The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1891-01-23

attention OF others the cnvies and jcal-
ousies are let loose from their kennel.
The greatest crime that you can com
nit in the estimation of others Is To get
on better than they do. They think
your addition Is their subtraction.
Five hundred persons start for certain
goal of success: one reaches IL and the
other 4g9 are mad. IL would take vol
umes TO hold the story Of the wrongs,
outragcs and defamations that have
come upon YOU as result of your sue
cess! The warm sun OF prosperity
brings into life swamp full of annoying
insects. On the other hand, the unfort-
innate classes have their struggles for
maintenance. To achieve n livelihood
by enc who has nothing TO start with,
aud after awhile for q family as well.
and carry this ON until the children are
reared and educated and fairly started
in the world, and to do this amid ali the
rivalrics of business and the uncertain.
| " OF crops and the ficklencss of
tariff legislation with an oc-
casional labor strike and here
and there financial panic
/ thrown IL, Is . mighty thing To do. and
/ there are hundreds and thousands such
heroes and hcroincs who live unsung
and die unhonorcd. What we all need,
whether up or down in life or halfway
between. is the infinite solacc OF the
Christian religion. And so we employ
the word-"Come." II will take all
eternity 10 find out the number OF bust
ness men who have been strengthened
by the promises Of God. and the people
who have been fed by the ravens when
other resources give out, and tho men
and women who, going into this battle
armed only with needle and saw, axe,
or yar,lstick, or pen, or type, or shovel,
or shoc-last, have gained a victory that
made the heavens rcsound. With all
the resources of God promised for every
cNigency, no one need be left in the
lurch.
like the faith displayed years ago In
Drury Lane, London, in an humble
home where every particle of food had
been given out, and kindly soul en-
tered with tea and other table supplies
and found kettle on the fire ready for
tho tea. The benevolent lady said:
Glow is il that YOU have the kettle
ready for the tea when you had none in
the house," And the daughter in the
home said: '.Muthcr would have ne
put the kettle on the fire, and when
said what is the use of doing so when
we have nothing in the house?' she said
my child, God will provide; thirty years
lie has already provided for me,
through all my pain and helpless
to starve at last. lie will send us help,
though we do not yet see how We
have been waiting all the day for some
thing to como, but until we saw you we
knew not how il was 10 come" Such
things the world may call condolences,
but call them Almighty deliverances,
and, though you do not hear OF them,
they are occurring every hour of
every day and in all parts of Christen-
dom.
But the word Come" applied TO
rothinx unless n be uttered by some
one who has experienced that solace.
That spreads the responsibility of Civ
ing this Gospel call among a great
many. Those who have lost property
and been eousoled by religion in that
TRIAL AZ The ones % invite those who
have failed in business Those who have
l1st their health and been consoled by
religion arc the ones toinvite those who
are in poor health.
Those who have had bereavements
and been consoled in those bereave-
ments are the ones TO sympathizc with
those who have lost father or mother,
or companion, or child, or friend. What
multitudos of us to-day are alive and in
good health and buoyant in this journey
of life, who would have been broken
down or dead long ago but for the sus-
tanning and cheering help of our holy
religion! So we say: Come The
well is not dry. The buckets are not
empty. The supply is not exhausted.
There is just as much mercy and con-
dolencc and soothing power in God as
before the first grave was dug or the
first tear started, or the first heart
broken, or the first accident happened,
or the first fortune vanished. Those of
us who have felt the consolatory power
OF religion have right TO speak out OF
our own experience, and say Gomez
What dismal work OF coincidence the
world makes when 1t attempts to con
dolel 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 a prairie Of
the far West. Night coming on and
after he was almost frantic, not know
ing which way 10 90 his sleigh struck
the nut OF another sleigh and he said:
II will follow this Tut and it will take
me out 10 safety" He FASTENED on I'M
til he heard the bells of the preceding
horses, but, coming up, he found that
that man was also lost. and, as is
the tendency of those who are confused
in the forest or on the moors, they are
both moving in a circle and the runner
of the one lost sleigh was following
the runner of the other lost Sleigh
round and round. At last it occurred To
them TO look at the north star, which
was peering through the night and by
the direction Of that star they got home
again. Those who follow the advice of |
this world in time Of perplexity are In a !!
fearful round, for II is one bewildered |
soul following another bewildered 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 be strong enough 10 lead others |
with an all-persuasive invitation.
But. says some one, you Christian !
people keep telling us TO come yet you |
do not tell MS how to come" That |
charge shah not be true on this ooca-
sion. Come believing! Come repent
ingl Come praying After all that God
has been doing for six thousand years,
through patriarchs and some
times through prophets, and at last |
through the elimination Of all tragedies |
on Golgotha, can any one think that |
God will not welcome your coming2 |
win father at vast outlay construct a
mansion for his son, and lay out parks
white with statues, and green with foli-
age, and all a-sparkle with fountains,
and then not allow his son TO live In the
house, or walk in the parks? Has God
huilt this houSe of GOspel MERCY and