The Penn's Grove record., 1889-11-09

struck him Il opened q great swelling that
had threatened his death, and he got well.
So 1t is tho arrow of trouble that let's our
great swellings Of pride. We never feel our
dependence upon God until we get trouble.
was riding with my little child along the
road, and she asked II she might drive.
Sid: Certainly"
/ handed over the reins to her, and I had to
admire the glee with which she drove. But
after a while we met . team and we had to
turn out. The road was narrow, and 1t was
sheer down on both sides. She handed the
reins over to me, and said: 81 think you had
better take charge Of the horse" So we are
all children; and on this road Of life we like
to drive. 1t gives one such an appearance OF
superiority and power. II looks big. But
after q while we meet some obstacle, n w
have to turn out, and the road Is narrow,
and it is sheer down on both sides; and then
we are willing that God should take the
reins and drive. Ali my friends, we get up
set so often because we do not hand over the
reins soon enough.
Can you not toll when you hear . mag
prav. whathsr he has ever had n TROUBLED
=. .dence, the pnr.s.oiogy indicate
It. Why do women pray better than mem
Because'shey have had more trouble. Be
fore a man has had any trouble. his prayer
are poetic, and he begins away up among the
sun, % and stars, and gives the Lord a
great deal OF astronomical Information that
must be highly gratifying. He then comes
on down gradually over beautifully table.
lands to forever n ever, amen" But al.
ter q mar has had trouble, prayer Is with
him a taking hold of the arm of God and cry
ing out for help. 1 have heard earnest pray.
ers on two or three occasions that I remem-
Der;
Once, on The Cincinnati axpress train,
going at forty miles the hour, and the
train jumped the track, and we were
near a chasm eighty feet deep; and the
men who, u few minutes before, had been
swearing and blaspheming God, began to
Pr on the backs of the seats and cried
out: 70 God, say qsr' There was another
time, about eight hundred miles out 81 saa,
on a laundering steamer, after the last
hfeboat had been split finer than kindling
wood, They prayed then. Why is it you
50 Gfsss e q so RssY Plain y r ssSi III sss m Last e, e,
most beautiful prayer 1 ever heardf" What
makes it beautifully II is the earnestnsss Of
1t. Oh, ] tell you 9 man Is In earnest when
his stripped INC naked soul wades out In the
soundless, shoreless, bottomless ocean Of
eternity.
It is trouble, my friends, that makes us feel
our dependence upon God. We do not know
NJ whsr a.. ;s 1870 ~. tsIfta3J ~
that wa catch bo,d ~ en- onIv man T.
unfortunate in business. He has to raise .
great deal Of money, and raise it quickly.
He borrows on word and note all be can bor-
row. After . while he puts . mortgage on
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who have nsid t.n n.rt - aeIsr mSn
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tterd Nv me In svsrv oris;. oruaos, "
~ s sIis " sme'ery efisis anu Preoica"eht
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make me think of. A young man goes of
from home to earn his fortune. h goes
with his mothers consent and bsnediction.
She has large wealth; but he wan to make
his fortune. BE goes far away, falls
sick, gets U Of money. He sends for the
hotel keeper where he is staying, asking for
don't pay = up Saturday night E. you,n Be ' r@
moved to the hospital" The young man
sends to . comrade in the same building. No
help. He writes to . 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 removed to
the hospltsl. /,
Getting there, he Is frenzied with grief; and
he borrows . sheet Of paper and q postage
stamp, aud he sits down. and he writes home,
saying: Dear mother, / am siok unto death.
Come" 1t is ten minutes Of 10 o'clock when
she gets the letter. Az 10 O'Clock the train
startx. She II dve minutes from the depot.
She gets there In time to have five minutes tc
thirty miles an hour cannot 60 sixty miles an
hour. She rushes into the hospital. She says;
my son, what does all this meanf Why didn't
you send for mel You sent to everybody but
me. You knew / could and would help you.
Is this the reward l get for my kindness tc
you alwaysg' 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 Q financial perplexity, 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 everybody, and when
you cannot get any help, then you 60 to God.
You say: 80 Lord I come to Thee. Help
me now out OF my ,Perplexity." And the
Lord comes, though 1t is the eleventh hour.
He says; why did you not send for Me
before? As one whom his mother oomforteth,
so will l comfort You" 1t Is to throw us back
upon an all comforting Tod that we have
this ministry Of tears.
Again, it is the use of trouble to capacitate
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