Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-03-29
sin, and can never start again for
new life" If Satan can make YOU form

new life" If Satan can make you form
that resolution, and make you keep it.
he has ruined you. Trouble is not sent
to crush you, but to arouse you, to ami
mate mats you, to proopel you. The black.
forge and then blow away with the bell
lows, and then bring the hot iron out
on the anvil and beat with stroke after
stroke to ruin the iron, but to prepare it
for better use. Oh, that the Lord God
OF Nehemiah would rouse up all broken
hearted people to rebuild. Whipped,
betrayed, shipwrecked, imprisoned Paul
went right on. The Italian
martyr Algerius sits in his dun
geon writing letter, and he dates it
Leonine prison" That is what call
triumphant sadness. I knew mother
vino buried her baby on Friday and on
Sabbath appeared in the House of God
and said: Give me a class; give me a
Sabbath-school class. 1 have no child
now left me, and would like to have a
class Of little children. Give me real
poor children. Give me a class off the
back street." That, I say, is beautiful.
That is triumphant sadness. At 3 o'clock
this afternoon, in beautiful parlor in
statuetted-there will be from ten to
twenty destitute children of the street.
1t has been SO every Sabbath after
noon at 3 o'clock for many years.
These destitute children receive relig-
ious instruction, Concluding with
cakes and sandwiches. How do I
know that this has been going on for
many years? 1 knew it in this way.
GREED CURED BY CHRISTIAN WORK.
That was the first home in Philadel-
phia where was called to comfort a
| nroof Tho,y Il 4 Nov,
and he had been drowned ut Long
Branch. The father and mother almost
idolized the boy, and the sob and
shrek of that father and mother as they
hung over the coffin resound in my ears
to- day. There seemed to be no use of
praying, for when knelt down to pray.
the outcry in the room drowned out all
the prayer. But the Lord comforted that
sorrow. They did not forget their
trouble. If you should go on the snowies.
winter afternoon into Laurel Hill you
would find monument with the word
Walter" inscribed upon it, and a
wreath of fresh flowers around the
name. think there has not been an
hour all these years, winter or summer,
when there was not wreath of
fresh flowers around Walters name.
But the Christian mother who sends
those flowers there. having no child left,
Sabbath afternoons mothers ten or
twenty of the lost ones of the street.
That is beautiful. That is what 1 call
busy and triumphant sadness. Here is
does not go to hard drinking. He does
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My moneys gone. I have no treasures
on earth. want treasures in Heaven:
l have voice and heart to serve God.
You say that that man has failed. He
has not failed-he has triumphed. Oh,
l wish could persuade all the people
who have any kind of trouble never to
give up. l wish they would
look at the midnight rider
of the text, and that the four
hoofs of that beast on which Nehemiah
rode might cut to pieces all your dis
couragements and hardships and trials.
Give up! Who is going to give up,
when on the bosom of God he can have
all his troubles hushed? Give up!
Never think Of giving up. Are you
borne down with poverty? A lit lie child
was found holding her dead mothers
hands in the darkness of tenement
house, and some one coming in, the lit
tie girl looked up, while holding her
dead mothers hand, and said, ooh, do
wish that God had made more light for
| pun 4O1hS. WY 'uodl, you VIII Uo your
light, God will be your shelter, God will
with the bereavements of life? Is
the house lonely now that the
child is gone? Do not give up.
Think Of what the old sexton said when
the minister asked him why he put SO
much care on the little graves in the
cemetery-so much more care than on
the larger graves, and the old sexton
said, Sir. YOU know that of such is the
kingdom of Heaven and 1 think the
Saviour is pleased when he sees so much
white clover growing around these little
graves" But when the minister pressed
the old sexton for a more satisfactory
answer, the old sexton said, "Sir, about
these larger graves, don't know who
are the Lords saints and who are not;
but you know, sir, it is clean different
with the BARNS" Oh, if you have had
that keen, tender, indescribable sorrow
that comes from the loss of child, do
not give up. The old sexton was right.
1t is all we'll with the BARNS. Or, if you
have sinned, if you have sinned grew
ousl y-sinned until you have been cast
out by the church, sinned until you have
been cast out by society, do not give up.
that could truthfully utter the lamenta.
ton of another:
| Once was pure as the snow, but fell
| Fell like snowflake, from Heaven to hell
| Fell to be trampled as filth in the street
| Fell to be scoffed at spit on and beat;
| Praying, cursfng, wishing to die,
! Selling my soul to whoever would buy,
Dealing in shame for morsel of bread,
Hating the living and fearing the dead.
WHERE COMFORT IS FOUND.
Do not give up. One like unto the
Son of God comes to you to- day, saying,
go and sin no more," while he cries
out to your assailants, Let him that is
without sin cast the first stone at her."
Oh! there is no reason why any one i'll
this house, by reason of any trouble or
sin. should giveup. Are you a foreigner,
and in strange land? Nehemiah was
on exile. Are you penniless? Nehemianh
was poor. Are you homesick? Nehemiah
was homesick. Are you broken hearted?
Nehemiah was broken hearted. But
just see him in the text, rid
ing along the sacrileged grave of his
father, and by the dragon we'll, and
through the fish gate, and by the Kings
pool, in IN out, in and out, the moon
light falling on the broken masonry,
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