The Newtown bee., 1892-02-05

James.
 God gives us vision of only to-day that we may trust Him for tomorrow.
 Our greatest misfortunes are some- times our greatest blessings.
 The rough winds make the oak sturdy and the hard lessons prepare the boy to be strong thinker. So your burdens of to-day help you to be giant tomorrow.
 The mountain stream is musical be- cause of the rocks and boulders which lie in the water course. The life of man has music in it, not W hen it flows through the sluggish fields of ease, but through the gorges of toll and sorrow.-T Karl Hugh.
 It is mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much of tener succeed through failure.-[ Samuel Smiles.
 He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumsta nces. -[Hume.
 Men often go up to a temptation, from which they should fly, in d self confident way; and they often fly when they should stand and fight.
 God never makes Us sensible of our weakness except to give us His strength; ; we must not be disturbed by what is vol untary. The great point is, never to act in opposition to the inward light and to be willing to go as far as God would have us.-[ Fenelon.
 We are not the first men who have been on Gods forge. He has had thous- ands on His anvil before. He knows the inf1iction of every instrument aud how to temper every blow. It is the same bles- sed God that is workman still. And when look upon the virtues of old saints and the victories that are occurring now from day to day, l am comforted and cheered.
 Do we know anybody? An! dear me, we are most of us very lonely in the world you who have anybody who love you, cling to them and thank God [rhackeray.
 Christ seems to delight to lavish His deepest sympathy on ''him that has no helper" Comfortless ones, be comfort ed. He often makes you portionless here, to drive you to Himself, the ever lasting portion. He often dries every Till and fountain of earthly bliss, that He may lead you to say, All my springs are in Thee" He seems intent to fill up every gap love has been forced to make. How beautifully, in one amazing verse, does He conjoin the depth and tenderness of His comfort with the certainty of it. 'As one whom his mother comforteth, so will l comfort you and ye shall be com- forted."
 A mustard seed being alive can be matched against the inert mass of a mountain. Science tells us that the weakest life is too much for the largest mass of mere matter. The smallest stream will draw down the mountain. Faith in Christ is a living force. It is not hyperbole to say it can move mount aims. When our work fails, like the dis ciples, we should seek the reason. That is the first condition of doing better and the Master tells us we will find the req son either in lack of faith that takes hold on God, or lack of self renuncia- ton. The child's definition of faith cov- cred these two points, when she said in child's simplicity and saints know ledge, Faith is letting go of everything else and taking hold of .'-[Charles l.. Thompson.
 The Sermon.
 The text, my hearers, is from the say ings of the great Shakespeare:
 'Ill blows the wind that profits nobody"
 Happy is the man who has learned the uses of adversity. We think of our troub- les principally m the light of discipline. We say that as the oak on the hill top is made rugged by the tossings of the tem- pests, so our characters are made strong by diversity. But there is another side to the subject sEvery dog must have his day" says the proverb and, when you and are flat upon our backs with the grip, then the doctor has his turn of luck aud the druggist is able to smile his most unctious smile as the call for medi- cines increases. Perhaps you never got any comfort out of your troubles before, in looking at them as blessings to some one else. But there is a sort of philosoph- ical comfort to come out of them, as you think that, if the barn has burned, Carpenter Joe will have q job for three months and the shingle mill be set Whirl- ing again for your benefit and the own- CTS also. In the Spring freshets on the Connecticut liver, the dWellers along the banks often get great deal of profit. They put out in boats and gather in the drift wood which comes floating down from above. In this way, they often gather years supply of fuel in short time. 1 suppose some one up north has to lament the joss of logs. But it is not dead loss; for some one. below is bene- fitted by the sudden rise of the stream So fancy that the great dramatist saw the human race on the stream of Time And, although your treasures topple over into the water, some one below yot will fish out your treasures and be made richer thereby. No! diversity is not af unmixed evil in these lives of ours