The intelligencer., 1890-09-27

ana one OF inc mllueSt JnlnES JnaG INC
North and South promised each other
was assassination During this sum-
mer have travelled through New York,
and Ohio, and Illinois, and Indiana and
Minnesota, AMI Kansas, and Nebraska,
and Missouri, and Texas, and Louisiana,
and Georgia, and North and South
Carolina, and Virg nia and Pennsyl-
vania, and | have shaken hands
with tens of thousands of people,
and talked with men of all sec
tions and degrees, and | have to tell
you it is all peace and in all the States
of the Union you could not now marshal
military company of hundred SOL
dlers to fight against the United States
Government unless you got your men
out of the penitentiary. Did the cor
rupt and gangrened political parties do
this work of rectification and paciiica-
ton? No! 1t was by Divine interposi-
tion that the crooked has been made
straight
But why go so far to find fulfillment
Of my text, In all our lives there are
crooked things that need to be made
straight and each nearer or reader will
enumerate for himself or herself. With
one 1t is dilapidated physical health and
you are saying: why can not l be in
good health when | have such oppor-
tunities and such responsibilities"
Alas for the sick headaches and the
rheumatic joints, and the neuralgia
thrusts and the lame foot! But you
will be we'll soon. Life at the longest
Is an abbreviated DURANGO There Is
black doctor that will cure you. Some
people call him Death. No disease was
ever able to stand before his touch. Use
all the means afforded for physical re-
cuperation, but If they fail the hour of
release is not far away. There need be
no incurables. There is no sorrow that
Heaven can not cure.
In many domestic life there are diff
ficulties to be removed. There are
thousands of matches that were not
made in Heaven. Some of the loveliest
women have been united to some of the
meanest men, and some of the.grandest
men to the most worthless women.
There may be no sufficient cause of di-
vorcement but there has never been
any accord. For them the wedding
march ought never to have been played.
The twain divergent in sentiment, the
North Pole and the South Pole might
just as we'll have been married. A
| twist OF nettles would have been more
appropriate than a garland of orange
blossoms. The unutterable mistake
was made to please pIrents or for the
acquisition of estate. or for heightening
| of social position. or through thought
| lessness. / call the attention of such
to the rapid dissolution of families.
This thought which is u sadness to a
| happy marital state, might be consol-
atory to those unequally yoked. A very
short path is the path of life. The rolling
years will give quick emancipation.
Every body, for discipline, must have
some kind of trouble, and that
is your trouble. Put in q
song now and then to cheer
your spirit Make the best of things.
Find in God that peace which no one
else can bestow. The days and months
and years are crowding past and the
last Of the procession so far as you are
concerned will soon have gone by. Re-
member that some of the best men and
women who ever lived have had the
same lifetime misfortune. They bore
up under 1t and so can you. 1t is a mat.
ter OF congratulation that the unhap.
piest coniugal relation will terminate.
The crooked shall be made straight.
But to those who were once happily
united on earth, but are now separated,
the same thought comes in good cheer
Not only separated! Trad ition says thai
two bells were nodded and sent from
Spain for distant land to chime in o
church tower. But while in q storm al
sea one Of these bells was wrecked and
only one reached the shore and was
hung in the church tower And some
people thought that, when standing on
the land. they heard that bell ringing
for worship or in wedding peal, they
could at the same time near from the
sea the lost bell ringing as II in re-
sponse. Some of our friends and kin
dred have crossed the stormy sea and are
in the tower of God on high. But we
are still in the tempest and sometimes
the sprges beat over us, but our souls
are still in. accord with those who are
gone, and they ring down to us and we
ring up to them and there is a sympathy
between us that can never die.
TO-" says some one, ''the crook in my
lot you have not mentioned and sit clea
'outside of all the consultations you have
offered" Well, ! will take after yol
with gospel comfort and reach you Be
fore close. Do you tn nix your wound
is 80 deep the divine Surgeon can no
treat it2 Have you trouble that over
masters God? Is your annoyance o
such a nature that you must suppress
1t? All, that is what is killing you
Trouble must he told or it stings Il
death the one who carries it II thor
is no man or woman that you can trus
with the secret, you can trust God. Hi
away to Him. Tell Him all about ii
Lock your door and tell Him aloud, an,
II you do not get relief you will be tn
first soul in the six thousand years o
the worlds existence, and the only on
OF the hundreds of millions of the huma
race who ever called on God for help pan
did not get it. In all the universe, i
all eternity there is not an exception
Stop brooding and commence. praying.
bless my God that, while there are 8
many erooke cd things in life, there ar
some things so straight that God Him
self could not make them straightel
Divine help comes straight to those VIII
will have it. The angels of mercy fl
straight when they undertake a rescue
The hour of your final deliveranc
marches straight out OF the eternitiei
And as the carpenter puts down hi
rule on a piece of timber, and ith hi
axe hews away until the last ine9ualit
and irregularity disappears, so whe
| I'D IN, an lao Hau oh N HnN
His unfailing measuring rule beside tina
event which seemed the most twisted |
our lives or in the world, it will b
found out that the last discrepancy ha
vanished, and the last wrong has bee
riRhted, and the last crooked thing hs
been made straight.
A Certain Critical FaIlacy,
The truth Is that the current criticism
whose shibboleths are romanticism an
realism has got into the polemic stag
/ which Is the same thing as sayin
| that it has ceased to be criticism. Crit
) icism is mainly an affair OF analysis an
classification. These afford it ampl
scope, and dealing successfully wit
, them confers abundant dignity. TO dc
cry Scott Ut eAhlI MT. hluer haRBaru
| to be the slave Of an abstraction, tina
4 which nothing is less critical 1t ma
3 be useful by way OF shocking the illi
t crate and inattentive into compreheI
r sion OF your position, but it Is not crit
: cism, because your eye Is not on tn
. object, but on your position, which alsC
3 in this case, is hopelessly outside tn
2 circle OF operations Of true cOntempt
rary strategy. The realistic controvel