The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-12-14
REMARKS ON TROUBLE.
A Philosophers Thoughts on Matters
Which Come Home to Every One OF US.
AbJeville Press and Banner.

Without stopping to define trouble,
taking it for granted that ne all know
what it is, yet it would take chapter or
perhaps a book to give its meaning.
We will proceed to consider few of its
causes and effects, its good and evil.
The causes are 20 numerous and often
go vague that it is difficult to enumerate
or to classify them. They come from
every quarter and in every guise, from
where we least expect them, and in
shapes never thought of. They come
like clouds of dsvouring locusts, sappiug
our vitals, spsring neither mind nor
body, and from whence or why they come
we can hardly realize, yet they get here
and come to stay. There is no remedy ;
there is no escape, be we ever so good or
ever so bad, they consume us all the
same. They come in hatred, they come
in love; they come with foes, they come
with friends; they come with the stran.
ger, they come with the darling OF our
bosom they come alone, they como in
pairi, they come In multitudes; they
come to the poor, they come to the rich
they come in the day, and In the night !;
they come all the time. None are so
strong as to be able to overcome them
none are 80 feeble as to be spared by
them. They are present in victory, they
hover over ua in defeat. There is no
refuge, no shield, no protection from
them, they are ever with US.
As for causes. We can name nothing
that Ia not q cause. Our pleasures are
clothed with them our pains are CON-
posed of them our wishes gratified end
In them. 60 where or when we will
they are with us. They are the first to
greet US in life !; the last to part with US in
death. They come in all shapes, some
times small and pointed like needles
piercing us In every pore, some times
ponderous like mountains overwhelming
US in despair, some timea as twisted cords
of pains drawing their tightening, crush
ing bands around Us, some times they
come from within and like dynamite tear
US asunder and 90 forth from every fs-
ure, caused by every imaginable circum.
stances, resulting from every imaginable
sxertion.
The effects are almost, if not quite, ss
numerous as the Causes They blunt
every pleasure and sharpen every pain
they wither us in youth, and weigh us
down in age and offliction; they blight
ambition, cripple prosperity, and crush
hope, often making life itself a burden,
almost uncomfortable, while torturing us
with death. They are contrary to human
arrangements, and thwart all human CAL
culations.
While children and loved ones are sick,
and it seems as if we are to lose them in
death, ne are pressed down by trouble,
and try every remedy, endure privations
and fatigue, with uumurmuring patience
and fidelity TO restore them to life and
health, only to become a source OF new
and untold troubles, by ungrstefully
spending their health and ability in do
ing those things that add new and
sharper stings to our troubles, and be-
come tortures rather than comforts dur
ing the balance of our lives. Who can
describe the anguish that vrings, as it
we're, bloody sweat from our hearts, when
ne strain every nerve in our power to as
stat our loved ones on il the struggles OF
life, and they do all they can to th"art
our efforts and desires in their behalf.
We are told all things have their use,
and if properly used are beneficial and
good for Us. # takes the eyes Of wisdom
with spectacles on to SEQ the use OF
troubles whep they come at US with
hump on, casting and tos'ing US in dis
tress, and swallowing and consuming US
In despair.
While writing the above friend called
in and read it. He remarked, "Your
preliminary is too long, get to the other
end-tbe good end OF your subject, aud
let US see whether it is any better than
this end or not" And while be did not
say so, suppose ho meant If the other
end was no better than this it would be
as we'll to drop it, thus knocking the
spots out Of my vanity.
The whole thing is preliminary. We
are going through preliminary trial BY
troubles to zee what we are fit for. We
are currisd, scraped and scrubbed by
troubles all through lite. One never ends
until at least two more have begun. 1t
was remarked in the beginning of this
piece that troubles were the 6rst to greet
us in life, and the last to say farewell in
death, and now the question arises, will
the parting then be fnsl7 May they
not follow us in the great unknown fu-
ture? May they not be improved in ex'
oruciatlng power and durability by the
change Of base7 Thi. is the most impor-
tsnt question in the problem, how will it
be in that life TINT ha- no end !
Some of our Christian friends tell rs
that they harness and ride troubles
through life OF comfortably as if they
were on downy beds Of ease. If it be
true that troubles furnish transportation
10 the fields OF glory in the far beyond,
then they are blessings in disguise, and
should be used as such. The same au-
thorities tell us il troubles are not bridled
and controlled they will surely ride and
drive US in the road that leads to tor
ments unspeakable.
It is we'll for a. to look into this mat
ter. The great Master voluntarily took
trouble on himself, knowing that it WAS a
proper preparation for redemption and