The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-09
AT THE UNITARIAN CHURCH.
Rev. w. G. Eliot breaches Ably on the
Duties of Life.

At the morning service at the Unitarian
church yesterday Rev. w. q. Eliot, jr.,
preached to a large congregation upon the text:
Lamentations iii:G-"It is good for 8 man
that he bear the yoke in his youth"
The chapter of the book OF Lamentations, a
portion of which Mr.. Eliot read, he said was
more probably written by jeremiah than any
other part of the book.
And as coming from him the words have
peculiar power, continued Mr.. Eliot, not because
they do not otherwise show that they have their
source in the deep personal lie OF some one, but
because such expression OF personal lie means
OF thsm-and We do know jeremiah better than
aay OF the prophets. We do not, for instance,
kzow much of the personal history of Isaiah.
iae very name OF the author OF the socAlled
"second Isaiah" is lost; but Ii Is not so with the
prophes Jersmish. He II was who stood out so
brayely when all were against him. lie 1t was
who said to Israel, "Tou have sinned against
the Lord, and even repentance Will not prevent
the consequences that now impeud-atone Tor
your ialthlessness, surrender to your conqueror
and God viii bring you back III tme; 9ere-
token of his faith that Israel would return
from the land OF her exile. He suffers lonell-
ness, imprisonment, exile, for the sake OF Israel
II is in the recollection OF such trials, and the
still greater bitterness of tbs sorrow over the
condition of Israel that this third chapter OF the
Book OF lamentations seems TO ee written
al am the man that hath seen nfiiiction by the
rod OF His wrath" My hesh and my skin He
hath worn out; He hath broken my bones. He
hath fenced me ABOUT that L cannot go ioftl,
He hath made my chain heavy. Yea, when
cry and call for help lie shuttetn out my
prayer" ale !. unto me as bear lying in
wait, as . lion In secret places He hath turned
aside my WAYS, and pulled me in pieces; He
hath made me desolate." 81 am become de-
rision TO all my people and their song all the
day." Thou hss removed my soul FAR on from
peace: ! forgot prosperity, and / said my
strength IL persisted, aud my expectation from
the Lord.
Then come the words of the lesson-that burst
1T md faEf q nrnf SSf0 a.
Lord are new every morning. The Lord lie my
portion, therefore Will / hope In Him. The
Lord 10 good unto them that wait Tor HIM TO
the soul that seekeyh MIN. Ii Ia good that q
man should hope aud quietly wait for the saliva
ton of the Lord II Is good tor man THAI he
bear the yoke In his youth"
Ii 10 from such q man and in such connection
that the text 10 found. at Is good for man
that he bear the yoke in bis youth l have In
mind young person ''lust beg ming liie, as
point OF the lite-to ths time OF graduation from
school, or entrance into business. or going away
from homo 20 sesk the foriuue-buI to that
time in almost every PERSONS LIE when his soul
begins 10 mature; when experiences and
problems and demands meet the hie
when he begins 10 plan hi, course
he would like 10 live. IL is the time of roman
tic fancies and ideals The time when the mind
dreams mol only Of the kind OF success 1t would
like 10 experience. but even the kind o! suffer
ing il would prefer to endure. lou are ready
10 dash ahead; you are ready, also, for the
hindrances that you know are 10 meet You ana
which you intend shall be overcome, and when
such 30 come you may perhaps meet them Wei,
but some hindrance or trial comes Tor which
YOU had not Ylanned-something petty or great,
merely irksome very serious; perhaps some
problem N your life which % for you alone,
unknown 10 the world, unknown perhaps TO
any but yourself. You had not = Tanned this:
sou bear 10 because you are compelled to-ee-
cause IL has been put upon you, snG you can
get from under IT, You LOOK upsz it as q hind
rance, . drag upon your LIE, and 30 Il Is II you
look at il IN this way.
such are the yokes of our youth, nay, OF al