Milford chronicle., 1889-03-01
MILFORD, DEL, FRIDAY. MARCH l. 1889.

forever and ever, Amen But before leaving
this interrogatory, Why God let sin come
into the worldl let me say that great bat
ties seem to be nothing but suffering and out
rage at the time Of their occurrence, yetafter
they have been a long while past we can see
that it was better for them to have been
fought, namely Salamis, Inkerman, Toulouse,
Arbella, Agincourt, Trafalgar, Blenheim, Lex
ington, Sedan So now shat the great battles
agsinst sin and suffering are going on we can
see mostly shat which is deplorable But
twenty thousand years from now, standing
ia glory, we shall appreciate that heaven is
better Off than if the battle Of this worlds sin
and suffering had never been projected.
THE QUESTION ASKED BY TIE DISCONTINUED.
But now come nearer home and put a
dark saying on the gospel harp, a style Of
question that is asked n million times every
year. Interrogation the fourth: Why do
have it so hard while others have it 50 easyl
or, Why do have so much difficulty in get
ting livelihood while others go around with
full portemonnaiel or, Why must l wear
these plain clothes while others have ts push
hard to get their wardrobes closed, so
crowded are they with brilliant attirel or,
Why should have TO work so hard while
others have three hundred and sixty-ive
holidays every yeari They are all practically
one question. answer D1 sly llls IL ls ue-
cause the Lord has his favorites and he puts
extra discipline upon you and extra trial,
because he has for you extra glory, extra en-
thronelnent and extra felicities. That is no
guess Of mine but divine say-so: "Whom
the Lord loveth He chasteneth." " 'WeI,n
says some one, II would rather have
little less In heaven and little more
here. Discount my heavenly robe 10 per
cent and let me now put it on, fur
lined ovorcoat; put ME in a less gor-
geous room Of the house Of many mansions
and let me have house here in a
better neghborhood No, no; God is not
going to rob heaven, which is to be your res
idence for nine hundred quadrillion of years,
to tx up your earthly abode which you will
occupy at most for less than a century, and
where you may perhaps stay only ten years
longer, or only one year, or perhaps a month
more Now you had better cheerfully let
God have His way, for, you see, He has been
taking care of folks for near seven thousand
years and knows how to do it and can see
what is best for you better than you can
yourself Don't think you are too insig-
nilicant to be divinely cared for It was said
that Diana, the goddess, could not be present
to keep her temple at Ephesus from burning
because she was attending upon the birth Of
But tell you THAT your God and my God is
so great in small things as well as large things
that he could attend the cradle Of a babe and
at the same time the burning of a world.
And God will make it all right with you,
and there Is one song that you will sing every
hour of your first ten years in heaven, and
tho refrain of that song will be, II 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 DO such a reversal Of
conditions that we can hardly find each other
for some time. Some Of US who have lived
in first rate houses hero and in first rate
neighborhoOds win be found, because of our
lukewarmness Of earthly service, living on
one Of the back streets Of the celestial city,
and clear down at the end Of it at No. sos
or 900 or 1905, while some who had unattract-
i've earthly abOdes, and a cramped one at
that, will, in the heavenly city, be in house
fronting the Royal plaza right by the ilnpe-
rial fountain, or on the Heights overlooking
the River of Life, tho chariots Of salvation
halting at your door while those visit you
who arc moro than conquorors and those
who are kings and queens unto God forever.
YOU my brother, and you, my sister, who
havo it SO hard here will have it so
fine and grand there that you will hardly
know yourself, and will feel disposed TO dis
pute your own identity, and the first time l
see you there / will cry out; Didn't / tell
ycu so when you sat down there in the
Brooklyn Tabernacle and looked incredulous
because you thought it too good to be trueF
And you will answer: "You were right; the
half was not told mel" So this morning
open your dark saying Of dependency and
complaint on my gospel harp and give you
Just one bar Of music, for do not pretend
to be much Of a player 'The Lamb which
is in the midst Of tho throne shall lead them
to living fountains Of water, and God shall
wipo away all tears from their eyes"
But l must confess l am a little perplexed
how some of you good Christians are going
to get through the gate, because there viii be
so many there to greet you, and they viii all
want to shake hands at once, and viii all
want the first kiss. They will have heard
that you are coming, and they viii all press
around to welcome you and will want you to
say whether you know them after being so
long parted
THE THINGS BEYOND OUR COMPREHENSION
SHOULD BE ADJOURNED.
Amid that tussle and romp Of reunion,
tell YOU whose hand Of welcome you had
better first clasp and whose cheek is entitled
to the first kiss 1t is the hand and the cheek
Of him without whom you would never have
got there at all, the Lord Jesus, the darling
Of the skies, as he cries out: Il have loved
thee with an everlasting love, and the fires
could not burn it and the floods could not
drown it." Then you, my dear people, hav-
ing no more use for my poor harp on which
used to open your dark sayings and whose
chords sometimes snapped, despoiling the
symphony, you will take down your own
harps from the willows that grow by the
eternal water courses and play together those
celestial airs, some of the names of which are
entitled "The King in His Beauty" 1.-The
Land That Was Far or, Jerusalem, the
Golden" Home Again, ''The Grand March
Of God" ''The Life Everlasting" And as
the last dark curtain of mystery is forever
lifted, it will be as though all the oratorios
that were ever heard had been rolled into
one and Israel in Egypt" and "Jephtha's
Daughter and Beethoven's Overture in c"
and Ritter's first sonata in d minor and the
"Creation" and the Messiah" had been
blown from the lips Of one trumpet or been
invoked by the sweep Of one bow or had
dropped from the vibrating chords of ono
harp
But here must slow up lest in trying to
solve mysteries | add to the mystery that we
have already wondered at, namely, why
preachers SnOutu keep ON allef al lue uetlI-
ers are tiredl So gather up into one great
armful all the why's and hows and where
fores Of your life and mine which we have
not had time or the ability to answer. and
write on them the words adjourned to
eternity" rejoice that we do not under
stand all things now, for if we did, what
would we learn in heavenl If we knew it all
down here in the freshman and sophomore
class, what would be the use of our going up
to stand amid the juniors and the seniors! If
we could put down one leg Of the compass
and with the other sweep circle clear around
all the inscrutables, if we could lift our little
steelyards and weigh the throne Of the
Omnipotent, if we could with our seven day
clock measure eternity, what would be left
for heavenly revelationl So ! move that we
cheerfully adjourn what is now beyond our
comprehension, and as according to Rollin,