The Globe-republican., 1893-12-08
With balsam. why such a superhuity


of balsams? But after awhile the MEM
braneous Group carries off your child.
or your health gives way under the
grippe, or your property is swept of by
bad investment, or perhaps all three
troubles come at once-bankruptcy,
sickness and bereavement Now the
consolatory parts of the Bible do not
seem to be disproportionate. You want
something off almost all the shelves of
that sacred dispensary. What has un-
covered and exposed to you the useful
ness of so much of the Bible that was
before hidden? The frosts have been
fulfilling their mission.
Mild doses of medicine will do for
mild sickness, but violent pains need
strong doses, and so I stand over you
and count out some drops that will al
leviate your worst troubles if you will
only take the medicine, and here it is:
I'm the world ye shall have tribula-
ton, but be of good cheer: l have
overcome the world" weeping may
endure for night, but joy cometh in
the morning." Thank God for frosts
What helped make Milton the greatest
of poets? The frost of blindness.
What helped make Washington
the greatest of generals? The
frosts of Valley Forge. What
made it appropriate for one passing
John Bunyan's grave to eXclain: ''Sleep
on, thou prince of dreamers?" The
frosts of Imprisonment The greatest
college from which we can graduate is
the college of frosts. Especial trial
fits for especial work. Just now watch,
and you will see that trouble is prepar-
alive and educational. This is the
grindstone on which battle-axes are
sharpened. have always noticed in
my own case that when the Lord had
some especial work for me to do.
it was preceded by especial at
tack upon me- This is so pro-
verbal in my own house that if for some
thing 1 say or do get poured upon
me a volley of censure and anathema.
my wife always asks: IL wonder what
new opportunity of usefulness is about
to open? Something good and grand
is surely coming
What is true in my case. is true on .
larger or smaller scale in the history
of every man and woman who wants
to serve the Lord Without complaint
take the hard knocks. You will see
after awhile. though you may not APP
preciate it now, that by the breath of
good and loving God frost is given.
Let the corners of your mouth. SO long
drawn down in complaint, be drawn
up in smiles of content.
For many years poets and essayists
have celebrated the grace and swift
ness of the Ara bian horses. The most
wonderful exhibition of horsemanShip
that l ever witnessed was just outside
the city of Jerusalem-an Arab steed
mounted by an Arab. Do you know
where these Arab horses get their fleet
ness and poetry of motion? Long CEN
turtles ago Mohammed. with $4,000 cav
airy on the march, could find for
them not drop of water for three
days. Coming to the top of hill
river was in sight. With a wild dash
the $4,000 horses started for the
stream. a minute after an armed host
was seen advancing. and at MOham-
r.ed's command 100 bugles blew for the
horses to fall into line. Tut all the 30
river. except five. and they. almost dead
with thirst wheeled into line of battle.
Nothing in human bravery and self
sacrifice eXcels that bravery and self
sacrifice of those FIVE Arabs war
horses Those five splendid steeds
Mohammed chose for his own use. and
from those five come that race of
Ara bian horses for ages the glory of
the equestrian world. And let me say
that. in this great war of
truth against error, of holiness against
sin, and Heaven against hell. the
best war horses are descended from
those who, under pang and self-denial
and trouble, answered the gospel trum.
pet and wheeled into line. Out of
great tribulation, out Of great fires, out
of great frOsts, they came. And let me
say it will not take long for God to
make up to you in the next world for
all You have suffered in this. AS you
enter Heaven He may say: Give this
man one of those lowered and colon
naded palaces on that ridge of gold
overlooking the Sea of Glass. Give
this woman a home among
those amaranthine blooms and be-
tween those fountains tossing in the
everlasting sunlight. Give her a couch
canopied with rainbows to pay her for
all the fatigues of wifehood. and moth
erhood, and housekeeping. from which
she had no rest for forty years Cup
bearers of Heaven. give these newly
arrived souls from earth the costliest
beverages and roll to their door the
grandest chariots. and hang on their
walls the sweetest harps that ever
thrummed to fingers seraphic. Give
to them rapture on rapture. cele-
bration on celebration. jubilee on
jubilee. Heaven on Heaven. They had
a hard time on earth earning live
lihood. or nursing sick children. or
waiting on querulous old age, or bat
Ting falsehoOds that were told about
them. or were compelled to work after
they got short breathed and rheumatic
ane dim-sighted. Chamberlains of
Heaven! Keepers of the Kings robes!
of eternal royalty! Make
up to them hundred-fold. a thousand