Milford chronicle., 1893-06-16
MILFORD, DEL, FRIDAY, JUNE l6. 1898.

/ thiai but this Your trial perhaps may
be a disfigured countenance or a face
that is easily caricatured, and you say,
"Oh, could endure anything if only was
good lookingn And youf trial perhaps is
a violent temper, and you have to drive It
like six unbroken horses amid the gun
powder explosions Of great holiday, and
ever and anon it runs away with you. Your
trial is the asthma. You say, "Oh, if it
were rheumatism or neuralgia or erysip-
elias, but it is this asthma, and it is such
an eXhausting thing to breathe" HouI
trouble is a husband, short, sharp, snappy
and cross about the house and raising a
small riot because a button is Off How
could you know the button is Off
Your trial is a wife ever in contest with
the servants, and she is a sloven. Though
she was very careful about her appearance
in your presence once, now she is careless
because she said her fortune is madel Your
trial is a hard school lesson you cannot
learn, and you have bitten your finger nails
until they were a sight to behold. Every
body has some vexation or annoyance OF
trial, and he or she thinks it is the one least
adapted. Anything but this" all say.
Anything but this"
FAULT FINDERS REBUKED.
Oh, my hearer, are you not ashamed to
be complaining all this time against God?
Who manages the affairs of this world any
howy Is it an infinite Modoc or a Sitting
Bull savage, or an omnipotent Mana Sahihf
No; it is themost merciful and gloriousand
wise Being in all the universe, You can
not teach Omnipotence anything You
have fretted and worried almost enough.
Doyou not think so? Some Of You aremak
ing yourselves ridiculous in the sight of the
angels.
Here is a naval architect, and he draws
out the plan of a ship of many thousand
tons. Many workmen are engaged on 1t
for a long while The ship is done, and
some day with the flags up and the air gor
geous with bunting that vessel is launched
for Southampton At that time a lad G
years of age comes running down the dock
with a toy boat which he had made with
his own iackknife, and he says; Here, my
boat is better than yours. just look at this
iibboom and these weather cross jack
braces" And he drops his little boat be-
side the great ship and there is a roar of
laughter on the docks
All, my friends, that great ship is your
life as God planned it-yast, million ton
ned, ocean destined, eternity bound. That
little boat is your life as you are trying to
hew it out and fashion it and launch it,
All, do not try to be a u of the great
Jehovah. God is alwaE e q, and in nine
cases out of ten you are We q, He sends
Just the hardships, just the o. e dptcies,
Just the cross, that it is best for you to have.
He knows what kind of grain you are, and
he sends the right kind Of thrashing ma
chine. 1t will be n rod or staff or iron
wheel Just according as you are titches OF
cummin or corn.
Again, my subject teaches us that God
keeps trial on US until we let go. The
farmer shouts ''whoar' to his horses as soon I
as the grain has dropped from the stalk.
The farmer comes with his fork and tosses !
up the straw, ant he sees that the straw
has let go the grain and the grain is thor
oughly thrashed. So God Shifting rod
and turning wheel both cease as soon es /
we let 60 WeIhold on to this world with
its pleasures and riches and emOluments, T.
and our knuckles are so firmly set that it
seems as if 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 geography that it
was so many thousand miles in diameter
and so many thousand miles in circumfer
ence, and we said, "Oh, my, what worldp' /
Troubles came in after life, and this trouble
sliced off one part of the world and that
trouble sliced off another part of the world, |
and it has got to be a smaller world and in 4
some of your estimations a very insigniti- |
cant world, and it is depreciating all the
time as a spiritual property Ten per cent
of. so per cent off, and there are those here
wy. - would not give 10 cents for this world /
for the entire world-as a soul possession. /
FRIENDSHIP.
We thought that that friendship was a
grand thing. In school we used to write .
compositions about friendship, and perhaps |
we made our graduating speech on com /
mencement day on friendship. Oh, it was
a charmed thing, but does it mean as much .
to YOU as it used tor You have gone on i'll .
life, and one friend has betrayed you, and
another friend has misinterpreted you, and .
another friend has neglected you, and friend |
ship comes now sometimes to mean to you
merely another ak to grind.
So with money. We thought if a man
had a competency he was safe for all the
future, but we have learned that a mort
gage may be defeated by an unknown pre-
Vious incumbrance; that signing your name
on the back of a note may be your business
death warrant; that new tariff may /
change the current of trade; that man
NAV be rich today and poor tomorrow. And
God. by all these misfOrtunes, is trying to
loosen our grip, but still we hold on. God
smites us with a staff, but we hold on. And
he strikes us with rod, but we hold on.
And he sends over us the iron wheel of mis-
fortune, but we hold on.
There are men who keep their grip on
this world until the last moment who sug-
Qest to me the condition and conduct of the
Door Indian in the boat in the Niagara rap
ids coming on toward the fall Seeing that
he could not escape, a moment or two before
he got to the verge of the plunge he lifted n
wine bottle and drank il of and then tossed
the bottle into the air. So there are men
who clutch the world, and they go down
through the rapids of temptation and sin,
and they hold on to the very last moment
of life, drinking to their eternal damnation
as they go over and go down.
Oh, let ge Let gol The best fortunes
are In heaven. There are no absconding 1
cashiers from that bank, no failing in
PROMISES to pay Set your affections on |
things above, not on things on the earth.
Let col Depend upon it that God will keep
upon YOU the staff, or the rod, or the iron
wheel until you do let go.
Another thing my text teaches us is that
Christian sorrow is going to have sure
terminus. My text says, Bread corn IS (
bruised because he will not be ever thrash
ing it.u Blessed be God for thatl Pound
away, o haili Turn on, o wheell Your
work will soon be done. HE will not be
ever thrashing it." Now, the Christian
has almost as much use in the organ for /
the stop tremulaat as he has for the /
trumpet. But after awhile he will put the |
last dirge into the portfolio forever. So
much Of us as is wheat will be separated
from so much as is chaff, and there will be
no more need of pounding.
NO TEARS IN HEAVEN.
They never cry in heaven because they /
have nothing to cry about There are no
tears of bereavement, for you shall have 4
your friends all around about you. There
are no tears of poverty because each one sits
at the kings table and has his own chariot
of salvation and free access to the wardrobe |