The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-02-02

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man In perfect health. There Is an indus
trious and consecrated woman complete
invalid. Explain that. There Is a bad man
With ESQ. 900 OF income. There is good man
with $500 Of income. Why is thati There Is
q foe Of society who lives on, doing all the
the damage he can, 10 seventy-fve years Of
age and here is Christian father, faithful
Ia every department OF life. at tbirty-dve
years taken away by death, his family left
helpless. Explain that. oh, there Is no
sentence that oftener drops from your lips
than this; III cannot understand II. lean
not understand it."
Well, now, religion comes in Just at that
point with its illumination and its explana.
ton. There is a business man who has lost
his ent re fortune. The week before he lost
his fortune there were twenty carriages that
stopped st the door OF his mansion. The
week after ne lost his fortune all the car.
riages you count on one finger. The weak
before financial trouble began p ,ople all took
off their hats to him rs he passed down the
street The week his financial prospects
were under discussion people just touched
their hats without auywse ben ling the rim.
The week that he was prom insovlent
people just joltsd their heads as they pissed.
not tipping their hats at all, and the weeS
the sheriff sold him out all his friends were
looking in the store win lows as they went
down past him.
Now, while the world goes away from n
man when he is in financial distress, the re-
ligion OF Christ cones to him aud savs;
"You are sick ami your sickness Is TO be
moral publication; you are bereavef; Col
wanted in some way 70 take your family to
heaven, aud He must begin somewhere an
50 He took the one that was most beautiful
aud was most really 10 CO." | do not say
that religion explains everything in this lie,
but do say 10 lays down certain principles
which are Srduily c)nsolatory. You know
business men often telegraph In cIphers.
The merchant ia san Francisco telegraphs
10 the merchant in New York certain infor
nation in cipners wnicd no other man in
that line OF business can understand, but
the merchant in San Francisco has the key
to the cipher. and the merchant in New YORK
has the KEY to the cipher, aud on that in
formation transmitted there are enterprises
involving hundreds OF thousands OF dollars.
Now the providences OF life sometimes
seem TO be a ssnScless rig narole, n my steri :
Gus cipher, hut I'D has u key {, that cipher,
an the Christian n key u that cipher, and
though hs may hardly be able tOspsll out the
meaning, he gets enOu yh OF the meaning u
understand that it - for ths best Now is
there not sunshine in thaty IL there not
pleasure in that? Far beyond ltu ghtsr, IL
Is nearer the fountain NJ tears than prstsr-
ous demcI .tration. Have you never cried
for ioyg There are t.ars which are eternal
rapture IN distillation.
There are hunireis OF people in this house
who are walking day by day in the sublime
satisfaction that all Is for the best all things
working together for good for their soul.
How "A man can get along through this life
without the exclamation Is TO me "A mystery =.
What is chat child gone forever Are you
never to get 1t back? Is your property gone
forever Is your soul To DO bruisei aud to
he tried forever Have you no explanation,
no Christian explanation, and yet not a
maniacy But when you have the religion OF
| Jesus Christ in your soul, it explains every
| thing so far as IL Is hest Tor you to un Ter
stand. You look otf In life and your soul
is full of thanksgiving TO God tIat you are
| 50 much better OIL than you might be.
| A man passed down the street without
| any shoes aud said: II have no shoes. Isn't
it a hardship that have no shoes? Other pso-
| pie have shoes; no shoes, no shoes" until he
| saw a man who had no feet. Then he
| learned lesson. You ought to thank God
for what He does instead OF grumbling Tor
what He does not. God arranges all the
| weather in this world-the spiritual
weather. the moral weather as well as the
natural weather. 'What KIND OF weather
WIN It De o0-aay"' ssitf some one 10 fsnnlsI:
The farmer replied, ut will be such weather
as | like" what do you mean by that" ="
asked the other. ''Well," said the farmer,
"it will be such weather as pleasss the Lord,
and wnat pleases the Lord pleases me"
Oh, this sunshine' tho sunshine OF Chris
tian ex xplanationi Here is some one bending
over the grave OF tue dead. What Is going
to be the consolatlony rne flowers you
strew upon the tom5l Oh, mol The SER
vices read at the grave! On, no. Toe
chief consolation on that grave Is wnat falls
from the throne OF God. Sunshine, glori-
ous sunshine. Resurrection sunshine.
Again, tiud great deal OF ths sunshine
OF this BlDle and OF our religion IN tae
climacterlc joys that are 10 come. man
| VINO gets up and goes out from a con-
cert right after the opening voluntary
has been p.ayed, and before the prlma
| donna sings or before the orchestra
| be gins, has better IDEA OF that concert
than that man has who supposes that the
cnief joys OF religion are In TINS world. We
here nave only the frst note OF the eternal
orchestra W e shall in that world have toe
ioy OF discovery. We viii IN five minutes
catch up with the astronomers, the geolo-
gists, the scientists, the philosophers OF all
ages WAC SO tar surpassed uS IN this world.
We can afford to adjourn astronomy ami
geology and many OF the sciences TO the next
world, because we snail there nave better APP
paratus anu betgsr opportunity.
| must stu iy these sciences 80 lar as 10
help me IN my work, but beyond that |
must give myself 70 saving my own soul
and saving the souls OF others, knowing that
IN one flash OF eternity we viii catca II all.
Oh. what AN observatory in which 70 study
astronomy heaven viii be, not by power OF
telescope, but by supernatural vision: aud
il there be something doubtful 0,0JO, 900
miles away, by one stroke OF the wing you
are there, by another stroke OF the wing
YOU are bacs again, and all In less time than
/ tell you, catching 1t ali IN one hish OF
eternity.
Aud geologyl What a place that will bs
to study geology, when the world IS being
picked 70 p eces as easily as a schoolgirl In
botanical lessons pulls the leaf from the
corolla What a place 10 study architecture,
amid the thrones and tho palaces and the
cathedrals-St. Marks and st. Paups rooE-
cries in comparison.
Sometimes you wish you could make the
tour of the whole earth, going around as
Others have gone, but you have not the time;
you have not the means. You will make
that tour yet during one musical pause In
the eternal anthem. say these things for
the comfort OF those people VINO are abridged
in their opportunities s-those people to
whom life is humdrum, who toll and work,
and toll and work. and aspire after knowl-
edge, but have no time to get it. and say
"If / had the opportunities which other peo.
pie have, how would ill my mind and soul
"A ar.al