Milford chronicle., 1891-01-23

plexities, anxieties and crises which were
almost enough to shatter the nerves and
turn the brain. Il would be hard to tell
which have the biggest fight in the world
the properties or the adversities, the con-
spicuities or the obscurities. Just as soon
as you have enough success TO at
tract the attention OF others the envies
and jealOusies are let loose from their
kennel The greatest crime that you can
commit 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 a certain goal Of
success; one reaches it aud the other four
hundred and ninety-nine are mad. It
would take volumes to hold the story Of
the wrongs, Outrages and defamations that
have come upon you as result of your
success. The warm sun of prosperity
brings into life a swamp full of annoying
insects
On the other hand the unfortunate
classes have their struggles for mainte-
nance. To achieve a livelihood by one who
had nothing to start with, and after a
while for a family as well, and carry this
ON until children ara reared and educated
and fairly started in the world, and to do
this amid all the rivalries Of business, and
the uncertainty of crops, aud the dckleness
of tariff legislation, with an occasional labor
strike, and here and there a financial panic
thrown in, is mighty thing to do, and
there are hundreds and thousands such
heroes and heroines who live unsung and
die unhonOred. What we all need, whether
up or down in life or half way between, is
the infinite selace Of the Christian religion.
And so we employ the word "Comep It
will take all eternity to find out the num-
Der Of business men who have been
: strengthened by the promises Of God, and
the people who have been fed by the ravens
when other resources gave out, and the
men and women who, goinginto this battle
armed only with needle, or saw, or ak, or
Z yardstick, or pen, or type, or shovel, or
/ shoelast, have gained victory that made
! the heavens resound. With all the re-
/ sources Of God promised for every exi-
! gency no one need be left in the lurch.
A SUBLIME FAITH.
I like the faith displayed years ago in
Drury lane, London, in a 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, Glow is it that you have the
[ kettle ready for the tea when you had no
/ tea in the houseP And the daughter in
7 IuB nome bdlQ. NlObuEE WQuAQ nave lNG
put the kettle on the fire, and when said
What is the use of doing so, when we
have nothing in the hOuseP she said MY
child, God will provide. Thirty years he
has already provided for me through all
my pain and helplessness, and he will not
leave me to starve at last. He will send us
help, though we do not see how We have
been 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 I call
them almighty deliverances, and, though
you do not hear of them, they are occur
ring every hour of every day and 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 a 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
bereavements and been consoled in those
bereavements are the ones to sympathize
or companion or child or friend. What
multitudes of us are 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 religionl So we say
Gomez The well is not dry. The buck
cts are not empty. The supply is not ex-
hausted. There is just as much mercy and
coincidence aud 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 expert
ences, and say "COme"
THE WORLDS DISMAL CONDOLENCES.
What dismal work Of coincidence the
world makes when it attempts to cOndOlei
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 prairie of the far west. Night
coming on, and after he was almost frantic
from not knowing which way to go, his
sleigh struck the rut of another sleigh and
he said II will follow this rut, and 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, rs is the tendency
of those who are thus confused in the forest
or on the moors, they were 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 peeping 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 It 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 to lead others with an all persua-
sive invitation.
"But," says soms one, you Christian
people keep telling us to Come yet you do
not tell us how to come" That charge
shall not be true on this occasion. Come
believingi Come Fepenting Come pray
ingl After all that God has been doing for
six thousand years, sometimes through
patriarchs and sometimes through proph-
cts, and at last through the elimination
of all tragedies on GOlgotha, can any one
think that God will not welcome your
coming? VIII a father at vast outlay con-
struct mansion for his son, and lay out
parks white with statues, and green with
foliage, and all a-sparkle with fountains,
and then not allow his son to live in the
house or walk in the parksi Has God
built this house Of Gospel mercy, and will
he then refuse entrance to his childrenl
VIII a government at great expense build
70 saving stations all along the coast and
s .aats that can hover unhurt like a petrol
s57er the widest surge, and then when the
lifeboat has reached the wreck Of ship
in the ofing not allow the drowning to
seize the lifeline or take the boat for the
shore in safety? Shall God provide at tho
cost Of his only Sons assassination escape
for sinking world, and then turn deaf
ear to the cry that comes up from the
breakers9
YOU NEED BUT DELIEVE TWO THINGS
"But, - you say, ''there areso many things
bor,a 80 i,alias4a and co MANY fhfnpq in the