Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-02-02
itauts of heaven from the lowest angel up
to ,he archangel, and clear past him to the
Lord God Almighty, your coadjutors

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to ,he archangel, and clear past him to the
Lord God Almighty, your CONDUCTORS.
THE BRIGHTNESS OF LIFE.
This is not the advice of a misanthrope.
There is no man in the house to whom the
world is brighter than it is to me. 1t isnot
the advice of dyspeptic-my digestion is
perfect; it is not the advice of a man who
cannot understand a joke or who prefers a
funeral; it is not the advice OF wornout
man, but the advice of a man who can see
this world in all its brightness. and, consid-
ering myself competent in judging what is
good cheer, tell the multitudes of young
men in this house this morning that there
is nothing in worldly association so grand
and so beautiful and SO exhilarant as in
Christian society.
know there is great deal of talk about
the self denials of the Christian. | have
TO tell you that where the Christian has
one self denial the man of the world has
thousand self denials The Christian is not
commanded to surrender anything that is
worth keeping. But what does man deny
himself who denies himself the religion of
Christ. He denies himself pardon for sin;
he denies himself peace of conscience; he
denies himself the joy of the Holy Ghost;
he denies himself comfortable death pill
low; he denies himself the glories of heaven.
Do not talk to me about the self denials Of
the Christian lifel Where there is one in
the Christian life there are thousand in
the life of the world. Her ways are ways
of pleasantness."
Agnin, find a great deal of religious
sunshine in Christian and divine explana-
tion. To great many people life is an in
explicable tangle. Things turn out diff
ferently from what was supposed. There
is a useless woman in perfect health. There
is an industrious and consecrated woman a
complete invalid. Explain that There is
bad man with $4,000 ol income There
is good man with $500 Of income. Why
is that? There is foe of society who lives
on, doing all the damage he can, to seventy
five years of age, and here is a Christian
father, faithful IN every department of life,
at thirty-iive years Of age taken away by
death. his family left helpess. Explain
that. Oh, there is no sentence that oftener
drops from your lips than this: II cannot
understand il. cannot understand it"
1T IS BETTER THAN EARTHLY FRIENDSHIP. |
Well, now, religion comes in just at that
point with its illumination and its explana-
ton. There is business man who has lost |
his entire fortune The week before he lost
his fortune there were twenty carriages that |
stopped at the door of his mansion; the
week after he lost his fortune all the car
riages you could count on one finger. The |
week before financial trouble began people |
all took off their hats 10 him as he passed |
down the street. The week his financial |
were under discussion people |
CT ksI flafr kof
bending the rim. The week that he was
pronounced insolvent people just jolted
their heads as they passed, not tippi Z
their hats at all, and the week the sheriff
sold him out all his friends were looking
N the store windows as they went down
past him.
Now while the world goes away from a
nan when be is in financial distress the
-eligion of Christ comes TO him and says:
You are sick, and your sickness is to be
moral publication. You are bereaved God
wanted in some way to take your family to
heaven, and he must begin somewhere, and
% he took the one that was most beautiful
md was most ready TO GO" do not say
hat religion explains everything in this
life, but | do say it lays down certain prin-
ples which are grandly consolatory.
You know business men often telegraph
n ciphers. The merchant in San Fran
isco telegraphs TO the merchant in New
FORK certain information in ciphers which
10 other man in that line of business can
but the merchant in San Fran
isco has the key to the cipher, and the
merchant in New York has the key to the
ipher, and on that information transmit
ed there are enterprises involving hun
reds of thousands Of dollars.
Now the providences OF life sometimes
eem TO be a senseless rigmarole, mysteri-
us cipher, but God has a key to that ci-
her, and the Christian key TO that ci
her, and though he may hardly be able to
pell out the meaning he gets enough Of
be meaning TO understand that it is for
he best. Now is there not sunshine in
hatS Is there not pleasure in thatp Far
eyond laughter, it is nearer the fountain
tears than boisterous demonstration
lave you never cried for joyY There are
ears which are eternal rapture in distilla-
on.
NO REAL LIFE WITHOUT RELIGION.
There are hundreds Of people in this
ouse who are walking day by day in the
Iblime satisfaction that all is for the best,
Il things working together for good for
leir soul. How a man can get along /;
trough this life without the explanation I,
to me a mystery. What is that child
one forever? Are you never to get it back9
your property gone forever Is your !
,ul to be bruised and to be tried foreyer9 :
ave you no explanation, no Christian ex- =
anation, and yet not maniaci But when J
1u have the religion of Jesus Christ in 7
)ur soul it explains everything so far as it :
best for you to understand. You look
in life, and your soul is full of thanks
wing to God that you are so much better .
I than you might be. :
A man passed down the street without !,
~ shoes and said: II have no shoes. "
MT it a hardship that have no shoess . !,
Their people have Shoes No shoes, no =
oes,n until he saw man with no feet. :,
hen he learned a lesson. You ought to i
ank God for what he does, instead of y
for what he does not. God ar :,
nges all the weather in this world-the y
iritual weather the moral xvaathar M "a