The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-28

II would be hard to tell which have
the biggest fight in this world - the
properties or the Universities, the con-
spicuities or the obscurities. Just as soon
as you have enough success to attract the
attention OF Others, the envics and jeal-
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 a certain goal OF
success; one reaches il, and the other 1919
are mad. 1t would take volumes to hold
the story OF the wrongs, outrages and
! defamatiOns that have come upon YOU as a
result Of your success. The warm sun of
prosperity brings into life swampful OF
annoying insects. On the other hand the
unfortunate classes have their struggles
for maintenance. To achieve a livelihood
by one who has nothing to start with, and
after a while for a family as well, and car
~ this on until children are reared and
educated and fairly started in the world,
and To do this amid all the rivalries of
business and the uncertainty of crops and
the tickieness of tariff legislation, with an
! occasional labor strike and here and there
a financial panic thrown in, is a mighty
thing to do, and there are hundreds and
live unsung and die unhonOred. What
we all need, whether up or down in lite
or halfway between, is the infinite solace
of the Christian religion. And so We EN-
plOv the wori-"Come Ii will take a
eternity to 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 gave out, and the men and
women who, going into its battle armed
only with needle or saw, or AK, or yard
stick, or pen, or type, or shovel, or shoe
last, have gained a victory that made the
heavens resOund. With all the resources
OF God promised for every exigency, 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 given out,
and kindly soul entered with tea andOt
table supplies, and found a kettle on the
fire ready for the tea. The benevolent lady
said: How is it that YOU have the kettle
ready for the tea when YOU had no tea in the
house" And the daughter in the house
said: Mother would have me put the ket-
tie 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 he has already pro-
vined for me through all my pain and help
leSsness, and ne vii! not leave me 10 starve
at last. lie will send US help, though we
do not yet see how We have been'wait
ing all the day for something TO come, but
until we saw you we knew not how it was
70 come" Such things the world may call
condolences, but 1 call them almighty
deliverances and, though you do not
hear of them, they are occurring every
hour OF every day in all parts Of Chris
tendon.
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 cOnso.ed by
religion in that trial are the ones 20 invite
those who have failed in business. Those
who have lost their health amt been con-
soled 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 with those who have lost
father or mother, or companion or child or
friend. What mu titudes OF us are alive
today and in good health and buoyant in
this journey of life, who would have been
broken down or dead long ago but for the
sustaining 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 coincidence 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 vani he'd.
Those of us who have felt the consolatory
power Of religion have a right to speak
out OF our own experiences, and say
Come"
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 bandagts
do not knit. 4 farmer vas lost in the
snow-stOrm on a prairie In the far West.
Night coming on, and after he was almost
frantic from not knowing which way TO
90, his sleigh struck the rut OF another
sleigh, and he said: 81 will follow TINS
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
as is the tendency of those who are thus
confused in the forest, or on tie moors,
they we're 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 il occurred to them TO
look at the North star. which was perring
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
perpiex " are in a fearful round, for it is
one bewiidered soul following another be-
wIIdered soul. and only those who have in
such time got their eve on the morning
star OF our Christian faith can find their
way out, or be strong enough to lead 9TH
ers with an all-persuaeive invitation.
But" SAYS some 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
believing Come repenting Come pray
ingl After all that God has been doing
for 5000 years, sometimes through patri-
archs and sometimes through prophets,
and at last through elimination of all
tragedies on Golgotba, can any one think
that God will not welcome your coming?
Will father at vast outlay construct
mansion for his son, and lay out parks
white with statues and green with foi-
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 built this
| house OF Gospel mercy, and will
He then refuse entrance to His children?
Will government at great expense build
life-saving stations all along the coast and
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