West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-11-07

sald; Certainly"
1 handed over tho reins 20 her. and had to
eaInlre the CLEO with which she drove. But
after n while we met a team ana wa had ~
tprn out. The road was narrow, and ~ was
sheer down on both sides. She handed the
reins over 20 me, and said: 81 Shink You had
better take charge OF tho horse.p SO we are
all children: and on this road of life we lIke
20 drive. It gives one such an nppaarano,, on
superiority and power. IL looks bic. But
after a while we meet some obstacle and we
nave 20 turn out, and tho road Is narrow
and IL Is sheer down on both sides; and then
We arc wiling that God should take the
relns and drive. All my friends we got nm
set so often because W. do not hand over tba
rcins soon enough.
Can you not tell when you hear a man
pray, whether no has ever had any trouble,
a can; Tho cadence, tho phraseology indicate
~ ~ mhy DO women pray better than meni
becnuse they have had moro trouble Re-
I0re a man has bad any trouble. his PRAYER,
nro poetic, n he begins away up among tho
sun, moon and stars, and gives tho Lori n
groaS deal OF astronomical information that
III % mighty gratifying. He then comes
III Town gradually over beautifully table
lands TO forever and ever, amen" But af-
.cr a man has had trouble, PRAYER a with
him n taking hold of the arm OF God and CRY.
ing ouo Tor help. l ave heard earnest pray
Der. ~
once, on the Cincinnati express train
going at forty miles tho hour, and tho
TRAIN Jumped the track, and we yero
near a chasm eighty feet deep; and the
men who, a few minute before had been
swearing and disappearing God, began to
pun and jerk mt the bell rope. and cot
up. on the backs of the seats and cried
Out; 70 God, save usr' There was another
time, about eight hundred miles out at sen
on a toundering steamer, after the last
IIeooat had been split finer than kindling
WOOL. IhnU nro vol IT,. m 80
30 often hear people, In r~eciting tho last Vex-
perlence of some friend, say: dHe made tho
most beautiful prayer l ever heardy, What
makes 1t beautifully IL IS tho earnestness of
y; On, L ten you a man is in earnest when
Ills stripped and naked soul wades ont I'm tho
Soundless, shorelesS bottomless ocean OF
eternity. ~ :"
1t 5 trouble, my friends, that makes ne feel
our dependence upon God. We do not know
our own weakness or Gods strength until
inc lnsJ plank breaks. 1t is contemptiblo i'm
us when there is nothiug else 10 take hold Of
that we catch hold of God only. A man ~
unfortunate in business. lie has 70 raise n
great deal OF money, and raise it quickly.
lie borrows on word and noto all no can bor-
row: After n while he puts a MORTGAGE on
MS mouse. After n while he puts n second
mortgage or his house. Then he puts n lion
on his furniture. Then no makes over his
IIe insurance. Then no assigns all his prop
erty. Then he goes TO his father-in-law and
asks for belpl
Wen, having failed everywherr. COM
pietely tailed, he gets down on his knees and
says: so Lord, 1 have tried eyervbodv and
everything, now help me out of this finaa-
cial trouble" He makes God tho last resort
instead OF the first resort. There are men
who have paid ten cents on a dollar who
could have paid n hundred cents ON 3 dolIar
If they had gone to God in time WHY vn,
DO not know who the Lord is. He is not an
autocrat seated far up i'm n palace. from
which he emerges once a year, preceded bv
hsralds winging swords to clear The wavl
I've Puta rather willing, Mt our call, to
of life. Fh"
tell you what some OF you business men
make ne hin of. A young man goes Off
IRON home to earn his fortune. He goes
with his mothers consent and benedicf3on
She has large wealth: but he wants To maj,
his own fortune. He goes far away. falls
SICK gets out OF money. He sends for tho
hotel keeper where no is staying. asking for
lenlence, and the answer he gets is: III Won
DON'T pay up Saturday night You'll be re-
moved TO the hospital" Tho young man
senuS 70 comrade IN the same building. Nc
nelP' lie writes TO n banker who was n
friend OF his deceased father. No relief. He
writes TO an old schoolmate. but gets no holm
Saturday night comes and he is removed 10
the hospital.
Getting there, he is frenzied with grief; and
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stamp, and he sits down, and he writes home
saying: Dear mother, / am sick unto death
Come" 1t is ten minutes of 10 O'clock when
she gets the letter. At 10 o'clock the train
starts she Is five minutes from the depot.
She gets there in time TO have five minutes IN
spare. She wonders why a train that can go
thlrty miles an hour cannot go sixty miles an
hour. She PUSHES into the hospital. She savs,
MY son, what does all this meanY Why didn't
you send Tor me? You sent to everybody but
mo Nnn EnnVy II aapII - --u
Is this the reward l get for my kindness 70
you alwaysT' She bundles him up, takes him
nome, and gets hin well very soon.
Row, some of you treat Gcd just MS that
young man treated his mother. When You
get into n financial perplexity. Won cali on tbo
banker, you call on tho broker. Won call ON yoHr
creditors, you call ON your lawyer for LEGAL
counsel; you call pom everybody. and when
you cannot get any help, then you go to God.
You say; % Lord l come to Thee. Help
Lord comes, though it is tho eleventh hour.
lie says; why did you not send for Me-
beforep AS one whom mis- mother comfortetb
so will comfort you" IL is to throw us back
upon an all comforting God that VIC have
this ministry OF tears.
Again, 10 is tho use Of trouble TO canacit,ta
us Tor the Office Of sympathy. Tho priests
under tho old dispenSation, were set ai5ort Inv
having water sprinkled on their hands. feet
ana mead; and by the sprinkling OF tears
fN'P'o oAo HnW hSO apart 10 the office OF
sympathy Whom we are i'm prosperity we
Ike to have n great many young poople
around us, and we laugh when they LAUGH
ana we romP when thoy Tomp, and we sing
when they sing; but when we have trouble
we Ike plenty Of old folks around. Whv9
Ihey know how 20 talk. Take an AGED
mother, seventy years of age, and she is al
most omnipOtent in comfort. Whv2 Sho
mas been through 10 all. At z o'clock in the
morning she goes over to comfort a young
mother who has just lost her babe.
GRANDMOTHER knows all about that tyon.
pie. FIFTY years ago she felt Il. at IL
O'Clock OF that day she goes over TO comfort
n widowed soul. She knows ali about that.
Sne has been walking I'm that dark valley
twenty years. At 4 o'clock I'm the. nfternoon
some one knocks az tho door wanting bread
5he knows all about that. Two or threo
times in her life she came 10 her last loaf
AT 10 O'Clock that night sho goes over TO st
uP with some ono severely sick. She knowg
oil about tt. bh3 knows al about feverg and
PleuFislcS and brokcn bones. She has been
doctoring all her life, spreading p~lasters. and
pouring out bitter drops, and shaking no NOT
pillows, and contriving things TO tempt n
poor appetite. Doctors Abernethv and Rush
ana Hosack and Harvey we're great doctor
DIT tho greatest doctor the world ever saw n
an old Christian woman. Dear moi Do we
not remember her about the room when yyo
We're sick I'm our boyhood3 Was there INV
one VINO could ever 80 touch a sore without