The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-09-24

good health wheHI have such oppor-
tunities and such rSsponAbilities2"
Alas for the sick headaches and the
rheumatic joints, and the neuralgia
thrusts, and the lame footl But you
will be we'll soon. Life ut the longest 10
ON abbreviated durance. There Isl 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 II they fail the hour Of
release Is not far away. There need be
no incurables. There is no sorrow that
Heaven can not cure. Those who In
this world have always been we'll will
not get the best part Of Heaven. They
willnot have the advantage Of contrast.
They were we'll before they left this
world, and why should they be so gratu-
lated OF being well in the next world.
But to those who on earth were him
dered or broken down in health, what
contrast as they step into that domain
where there has never been an aching
brow or lame foot or infamed muscle or
disordered nervel For forty years there
may have been STOPPING In the back,
or q twisted muscle, or curved spine,
ora crooked limb, but the promise has
been fulfilled. ''rhe crooked shall be
made straight"
In many domestic life are difficult
ties to be removed. There are thousands
Of matches that are not made in Heaven.
Some Of the loveliest women have been
united tosome Of the meanest, men, and
some Of the grandest men TO the. most
worthless women. There may Nbe no
cieptcsuseof divorcement, but there
has never been any accord For them
the wedding march ought never. 70 have
been played. The twain divergent in
sentiment the north pole and the south
pole might just as we'll have been mar
ried. A twist OF nettles would have
been more appropriate than . garland
Of orange blossoms. The unutterable
mistake was made to please parents, or
for the acquisition Of estate, or for
heightening of - social position, or
through thoughtlessness. call the at
tention Of such to the rapid dissolution
Of families This thought, which is q
sadness to happy marital state, might
be consolatory to those unequally
yoked. A very short path is the
path Of life. The rolling years will give
quick emancipation. Every body, for dis
cipline, must have some kind Of trouble
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 can bestow.
The days and months and years are
crowding past and the last Of the pro-
cession, SO far as you are concerned,
will soon have gone BY. Remember 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 yon. Tho expiration Of tho life Of one
Of you will. after awhile, remove the af-
Fiction. Let the one that remains make
no hypocritical mourning at the obse-
quies OF tho one that goes or initiate
those whom we have all noticed who
fought like dogs and cats all their
married state and then could not
get organs to sound dirges doleful
enough, or furnishing stores to
prepare weeds enough, or tombstone
cutters TO chisel epitaphs eulogistic
enough. II is matter Of congratulation
that the unhappiest conjugal relation
will terminate. The crooked shall be
made straight In the ages OF the
world when people lived Ave or six or
eight or nine hundred years, such con-
ISOLATION for any kind would have been
inapt 1t would have brought no relief
TO some Of those old patriarchs TO say
''you will have only seven hundred years
more Of this" But life has been abbre-
Waited by the cutting of Of century after
century until we can console people,
whether their trouble be financial or
social or domestic, by saying 1t will not
be long before the crooked shall be made
straight
But 10 those who were once happily
united on earth, but are now separated,
tho same thought comes in agood cheer.
Not long separated Tradition says that
two bells wero nodded and sent from
Spain for distant land 10 chime in q
church tower But while in storm at
sea one Of these bells was wrecked and
only one reached the shore and was hung
in the church tower And some people
thoughtthst, when standing on the land.
they heard that bell ringing for wor-
ship or In wedding peal, they could at
the same time hear from the sea the
lost bell ringing as II in response. Some
OF our friends and kindred have crossed
the stormy sea and are in the tower Of
God on high. But we are still in tho
tempest, and sometimes the surges beat
over US, but our souls are still in accord
with those who are gone, and they ring
down 10 Us and we ring up TO them, and
there Is sympathy between US that
can never die.
10" says someone, 'the crook in my
lot you have not mentioned. and SIT |
clear outside OF all the oonsofttfons you
have offered" Well, will take hfter
you with gospel comfort and reach You
before l close. Do you think your
wound Is SO deep the Divine Surgeon
can not treat II? Have you trouble
that oyermsstsrs God2 Is your an
poynnce OF such nature that you
must suppress ~ All, tha. Is what
Is killing you. Trouble .must, be told
Or II stihgs TO death 'the one who
aarfiey u n there is no man or
woman that ySp can trust with the
secfet ion can tfust God. HE away 10
Him. Toll Him all about It Lock your
ioor and toll Him aloud, and II you do