The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-01-04

Again. there Is a blessing In an sbofeviai-
ed earthly existance in the Tact that one u
the sooner taken of the defensive. AS soon
as one In old enough II take care OF himseif
he Is put on his guard. Bolts on the door 70
keep out the robbers. fireprooi safes 70
insurance against accidents. Receipts lest
you have to pay debt twice. i.lteooat
against shipwreck. Westinghouse air brake
against railroad collision. There are msny
ready to overresch you and take all you
have. Defense against cold. d.defenss against
heat, defense against sickness, ueiense
against the world abuse. defense all the
way down to the grave, and even the tomb
stone sometimes isnot sufficient barri-
cade.
IL soldier who has been on guard
shiverng and stung with the cold, pacing
up and down the parapet with shouiueteu
musket is g.ad when some one comes 70
relieve guard and he can go inside the
fortress, ought not that man to shout ior
Joy who can put down his weapon OF es,.h-
ly defense and go isto the kings castleiWho
is the more fortunate, the soldier VINO mas
to stand guard IL hours. or the man VINO
has to stand guard six hours? we nave
common sense about everything but rehg.
ion, common sense about everything ou'
transference from this word.
Again. there Is n blessing in an abbrevia-
ted earthly existence in the fact that one
escapes SO many bereavements. lhe iongeT
we live the more attachments and the more
| kindred the more chords to be wounueu o.
rasped or sundered Ifa man lives to be ~
| or 50 years of age. how many graves are
| cleft at his feet! In that long reach OF time
| father and mother go, brothers and sister
| go. children 20. grandchildren go, personal
| friends outside the family circle whom they
had loved with Il love like that OF DAVE
and Jonathan.
Resides that, some men have q natura
trepda,ion ABOUT dissolution, aud ever ant
anon during 40 ur 80 or 80 years this horror
of their dissolution shudders through sou
and body. Now suppose the lad goes at !,
years OF age. He escapes 30 funerals -
caskets, 80 obsequies 50 awful wrenching
of the heart, It's hard enough for US y
bear their departure but Is IL not easier 10
us to bear their departure than tor them Y
stay and bear 80 departures shall we no'
by the grace of God, rouse ourselves into
generosity of bereavement whicn VII
practically say, 1T IL hard enough Tor nj
to go through this bereavement, but nov
glad am that he will never have 70 8
through it, -,
SO reason with myself, and so you wi
find II helpful to reason with yoursesve'
David lost ms sou. Though David wa
ning, he lay on the earth MOURNING an
, inconsolabIe for some time. At this distanC
of time, which do you really think was III
one to be congratulated, the short 1--we
child or the long lived father Hau Davl
7 died as early rs that child, he would IN u
, first place have escaped that particular %
! reavement, then he would have escaped u
!, , worse bereavement of Absalom, his recreal
, son, ana the pursuit Of the Philistines, an
, the fatlgues OF his military campaign, al
\ the jealousy of Saul, and the perhdy
Ahithophel, and the curse OF Shimei, al
the destruction of his family at Llklag,an
above all. he would have escaped the w
great calamities of his life the great sins
; uncleanness and murder. David nved
a be OF vast use to the church and the worl
). but so far as his own happiness was COZ
cerned, does IL not seem to you that IL wou
have been better for him to have goi
i early?
i Now, this my friends, explains son
a things that to you have been inexplicae
n This shows you why when God takes lit'
!, children from q household he is apt to Ia
- the brightest, the most genial, the mt
;, symTathetic. the most talented. Why
= , is because that kind Of nature suffers. !
J most when it does suffer and IS most hao
!, To temptation. God saw the tempest swee
AZ ing up from the Caribbean and he lput I
20 delicate craft into the first harbor. 'Iek
y away from the evil TO come"
Again my friends. there is a blessing
:, an abbreviated earthly existence in the
~ that 1t puts one sooner in the "er'c