul wades out in tho
soundless. shoieloss, bottomless ocean or
eternity.
I'll trouble, my friends, that makes us fool
our dependence upon God. We do not know
our own weakness or Gods strength Until
tho last plank breaks. 1t Is c~ontemptible in
us whom there is nothing else to take hold Of,
that we catch hold OF God only. a man is
unfortunate IN business. Ho has to raise a
great deal of money, and raise it quickly.
lie borrows OH word and note oil he can Dor
row: After a whilc no puts a mortgage on
his house. After q while he puts a second
mortgage on his house. Then he puts a lion
on his furniture. Then ho makes over his
life insurance. Then he assigns all his prop.
crty. Then no goes to his father-in-law and
asks for holpi
Well, having failed everywhere, COM
nays: 70 lord, l havo tried Everybody and
everything, now help mo out OF this iinan-
cial trouble" He makes God tho last resort
instead of the first resort. There arc mon
who have paid ten cents on u dollar who
could have paid n hundred cents on n dollar
II they had gone to God in time. Why, you
10 not know who tho Lord is. IIo is not mn
hatocrat seated far,up i'll a palace, from
which lie cnerges once n year, proceeded by
No. But n Father willing, at our call. to
stand by us in every crisis and prcdicament
Of life.
l tell You what some of you business men
make mo think Of. a young man goes OIL
Yrom homo to earn his fortune. Tfo goes
She has large wealth; but ho wants to make
his, own fortune. Ho goes far away, falls
sick, gets out of money. He sends for the
hotel keeper where ho is staying, asking for
don't pay up Saturday night youth be re
moved to tho hospital" Tho young man
sends to a comrade in the same building. Nc
help. He writes to a banker who was q
friend Of his deceased father. No relief. He
writes to an old schoolmatc, but gets no help
Saturday night comes and he is removed ia
the hospital.
Getting there, he is frenzicd with grief; and
no borrows q sheet of paper and a postage
stamp, and ho sits down, and he writes home,
saying; Dear mother, i am sick unto death
Come" 1t is ten minutes Of 10 o'clock whel
sho gets tho letter. At 10 o'clock tho traii
starts. She is 1.-Two minutes from tho depot.
she gets there i'll time to have five minute tc
spare. She wonders why Il train that can &C
thirty miles an hour cannot go sixty miles m
hour. Sho rushcs into tho hospital, She saws
My son., what does all this moan? Why didn'
you send for me?- You sent to everybody but
me. You knew / could and would help you
lsthis the eward l get for my kindness tx
You slways?" Sle bundles him up, takes hin
home, and gets him we'll very soon.
Now, some OF you treat God just as that
young man treated his mother. When yor
get into n financial perplexity, you call on thu
bankef, you call on the broker, you call on youl
creditors, you call on your lawyer for legal
counsel; you call upon everybody, and when
You cannot got any, help, then you go to God
me now out Of my perplexity." And the
Lord ONE though it is tho eleventh hour.
He says. why did you not send for Me
beforeG AS one whom mis- mother comfortoth,
SO will I comfortyou." 1t is to throw us back
upon nm all comforting God that we nave
this ministry of tears.
Again, it is the use Of trouble to capacitato
us for the Office Of sympathy. Tho priests,
under tho old dispensation. were set apart by
and head; and by tho sprinkling of tears
people arc now set apart to tho Office Of
sympathy. When wo are in prosperity wo
IKE to nave a great many young people
and we romp when they romp, and wo sing
when they sing; but when wo have trouble
we like plenty of old folks around. Why?
They know how to talk. Take an aged
most omnipotent in comfort. Whya She
has been through it all. At Z O'clock in the
morning she goes over to comfort a young
hmothor who has just lost her babe. :,
Grandmother knows all about that trou.
blc. Fifty years ago she felt it. At 10
o'clock of TINT day she goes over to comfort
a widowed soul. Sho knows all about that.
Sho has been walking in that dark valley
Ewonty years. At O'clock in the afternoon
some ono knocks at tho door wanting bread.
She knows all about that. Two or three
times in her life she came to her last loaf.
AT 10o'clock that night she goes over to sit
up with somo ono severely sick. She knows
ol about It. Sho knows all about fovers and
pleurisios and broken bones. She has been
doctoring all her life, spreading plasters, and
pouring out bitter drops, and shaking up hot
pillows, and contriving things to tempt a
poor appetite. Doctors Abernotly and Rush
and Hosack and Harvey wero great doctors!
but tho greatest doctor tho world ever saw IS
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