Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-02-03

than this: 81 cannot un lerstand 1t. lean
not understand it,
Well. now. religion comes in just at that
po;nt with its illumination and its explana-
ton. There is business man who has lost
his ent re fortune. The week before he lost
his fortune there were twenty carriages that
stoposd at the door OF his mansion. The
week after he lost his fortune all the car
riages you count on ons finger The week
before financial trouble began p aople all tOoS
off their hats to him as he p1sssl down t1e
street. The week his financial prospects
were under discussion people just touched
their hats without anywise benilng tue RIM
The week that he was prom )unced lnsoVlenJ
Deople lust iolted their heads as they passed,
not tipping their hats at all, and the week
tho sheriff sold him out all his friends were
looking in the store windows as they went
down past him.
Now. while the world GOES away from
man when he is in financial distress, the re-
licion OF Christ comes to him and saws:
You are sick AMI your sickness is TO be
moral publication; you are bereave1; Go1
wanted in some way 70 take your family to
heaven. and He must begin somewhere, an
so He took the one that was most beautiful
and was most ready TO go" do not say
that religion explains everything IN this life,
but | do say it lays down certain principles
which are grandly c)nsolatory. You kno"
business men often telegraph IN cipners'
The merchant in San Francisco telegrapns
to the merchant in New York certain intor-
nation in ciphers which no other man IN
that line of business can understand, but
the merchant in San Francisco has the key
10 the cipher, and the merchant in New \ orK
has the kew to the cipher, and on that in-
formation Transmitted there are enterprises
involving hundreds Of thousands oil dollars.
Now the proyilenc,s OF lie sonstime5
s,enn 10 be a en nseless rig narole, a myste.i-
ans cinher but God has key t) that cipher,
an the Christian a key to that cipleF, ali,
though he may hardly be able spell out tue
meaning. he gets enough Of the meaning ID
understand that it is for the best. Now IS
there not sunshine in thatg Is there not
pleasure In thatg Far beyond laughter, It
Is nearer tde fountain Ot tears than oolsSer-
ans demonstration. HIVE you never cried
for ioyy There are tears which are eternal
rapture in distiIlation.
There are hundreds Of people in this house
who are walking day by day IN the suoiims
satisfaction that all IS for the BEST all things
working together for gool for their soul.
How man can get along through tnis hle
without the explanation Is to me mystery
What is that child gone forever! ara you
never TO get it back? Is your property goae
forever? Is your soul 10 be brulsei ana 70
be tried forever Have you no explanation
no Christian explanation, an yet no0
maniac But when You have the religion OF
Jesus Christ in your soul, iJ explains every
thtng 50 far as it Is best Tor yon 70 uh YER
sfand You LOOK of in life, and your soul
I 81. t-indr In to Z iaT YOU AIt
"a n,uch better OF Unan you might be-
\ man passed down the street without
arv snoss AMI said II have no SHOES Ism
in hardship that have 10 SHOES? Other p:o-
ME have shoes; no shoes, no shoes untli hs
s,u a man who had no feet. Inen ne
learned a lesson. You ought to thank God
J Tor wnat He does. instead of grunolns Tor
what He does not. Col arranges all the
weather in this world-tGe splritual
weather. the moral Weather Gs well a the
narurll weather what kind of weather
will II be to-iay>' said some ons TO farm "a.
/ The farmer replied, 1T will be such weather
asT ike "iNhau do YOU mean by that,
esla1 the other. "Weil," said the IarmsI,
"ir viii he suca weather as pleasss the LORI,
ond woat pleases the Lord pleases me-"
q, the sunshine the sunshine or Cnris-
t;.n nexolana,iou. Here is some one bel nag
o,-sr the crave OF the dead. Nnat Is gong
- be the consolationy The howers You
B s,rayy uuon tae toml? On, no. Tae SER
,,lc.s read at the grave: On, no. Inc
chief consolation on tnat grave Is wnat rails
from the throne OF Col SUNSHINE, gior4-
ous sunshine. Resurrection sunshine.
