The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-25

and has always been popular, and never had
business struggle or misfortune, wno Is dis
tinguished for goodness, pull your wire for
a telegraph messenger boy aud send me
word and / will DROP everything and
go right away to look at him. There
never has been a man like that, and
never will be. Who are those arrogant self
conceited creatures who move about with
out sympathy for Others aud who think
more of a st. Bernard dog, or an Alderney
COW, or SouthdoWn sheep, or a b rkshlra
pig than of man? They never had any
trouble, or the trouble was never sanctlfled.
Who are those men who listen with moist
eve as you tell them of suffering and who
have pathos in their voice and kindness
in their manner and an excuse or an aIevla-
ton for those gone astray. lhey are
the men who have graduated at the Royal
Academy of Trouble and they have
the diploma written in wrinkles on
their own countenances Mylmy! What
heartaches they hadl What tears they
have wept! What Injustice they have SUI
fered The mightiest influence Tor purlh-
cation and salvation is trouble. No dia-
rnond fit for a crown until 1t Is cut. No
wheat fit for bread till it is ground. There
are only three things that can break off
a chaiu-a hammer, file or fire;
and trouble is all three of them. The
greatest writers, orators and reformers
get much of their force from trouble.
w h6V gave 10 w ION INlhB budJ
exquisite tenderness aud pathos which
will make his books favOrites where tho
English language continues TO be written
and spoken. An early heartbreak tnat he
never once ment oned; and when thirty
wears after the death of Matilda Hoffman
who was to have been his bride, her father
picked up piece of embroidery and said:
F'That is a piece of poor Matilds's work
manship," Washington Irving sank
from hilarity into silence and walked
away. Out Of that lifetime grief
the great author dipped his penis
mightiest reinforcement. "Calvin'S lnsti-
tutes of Religion" than which more Won
derful book was never written by human
hand was begun by the author at twenty
five years Of age. because of the persecution
by Francis, king of France. Faraday toiled
for all time on a salary of eighty pounds a
year and candles As every brick of the
wall of Babylon was stamped with the letter
N, staining for Nebuchadnezzar, so every
part of the temple of christian achievement
is stamped with the letter 7, standing for
trouble.
When in olden time man was TO be hon
ored 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 fat Of the sword, but with the keen
edge Of the cimeter. To build his magnifi-
CSHC6 Vi CudIdCb5I, dul Cpulu liOb udNo
spared one lasn, one prison, one stonlug, one
anathema, ore poisonous viper from the
hand, one shipwreck. What is true
of individuals is true of nations.
The horrors of the American revo-
luton gave this country this side
of the Mississippi river to independence,
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 a present to the Uni ed States
for he received only SIS, 900, 000-of Louisi-
ana, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska,
Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado, Dakota, Mon
tana, Wyoming and the Indian territory.
Out of the fire of the American
revolution came this country east
of the Mississippi, out Of the
European war came that west OF the Mis-
sissppi river. The British empire ros to
its present overtowerng grandeur through
gunpowder plot and Guy Fawkes con-
spiracy, and NORTHAMPTON instruction
and Walter Raielgh's beheading, aud Ba-
cons bribery, and CromwelrS dissolu ion of
parliament, and the battles of Edge Hill,
and Grantham, and Newbeny, and Mars
ton Moor, and Naseby, and Dunbar, and
Sedgemoor. and execution of Charles the
First, and London plague, and London fire.
and London insurrection, and Ryehouse plot
earth itself, before 1t could become appropri-
ate and beautiful residence for the human
family had, according to geology, to be
washed by universal deluge, and scorched
and made incandescent by universal fires,
and pounded by sledge-hammer of iceberg,
and wrenched by earthquakes that split
continents, and shaken by volcanoes that
tossed mountains, and passed through the
catastrophes of thousands of years before
paradise became possible and the groves
could shake out their green banners and the
first garden pour its carnag' of color be-
tween the Gihon and the Hiddekel Trouble
a good thing for the rocks, a good thing for
nations, as well as good thing for indi-
viduals. So when you push against me
with sharp Interrogation point, Why do
the good suffer! l open the dark saying on
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 1 will play you these; "All things
work together for good to those who
love Cod Now no Christening for the
present seemeth TO be joyous, but grievous;
nevertheless, after 1t yieldeth all possible
fruits of righteousness unto them which are
exercised thereby" weeping NAV endure
for a night, but JOY cometh in tue morn
ing" What sweet thing is harp and
wonder not that in Wales, the country of
duCeSuoTs, the IL lTp ms DeCOUl9 LQe ma
tional instrument, and that they have fes-
rivals where great prizes are offered 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 It's
fled until he had given 1t a compass of six
octaves from E to r with all the semi-tones
or that when King Saul was demented the
son of Jesse came before him, and, putting
his fingers among the charmed strings of
the harp, played the devil out of the craZad
monarch, or that in heaven there shall be
harpers harping with their harps. So you
will not blame me for opening the dark say
ing on the gospel harp:
Your harps, We trembling saints,
Down from the willows take;
Loud to the praise Of love divine
Bid every string awake!
Interrogation third: Why did good
God let sin and trouble come into the world
when be might have kept athem outf Nv
reply is, he bad a good reason. He had
reasons that he has never given us. Hehad
reasons which he could no more make us
understand in our finite state than the
father starting out on some great and
elaborate enterprise could make the 2-year-
old child in its armed chair comprehend it,
One was 10 demonstrate what grandeur Of
character may be achieved on earth by
eonquering evil. Had there been no evil
to conquer and no trouble 10 console,
then this universe would never have known