The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-06-16


rod for the cummin. The iron wheel
for the corn. Sometimes people IN
great trouble say: "Oh. l can't bear it!
God would not have sent it upon you II
he did not know that you could bear it
You trembled and you swooned; but
you got through. God will not take
from your eyes one tear too many, nor
from your lungs one sigh too deep. nor
from your temples one throb too sharp
The perpleXities of your earthly bust
ness have not in them one tangle too
intricate.
You sometimes feel as if our world
were full of bludgeons flying haphaz-
ard. Oh, no; tn ey are threshing instru-
ments that God just suits to your case.
There is not dollar of bad debts on
your ledger. or disappointment about
goods that you expected to go up but
that have gone down, or a swindle OF
your business partner, or trick on the
part of those who are in the same kind
of business that you are. but God in
tended to ovcrrule for immortal help.
.'Oh.' Won say. there is no need talk
ing that way to mel don't like to be
cheated and outraged. Neither does
the corn like the corn-thresher: but
after it has been threshed and win
moved it has a great deal better opin-
ion of winnowing mills and corn
threshers.
Again: NY subject teaches us that
God keeps trial on us until we let go.
We hold on to this world with its pleas
ures. and riches. and emoluments, and
our knuckles are so firmly set that it
seems as if we could hold on forever.
God comes along with some threshing
trouble and beats us loose. We started
under the delusion that this was great
world. Trouble came in after-life, and
this trouble sliced off one part of the
world. and that trouble sliced off an.
other part of the world, and it has got
to be a smaller world, and, in some OF
Your estimations, a very insignificant
world: and it is depreciating all the
time as spiritual property. Ten per
cent. off. Fifty per cent off, and there
are those here who would not give ten
cents for this world-for the entire
world-as soul-possession.
Well" you say, If l could choose
my troubles l would be willing to be
troubled" All, my brother, then it
would not be trouble. You would
chose something that would not hurt,
and unless it hurts it does not get SAM
titled. Everybody has some veXation
or ANNOYANCE. or trial, and he or she
thinks it is the one least adapted.
Anything but this" all say. ANY
thing but this"
Oh. my nearer, are you not ashamed
to be complaining all this time against
God? Who manages the affairs Of this
world. anyhow? Is it an infinite Mo-
doe? or Sitting Bull savage? or an ON
nlpotent Mana Sahib? No: it 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 so? Some
OF You are making yourselves ridiculous
in the sight Of the angels. God is al
WAYS right and in nine cases out of ten
YOU are wrong. He sends just the
hardships, just the bankruptcies, just the
cross that is best for you to have. He
knows what kind of grain you are, and
he sends the right kind of threshing
machine. 1t will be rod. a staff, OF
iron wheel just according as you are
| ftcheS. or cummin. or corn.
We thought that friendship was a
| great thing In school we used to write
compositions about friendship: and per
haps we made our graduating speech
on commencement day on friendship
Oh, it was charmed thing; but does
it mean as much to you as it used to:
You have gone on in life, and one
friend has betrayed you. and anothe
friend has misinterpreted you, and an
other friend has neglected You. ant
friendship comes now sometimes t
mean to you merely another ak t
| grind.
So with money. We thought if ;
man had competency he was safe fol-
all the future: but we have Learned
that a mortgage may be defeated by al
unknown previous incumbrance: tina
signing YOUR name on the back of ;
note may be your business death war
rant: that a new tariff may change tn
current of trade: that man may b
rich to-day and poor tomorrow. AM
God. by all these misfortunes, is tryin!
to loosen our grip: but still we hold on
God smites us with staff: but we hol'
on. And he strikes us with rod: bu
we hold on. And he sends over us tn
iron wheel of misfortune: but we hol
on.
! Oh. let go! Let go! The best fol
tunes are in Heaven. There are no All
sconding cashiers from that bank, n
failing in promises to pay. Set you
affections on things above, not OF
things on the earth. Let go. Depen
upon it that God will keep upon yo.
the staff or the rod or the iron whee
until You do let go.
Another thing my text teaches US
that Christian sorrow is going to hav
sure terminus. Ny text says: ''Brea
corn is bruised. because he will not b
ever threshing it." Blessed be God 70
that. Pound away. o fail. Turn or
| o wheel, Your work will soon be done
, He will not be ever threshing it
Now the Christian has almost as mucl
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