The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-02-10


sees how our eyes have been blinded
and he cuts only just enough to remove
the scales from our spiritual vision. As |
soon as Abraham's faith is sufficiently |
tried the lamb is provided. As soon
as Pharaoh consents to let the children |
Of Israel depart, the plaques pause. As
soon as the Israelites have been sufn-
ciently disciplined by their wan
derings, they find their way into
Canaan But to some the limit Is
not set in this life Their whole pill
grimage is through the wilderness and
the world is to them valley Of tears
But perhaps, God has a special throne
In Heaven that no ordinary saint can
occupy, and by extraordinary trials he
has prepared that Christian soul for OK.
traordinary glory. God will not keep
you in the furnace one moment too
| long. Just as soon as Paul had met
| with enough imprisonment and scourg-
ings he reached up and plucked His
eternal crown. God will keep us no
longer under the hammer and on the
stocks than is necessary to fit US for
entrance into the haven OF eternal rest
Glory be to the Divine grace that as
soon as our Affections have accom-
plished their mission, they are arrested
The defeats and sorrows of life have
sometimes been the greatest advantage.
1t was because Dante failed as states
man that he gave up politics and wrote
his immortal "Divina Commedia-" 1t
was a violent thunderstorm that first
! set Martin Luther seriously thinking,
! and the thunder Of this worlds disaster
has started many a reformation. James
} Y. Simpson went from surgeons oper-
! ating table to experiment and see II
J he could not find something that
J would alleviate human pain, and
he kept on until he had discov-
cred chloroform as an an@sthetic,
and the story Of distress has almost al
ways been followed by the story OF
rescue. For many years after Shakes
/ peares death his work was so little ap-
J preciated that in 1866 there was only
! one edition of his works, and that OF
; only three hundred copies in existence,
and that edition was nearly all burned
\ in the great London fire. But forty
! eight copies had been sold out of the
Z city, and those forty-eight copies saved
: Shakespeare for all nations, and all
; time. Your suppression on smaller
q scale may last good while, but for all
I you are worth you will yet shine out
s on earth or in Heaven.
L Again, learn from my subject that
\ connected with the most distressing
Z, judgments of God there are displays oi
d divine mercy. God might justly have
!, left Nebuchadnezzar in the field, but
d infinite compassion brought him back
% to the palace. No sooner was Eder
II blasted than a blessing followed on the
o heels Of the curse promising the coming
h of One who would destroy sin and mak'
It the whole world a paradise. The del
b upe descends, but not until Noaf
I, had invited the people INTO th'
n ark. The destroying angel comes upor
ir Egypt for the shifting of the frst-bori
1t but left unmolested every house who's
ir door was sprinhled with the blood o
If sacrifice. Fiery tempests bear dow
y upon Sodom, but not until two angel
10 have warned Lot and his family to fle
from destruction. Jerusalem was ut
ig terly destroyed, but not until Jeremia
S, had sounded an alarm, bidding then
c. turn from their abomination. u
n the darkest cloud of wrath ther
D. Is rainbow Of mercy. Zacha
E. riah in his prophetic vision behel
o. four chariots, symbolical OF God
Of government. The first chariot wa
b. drawn by red horses, They indicate
d. the wars that were coming The secon
e. chariot was drawn by black horses
ve They indicated the coming Of famin
IL and pestilence. The third chariot wa
er drawn by white horses. They indicate
1t the spotless purity OF His conquest
ID But. mark we'll that the fourth charic
np was drawn by horses "grizzled an
ty bay," denoting that mercy was nike
ig with all the desolating judgments
d. God. Sinai can not thunder so loud
todrown the invitations Of Calvary. Th
he Lord utters the admonitiou: "The wage
to of sin is death" but exhaustless mere
IT. responds: Deliver him from going dow
nd 10 the pit for have fonnd a ransom
70, Hide thee quick in the rock Christ Jesn
ID, Let not this insignificant now" absor
re thee more than the great hereafte
he The path leading TO this side of u
,ir grave is only few furlongs, but u
of path which commences at the oth'
ISL side of it is without end The powers
ch darkness gather about your soul, m
Ip. the temptation Of an evil heart ar
20 the allurements OF the world lno
OF are trying to drown the voice OF Il
tn preacher, but taking hold OF the silv,
ny trumpet OF the gospel which made Eel
in tremble, and at the Pentecost brougl
nd three thousand souls out Of their sepu
in cher. would blow one long loud bias
all CRYING: "Whosoever WILL let hi
is come"
yes Take this gOodly religion which HI
no done 80 much for me that can csr
M mend IL TO all. Without II | shou
ON have gone the whole downward caree
ne Stolid and phlegmatic natures goir
ur astray do not 90 so far, but natures iii
de mine, sanguine, intense, emotional, o
ID. timistic, social 10 the last degree, al
". echoing TO all the heights and depths
SIS mirth, II they get off track, they
or with one wild leap to hell As to d
or restraining power OF this religion up'
lrs a amercurial temperament, l testify. Tf
's. is not abstraction or something gott'
M from books. Ispeak Of what know.
lF- out and ask all who have tried this I
M ligion and ask them how 1t works. Thr
lrs young men in factory came out