The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-01-17

AOte r1an has had any trouble, his prayers
are poeic, and he begins away up among the
sun, moon and stars, and gives the Lord a
great DIAL Of astronomical information that
must b. highly gratifying. He then comes
on dowa gradually over beautifully table
lands to forever and ever, amen" But af-
ter man has had trouble, prayer is with
him taking hold Of the arm Of God and cry
ing out for help. l have heard earnest ray-
ers on two or three occasions that l remem-
her.
Once on the Cincinnati express train
going mt forty miles the hour, and the
train jumped the track, and we were
near chasm eighty feet deep; and the
men who few minutes before, had been
swearing and disappearing God began TO
pull aid jerk at the bell rope, and got
up ON the backs of the seats and cried
out; 20 God, save usr There was another
time, about eight hundred miles out at sea,
on laundering steamer, after the last
lfeboat had been split finer than kindling
wood. They prayed then Why is it YOU
so otter hear people, in reciting the last ex-
perienc, of some friend, say: "He made the
most beautiful prayer I ever heards' What
makes it beautiful? It is the earnestness of
It, Oh tell you man IS in earnest when
his stripped and naked soul JTades oilt in the
soundleis, shoreless, bottomless ocean of
It IS t'ouble, my friends, that makes Us feel
Our dependence upon God. We do not know
our own weakness or Gods strength until
tbs last plank breaks. It is contemplate in
rs when there is nothing else to take hold Of
that we catch hold of God only. man is
unfortunate in business. He has to reise a
great deal Of money, and raise it quickly.
de borrows on word and note all he can bor-
row After while he puts a mortgage on
his house. Alter a while he puts a second
mortgage on his house Then he puts a lien
on on ms furniture; Then he makes over his
NE insurance. Then he assigns all his prop
erty- Then he goes to his father-in-law and
Wen, having failed everywhere. com
/ pietely failed, he gets down on his knees and
says % Lord 1 have tried everybody and
everything, nos balm rna ont OF this fInan-
/ cal trouble" He makes God the last resort
instead of the first resort. There are men
VINO nave paid ten cents on n dollar who
/ could have paid hundred cents ON dollar
| If they had gone to God in time Why, you
I do not know who the Lord is. He is not an
autocrat seated far up in d palace, from
4 which He emerges once a year, preceded by
I hs-alds swinging swords to clear the NVayi
No But Father willing, at our call, TO
stand by US in every crisis and predicament
of life
tell you what some of you business men
make me think Of A young man goes off
from home to earn his fortune. He goes
with his mothers consent and henediction.
Dlo nas large wealth. Out ne wants TO MAKE
his own fortune He goes far away, falls
sick, gets out Of money. He sends fo- to
hotel keeper where he is staying, asking Tor
lenience, and the answer he gets is; If you
( don't pay up Saturday night yoI ~ be re-
moved 70 the hospital The young man
sends to comrade in the same building. No
help. be writes to a banker who was a
friend of his deceased father. No relief. He
tT-ltes 20 an old schOOlmate, but gets no help.
Saturday night comes and he is removed to
the hospital
Getting there, he is frenzied with grief: and
he borrows a sheet Of paper and a postage
seaInp and he sits down, and he writes home,
saying; Dear mother, am sick unto death.
Gomez It 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 to
spare. She wonders why train that can 90
thirty miles an hour cannot 90 sixty miles an
hour. She rushes into the hospital. She says:
Ny son, what does all this means Why didn't
you send for mes You sent to everybody but
me. You knew could and would help YOU.
Is this the reward l get for my kindness to
you always She bundles him up, takes him
home, and gets him well very soon.
Now, some of you treat God Just as that
young man treated his mother. When YOU
get into financial peTple1ity, you call on the
banker, YOU call ON the broker, you call on your
creditors, yOR call on your lawyer for legal
counsel; you call upon everybody aud when
Won cannot get any help, then You go to God.
You say; 20 Lord 1 come TO Thee Help
me now out of my perplexity.n And the
Lord comes though it is the eleventh hour.
He says: ''Why did you not send for Ne
before; As one whom his mother comforteth,
50 viii comfort you.n It is to throw US back
upon an all comforting God that we have
this ministry OF tears.
Again, it is the use of trouble TO caDacitate
Us for the Office Of sympathy. The priests
under the old dispensation were set apart by
having water sprinkled on their hands, feet
and head; and by the sprinkling of tears
people are now set apart to the Office of
sympathy. When we are in prosperity we
NE 70 have great many young people
around US and We laugh when they laugh,
and we roulp when they romp, and we sing
when they sing; but when we have trouble
we like plenty Of old folks around. Why2
They know how to talk. Take an aged
mother, seventy years Of age, and she is al
most onnipotent in comfort Whys She
has been through it all. At Z o'clock in the
morning she goes over TO comfort young
mother who has just lost her babe. -,
Grandmother knows all aboLAS so
bic Fifty years ago she felt D., pr
o'clock Of that day She goes oveset the nc
a widowed soul. She knows all, 4bav -
She has been walking in that 'hey wi
twenty years. At O'Clock in drunk
some ore knocks at the door "
She knows all about that. 2
times III her life she came to
At 10 O'Clock that night she gto nom
up VIII. some one severely sick II 10
all about it. She knows all abo7 IL ID
pleurisies and broken bones. Scr pa-
doctorIlg all her life, spreading T
pouring; out bitter drops, and sha9ther-
pillows, and contriving things
poor appetite. Doctors Abernets trust )
and Hosack and Harvey were grn He
but the greatest doctor the worldh' III IN
an old Christian woman. Deas of the or,
not remember her about the n o"
were sick in our boyhood, We kept ao
one who could ever 50 touch o~o .
hurting it, ven are de
And w. n she lifted her spe,,,pot ba
her wrinkled forehead, so y" o' 10 ne
closer at the wound it wash as we w;
healed. And when the Lord 4 w
although you may have been m du
thirty, forty, fifty years Of al ebo.1Id :,
the coffin lid ard sobbed as tn Gil
only five or ten years Of age. 10 make fv
Of an honest, syrTatheisr duty to her be
ing Christ-iike mother. fa4 ri
pie who have had trou4colHOe d1oiu ma
i N tnpu % W, Where l did slightest de- oh
did David get the ink to THAT should
write i bis colaf sss ala Rss9ldren, of so
it ont Of Their own teaIAon tbe MON
gone through the cu1r pitil INC Nun q
course Of dungeons a1fem -
shipwrecks, he is dualis r
sympathy. ian or women, I :
the subject ,i q t trouble Il y may be, but =
ssfili-5lani verse; 5ut Go-veI by the ..
verse out Of me long agoE. Dr.
out that cannot comfor1 belind them
myself have been troublal.5s -lio
the son Of consolationto the pSople- would
rather be the means Of soothing one per-
turbed spirit today, than to play tune that !
would set all the sons Of mirth reeiing In the /
dance am a herb doctor. put into the
csldron the Root out of dry ground without 4
form OF COMBINES. Then I put In the
Rose Of Sharon and the Lily I
Of the Valley, Then put into |
the caldron some Of the leaves from the Tree |
ef Life. and the Branch that was thrown into
the wilderness Mnrah. Then pour in tie
tears Of Bethany and Golgotha; then stir
them up ThenI kindle under the ealdrona !
FIRE made Of the wood Of the cross, and one /
irop Of that potion win cIIretbe worst sick
hess that ever afflicted human soul. Mary
and Martha shall receive their Lazarus from
the tomb The damsel shall rise. And on
the darkness shall break the morning, and
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