Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-10-09

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the foot of the throne should. nap both
wings.
1t is remarkable how many crooked things
are in the providence Of God being made
straight. About thirty years ago our ma
tionai affairs we're as crooked as depraved
American politics and bad men and Satan
could make them. From the top OF Maine
to the foot Of Florida the nation was red
with wrath. 1t was wrangle and fight all
the way through, and one OF the mildest
things that the north and the south prom
ised each other WAS assassination. During
this summer have Travelled through New
York. and Ohio, and Illinois. and Indiana.
and Minnesota, and Kansas and Nebraska.
and Missouri, and Texas, and Louisiana,
and Georgia, and North and South Carolina,
and Virginia, and Pennsylvania. and have
shaken hands with tens OF thousands OF pco-
ple. and talked with men Of all sections and
degrees. and / have to tell you it is all
peace, and in all the st ates Of the union you
could not now marshal military company
Of one hundred soldiers to fight against the
United States government. unless YOU got
your men out Of the pcnitentiary. Did the
corrupt and gangrcned political parties do
this work of recttAcation and pac!fcation!
No! it was by Divine interposition that the
crooked has been made straight
On the second OF December, 1881, Louis
Napoleon BOnaparte rode down the Champs
Elysee OF PARIS, and under the hoofs of hls
horse a republic was trampled as the rider
went to take a throne. 1t was the outrage
Of the century. For nineteen long years the
wrong triumphed The will OF ono man who
wanted to remain emperor kept down ma
ton who wanted a republic. But 6cptem-
Der, 1870. arrived, and SEDAN unrolled its
- .,...... IAC emperor eu.iUnuers
with $4,000 troops, 40 field guns, 5000
horse. and SO. 900 muskets. From that day
the ballot-box was up and the throne was
down. Free institutions had been substi-
tinted for nm Infamous mnCkQrV. THANK
God! The crooked had been made straight
But why 60 so far to find fulflment OF my
sext. 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 it is delapi-
dated physical health and you are saying:
''Why cannot be in good health when l
have such opportunities and such respon-
sibilities?" 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 ut the longest is an
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 recuperation
but IL they fail the hour Of release is not
far away. There need be no incurables
There is no sorrow that heaven cannot
cure. Those who in this world have always
been well will not get the best part Of
heaven. They will not have the advantage
Of contrast. They were we'll before they
left this world and why should they be 80
graduated at being we'll in the next world.
But to those who on earth were hndered
or broken down in health what a contrast
as they step into that domain where there
has never been an aching brow or lame foot
Dr. infamed muscle or disOrdercd nerve.
For forty years there may have been
STOPPING in the back, or q twisted muscle.
ynd Inn an Ad m
the promise has been fulfilled, 1.-THE crooked
shall be made straight"
In many a domestic life are difficulties to
he removed. There are thousands OF matches
that were not made In heaven. Some OF the
loveliest women have been united t. some
of the meanest men. and some OF the grand
est men to the most worthless women. There
may be no sufficient cause Of enforcement,
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 well have been married.
A twist OF nettles would have been more
appropriate than garland Of orange bios
SONS. The unutterable mistake was made
TO please parents. or for the acquisition OF
estate, or for Tightening of social position.
Or thorough thoughtlessness. l call the at
tention of such to the rapid dissolution OF
families. This thought, which is'a sadness
to happy marital state, might be consola-
| tory to those unequally yoked. very short
path is the path OF life. The rolling years
will give quick emancipation. Everybody.
Tor discipline. must have some kind OF trou-
BILE, and that Is your trouble. Put in song
now and then to cheer your spirit. Make
the best Of things. Find in God that peace
| which no one else gan bestow. The days and
months and years are crowding past. and
| the last ut the procession, so Tar as you are
| concerned will soon have gone by Remcm-
| Der 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. The expiration OF the life OF one
II you WILL after a while, remove the attic
lion. Let the one that remains make no
| hypocritical mourning at the obsequies OF
| the one that goes. or initiate those whom
We have all noticed who fought like cats
| and dogs all their married state, and then
could not get organs to sound dirSes dole
full enough. or furnishing stores to prepare
weeds black enough or tombstone cutter,
| to chisel epitaphs eulogistic enough. 1t Is
a matter OF congratulation that the unhap-
ptest conjugal relation will terminate. The
rocked shall be made straight. In the ages
| " the world when people lived Ave or six OIL
eight or nine hundred years. such consola'
| ion for any kind OF trouble would have
| been inapt. 1t would have brought no re-
| lief to some OF those old patriarchs tc say
| You will have only seven hundred. year
| more OF this But life has been ab0rev1
lied by the cutting off Of century after cen
| ury, until We can console people. whethe
heir trouble be financial or social or domes
ic, by saying, it will not be long before tn
| crooked shall be made straight.
But to those who were once happily unite'
on earth, but are now separated. the SAM
thought comes, in a good cheer. Not lon
separated! Tradition says that two bell
! were nodded and sent from Spain for dis
tant land to chime in . church tower. Blu
while in q storm at sea one of these bells wa
wrecked, and only one reached the shor
and was hung In the church tower. An
some people thought that, when standing O
the land they heard that bell ringing fo
worship or in . wedding peal, they could a
the same time hear from the sea the los
bell ringing rs II In response. Some Of ou
friends and kindred have crossed the storm,
sea. and are In the tower of God ON higl
But we are still in the tempest, and some
times the surges beat over us, but our soul
are still In accord with those who are gon,
and they ring down to us and we ring up I
them. and there Is sympathy between u
| that can never die.
"Oh." says some one. "the crook in m