The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-07-17


know as much about it as they do. Last
fall all the weather prophets agreed in say
ingwe should have winter of extraordin-
airy severity, blizzard on the heels OF bliz-
card 1t was the mildest winter / ever re-
member to have passed. Indeed, the autumn
and the spring almost showed winter out OF
the possession. Real troubles have no
heralds running ahead of their somber char
lots, and no one has any authority in our
time to announce their coming Load your
self up with helpful words and deeds The
HYMN once sung in our churches is unfit to
be sung, for it says:
We should suspect some danger near
Where we possess delight
In other words. manage to keep miserable
all the time The old song sung at the pianos
quarter Of a century ago was right, kind
Words Can Never Die.n Such kind words
have their nests in kind hearts, and when
they are Matched out and take wing they
circle round in flights that never cease, and
sportsmAn's gun can not shoot them, and
storms can not ruffie their wings and when
they cease flight in these lower skies OF
earth they sweep around amid the higher
attitudes Of heaven. At Baltimore, a few
days ago, talked into photograph. The
cylinder containing the words was sent
on to Washington, and the next day
that cylinder, from another photographic
instrument, when turned, gave back
to me the very words had uttered the day
before, and with the meintonations Srold
into monograph and it will scold hack.
Pour mild words into photograph aud it
will return the gentleness. Society and the
world, and the church, are monographs.
Give them acerbity and rough treatment,
and acerbity and rough treatment you will
get back. Give them practical friendliness
and they will give back practical friendli-
ness. A father asked his little daughter:
"Mary, why is it that everybody loves
youl" She answered: II don't know, unless
it is because love everybody" "A man
that hath friends must show himself friend
ly." We want something like that spirit of
sacrifice for others which was seen in the
| English channel, where in the storm boat
containing three men was upset, and all
three were in the water struggling for
their lives. A boat came to their relief,
and q rope was thrown to one OF them,
and he refused to take it, saying: "First
fling it to Tom; he's just ready to go
down. l can last some time longer" A
man like that, be he sailor or landsman, be
he in upper ranks of society or lower
ranks, win always have plenty of friends.
What is true MAYNARD is true Godward.
We must be the friends of God if we want
Him to be our friend We can no. treat
Christ badly all our lives and expect Him to
treat us lovingly. was reading Of sea
fight, in which Lord Nelson captured a
French officer, and when the French officer
offered Lord Nelson his hand, Nelson re-
4. <Io,,
give me your hand" Surrender of our re-
sistance to God must precede Gods proffer
of pardon to u.s. Repentance before for
giveness. You must give upyour rebellious
sword before you can get grasp of the
divine hand. E
o, what glorious state of things to have
the friendship of God Why, we could afford
to have the whole world against US and all
other worlds against us if we had God for
u.s. He could in minute blot out this uni
verse, and in another minute make better
universe. have no idea that God tried
hard when he made all things. The most
brilliant thing known to us is light, and for
the creation of that He only used a word OF
command. AS out of a flint frontiersman
strikes spark, so out of one word God
struck the MONDAY sun. For the making
of the present universe do not read that
God lifted so much as q finger. The Bible
frequently speaks of Gods hand, and God 6
arm, and Gods shoulder, and Gods foot
then suppose He should put hand and arm
and shoulder and foot to utmost tension
what could He not make9 That God, of such
demonstrated and undemonstrated strength
you may have for your present and ever
lasting friend Not stately and reticent
FRIEND hard to get at, but as approachablt
as country mansion on summer day
when all the doors and windows are wide
open. Christ said: II am the door," Ant
He is wide door, a high door, palace
door, an always open door. My four-year
old child got hurt and did not cry unit
hours after when her mother came home
and then she burst into weeping, and some
of the domestics, not understanding human
before!" She answered.: ''There was nj
one to cry to-" Now | have to tell you tina
while human sympathy may be absent
divine sympathy is always accessible
! Give God your love and get His love
your service and secure His help; youl
repentance and have His pardon. God ,
friendl Why, that means all your wound.
medicated, all your sorrows soothed
and il some sudden catastrophe should hur
, you out of earth it would only hurl you intt
, Heaven. If God is your friend, you can no
60 out Of the world too quickly or suddenly
so far as your own happiness is concerned
There were two Christians last Tuesday WHIT
, entered Heaven; the one was standing at
window in perfect health watching ;
shower, and the lightning instantly slew
him; but the lightning did not flash dowl
the Sky as swiftly as his spirit flashed up
ward The Christian man who died on TIL,
, eday next door had been for year or tw,
! failing in health, and for the last tire,
months had suffered from adisease that mad
the nights sleepless and the days an anguish
; Do you not really think that the case of tn
+ one who went instantly was more desirable
, than the one who entered the shining gat
through long lane Of insomnia and con
gestiona In the one case it was like yon
standing YEARLY at door, knocking all,
waiting, and wondering if it will ever open
and knocking and waiting again, while il
t the other case it was swinging open Of tn
Q door at the first touch of your knucl1le Civ
3 your friendship to God and have God
: friendship for you, and even the worst acci
!, dent will be a victory.
. How refreshing is human friendship, an
true friends, what priceless treasures
, When sickness comes, and trouble comes
z and death comes, we send for our friend
l first of all, and their appearance in our door
n way in any crisis is reinforcement. an
a when they have entered, we say: "No1
= it is all rightm o, whatwould we do with
out friends, personal friends, bushes
9 friends, family friends! But we wan
| eUucluliS uile tldll uuHdll lTleHuS0l
in the great exigencies When Jonatha
!. Edwards in his final hour had given the las
q good bye to all his earthly friends, he turne
on his pillow and closed his eyes coufidentl
: saying: "Now where is Jesus of Nazareth
my true and never failing frienda" Yes,
q admire human friendship as seen in tn
o case of David and Jonathan, of Paul an
d Onesiphorus, of Herder and Goethe, Q
!. Goldsmith and Reynolds, of Beaumont an
a Fletcher, Of Cowley and Harvey of Eras
: mus and Thomas More, of Leasing and Mer
!. delssohn, of Lady Churchill and Princes