The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1893-02-09
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invalid. Explain that. mere Is oau III III
vita $50 coo OF income. There Is gooi man
foe of society who lives on. doing all the
the damage he can, to seventy-tlVe years Oh
ACE and Rers is q Christian father, faithful
in every department of life at thirty-dve
years taken away by death, his Family left
helpless. Explain that. Va, there IS no
sentence thar oftensr drops IRON your hpS
than this: 81 cannot understand it. can
not understand it,"
Well now. religion comes in just at that
point with its Illumination and It's explana-
ton. There is business man who has lost
his emit re 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 count on one finger. The week
before financial trouble began sople all took
off their hats to him as he passed down the
street. The week his financial prospects
were under discussion people just toucael
their hats without anywlse ben ing the rim.
The week that he was prom 0unced insovlent
people lust iolted their heals as they passed,
not tipping their hats at all, and the week
the 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-
Iigion of Christ comes to him ana saVs:
'You are sick AMI your sickness Is 10 D5
moral publication; you are bereaved; doi
wanted in some way to take your family 10
heaven. and He must begin somewhere, an
so He took the one that was most beautiful
and was most ready to 60" do not say
that religion explains everything In this HE,
but do say it lays down certain principles
which are graudly censoatory. You know
business men often telegraph IN cipaerS'
The merchant in San Francisco tslegraphs
to the merchant in New York certain infor-
nation in cphers which no other man III
that line of business can understand, but
the merchant in San Francisco has the KEY
TO the cipher, aud the merchant III New 4ork
mas tine kew to the cipher, and on that IN
formation transmitted there are enterprises
involving hundreds Of thousands OF dollars.
Now the proyidenceS OF mo sone5iinS
saaru to be a Sensaless rig ulrole, my5tefl-
o11s cioher. but God has key to that cipher,
an the Christian key to that cip1er, ana,
though he NAV hardly be able to spell out taa
meaning. he gets enough of the meaning to
understand that it is for the BEST Now IS
there not sunshine in that? Is there not
Measure in that? Far beyoai laughter, IL
is nearer the fountain OF tears tan oois'et
GUS demonstration. Have You never crlei
Tor 10y? There are tears which are eterhai
IA oture in distillation.
InPre are H'ill lIrf - u t'SC "a 's''N
who are waking day by Gayf in the suhiims
satisfaction that all is for the best, all things
working together for COOL for their soul.
How man can get along through this lie
without the explanation is to me mystery.
What is that child gone forever! Are you
never to get it back? IS your property gone
forever? Is your soul to be bruised and 70
be tried forever? Have you no explanation,
no Christian explanation, AMI yet not
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Jesus Christ in your soul, it explains every
thing so far AS it is best for you to unier.
stand. You look off in life, and your soul
is full of Thanksgiving to Col Tat you are
SO much better off than you might be.
A man passed down the street without
any shoes and said II have no shoes. lsn'5
it hardship that have no shoes? Other peo-
pie have shoes; no shoes, no SHOES, untii ne
saw a man who had no feet. Then he
learned a lesson. You ought to thank God
for what He does, instead OF grumbling for
what He does not God arrangeS all the
weather in this world-the spiritual
weather, the moral weather as well as the
natural weather. ''What kind OF weather
will it be to-dayP said some one to farmer.
The farmer replied, III will be such weat her
as like.n "Nhat do you mean by that"
asked the other. "We!l," said the Farmer,
"it will he SUCH weather as pleasss the Lord,
and what pleases the Lord pleases me-"
On. the sunshnel the sunshine of Chris
tian explanationl Here is some one benilnS
over the grave of the dead. WHAT is gong
TO be the consolation? The fower5 You
strew upon the tomb? Ga, no! The SER
vices read at the grave? On, no. The
chief consolation on That gave IS what falls
from the throne OF God. sunshine, glori-
GUS sunshine. Resurrection sunshine.
Again, find a great deal OF the sunshine
OF this Bible and OF oar religion in the
climacteric joys That are to co.ne. A man
who gets uo ami goes out from con-
cert right after the opening voluntary
has been played, and before the plima
donna sings, or before the orchestra
begins, has better flea of that concert
than that man has who supposes that the
chief joys of religion are in TINS world. We
here have only the first note of the eternal
orchestra We shall in that world nave the
iov of discovery. We will in five minutes
catch up with the astronomers the geo.o-
gists, the scientists, the philosophers OF all
ages, who so far surpassed Us IN this world.
We can afford to adjourn astronomy and
geology and many of the sciences to the next
world, because we snail there nave better APP
paratus and letter opportunity.
[ must stu iy These SCIENCES 50 lar as 10
help me in my work, but beyond that l
must eivs myself to saving my ovn soul
and saving the souls OF otnefs, knowing that
IN One fash or eternity we VIII ciIcA IL al.
Oh. what an observatory IN which 10 stuiy
astronomy heaven will be, not by power OF
telescope, out by supernatural vision: alt
if there be something doubtful 100000
miles away, by one stroke OF tbs wing you
are there. by another stroke OF the wing
yll are back again, and all in less time than
tel you, catching it all IN ole fash OF
eternity.
Aud geology! What a place that will be
to study geology, when the world is being
picked to pecss as easily as schoolgirl in
botanical lessons pulls the leaf from the
cordial What place to study architecture,
amid the thrones and the palaces aud the
clthedrals-St. Marks and St. Paurs roox-
cries in comparison.
Sometimes you wish you could make the
tour OF the whole earth, going around as
others have gone, but you havs not the time
you have not the means. You will make
that tour yet during one musical pause in
the eternal anthem. | say these thugs for
the comfort of those people WAC are abridged
in their pportunities-thos people to
whom life is humdrum, who toll aud work,
and toll and work, and aspire after know,-
edge, but have no time to get it, and say:
'lf had the opportunities which other peo-
pie have, how | would fill my mind and soul
with grand thou ghtsw Be not discouraged,
my friends. You are going to the university
vet Death will only matriculate YOU into