Again. find great deal or tne sunSnlue
q, This Bible aud OF our religion In tle
climacteric Joys that are to cone. a hlln
VINO oets ~ ant goes out IRON con-
o. fh.a voluntary
has been paved. and before the prlma
donna sinSs. or before the orchestra
ho,in. mas a better ijes OF that concert
tho, that man has who Supposes that tae
enief ioys of religion are IN TINS worid. e
here have only the first note OF the eternal
or.hesrra We snail IN that world have the
S-,.of discovary. We will in five minutes
cotch nm with the astronomers, thu geoio'
Ifs the scientists the philosophers OF an
sges who so FAR surpassed Us IN tnlS "ori J.;
We can afford to ad purn astronomy an {.
geology and many of the sciences TO tne heN'
world. because we shall tnere naFe Oe''s' oP
naratus and DetJsr opportunity
must study these sciences 50 tar as 70
ha,n me in nv work, but beyond that l
n,rst oivs mvself to saving my own soul
",,d saying the souls OF Others, knowing taat
-, one fIas1 OF eternity we viii cltcn It all.
0b what an observatory in which to stu ~
a,t,.,nomv ~, heaven will be, not by power OF
aSIana.,a 49, but nv suDernatural vislon and
II thera be something doubtful lO,OJ1OJ
,,iles away. by one stroke OF the wing You
ara there. by another strOSe OF ene MiuS
vou are back again, and all in less time I'll iu
tell YOU. catching It all 10 one ni'h VI
eternity.
And eeolozyl What a place that will be
ID study geology, when the world Is BENG
oicked TO D &C IS as easily as schoolglrl III
botanicll lessons pulls the Leaf frou m.
coro,lal What a place TO stuiy architecture,
amid the thrones aud tae palaces AMI tae
clthedrals-St Marks and st. PIuts rooA'
cries in comparison.
Sometimes YOU wish you could make tie
tour OF the whole earth, gong around a
Others have gone but you have not tns tIme
Won nave not the means You will maze
tbat tour yet during one musical pause II
the eternal anthem. | say these things To-
ths comfort of those people wio are abridged
in their opportunities those people Z
whom lie Is a humdrum, who toll aud WORK
and toll and WORK, and aspire after know.
EDGE. but have no time 70 ges IL, ana say
"lf | had the opportunities which other peo
ple have how would fill my mind and sou
with grand thoughts" Be not discourage
my friends. You are going to the university
vet. Death will only matriculate you INT
the royal cole Ee Of the universe.
What sublime thing it was taat Dr.
Tboruweli. OF South Carolina, uttered Ia III
last diving momentsl As he looked up b,
said. at opens; it expands: it expands.
Or as Mr. Toplady. the author OF ''kocx o
Ages i'm his last momentor during his las
hours, lookei up and said, rs though be sA"
something supernatural. Light" ami the
as he came on nearer the dying moment
his counteuance moro luminous, he cried
"Tightm and at the very moment OF MS de
parture lifted both han Is something su )sr-
natural i'm his couutenancs as ne erie J.
'Lightr Only anotaer name for sunshine
Resides that we shall have all the pie ,surs'
of ASSOCIATION. We will 60 right up IN tn
front OF Col without any fright. All on
sins gone. there will be nothing TO be fright
ened about. There our oil Christian friend
will troop around Us. Just az now one
your SICK friends goes away to Florida, Tn
land OF flowers or TO the south o. franc
and you do not see him for e long while, an
after while you meet hlm, AMI tue houoM
under the eyes are all tillei, and the appstit
has come bac and the csutcl has bee
thrown away, aui he is 50 changed you hard
lv know him. You saw. why. / never say
Won look 50 WE'LL He says: II couldn
helm but be well [ have been sailing thes
rivers ami climbing these mountains, an
that's how got this elasticity. never wa
50 well
Oh, my friends, your departed iovet one
are only away for their health in bette