Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-06-23

trlal Is hard scnOol lesson you cannot
learn, and you have bitten your finger nails
until they are sight to behold. Everybody
has some yexation or annoyance or trial,
and he or she thinks it is the one least
adapted. Anything but this" all say.
Anything but this"
oh, my hearer, are you not ashamed to be
complaining all this time against God2 Who
manages the affairs OF this world anyhow
ls 1t an infinite Modoc, or Sitting Bull saw
age, or an omnipOtent Mana Sahib No. 1t
Is the most merciful and glorious and wise
Being in all the universe. You cannot teach
Omnipotence anything. You have fretted
and worried almost enough. Do you not
think so2 Some OF you are making your
selves ridiculous in the sight of the angels.
Here is u naval architect, and he draws out
ihe plan OF a ship OF many thousand tons
Many workmen are engaged on II for long
while. The ship is done, and some day with
!he flags up and the air gorgeous with bunt-
Ing, that vessel IL launched for Southampton.
At that time lad six years OF age comes
running down the dock with atoy boat which
1e has made with his own jackknife, and he
Iays: "Here. my boat is better than yours.
Just look ut this jibbOom and these weather
cross jack braces" and he drops his little
boat beside the great ship, andthere is q roar
Of laughter on the docks
All, my friends. that great ship is your life
as God planned it-vast million tonned,
ocean destined, eternity bound. That little
boat Is your life rs you are trying to hew II
out and fashion II and launch IL. All. do not
Try to be a rival OF the great Jehovah. God
IS always right, and in nine cases out OF ten
gou are wrong. He sends just the hardships.
ust the bankruptcies, just the cross that 1t
e best for you to have. He knows what kind
oi grain you are, and He sends the right kind
~ ghra1 1bt Inc Id ,rrtl1 No. r,lg
staff or iron wheel just according as you are
9tches or cummin or corn.
Again, my subject teaches us that God
Keeps trial on US until We let 90. The farmer
shouts "whoa ~ to his horses RS soon as the
grain has dropped from the stalk The far
ner comes with his fork and tosses up the
straw, and he sees that the straw has let go
he grain and the grain is thoroughly
hrashed. SO God. Shifting rod and turn
ng wheel both cease as soon as We let go.
Ne hold on to this world with its pleasures
md riches and emoluments, and our knuckles
are so firmly set that 1t seems rs II we could
lold on forever. God comes along with
Iome thrashing trouble and beats US loose.
We started under the delusion that this was
/ great world. We learned out OF our geog-
Apply that II was so many thousand miles
diameter and so many thousand miles in
circumference, and we said, 'Oh my. what
/ world Troubles came in after life. and
his trouble sliced of one part Of the world,
md that trouble sliced of another part OF the
world, and 1t has got to be a smaller world,
md In some OF your estlmations a very in
dgniflcant world. and it Is depreciating all
he time as a spiritual property. Ten per
,ent. of, fifty per cent. of, and there are
hose here who would not give ten cents for
his world-for the entire world-as soul
possession.
We thought that friendship was a grand
hing. In school we used to write compost
ions about friendship, and perhaps we
made our graduating speech on commence
nent day on friendship. oh, II was charmed
hing. But does 1t mean as much to you as
I used to2 You have gone on In life, and
me friend has betrayed you, and another
riend has misinterpreted you. and another
riend has neglected you, and friendship
omes now sometimes to mean to you merely
mother ak to grind
So with money. We thought II II man had
! competency he was safe for all the future,
nut we have learned that mortgage may be
defeated by an unknown previous lncum-
rance that signing your name on the back
4 note may be your business death war
ant that new tariff may change the cur
ent OF trade that Il man may be rich to-day
nd poor tomorrow. And God, by all these
nisfortunes, is trying to loosen our grip, but
till we hold on. God smites US with a staff,
nut we hold on. And He strikes us with
cd, but We hold on. And Hesends over US
he iron wheel OF mistortun,. but we hold on,
There are men who keep their grip on this
world until the last moment who suggest TO
ne the condition and conduct OF the poor In
lian In the bo Il ,n the Niagara rapids com
ng on toward the fall. Seeing that he could
iot escape, moment or two before he got
a, l,n ~ bn ha nffni "a wilma
Iottle and drank 1t of and then tossed the
pottle into the air. So there are men who
lutch the world, and they go down through
he rapids OF temptation and sin. and they
lold on TO the very last moment Of life, drink
ng to their eternal damnation as they go
,ver and 60 down.
Oh, let go! Let go The best fortunes are
n heaven. There are no absconding cashiers
rom that bank no failing in promises to pay.
set your affections on things above, not on
hing on the carth. Let 60! Depend upon
that God will keep upon you the stan, or
he 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
erminus. My text says BREAD corn Is
bruised because he will not be ever thrashing
l." Blessed be God for that. Pound away,
D fail. Turn on, q wheel2 Your work will
loon be done. "He will not be ever thrash
ng it." Now the Christian has almost Us
much use In the organ for the stop tremulant
IS he has for .he trumpet. But after awhile
ae will put the last dirge into the portfolio
Iorever. SO much of rs as Is wheat will be
separated from so much as Is chatf, and there
will be no need OF pounding.
They never cry in heaven because they
have nothing to cry about. There are no
:ears Of bereavement, for you shall have your
friends all round about you. There are no
tears of poverty because each one sits at the
Kings table and has his own chariot of sal
yation and free access to the wardrobe where
princes get their array. No otears OF sickness,
for there are no pneumonias on the air, and
no malarial exhalations from the rolling
river Of life, and no crutch for the lame limb,
and no splint for the broken arm, but the
pulses throbbing with the health Of the eternal
God In climate like our June before the
blossoms fall, or our gorgeous October be-
fore the leaves scatter.
In that land the souls will talk over the
different modes OF fthrashing. Oh the story
OF the staff that struck the tltches, and the
rod that beat the cummin, and the Iron
wheel that went over the corn! Daniel will
describe the lions, and Jonah leviathans,
and Paul the elmwood whips with which
he was scourged, and Eve will tell how
aromatic Eden was the day she left IL, and
John Rogers will tell Of the smart Of flame,
and Elijah of the fiery team that wheeled
him up the sky sleeps, and Christ OF the
numbness and paroxysm and hemorrhages
of the awful crucifxion. There they are be-
fore the throne of God. On one elevation
all those who were struck OF the staff. On Q
higher elevation all those who were struck
OF the rod. On a highest elevation, and
amid the highest attitudes Of heaven, all
those who were under the wheel. He vii
not ever be thrashing 1t.
oh, my hearers, is there not enough salvt
In this text to make plaster large enough
to heal all your wounds2 When child Il
hurt, the mother is very apt to say to 1t
''Now, 1t will soon feel better" And this 4
what God says when He unbosoms all thu
trouble In the hush Of this great promise
"weeping may endure for night, but 10!
cometh In the morning." You may leav
your pocket handkerchief sopping wet will
tears on your death pillow, but you will g
up absolutely sorrowless. They will wea
black you will wear white. Expresses 10
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