The Opelousas courier., 1890-10-25

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| lame foo5i But you viii be well soon. Life
| at the longest is an abbreviated duranea.
There is black doctor that will cure you.
Some people call him death.
Nc disease was ev8r bile 90 stand osfore
his touch. Use all the means afforded for
physical regeneration, but il they fail the
| hour of release is not tar away. There need
be nd ineurables There Is no sorrow that
| heaven cannot cure. Those who in this
world have always bean well viii not gstth
best part of heaven. They will not have the
advantage of contrast. They were well be-
| fore they left this world, and why should they
he 40 graduated at being we'll In the next
| world? But those who on earth were hIndered
or broken down IN heaIth what a contrast as
| they step into that domain Thers there has
never been an aching brow. or lame foot, or
inHamed muscle, or diserdered nervei For
forty years there may have been a STOPPING
in the back, or a twisted muscle, or acurYed
spine. or a crooked limb, but tue promise has
been fulfilled, tsThe crooked shall be made
straight
In many adoniestie life are difficulties to
be removed. There are thousands or
matches that were not made In heaven.
Someof the I~oveliest women have been UNI
ted to some Of the msanes5 men. and some
of the grandesS men 10 the most worthless
women. There may be no sufficient cause
of enforcement. but there has never been
any accord. For them the wedding mareh
ought never to have been played. The twain
divergent in sentiment, the north pole and
the south pole might just as well have been
married. Atwist of nettIes would nave Deen
more a~puropriate than a garland OF orange
hlosaas1a. The unuttarable mistake was
naade TO please parents. orfor the acquisition
of estate. or for heightaning of social posi-
ton. or from thorough thoughtiessness. !
call the attention Of such TO the ~rapiddlsse-
IuitiDn Of families
Thistf1oueht which is q sadnessto to happy
marital state, might be OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
uneauallY yoked. Avery short path is the
path OF life. Tbs rolling years will give
quick emancipation. Everybody TOT diset,
that Is your trouble. Put in q song now and
then To cheer your spirit. Make the best on
Things. Find in God TINT pea6e which no
one else can bestow. The days and months
arid years are erowding past aridShe last @
the procession so far SIS you are CONCERNED
viii soon have gone by: Hen1euiner thassome
of the best men and women who 1aYe ever
lived have had the same lifetime misfortune.
They bora up undeEit, and 30 can you. Ths
expiration Of the life of one OF you wtlIafter
a while remove the afffiction. Let the one
that remains make no hypocrftIcal mourning
at the obsequies of the one that goes, or 1mt-
ta6ethoss whom we have all noG1ced VINO
lQ52ElB HIKE efxtS nAL4EA 01S6 ~ 9A~A
state and then could not get enough organs
TO sound dirges doIefnl enough, or furnish
ing stores to prepare weeds black enough, Or
tombstone cubters TO chisel epitaphs euiogis-
tic enaugh.
tits a matter Of congratula5io1 that the
~unEappiest conjugal relation will berinlt1ate.
The crooked shall be- made straight. In the
| ages of the world when people lived five or
six or eight or nine hundred years such con-
| ISOLATION for any kind of trouble would have
been inapt. Ifwould nave brought no relief
TO souleof these old patriarchs to say YOU
will have onIv seven hundred mora years OF
this But life has been abbreviated by the
cutting OFF of century after century until we
can console people, whether their trouble be
| financial or social or domestic, by saying it
viii not be long before the crooked shall be
made straight.
But to these who were once happily united
| d earth, but ara now separRteds the same
Thought comes In q good cheer. Not long
| sepaFabedi Tradition says that two bells
! were melded and sent from Spain for a dis.
tarb land TO chime III d church tower. Bue
while in storm at one of these bells We
| wrecked and only one reached the shore and
was hung in tbs church tower. And soIIe
people thought shat, when standing on the
land. they hasgsS that bell ringing for worship
or in d wedding peal they could 90 the SANS
| time hear from the sea thelost bell ringing
T. ~ III Hi & AJS4Ak9 vi SRA $500
kindred have crossed the stormy sea and are
in the tower of God on high. But we are
| still in the tempest, and sometimes the sTIrges
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 isa
sympathy between us that cannot die.
oh saws some one, 'stf1e crook In my
LOT YOU have not mentioned, and | sit clear
outside Of all the consultations YOU have
L m y sE xTT3rE .-xTI A-1%~ - %1n x4rsr tuT%H
GssueI comfort and reach you bafor8 lciose.
| Do yoa think your wound is so deep tiae Dl@
WINS Surgeon cannot treat it'll Hays you a
trouble that 0vernaasUers God2 Is your am
| noyanca Of such nature that You must sflps
press LIP An. that is what IS killing YOU
Trouble must be told, or it s6ings to death the
| one who carries it. lie there is no man or
woman that Won can trust with the secret
YOU can trust God. Hia away to Him. Tell
Him aH about ii. Lock your door and tell
Him aloud, and IL yoal do not get relief You
will be the first soul In tbs six thousand
Years of the worlds existence and the only
one OF the hundreds Of millions OF the nu-
man race. who ever called on Sod tor help
and diduoe get 1t. In all the universe. IN all
eternity there IS not an exception. Stop
breeding and commences praying.
bless my God in that. while there are
many crooked things IN life, there are some
things SO straight God Himself could not
make them s~traighter. Divine help comes
straight to those vino will have 1t. The angels
Of mercy fY straight when they undertakes
rescue. The hour of your final deliyeTance
marches straight uto of the eferaities. And a
the carpenter putsdoWn bis rule on a piece 81
timber. and with his axe news away until tbs
last inequality and ~irregularity disappears,
so when God in the last great day shall put
down His unfailing measuring rule beside
that event which seemed the most twisted IN