The Portland daily press., 1892-10-29

or an Attorney cow, or SouthdoWn
sheep. or a Berkshire pig than OF mans
They never had any trouble, or the trouble
was never sanctified. Who are those men
VINO listen with moist eye as you tell them
of suffering and who have a pathos In their
voice, and kindness in their manner, and an
excuse or an alienation for those gone as
tray? They are the men who have graduated
at the Royal Academy of Trouble, and they
have the diploma written in wrinkles on
their own countenance. Myi my! What
heartaches they had What tears they
have wept! What injustice they have
suffered The mightiest influence for puri-
tication and salvation is trouble. No dia-
mond fit for crown until it is cut. No
wheat fit for bread till it is ground. There
are only three things that can break off
a chain-a hammer, a file, or a fire; and
trouble is all three of them. The greatest
writer's orators, and reformers get much of
their force from trouble. What gave to
Washington Irving that exquisite tender
ness and pathos which will make his books
favorites while the English language con-
tinues to be written and spokens An early
heartbreak that he never once mentioned;
and when, thirty years after the death of
Matilda Hoffman, who was to have been his
bride, her father picked up piece of en-
embroidery and said: 'tIhat is piece Of
poor Matilda's workmanship Washington
Irving sank from hilarity into silence and
walked away. Out of that lifetime of grief
ithe great author dipped his penis mightiest
reinforcement "Calvin's Institutes of Re
lgion," than which more wonderful book
was never written by human hand, was be-
gun by the author at twenty-five years of
age, because of the persecution by Francis,
King of France. Faraday toiled for all time
on salary of eighty pounds year and can
dies. AS every brick of the wall of Babylon
was stamped with the letter N, standing for
Nebuchadnezzar, so every part of the tenn
Pile of Christian achievement is stamped
with the letter T, standing for trouble.
When in olden time a man was to be hon
ored with knighthood he was struck with
the fiat of the sword. But those who have
come, to the honor of l1nighthood in the king
dom of God were first struck, not with the
fiat of the sword, but with the keen edge of the
cimeter. To build his magnifcence of char
acter Paul could not have spared one lash,
one prison, one stoning. one anathema,
one poisonous viper from the hand, one
shipwreck. What is true of individuals is
true of nations. The horrors of the Ameri-
can Revolution gave this country this side
of the Mississippi river to independence, and
the conflict between England and France
pave the most of this countrvSwest of the
Mississnni to the Tinted States. France
OWNED Il Init Nanoleon. fearing that En-
gland wouJd take it, practically made a
present to the United States-for he re-
ceived only 1900, 000-of Louisiana, Mis-
souri, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa,
Minnesota Colorado, Dakota. Montana Wy
oming and the Indian Terr tory. Out of
the fire of the American Revolution came
this country east of the Mississipi. out
of the Enronean war came that west
of the Mississippi river. The British
Empire rose to it's present overtowering
grandeur through a gunpo WIDER plot. and
Guv Fawtes, conspiracv. and NORTHAMPTON
insnrrection. and Walter RaIeieh,s behead-
mo. and Racon,s bribery and Cromwell,s
dissolution of Parliament and the battles of
EDGE Hill and f4ranthan and Newberrv.
and Marston Moor and Nasebv. and Dnnbar'
and Sedoenoor and execution of Charles
the First and london nlague. and london
fire and london insnrrection. and Rvehouse
Mot and the vicissitudes of centuries So
tho oa,th ;teelf before r. could become an
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that sn,it continents and shaken nv
rroIno,oas +hot tossed monnto;ns and
,,ossaa +hro,ob tho co+os+ronbos If
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