The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-07-03

we are going TO have Q summer oi Breao
harvest and universal health; at any rate
know as much about it as they do. Last
fall all the weather prophets agreed in say
lngwe should have winter Of extraordin-
ary severity, blizzard on the heels OF bliz-
zard It was the mildest winter l ever re-
member to havep 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 unit TO
be sung, for it says:
We should suspect some danger noar
Where We possess delight
In other words, manage 10 keep miserable
all the time. The old song sung at the pianos
a quarter Of century ago was right, "Kind
Words Can Never Die" Such kind words
have their nests in kind hearts, and when
they are Matched out and take wing they
circle round in fights that never cease, and
sportsman's gun can not shoot them, and
storms can not ruffie their wings, and when
they cease fight in these lower skies OF
earth they sweep around amid the higher
attitudes of heaven. At Baltimore, a few
days ago, talked into phonograph. 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 same intonations. Scold
into phonOgraph and it will scold back.
Pour mild words into phonograph and 1t
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: ~ don'tknow, 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, whore 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 rope was thrown TO one OF them,
and he refused TO take It, saying: "First
down. can last some time longer" A
man like that, be he sailor or landsman, be
he in upper ranks Of s0eiety or lower
ranks, win always have plenty OF friends.
What is true manward is true Godward.
We must be the friends Of God II 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
French officer, and when the French officer
offered Lord Nelson his hand, Nelson re-
piled: "First give me your sword, and then
give me your hand.n Surrender Of our re-
sistance TO God must precede Gods proffer
of pardon TO us. Repentance before for
giyeness You must give up your rebellious
sword before you can get a grasp OF the
| divine hand.
o, what a 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 II 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 10 US is light and for
the creation Of that He only used word OF
command As out of flint frontiersfnan
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 finger. The Bible
frequently speaks Of Gods hand, and Gods
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 makel That God, OF such
demonstrated and dundemonstrated strength,
| you may have for your present and ever
lasting friend. Not stately and reticent
| friend, hard TO get at, but as approachable
as country mansion on a summer day
| when all the doors and windows are wide
open. Christ SAIL ~ am the door" And
| He is wide door, high. door, palace
door, an always open door. My four-year-
old child got hurt and did not cry until
hours after when her mother came home,
and then she burst into weeping, and some
| OF the domestics, not understanding human
nature, said TO her: "Why did you not cry
| beforein She answered: 'sThere was no
| one 10 cry tor Now have TO tell you that
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; your
repentance and have His pardon. God a
friendi Why, that means all your wounds
medicated, all your sorrows soothed,
and II some sudden catastrophe should huri
you out Of earth II woul<s snly hurl you into
Heaven II God Is your friend, you can not
| go out Of the world too quickly or suddenly,
so far as your own happiness Is concerned.
entered Heaven: the one yvas standiny NJ a
window In perfect health watchinS a
shower. and the Hohtning in.tantlv sjev,
him; but the lightning dld NOT flas6 down
the sky as swiftly "a his snirit aashed nm.
ward The Christian man yphn died on ne
same day next door h. been for n % wear or or two S
falling In health, and for the last three
the nights sloepless and the davs an an onish
Do Won moi really think thar the case ~ the
one who went instantly WAS more desirable