The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-10-08

| joints and the neuralgia thrusts, and tne
| lame footl But you will be well soon. Life
| at the longest Is an abbreviated durancs.
There is black doctor that will cure you.
Some people call him death.
No disease was ever able to stand before
his touch. Uss all the means afforded for
physical recuperation, but if 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 well be-
fore they left this world, and why should they
! be so graduated at being we'll in the next
world? But those who on earth were hindered
| or broken down in health what contrast as
they step into that domain where there has
never been an aching brow, OF lame foot, or
| infamed muscle, or disordere3 nerve! For
forty years thers may have been stopping
In the back or twisted muscle, or curved
spine, or crooked limb but tue promise has
been fulfilled, "The crooked shall be made
| straight"
In many domestic life are difficulties to
be removed. There are thousands Of
matches that were not made in heaven.
Some Of the loveliest women have been uni
ted to some OF the meanest men. and some
Of the grandest men to the most WORTHLESS
women. There may be no sufficient CAUSE
Of divorcement. 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 garlani of orange
blossoms. The unutterable mistake was
made to please parents, or for the acquisition
d estate, or for helghtening or social posi-
tion, or from thorough thoughtlessness. I
call the attention Of such to the rapid disso-
luton Of families
This thought, which is sadness to happy
marital state, might he consolation to those
uuequally yoked. A very short path is the
path of lie The rolling years will give
quick emancipation. Everybody for Disc
pline 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
ttFigs. 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. Remembar that some
of the best men anil women who have ever
lived have had the same lifetime misfortune
They bore up under it, and so can you. The
expiration Of the life OF one Of you will after
q while remove the af1iction. Let the one
that remains make no hypocritical mourning
at the obsequies Of the one that goes, or lm.-
tate those whom we have all noticed who
fought like cats and dogs all their married
to sound dfrge5 doleful enough, or furnish
inc stores to prepare weeds black enough, or
tombstone cutters to chisel epitaphs eulogis-
enough.
tits matter Of congratulation that the
unhanniest coniugal relation will terminate.
The crooked shall be made straight In the
ages of the world when people live1 five or
six or eight or nine hundred years such con-
ISOLATION for any kind Of trouble would have
been inapt. 1t would have brought no relief
to some Of those old patriarchs to say you
will have ONLY seven hu1dred more 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
will not be long before 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 long
separated! Tradition says that two bells
were nodded and sent from Spain for dis
tant land to chime in church tower. But
while in storm at sea one of these bells was
wrecked and only one reached the shore an6
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 hear from the sea the lost bell ringing
as if 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 the tempest. and sometimes the surge5
beat over Us, puJ our Souls are sIm II accord
with those who are gone, and they ring down
to US and we ring up to them, and there IS
sympathy between us that cannot die.
'iOh," says some one, 'ths crook In my
lot you have not mentioned, AMI I sit clear
outside of all the consultations you have
offered" Well, will take after you with
Gospel comfort and reach you before close:
Do you think your wound is so deep the d.
vine Surgeon cannot treat it? Havs you
trouble that overmasters God? Is your an
noyance of suci nature that you must sup
press it? Ah, that is what is killing you.
Trouble must be told, or it stin5s to death the
one who carries it. If there is no man or
woman that you can trust with tne secret
YOU can trust God. HE away to Him. Tell
Him all about it. Lock your door and tell
Him aloud, and il you do not get relief you
will be the first soul in the six thousand
years Of the worlds existence and the only
one of the hundreds Of millions of the hu-
man race, who ever called on God for help
and did not get it. In all the universe. in all
eternity there Is not an exeepulon. otoP
brooding and commence praying.
bless my God in that, while there ara
many crooked things in life, there are sone
things so straight God Himsef could not
make them straighter. Divine help comes
straight to thosa who will have it. The angels
of mercy fly straight when they undertake a
rescue, The hour Of your final deliverancs
marches straight outof the eternties. And as
the carpenter puts down his rule on piece OF
timber, and with his axe hews away until the
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
orr lives or in the world, it will be found out
that the last discrepancy has vanished, and
the last wrong has been righted, and the last
crooked thing has bssn made straight.