The Penn's Grove record., 1893-12-08

a table for study, and put on ono sid the
table a man who has never had any trouble,
or very little of it, but pile upon the table
beside him all encyclopedias and all dictlon-
aries. and all archeologies and all COM
mentaries, and on the other side OF tho table
put IL man who has had trial upon trial, dis
| lister upon disaster, and let him begin tho
study OF the promises without lexicon, with
oat commentary, without any book to OK
plain or help, and this latter man
stand far more OF the height and depth, and
length and breadth OF those promises than
the learned eXeget opposite. almost sub
| merged in sacred Literature. IT, one has
the advantage over the other because We has
f.'t the mission Of the frosts. Oh, tlAa the
| consolation OF this theme, ye to whom life Is
a stru ggie and q disappointment. and u
gauntlet and a pang. That is n beautiful
proverb anon the Hebrews which says,
"When the tale Of bricks IS doubled, then
Moses comes"
Mild doses OF medie'aa will DO for mild
sickness, but violent pains ned strong doses,
and so l stand over you an I CONT out some
drops that will alleviate You worst troubles
II you will only take the medicine, and hero
It is SIN the world ye shall have tr,5ute-
lion, but be of good cheer l have overcome
the world" "Weeping may endure for, q
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 mako Washington
the greatest Of generals? The frosts OF VA
IsyForge. What made it appropriate for one
passing John Bunyan's grave to exclaim,
'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 fit. for especial work. Just o watch
and you will see that trouble is preparative
and educational. That is the srindstone on
| which battle axes are ~sharpened. | have
| always noticed in my own case that whenthe
| Lori had some special work for me to do it
\ was preceded by especial attack upon me.
This is so provar)ia! in my own house that if
| for something | say or do / get poured upon
me a volley of censure and anatiema, my
wife always asks Il wonder what new OPP
portunity Of usefulness is about to open?
Something gooi and grand is surely com
ingr
What is true in my case Is true on q larger
| or smaller scale in the history os every man
md woman who wants 10 serve the Lord.
Without complaint take the hari knocks.
You will see after awhile, though you may
not appreciate it now, that by the breath Of
a 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 AMI esslylsts have
celebrated the grace and swiitness OF the
| Arabian horses. The most wonderful exhi-
l D1llOU VI IlOESollluSuip tItA L ' hiht7s'-A
was Just outside the city Of Jerusaletn-an
Arabian steed mounted by an Arab. Do you
know where these Arabian horses got their
fieetness and poetry OF motion? Long CEN
turtles ago Mohammed, with O,oO0 cavalry
on the march, could find for them not Il drop
OF water for three days. Coming to the top
of a hill, a river was in sight. With n wild
dash the 10000 horses started for the stream,
| A minute after an armed host was seen ad-
vancing, and at Mohammets omman 100
bugles blew for the horses to fall in line, but
all the 80, 1000 continued the wild gallop TO
the river except five, and they. almost dead
with thirst, wheeled into line OF battle.
Nothing in human bravery and self sacri-
fee excels that bravery and self sacrifice of
those five Arabian war horses. Those five
| splendid steeds Mohamned chose Cor his W
use, and from those five came that race of
! Arabian horses for ages the glory OF the
equestrian world. And let me say that in
this great war Of truth against error, Of holi-
| ness against sin and heaven against hell, the
| best war horses are descended from those
who, under pang and self denial an1trou lie,
answered the gospel trumpet and wheeled
into line. Out of great triauiation, 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 colonnaded palaces on
| tHhL ridge Oh ROlu ONeTlOOhiuB tHS sea VI
| glass. Give this woman a homo among
those ~amaranthine blooms and between those
fountains tossing in the everlasting sunlight.
| Give her a couch canopied with rainbows to
pay her for all the fatigues OF wifehood and
motherhood and housekeeping, from which
she had no rest for forty years.
"CupbearerS OF heaven, give these newly
arrived souls from earth the costliest bever-
ages, and roll to their door the grandest
chariots, and hang on their walls the sweet
est harps that ever thrummed to fingers
seraphic. Give to them rapture on rapture,
celebration on celebration, jubilee On jubi-
lee, heaven OF heaven. They had a hard
time OF earth earning a livelihood, or nurs-
ing si3 children, or waiting on %queruious
old age, or battling falsehoods that were told
about them, or were compelled to work after
they got shortbreathed and rheumatic and
dimsighted.
~'iChamberlains OF heaven! Keepers ofthe
kings robes Banqueters of eternal royalty J
Make up to them a hu~ndredfold, Thousand
| fold, a milliontold for all they suffered from
swaddling clothes to shroud, and let all
those who, whether on the hills, or in the
temples, or on the thrones, or on jasper wall,
were helped and san titled and prepared for
this heavenly realm by the mission of the
frosts stand up and wave their scepters?"
And l looked and, behold lnine-tenths OF the
ransomed rose to their feet, and nine-tenths
of the scepters swayed TO and fro In the light
| of the sun that never sets, and then 1 under
| stood far better than l ever did before that
trouble comes for brneIlcent purposes, and
| that on the coolest nights the aurora Is
brightest in the northern hervens, and that
'by the breath of God frost is given"