The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-06-15

ScrvsnsS anu sne u sIoven- Though she
wns very careful about her appearance In
your presence once, now she 4 careless, be-
cause she said her fortune is msdel Your
trial Ia hard school lesson YOU cannot
learn, and you have bitten your finger nails
until they are sight TO behold. Evsrybody
has some vexation or annoyance or trial.
and no or sne thinks II is the one least
Anything but this.
on. my hearer. are you not ashamed to be
complaining ell this time against God7 Who
manages the Affairs OF this world anyhow2
IL II an Infinite Modoc, OF n Sitting Bull saw
age, or an omnipotent Mana sahib No, Il
Being in all the universe. You cannot teach
Omnipotencc anything. You have fretted
and worried almost enough. Do you not
think soI Some OF you are making your
selves Ridiculous in the sight OF the angels.
Here Is a naval architect and he draws out
the plan OF ship OF many thousand tons.
Many workmen are engaged on II for n long
while. The ship Is done, and some day. with
the hags up aud the air gorgeous with hunt
ing, that vessel II launched for Southampton
At that time lad six years OF age comes
running down the dock with atoy boat which
he has made with his own jackknife. and he
says Here. my boat IA better than yours.
Just look at this jibboom and these weather
cross jack braces. and he drops his lttlo
boat beside the great ship, and there IA roar
Of laughter on the docks.
All. my friends, that great ship IL your life
as God planned it-vast, million tonned
ocean destined. eternity bound. That little
boat is your life as you are trying to hew IL
out and fashion it and launch II. All, DO not
try TO be rival of the great Jehovah. God
IL always right, and In nine cases out OF ten
you are wrong. He sends Just the hardships.
just the bankruptcies, just tho cross that II
Is best for you to have. He knows what kind
II - -
OF thrashing machine. II will be n rod or
stan or iron wheel just according as you are
fltches or cummin or corn.
Again. my subject teaches us that God
keeps trial ON us until we let go. Tho farmer
shouts ''whoa |" to his horses IA soon as the
grain has dropped from the stalk. Tho far
mer comes with his fork and tosses up the
straw. and he sees that the straw has let go
the grain and the grain IA thoroughly
thrashed. 40 God. Shifting rod and turn
ing wheel both ceasc "a soon rs we let go
We hold on 10 this world with its pleasures
and riches and emoluments. and our knucklcs
nre go firmly set that II seems as II we could
hold on forever. God comes along with
some thrashing trouble and beats us loose.
We started under the delusion that this was
a great world. We learned out of our gcog-
raphy that II was so many thousand miles
In diameter and so many thousand miles In
circumference, and we said. "Oh, my. what
world" Troubles came In after life. and
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and In some OF your estlmations very in
significant world, and II IL depreciatng all
the time rs spiritual property. Ten per
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hnt we have i.arp.d that n mortgage NAV hc
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hranca ,h,, si,nin,, your name ON Tho hacL
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rant tha, a nexy ;ariff NAV change The cur.
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a irving 10 loosen our grin hut
.tiII we hold on. God smites us with "A staff |
hut we hold on. And He strikes us with a
rod bnt w, hold on And He sends over us
the iron wheel Of mis.ortune but we hold on.
There are mon who keen their grin on this
world until the last moment who suggest 10
ma the condition and conduct OF the poor In.
dian An tho boat In the Niagara rapids com
inc ON toward the fall. seeing TINT hs could
mot escnpa. a moment or two before he got
to tho yerue OF the plunve he lifted a wine
bottle and drank Il OF md then tossed the
bottle into tho mir. 80 there are men who
cIntcb the world and they 20 down through
ba ,anida ~ temntation and ain. and thsy
hnli an 20 ,he very lnst moment OF life. drink
In. tn theIr eternal damnntion ns they 90
nya- and ,o down
nh Iet 90 Lot % , The host fortunes nrr
In heaven There ar. no absconding cashiers
from that hank no failing in promIses 10 nav.
sc, your afyections on things above. moi on
,hins on tho earth Let vol Depend upon
II ,hn, God will keep upon Won the staff or
Tho rnd or the iron wheel until YOU do lot go.
Another thing INV text t,nrhe. us il that
CbrIs,ian SORROW Is going 10 have a sure
te,mirus Nv tex, snys Bread corn is
hrn,sad hecause n. will not be ever thrashlng
4, blessed be God Tor that. Pound away,
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