The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-06-14
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We thought that friendship was
granl thing. In school we used to
writc compositions about friendship;
and perhaps we made our graduating
speech on commencement day on friend
ship. Oh! it was charmed thing; but
does it mean as much to you as it used
toP You have gone on in life, and one
friend has betrayed you, and another
friend has misinterpreted you, and an
other friend has neglected you, ana
friendship comes now sometimes to
mean to you merely anotherax to grind!
So with money. We thought II
man had a competency he was safe for
all the future; but we have learned
that mortgage may be defeated py
an unknown previous incumbrance;
that signing your name on the back OF
a note may be your business death
warrant that new tariff may change
the current of trade; that man may
be rich to-day and poor tomorrow.
And God, by all these misfortunes, is
trying to loosen our grip; but still we
hold on. God smites us with staff;
but we hold on. And He strikes us
with q rod; but we hold on. And He
sends over us the iron wheel OF misfor-
tune; but we hold on.
There are men who keep their grip
on this world until the last moment,
who suggest to me the condition and
conduct Of the poor Indian in the boat
in the Niagara rapids, coming on
toward the fall. Seeing that he could
not escape, moment or two before he
got to the verge Of the plunge he lifted
a wine bottle and drunk it off and then
tossed the bottle in the air. So there
are men who clutch the world and they
90 down through the rapids Of tempta-
ton and sin, and they hold on to the
very last moment of life, drinking to
their eternal damnation as they go over
and go down.
o, let goi Let gol The best fortunes
are in Heaven. There are no abscond-
ing cashiers from that bank, no failing
in promises to pay. Set your affections
on things above, not on things on the
earth. Let go! Depend upon it that
God will keep upon you the staff or the
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 terminus. My text says: Bread
corn is bruised, because he will not be
ever threshing it." Blessed be God for
that! Pound away, o fail. Turn on,
O wheel! Your work will soon be done.
HE will not be ever threshing it."
Now the Christian has almost as much
use in the organ for the stop tremu
liant as he has for the trumpet. But
after awhile he will put the last dirge
into the portfolio forever. So much o.
us as is wheat will be separated from
SO much as is chaff, and there will b'
no more need Of pounding.
They never cry in Heaven, because
they have nothing to cry about Ther'
are no tears of bereavement, for yol
, shall have your friends all round abou
YOU. There are no tears Of poverty
i because each one sits at the King
: table, and has his own chariot Of saliva
5 tion, and free access TO the wardrob
where princes get their array. No tear
of sickness, for there are no pneu
. monias on the air, and no malarial eS
halations from the rolling river of life
, and no crutch for the lame limb, an
{ no splint for the broken arm; but tn
> pulses throbbing with the health @
? the eternal God, in a climate like on
: June before the blossoms fall, or ou
3 gorgeous October before the leave
Q scatter.
I In that land the souls will talk owe
A the different modes of threshing. OF
I the story of the staff that struck tn
g fitches, and the rod that beat the cum
3 min. and the iron wheel that went owe
a the corn. Daniel will describe the lion
e and Jonah the leviathan, and Paul tn
!. elmwood whips with which he wa
A scourged, and Eve will tell how arc
matte Eden was the day she left i
r and John Rogers will tell of the smai
s of the flame, and Elijah of the fer
I team that wheeled him up the SIX
+ steeps, and Christ Of the numbness an
{ paroxysm and dhemorrhages Of the awft
: crucifxion. There they are before th
s throne of God. On one elevation a
Is those who were struck Of the staff. 0
= a higher elevation, and amid the higl
t est attitudes Of Heaven, all those wh
a were nnder the wheel. He will nj
v ever be threshing 1t.
IS Oh! my hearers, is there not enoug
1. salye IN this text TO make plast'
Il large enough TO heal all the wounds
y When a child is hurt, the mother
d very apt TO say to 1t; Now, it wi
Al soon feel better" And that Is whit
rs God saws when he unbosoms all tf
u trouble in the hush Of this gre'
l. promise: weeping may endure for
le night, but Joy cometh in the morning
G. You may leave your pocket handke
e, chief sopping wet with tears on yo'
h. death pillow, but you will go up abs
7, lutely sorrowless They will wei
u black; you will wear white. Cypress
for them; palms for you.
lt You will say: lis IL possible that
o. am here? Is this Heaven? Am !
Is pure now | will never do anythir
m wrong2 Am so well that / will new
is again be sickP Are these companio
10 shipsso firm thst they will never aga
,e be brokcnp Is that Maryp Is tn
ly John? Is that my loved one l p
ID away into darkness? Can IT be tn
rs these are the faces Of those who ID
Id so wan and emaciated in the backroo
I'd on that awful night dyingP o, ho
80 radiant they arel Look at theml He