The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-03-14


States France owned It. but Napoleon.
barring that England would take II, prac-
sically made present TO the United States
Tor hs received only $4,000, O0O-of Louis
lana, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Ne
braska, Iowa, Minnesota Colorado, Dakota, |
Montana, Wyoming and the Indian Terri |
tory. Out o. the fire OF the American revolu-
out of the European war came that west
Of the Mississippi River. The British En-
pire rose to its present overtowering gran
deur. through gunpowder plot, and Guy
Fawkes's conspiracy, and Northampton in
surrection, and Walter Ralisgh's beheading,
and Bacon's bribery, and Cromwelrs disco
luton Of parliament, and the battles OF Edge
Hill, and Grantham. and Newberry, and
Marston Moor, and Naseby, and Dunbar,
and Sedgemoor. and execution Of Charles
the First, and London plague, and
London fire, and London insur-
rection, and Ryehouse plot, and the vicissi-
tudes OF centuries SO the earth itself, be-
full residence for the human family had,
according TO geology, to be washed by uni
yersal deluge, and scorched and made in
candescent by universal fires, and pounded
by sledge. hammer OF ieebergs, and wrenched
by earthquakes that split continents, and
shaken by volcanoes that tossed mountains.
and passed through the eatastrophes OF
possible and the groves could shake out their
green banners and the first garden pour
It's carnage OF color between the Gihon
and the Hiddeke. Trouble a good
thing for the rocks, good thing for
nations, as well as good thing Tor IN
dividuals. So when you push against me
with a sharp interrogation point, why DO
the good suffer- open the dark saying on
a harp and, though can neither play an
organ, or cornet, or hautboy, or bugfs or
clarionet. have taken some lessons on the
gospel harp, and II you would like to hear
me will play you these "All things work
together for good to those who love God"
Now no Christening for the present seemeth to
ward it yieldeth all possible fruits Of
Righteousness unto them which are exer-
cised thereby" "Weepng may en-
dure for night but Joy cometh in
the morning. What a sweet thing Is a
harp, and l wonder not that in Wales, the
country Of my ancestors, the harp has be-
come the national instrument, and that they
have festivals where great prizes are offered
in the competition between harp AMI harp
or that weird Sebastian Erard was
most of his time bent over this chorded
aud vibrating triangle, and was not
satisfied until he had given it a com
pass of six octaves from + to Il with all the
semi tones or that when King Saul was de-
and putting his fingers among the charmed
strings of tine harp played the devil out OF
the crazed monarch, or that in heaven there
shall be harpers harpng with their harps.
So YOU will not blame me for opening the
dark saying on the gospel harp.
Your harps, ye trembling saints,
Down from the willows take;
Loud TO the praise Of love divine
Bid every string awakel
Interrogation third Why did good God
let sin and trouble come into the world when
He might have kept them outl My reply is,
He had good reason. He had reasons that
He has never given us. He had reasons which
He could no more make US understand
in our finite state than the faith II
elaborate enterprise could make the two
year-old child in its armed chair compre
bend it. One was to demonstrate what
grandeur of character may be achieved OF
earth by conquering evil. Had there beer
no evil to conquer and no trouble to consola
then this universe would never havs
| known an Abraham or Moses or Joshua
or an Ezekiel or Paul or Christ or
Washington or John Milton or Johr
| Howard, and million victories which havt
been gained by the consecrated spirits or al
ages would never have been gained: Hat
there been no battle there would hav'
heen no victory. Nine-tenths OF the ANTHEMS
|
Heaven could never have been a thousandtl
part of the heaven that it is will not sa.
that | am glad that sin and sorrow dit
enter, but l do say that | am glad tina
| after God has given all His reasons to al
assembled universe He will be NOR
honored than if sin and sorrow had neve
entered, and that the unfallen ceestials Wi
be outdone and will put down their trumpet
to listen and it will be in heaven when thos
who have conquered sin and sorrow sha
enter, as it would be in a small sing
ing school on earth if Thalberg an
Gottschalk and Wagner and Beethoven an
Rheinberger and Scbumann should all
once enter. The immortals that have bee
chanting ten thousand years before tn
throne will say, as they close their librettos
"Oh, If we could only sing like that
But God will say to those who have neve
fallen and consequently have not been re
deemed: ''You must be silent now; 20
have not the qualification for this anthem,
go they sit with closed lips and folded hand
and sinners saved by grace take up th
harmony, for the Bible says mo man coul
learn that song but the hundred and forty an
four thousand which were redeemed fror
the earth
A great prima donna, who can now d
anything with her voice, told me that whe
she first started in music her teacher !
Berlin told her she could be good singer
but certain note she could never reacf
"And then," she said, II went to work an
reach it," But the song. Of tn
sinner redeemed the Bible say
the exalted harmonists who hay
mover sinned could not reach and never wi
reach. Would you like to hear me in yer
poor way play snatch of that tune! l ca
gospel harp: "Unto Him that hath loved
opd xuochad no from OIlr sins in His OW
blood and hath made us kings an
priests unto God and the Lamb
Him be glory and dominion forevt
and ever. Smen." But before leaving tn
interrogatory, Why God let sin come ini
the worldi let me say that great battles seel
to be nothing but suffering and outrage,
the time of their occurrence, yet after the
have been long while past we can see thu
it was better for them to have been tough
namely, Salamis, Inkerman. Toulouse, A
bella, Agipcourt, Trafalgar, Blel
,, helm, Lexington, Sedan. So no
, that the great battles against sin and su
; ering are going on we can see mostly thu
years from now, standing in glory. we sha
] appreciate that heaven is better off than
the battle of this worlds sin and sufferir
had never been projected.
But now l come nearer home and put
dark saying on the gospel harp, style
. question that is asked million times yea
Interrogation the fourth: Why do ha'
: it so hard while others have it so easy' o
why do have so much difficulty in gettir
! q livelihood while others go arour
: with a full portemonnaie! or, wi
l must l wear these plain clothes viii
!, others have to push hard to get their war
!, robes closed, so crowded are they with bri
!, liant attire? or, why should have to work
! hard while others have three hundred AZ
= sixty five holidays every yearl They are
! practically ono question answer the
: by saying, it is because the Lord hi
. His favorites and He puts extra disc
!, pline upon you, and extra trial, b
: cause he has for you extra glory extra e
. thronement and extra felicities. That is l
= guess of mine, but divine say-so: Who
: the Lord loveth He chasteneth." "Well
! says some one, II would rather have lit
less in heaven and a little more here Discou
: my heavenly rooc ten per cent, ana let i
;, now put it on, fur lined overcoat: put n
= In less gorgeous room Of the house OF mai
. mansions and let mo have house here
. ), better neighborhood. No, no; God is n
!, going to rob heaven, which is going to
; your residence for nine hundred ouadrillit
: of years, to fix up your earthly abod
!, ~ which vol will occupy at most for less tbs
A century and where YOU NAV perlIa