Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-03-03

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Christian gentleman as ever walked
Broadway. First his general health
gave out and he hobbled around ON a
cane, an old man at forty. After a
while paralysis struck him. Having
by poor health been compelled sud
denly to quit business, he lost what
property he had. Then his beautiful
daughter died. Then a son became
~hopelessly demented. Another son,
splendid of mind and commanding of
presence, resolved that he would take
a r Of his fathers household, but
under the swoop of yellow fever at
Fernandina, Fla, he suddenly ex-
pired. So you know good men and
women who have had enough troubles,
you think, to crush fifty people. No
worldly philosophy could take such a
trouble and set it to music, or play it
on violin or flute or dulcimer or sack
but, but | dare 10 open that dark say
ing on a gospel harp.
You wonder that very c~onsecrated
people have troubled Did you ever
know any very consecrated man or
woman who had not had great troublef
Never. II was through their troubles
sanctified that they were made very
good. II you find anywhere in this
city a man who has now and always
has had perfect health, and never lost
a child, and has always been popular,
and never had business struggle or
misfortune, who is distinguished for
goodness, pull your wire for a tele-
graph messenger boy and send me
word and i will drop everything and
60 right away to look at him. There
never has been q man like that, and
never will be. Who are those arrogant,
self conceited creatures who move
about without sympathy for others and
who think more Of a st. Bernard dog,
or an Alderney COW, or a Southdown
sheep, or a Berkshire pig than of q
mani They never had any trouble, or
the trouble wa never sanctifed. Who
are those men who listen with moist
eye as you tell them of suffering and
who have O pathos in their voice and
q kindness in their manner and an ex-
cuse or an alienation for those gone
astray2 They are the men who have
graduated at the Royal Academy
Of Trouble and they have the d.
.ploma written in wrinkles on
their own c~ountenances. Myl myl
What heartaches they hadi What
tears they have weptl What injustice
they have suffered The mightiest in
tluence for publication and salvation
is trouble. No diamond fit for a
crown until it is cut. No wheat fit
for bread till it is ground. There
are only three things hat can break
Oft a chain-a hammer, a file or a fire;
and trouble is all three of them. The
greatest writers, orators and reformers
get much of their force from trouble.
What gave to Washington Irving that
exquisite tenderness and pathos which
will make his books favorites while
the English language continues to be
written and spokeD2 An early heart
break 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 a piece Of embroidery and
said: THAT is a piece of poor Matilda's
Workmanship" Washington Irving
sank from hilarity into silence and
walked away. Out of that lifetime
grief the great author dipped his pens
mightiest Reinforcement ''Calvin's
Institutes of Religion" than which a
more wonderful book was never writ
ten by human hand, was begun by the
author at twenty-five years of age, be-
cause of the persecution by Francis,
king of France. Faraday toiled for
all time on a salary of so pounds a
year and candles. As every brick of
the wall Of Babylon was stamped with
the letter N, standing for Nebuchad-
nezzar, SO every part Of the temple Of
Christian achievement is stamped with
the letter I, standing for trouble.
When in olden time a man was be to
honored with knighthood, he was
struck with the fiat Of the sword. But
those who have come TO the honor of
knighthood in the kingdom of God
were first struck not with the fiat of
the sword but with the keen edge of
the cimeter. To build his magnif-
cence of character, Paul could not
have spared one lash, one prison, one
stoning, one anathema, one poisonous
viper from the hand, one shipwreck.
What is true of individuals is true of
nations. The horrors of the American
revolution gave this country this side
OF the Mississippi river TO independ-
ence, and the conflict between Eng
land 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 II, practically made d present TO
the United Ststes-for he received
only $4,000, 000-of Louisiana, Mis-
souri,, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska,
Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado, Dakota,
Montana, Wyoming and the Indian
territory. Out of the fire Of the
American revolution came this copp-
try east Of the Mississippi, out Of the
European war came that west Of the
Mississippi river. The British empire
rose TO It's present overtowering gran
deurthrough gunpowder plot, andGuy
Fawkes' conspiracy, and Northampton
instruction, and Walter Raliegh's
beheading, and Bacon's bribery, and
Cromwell's dissolution of parliament,
and the battles of Edge Hill, and
Grantham, and Newberry, and Mars
ton Moor, and Naseby, and Dunbar,
and Sedgemoor, and execution Of