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this Amid all the rivAlris q business and
to uncsRtsinty Of crops, and the feklnness
cf taFi1f legislation. With IN oecasSoaal labor
stFtks> and hsro aid shsrs . financial panic
thrown In, Is mighty thing 70 do. aid
there arc hundreds and thousands such
hsross and hsroin1 who live unsung and
die uahoaorsd What we al need. whether
up or down la life or half way bsewcen. h
che initiate solaoe Of the Christian religion.
And 50 we cmploy the word 'ComcY' II
will take all eternity 70 find out the num-
bsr Of business men who have been
strengthened by the promises OF God, and
the psopls who have bsen fed by the ravens
when other resoarucs gave out, aud tho
men and women who, going into this bait 10
armed only with needle. or saw. or Ak, or
ysrdssick. or pen. or type, or shovel, or
shoelast. have gaiaed . victory that made
tina heavens rescued With all the ro-
sources Of God promised for every ext
gency no one need be left In the lurch.
SUBLIME FAITH.
like the faith displayed years ago in
Drury lane. London, In q humble home
where every particle Of food had given out,
and kindly soul entered with tea and
other table supplies. and found kettle ON
the fire ready for the tea The benevolent
lady said, How Ia il that You have tho
kettle ready for the tea when you had no
tea in the houset" And the daughter in
the homo said: Mother would have mo
put the kettle on tho Are. and when said
What h the use Of doing so, when We
have nothing in the housei' she said Ny
child. God will provide. Thirty years he
has already provided for me through all
my pain and helplessness, and be will not
leave me to starve At last. He will send US
help. though we do not sec how We have
bean waiting all the day for something to
come, but until we saw you we knew not
how it was to come" Such things the
world may call condolences, but call
them almighty deliverances, aud, though
you do not hear Of them. they are occur
ring every hour of every day aud in all
parts OF Christendom.
But the word "Come" applied to those
who need solace will amount to nothing
unless It be uttered by some one who has
experienced that solace That spreads the
responsibility Of giving this gospel call
among great many. Those who have
lost property and been consoled by religion
in that trial are the ones to invite those
who have failed In business. Those who
have lost their health and been consoled
by religion are the ones to invite those who
are in poor health. Those who have had
and been consoled in those
are the ones to sympathize
with those who have lost father or mother
or companion or child or friend. What
multitudes of US arc alive today, and in
good health, and buoyant in this life, who
would have been broken down or dead
long ago but for the sustaining and cheer
ing help of our holy religion! So we say
Comet The well is not dry. The buck
cts are not empty. The supply Is not ex-
hausted There Is Just ~ much mercy and
coincidence and soothing power in God as
before the first grave was dug, or the first
tear started, or the first heart broken, or
thC htoS dNSi1Cat AiaYkJ-nCtA, OE JuS uISt
fortune vanished. Those of MS who have
felt the consolatory power of religion have
q right to speak out of our own expert
ences, and say "ComeI"
THE WORLDS DISMAL CONDOLENCES.
What dismal work of coincidence the
world makes when it attempts to condole!
The plaster they spread does not stick.
The broken bones under their bandage do
not knit a farmer was lost in the snow
storm on q prairie Of the far wcat Night
coming on, aud after he was almost frantic
from not knowing which way to 60, his
sleigh struck the rut Of another sleigh and
he said. II will follow this rut, aud it will
take me out to safety" He FASTENED on
until he heard the bells of the preceding
horses, but, coming up. he found that that
man was also lost, and, as is tho tendency
OF those who are thus confused in the forest
or on the moors. they wore both moving in
a circle, and the runner OF tho one lost
sleigh was following the runner of the
other lost sleigh round and round. At last
Ii occurred to them to look at the north
star, which was peeping through the night,
and BY tho direction OF that star they got
home again. Those who follow the advice
Of this world n time of perplexity are In a
fearful round; fos IL Is one bewildercd soul
following another bewildercd soul, and
only those who have in such time got their
eye on the morning star of our Christian
faith can find their way out, or De strong
enough TO lsad others with an all pcrsua-
sive invitation.
Bat" says some one, you Christian
people keep telling US 90 Come yet you do
not tell IA how TO come" That charge
shall not BE- true on thts occasion. Come