Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-10-04

and Satan could make them. From the
top of Maine to the foot of Florida the
nation was red with wrath. It was
wrangle and fight all the way through,
and one of the mildest things that the
North and South promised each other
was assassination. During this summer
have travelled through New York and
Ohio and Illinois and Indiana and Mime
sofa and Kansas and Nebraska and Mis-
souri, and Texas and Louisiana and
Georgia and North and South Carolina
and Virginia and Pennsylvania, and /
have shaken hands with men of all sec
lions and degrees, and | have to tell you
1t is all peace, and in all the States of
the Union you could not now marshal a
military company of one hundred SOL
diers to fight against the United States
Government unless you got your men out
and gangrened political parties do this
work OF rectification and pacification?
No! 1t was by divine interposition that
the crooked has been made straight.
On the I'd of December, 1851, Louis
Napoleon Bonaparte rode down the
Champs Elysee. of Paris, and under
the hoofs of his horse a republic was
trampled as the rider went to take
throne. 1t was the outrage of the cen
!, fury. For nineteen long years the
wrong triumphed. The will of one man
who wanted to remain emperor kept
down nation who wanted republic.
But September, 1870 arrived, and Sedan
unrolled it's crimson scroll. The EN-
peror surrenders with $4,000 troops, 419
field guns, 5000 horses and $4,000 mus
kets. From that day the ballot box was
up and the throne was down. Free in
situations have been substituted for an
Infamous monarchy. Thank God! The
crooked has been 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
united to some of the meanest men, and
some of the grandest 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 mar
ried. A twist of nettles would have
been more appropriate than garland OF
orange blossoms. The unutterable mis-
take was made to please parents, or for
the acquisition of estate, or for height
ening OF social position, or from thorough
thoughtlessness. / call the attention 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. A very
short path is the path Of life. The roll
ing years will give quick emancipation.
Even ybody for discipline must have some
lind Of trouble, and that is your trouble.
Put AZ q 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 pas, and the
last of the procession SO far as you are
concerned will soon have gone by. Re-
member that some of the best men and
women who have ever lived have had the
same lifetime misfortune. They bore
up under it, and so can you. The ex-
piration Of the life of one of you will
after while remove the affection. Let
the one that remains make no hypOcriti-
cal 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 dirges doleful
enough, or furnishing stores to prepare
weeds black enough, or tombstone
cutters to chisel epitaphs eulogistic
enough.
It 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 five or six or eight or nine
hundred years such consolation for any
1ys Of hnx, i,,ov M
It would have brought no relief to some
of those old patriarchs to say ''you will
have only seven hundred 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 do
nestle, by saying it will not be long be-
fore 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 a good cheer.
Not long separated! Tradition says that
two bells were nodded and sent from
Spain for distant land to chime in
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
thought that when, standing on the land,
they heard that bell ringing for worship
or in a 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 surges heat 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