Democratic messenger., 1889-11-02

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there Is nothing else to take hold Of,
that we catch hold Of God only. A
man Is unfortunate In business. He
has to raise great deal Of money, and
raise it quickly. he borrows on word
and note all he can borrow. After q
while he puts mortgage on his house.
After while he puts o second mort
gage on his house. Then he puts
lien on his furniture. Then he makes
over his life insurance. Then he as
signs all his property. Then he goes
10 his father-in-law and asks for helpi
Well, having failed everywhere,
completely failed, he gets down ON his
knees and says: 10 Lord, have tried
everybody and everything, now help
me out Of this financial trouble" He
makes God the last resort instead Of
the first resort. There are men who
have paid ten cents on q dollar who
could have paid a hundred cents on q
dollar IL they had gone to God in time.
Why, you do not know who the Lord
Is. He Is not an autocrat seated far
up in palace, from which he emerges
once n year, preceded by heralds swing
ing swords 10 clear the way. No. But
Q father willing, at our call, to stand
q q life. III - ''''' '''''' A"' p'''''A"en'
tell you what some Of you bust.
ness men make me think Of. A young
man goes of from home to earn his
fortune. He goes with his mothers
consent and benediction. She has
large wealth; but he wants to make
his own fortune. He goes far away,
falls sick, gets out OF money. He
sends for the hotel keeper where he Is
staying, asking for lenience, and the
answer he gets is: ''1f you don't pay
up Saturday night you'll be removed
to the hospital" Tho young man
sends to q comrade in the same build
ing. No help. He writes to q banker
who was q friend Of his deceased
father. No relief. He writes to an
old schoolmate, but gets no help.
Saturday night comes, and he is
moved to the hospital.
Getting there, he is frcnzied with
grief; and he borrows sheet Of pa
per and postage stamp, and he sits
down, and he writes home, saying:
"Dear mother, am sick unto death.
Come" II is ten minutes of 10
o'clock when she gets the letter. At
10 o'clock the train starts. She is five
minutes from the depot. She gets
there in time to have five minutes to
spare. She wonders why train that
can 60 thirty miles an hour cannot
go sixty miles an hour. She rushes
into the hospital. She says: my
son, what does all this meant Why
didn't you send for met You sent TO
everybody but me. You knew
could and would help you. Is this
the reward get for my kindness to
you alwaysi" She bundles him up,
takes him home. and gets him well
very soon.
Now, some OF you treat God just as
that young man treated his mother.
When you get into financial per
plexity, you call on the banker, you
call ON the broker, you call on your
creditors, you call on your lawyer for
legal counsel; you call upon every
body, and when you cannot get any
help, then you 60 to God. You say:
20 Lord come to Thee. Help me
now out of my perplexity." And the
Lord comes, though it is the eleventh.
hour. He says: why did you not
send for me beforef As ono whom
his mother comforteth, so will :
fort you" Il is to throw
upon an all comforting
have this ministry Of tef
IT MAKES US sYMPAl.
Again, It Is the use Of tr..
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pathy. The priests, under the old dis.
pensation, were set apart by having
water sprinkled ON their hands, feet
and heads; and by the sprinkling oi
tears people are now set apart TO the
Office Of sympathy. When We are in
prosperity we like TO have q great
many young people around US, and
we laugh when they laugh, and we
romp when they romp. and we sing
when they sing; but when We have
trouble we like plenty Of old folks
around. Whyi They know how 70
talk. Take an aged mother, 20 years
Of age, and she is almost omnipotent
in comfort Whyi She has been
through il all. At 2 o'clock in the
morning she goes over TO comfort q
young mother who has just lost her
babe.
Grandmother knows all about that
trouble. Fifty years ago she felt II.
At IL o'clock Of that day she goes over
to comfort a widowed soul. She knows
all about that She has been walking
in that dark valley twenty years. Al
4 o'clock in the afternoon some one
knocks at the door wanting bread.
She knows all about that Two OF
three times in her life she came 10 her
last loaf. Al 10 o'clock that night she
goes over TO sit up with some one Sc
verely sick. She knows oil about it.
She knows all about fevers and pleu-
risies and broken bones. She has been
doctoring all her life, spreading plas
ters, and pouring out bitter drops, and
shaking up hot pillows, and contriv'
ing things 10 tempt poor appetite,
Doctors Abernethy and Rush and Ho'
sack and Harvey were great doctors,
put the greatest doctor the world ever
saw is an old Christian woman. Dear
mel Do we not remember her about
the room when we were sick in our
boyhoodf Was there any one who
could ever so touch sore without
hurting iti
And when she lifted her spcctacles
against her wrinkled forehead, so she
could look closer nj tho wound, it was
three-fourths healed. And when the
Lord took her home. although you
may have been men and women 80,
40, 60 years Of age, you lay ON the
cofiin lid and sobbed rs though you
were only or 10 years Of age. q
man, praise God II you have in your
memory the picture Of an honest, sym
pathetic, kind, self sacrificing. Christ
like mother. Oh. il takes these people
who have had trouble 10 comfort Others
in trouble. Where did Paul get the
ink with which TO write his comfort
ing epistlei Where did David get the
ink 10 writc his comforting Psalmsl
Where did John get the ink 20 write
his comforting Revelationi They gol
Il out Of their own tears When q
man has gone through the curriculum,
and has taken q course OF dungeons