Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-03-23

thing that is worth having: that which
costs nothing is worth nothing. Goo
didn't intend this world FOR an easy
parlor, through which we are TO bS
drawn in a rocking -chair, but ~e are tc
work our passage, climb nasts, hgh'
battles scale mountains and tord rivers
God makes everything valuable diaEcr.'
to get at, for the same reason that he
put the gold down in the mine, and the
pearl clear down il the sea, TO make
us dig and dive for them. We acknowl-
edge this principle in worldly things;
o, that we were only wise enough 70
acknowledge 1t il religious thingsi
You have scores of Illustration under
your own observation where men have
had the hardest lot and been trodden
under foot and yet after awhile had it
easy. Now their homes blossom and
bloom with pictures, and carpets that
made foreign looms laugh now embrace
their feet; the summer winds lift the
tapestry about the window gorgeous
enough for a Turkish sultan: impatient
steeds paw and neigh at the door, their
carriages moving through the sea OF
New York life n very wave Of splendor.
Who is it2 Why, it is a boy that came
20 New York with a dollar in his
pocket and all his estate slung over his
shoulder in a cotton handkerchief. All
that silver on the dancing span is the
petrifed sweat drops; hat beautiful
dress is the faded calico over which God
put His hand of perfection, turning it
to Turkish satin or Italian silk; those
diamonds are the tears which suffering
iroze as they fell o, there is a river OF
difficulty between US and every earthly
achievement Yoa know that You
admit that
You know this is so with regard TO
the acquisition Of knowledge. The an
clients used to say that Vulcan struck
Jupiter on the head, and the goddess OF
wisdom jumped out, illustrating the
truth that wisdom comes by hard
knocks There was a river Of difficulty
between Shakespeare, the boy holding
the horses at the door of the London
theater, and hat Shakespeare, the
great dramatist, winning the applause
of all audiences by his tragedies There
was a river between Benjamin Frank
lin, with a loaf of bread under his arm,
walking the streets Of Philadelphia.
and that same Benjamin Franklin, the
philosopher, just outside of Boston, fly
ing a kite in a thunder storm. An idier
was cured of his bad habit by looking
through his window, night after night.
at a nan who seemed sitting at
desk turning off one sheet of writ I
ing after another, until almost the
Of the morning. The man sitting
writing until morning was indus
trious Walter Scott; the man who looked
At him through the window was Lock-
hart, his llustrious %biographer after
Lord Mansfield, pursued by the
press and by the popr.ace. because of a
line OF duty, went on to dis
the duty; and while the mob
we're around him demanding the taking
If his life, he shook his fist in the face
# the mob. and said, ''Sirs when ones
asst end comes, II cannot come too soon.
( he falls in defense Of law and the
of his country" And so there
S, my friends, a tug. a tussle, a trial, a
,ush, an anxiety, through which every
nan must go before ne comes To worldly
uccess and worldly achievement. You
Omit it Now be wise enough TO MY
/ in religion. Eminent Christian H.
is oniv gained by the Jordah<
'assage; no man Just happened to geI
God.
Why does that man know So much
bout the Scriptures? lie was study.
ng the Bible while you were reading o
ovel. He was on fire with the sub 1
of the Bible, while you were {
ound asleep BY tug, tussle. pushing {
nd running in the Christian life that I
got 5 o strong for God; in a hum ]
red Solferinos he learned how to fight: ]
a hundred shipw-ecks he learned
TO swim. Tears over sin, tears
yer Zion's desolation. tears over the !
npenitent, tears over the graves made, c
re the Jordan which that man had q
assed. Sorrow pales the cheek, and Y
Ides the eye, and wrinkles the brow, :
withers the hands; there are v
burning garments in the wardrobe, !
nd there are deaths in every family :
cord, all around are the rules of the I
.ad. .
The Christian has passed the Red Sea >
trouble, and yet he thinks there is q d
of death between him and .
eaven. He comes down { o that Jordan p
death, and thinks how many have h
,en lost there. When Molyneux was b
the Jordan in Palestine, he 81
ID his boats all knocked to pieces in
e rapids of that river. And there are u
great many men who nave gone down u
the river of death; the Atlantic and
lciic have not swallowed so many. 1t u.
an awful thing to make shipwrecks "
the rock of ruin; masts falling. hur- CT
flying. death coming. groan- Il
in the water. meanings in the Il
md, thunder in the sky. while Col h.
tn the finger of the lightning writes hl
over the sky, 81 will tread them in
' wrath, and l win trample them in
fury"