Morning journal and courier., 1891-06-01

The fathers point of vision is higher than the boys. And from that point he shapes \ his boys training; and by and by when l the boy gets up where the father is now, he will see as the father sees to-day, and will thank the father for everything which he did for him. Now you see how the father has to thwart his boy at many a point because the boys view is so mar row. But every time the wise father thwarts his boy he may be doing him the best of service. My father died in my early boyhood. Upon my mother came the heavy burdens of life. But all her plans for me included college education I fought against that plan of my mothers. I didn't want the college education. l did want to get out into the world where I could begin to earn money! argued with my mother; pleaded with her. Thank God she never yielded to me. She carried out her purpose. Did you ever hear of mans complaining of an education when he found what an education wass
 My friends, this lesson to-day ought to be blessed one to us all. But let us never lose hold of these two vital thoughts: I. Jesus is working constantly in the lives of all his loved ones. | IT. He is forever working out his loved ones' good.
 But what he does for us we cannot un- derstand at present, because he sees so much more clearly what we need, and his plans for us are SO much farther reaching than ours.
 II. But we must hasten on to the other half of the text. The work of Jesus in our lives which we fail to understand now we shall understand clearly by and by. ssWhat do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter" In few | minutes Peter came to understand that the | washing of the disciples feet that day was giving to the world for all time to come lesson in humility and in service. That never entered his thought when Jesus | bowed down before him with the basin and the towel. Hasn't your life been full already of revelationss Haven't you found 1 out vet what these business reverses meant | ten or twenty years ago? They came l through no fault of yours and no careless ness of yours. But they came. How was | it! Who brought thems You didn't be- lieve it then, but you can easily believe now that God brought them. You could ! see nothing but evil in them then. But you see nothing but good in them now. You didn't realize how absorbed you were getting in the things of this world and how your ears were getting dulled to all l the highest voices that spoke to you. You didn't realize that the glitter and jingle of gold were getting to be more to you than the flash of angelic wings and the songs of heavenly chorus. You didn't stop to think that the ledger in your l the Bible which your dying mother gave | you But God knew all this, and God in l his mercy brought disaster to you and dis aster brought blessing.
 l But 1 do not mean my friends that ali of you have solved the mysteries yet, or that any of you have solved all the mys- teries. mean that as we walk on with the eyes of the spirit open we get new light each day on the path and we are con- stantly advancing to higher points where we shall see all things clearly. The more ready you are to see God in your life and the closer you are reading your life to see how God works in it, the sooner the light | will break.
 But, after all, the supernal glory in ! which we shall read every page of our lives just as God read it when it was written, is over yonder said that Jesus had hard work to drag us up the heights of life, but after all, not one of those who are truly his shall fail to reach the summit. Glints of sunshine; glimpses of bright vistas now; the sunshine's full splendor, and life at it's utmost over there. "On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven 8 perfect round."
 "We know in part and we prophecy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. Now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall II know even as also I am known like to think of those who, down on the border of the shining river, even before they cross it, are permitted to look over into the light which shall 80 soon solve all mysteries for them. Said Stephen Cane dying, ''I breathe the air of heaven" II see things things that are unutterable, J said Holland "The celestral city is full in my view'' were the last words of Pay
 son, and Lady Hastings cried: 'sOh the
 greatness of the glory that is revealed tc
 me-"
 When stand by the bedside of dying friend whose spirit is struggling and pant
 ing for freedom, and find that even while
 the flesh is falling away the spirit is gain.
 ing the heavenly vision, and is mounting
 up to Christ's own point of view, I fnd
 there the fullest interpretation of my text
 My brother, my sister, this life has beer
 hard for you. It has been long, long
 struggle with poverty, or disease or adver
 sity; shock after shock has been permitted
 to come npon you; sorrow has followed sorrow until you have almost wondered
 sometimes if you were not in the hands ol
 some horrible fate, whose delight was tc
 torment you. I cannot explain things te
 you But can tell you that the father
 without whose knowledge the sparrow
 never fell from the tree, is watching over
 you; can tell you that the Christ, who
 came to save you, shall never be defeated
 unless you defeat him; can tell you that
 the things which are mysteries now will
 be as clear as the monday by and by | int hot (
 not my word, but the word of Jesus, who
 says: "What do thou knownest not now
 but thou shalt know hereafter" Have
 you thought what it will be to stand al
 last where Jesus has always stood, and to
 see your life and to trace his purpose in it
 just as he has seen it from the beginning
 Have you thought what it will be to stand in the companionship of spirits, all of
 them illumired just as your spirit is illu- mineda You think you know what sin is
 have you thought what sin will be seen to be when you stand with the Christ and think of the hatred which human hearts cherished toward hims Have you thought what savior's love will be when you stand by Jesus side and look back on the world out of which you have been taken and around on the world for which you have been saved?
 Oh, we don't know much about life yet. l It's tangled ske1n. We thlnk about Cal vary sometimes, but we don't know much about sacrifice, as our thought glides over the surface whose depths no plummet can sound. We don't know much about love yet. But we shall know, we shall know.
 Night here; night and the darkness thereof ''But there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of tho sun, for the Lord God giveth them light, and they shall reign forever and | ever."
 1t Will be the Best Yet.
 All indications are that the coming e1- hibition of the work of New Haven's pub lie schools, to be held in Union armory on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, June ii, 12 and 13, 1891, from a. m. to g p. m., will eclipse in interest any before. given here. The exhibit will embrace specimens