The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-03

God Almighty, your eoadintofs.
This Is hot the advice of a misanthrope.
There is no man in the house to whom
the world is brighter than it is to me. 1t
is not the advice of dyspeptic.-my di-
gestion is perfect; it is not the advice of
a r,sn who cannot understand o joke or
who prefers a funeral it is not the ad-
vice of a wornout man, but the advice
of a man who can see this world in all
Its brightness, and, considering myself
competent in judging what Is good
cheer, | tell the multitudes Of young men
In this house this morning that there is
nothing in worldly association so grand
and SO beautiful and so exhilarant as in
Christian society.
| know there is great deal of talk
about the self denials of the Christian.
have TO tell you that where the Chris
tian has one self denial the man of the
world has thousand self denials. The
Christian is not commanded to surrender
anything that is worth keeping. But
what does man deny himself who de-
MES himself the religion of Christ. He
denies himself pardon of sin; he denies
himself peace of conscience; he denies
himself the joy of the Holy Ghost; he
denies himself comfortable death pill
low; he denies himself the glories of
heaven. Do not talk to me about t .
self denials of the Christian lifel Where
there is one in the Christian life there
are thousand in the life of the word.
"Her ways are ways of pleasantness."
Again, find great deal of religious
sunshine in Christian and divine expla-
nation. TO great many people life is
an inexplicable tangle. Things turn OFT
differently from what was suppos' ;.
There is a useless woman in peri, +
health. There is an industrious and
eonsecrated woman complete inval |.
Ex,liain that. There is a bad man W; II
$50, GOO Of income. There is good n 1
with $500 of income, Why is tint.
There is foe of society who lives or,
dom: all the damage he can. to seventy
five years of age, and here is Christian
father, faithful in every department of
life, at thirtyfve years taken away by
death, his family left helpless. Explain
that. oh, there is no sentence that Of
tener drops from your lips than this: Il
cannot understand it. l cannot under
stand it.,
THE JOYS OF RELIGION.
Well, now. religion comes in just at
that point with it's Illumination and its
explanation. There is business man
who has lost his entire fortune. The
week before he lost his fortune there
were twenty carriages that stopped at
the door of his mansion. The week after
he lost lis fortune all the carriages YOU
could count on one finger. The week lc-
fore financial trouble began people al
took of their hats to him as he pass, /
down the street. The week his financi;l
prospects We're under discussion people
just touched their hats without &nywise
bending the rim. The week chat he YVES
pronounced insolvent people just joltcd
their heads as they passed. lot tipping
their hats at all, and the week tie she II
sold him out all his friends were lookis. g
in the store windows as they went dow,
past him.
Now, while the world goes away from
a man when he is in financial distress,
the religion of Christ comes to Lin and
says: 'Yoa are sick and your sickness
is to be moral publication; you are be-
reaved God wanted in some way 10
take your family to heaven, and he must
begin somewhere, and SO he took the ore
that was most beautiful and was most
ready to 60" do not say that religion
explains everything in this life, but l do
say it lays down certain PRINCIPLES whicl,
are grandly consolatory. You know
business men often telegraph in ciphers.
The merchant in San Francisco telc-
graphs to the merchant in New YORK
certain information in ciphers which nc
other man in that line of business can
understand, but the merchant in San
Francisco has the key to the cipher, ar
the merchant in New Yorl, has the key
to the cipher, and on that information
transmitted there are enterprises invo!S-
ing hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Now the providences of life sometimes
seem to be senseless rigmarole, mys-
terious cipher, but God has key to that
cipher, and the Christian key to thu;
cipher, and, though he may hardly be
able to spell out the meaning, he gets
enough of the meaning to understand
that it is for the best. Now is there not
sunshine in that? Is there not pleasure
in that? Far beyond laughter, it is near
er the fountain of tears than bcisterou:
demonstration. Have you never criel
for joy? There are tears which are eter
nal rapture in distillation.
THE soRRowFUL MYSTERIES.
There are hundreds of people in this
house who are walking day by day il
the sublime satisfaction that all is fol
the best, all things working together fol
good for their soul. How man car
get along through this life without the
explanation is to me mystery. What
is that child gone forever? Are yor
never to get it back? IS your property
gone forever? Is your soul to be bruised
and to be tried forever? Have you ne
explanation, no Christian explanation
GEd yet not maniac? But when ytl
have the religion of Jesus Christ i'll yorl
FOUL, it explains everything SO far as i
is best for you to understand. You lool
OF in life, and your soul is full of thankf
giving to God that you are so much bet
ter off than you might be.
A man passed down the street withou
any shoes and said: Il have no shoes
Isn't it h;l.'dship that have no shoes
Other peopia have shoes; no shoes, nj
Shoes" until he saw man who had n,
feet. Then he learned lesson. Yol
ought to thank God for what he does
instead of grumbling for what he doc
not. God arranges all the weather il
this world-the spiritual weather, til
moral weather as well as the natura
weather. What kind of weather vii
it be today" said some one to farmer
The farmer replied, ut will be sue
weather as | like" What do you meal
by that?r asked the other. "Well," sal
the farmer, sit will be such weather a
rloases the Lord, and what pleases tn
Lord pleases me-"
Oh, the sunshine! the sunshine Q
Christian explanationl Here is som
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