Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-03-08

II you find anywhere in this CITY a man
VINO has now and always has had perfect
Meath, and never lost child, and has
Always been popular, and never had
BUSINESS struggle or misfortune, who is
distinguished for goodness, pull your
Wire for telegraph messenger boy and
send me word and will drop everything
and go right away to look at him. There
never has been man like that, and
never will be. Who are these arrogant,
self-conceited creatures who move
about without sympathy for others and
who think more Of o st. Bernard dog,
or an Attorney COW, or Southdown
sheep, or Berkshire pig than of a man?
they never had any trouble, or the
trouble was never sanctifed. Who are
those men who listen with moist eve as
you tell them of suffering and who have
q pathos in their voice and kindness
In their manner and an excuse or an
for those gone astray? They
are the men who have graduated at the
Royal Academy of Trouble and they
have the diploma written in wrinkles
on their own countenances. My! my!
What heartaches they had! What tears
they have wept! What injustices they
have suffered! The mightiest influence
for publication and salvation is trouble.
No diamond fit for crown until it is
cut. No wheat fit for bread till it is
ground. There are only three things
that can break off chain.a hammer,
file, or fire; and trouble is all three of
them. The greatest writer's, orators,
from trouble. What gave to Washing
ton Irving that exquisite tenderness and
pathos which will make his books IA
vorites while the English language con-
tinues to be written and spoken? An
early heartbreak that he never once
mentioned; and when thirty years after
the death of Matilda Hoffman, who was
to have been his bride, her father picked
up piece of embroidery and said:
That is piece of poor Matilda's work
manship, Washington Irving sank from
hilarity into silence and walked away.
Out of that lifetime grief the great au-
thor dipped his pens mightiest re-en-
forcement. "Calvin's Institutes of Re-
ligion," than which more wonderful
book was never written by human hand,
was begun by the author at rs years of
age, because of the persecution by
Francis, King of France. Faraday
toiled for all time on salary of
ESQ year and candles. AS every
brick of the wall of Babylon was
stamped with the letter N, standing for
ebuchadnezzar, SO every part of the
temple of Christian achievement is
stamped with the letter T, standing for
trouble.
When in olden time man was to be
honored with knighthood, he was struck
with the fiat of the sword. But those
who have come to the honor of knight
hood in the kingdom of God We're first
struck not with the fiat of the sword but
with the keen edge of the cimeter. To
build his magnificence of character,
Paul could not have spared one lash,
one prison, one stoning, one anathema,
one poisonous viper from the hand, one
is true of nations. The horrors of the
American revolution gave this country
this side of the Mississippi River to in
dependence, and the conflict between
England and France gave the most of
this country west of the Mississippi to
the United States. France owned it, but
Napoleon, fearing that England would
take it, practically made present to the
United States-for he received only
$4,000, Ooo-of Louisiana, Missouri, Ar
kansas, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa. Mime
sofa, Colorado, Dakota, Montana,
Wyoming, and the Indian Territory. Out
of the fire of the American revolution
came this country east of the Missis-
sippi, out of the European war came
that west of the Mississippi River. The
British Empire rose to its present over
towering grandeur through gunpowder
plot, and Guy Fawkes' conspiracy, and
Northampton instruction, and Walter
Raleighs beheading, and Bacons bril-
berry, and Cromwell's diss olution of Par
lament, 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
vicissitudes Of centuries. So the earth
itself, before it could become appropri-
ate and beautiful residence for the hu-
to be washed by universal deluge, and
scorched and made incandescent by
universal fires, and pounded by sledge-
hammer of icebergs, and wrenched by
earthquakes that split continents, and
shaken by volcanoes that tossed mount
aims, and passed through the catas-
trophies of thousands of years before
Paradise became possible and the groves
could shake out their green banners and
the first garden pour its carnage Of
color between the Gihon and the Hid
dekel. Trouble good thing for the
rocks, good thing for nations, as we'll
as good thing for individuals. So
when you push against me with sharp
interrogation point, Why do the good
suffer? l open the dark saying on q
harp and, though can neither play an
organ, or cornet, or hautboy. or bugle,
or clarionet, have taken some lessons
on the gospel harp, and if you would
like to hear me / will play you these:
"All things work together for good to
those who love God" Now no chas-
tening for the present seemeth to be
Joyous, but grievous; nevertheless after.
ward it yieldeth all possible fruits of
Righteousness unto them which are exer-
cised thereby" Weeping may endure
for night, but Joy cometh in the morn,
ing" What sweet thing is harp, and
I wonder not that in Wales, the country
of nv ancestors, the harp has become
the national instrument, and that they
have festivals where great prizes are Of
fered in the competition between harp
and harp; or that weird Sebastian
Erard was much of his time bent over
this chorded and vibrating triangle, and
was not satisfied until he had given it
compass of six octaves from =. to E.
..AlA,1 <ha coni. tones. or that when