The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-05-26


They are proud, disconnected, useless and
unhappy II you wanl 20 ind cheerful
folks, 90 among those who have been puri-
fed by the fire.
After Rossini had rendered william
Tell" the five hundrcth time n company
of musicians came under his window in
Paris and scrcnndcd him. They put upon
his brow a golden crown of laurel leavesl
But amid all the applause and enthusiasm
Rossini turned to IA friend and said, Il
would give all this brilliant scene fora few
DAYS of youth and love- Contrast the
melancholy feeling of Rossini, who had
everything that this world could give him.
to the joyful experience of Isaac Watts,
whose misfortunes were innumerable,
when he says;
The hill OF Zion yields
A thousand sacred sweets
Before we reach the heavenly ceids
Or walk the golden streets.
Then let our songs abound
And every tear be Ury.
We are marching through Immanucrs
ground
To fairer worlds on high.
It is prosperity that kills and trouble
that saves While the Israelites were ON
the march amid great privations and hard
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prayed for meat, and the sky darkcned
with a great flock Of quails, and these
quails fell in large multitudes all about
them, and the Israelites ate and ate and
stuffed themselves until they died oh,
my friends, it Is not hardship or trial or
starvation that Injuries the soul, but album
dant supply. 1t is not the vulturc of trou-
BILE that eats up the Christians life 1t is
the quails. 1t is the quails. You will yet
find out that your midnight wrestle by the
brook Jabbok is with an angel of God come
down to bless and save.
The Mark of Trouble.
Learn, again, that while our wrestling
with trouble may be triumphant we must
expect that it will leave its mark upon us.
Jacob prevailed, but the angel touched
him, and his thigh bone spraug from its
socket, and the good man went limping on
his way. We must carry through this
world the mark of the combat. What
plowed those premature wrinkles in your
face? What whitened your hair before it
was time for frosty What silcnced forever
SO much of the hilarity of your households
All it is because the anEal of trouble hath
touched you that you go limping on your
way. You need not BE- surprised that
those who have passed through the fire do
not feel as gay as once tley did.
Do not be out of patience with those who
come not out of their dependency. They
may triumph over their loss, and yet their
gait shall tell you that they have been
trouble touched. Are we stoics that we
can, unmoved, see our cradle ritled of the
bright eyes and the sweet lipsH Can we
stand unmoved and sec our gardens of
earthly delight uprootedf VIII Jesus, who
wept himself be angry with us if we pour
our tears into the graves that open to
swallow down what we love bestY Was
Lazarus more dear to him than our beloved
dead to US? No. We have right to weep.
Our tears must come. You shall not drive
them back to scald the hearts. They fall
into Gods bottle Afflicted ones have
died because they could not weep. Thank
God for the sweet the mysterious relief
that comes to us in tears Under this gen
tie rain the flowers of corn put forth their
bloom. God pity that dry, withered
parched, all consuming grief that wrings
its hands, and grinds its teeth, and bites
its nails unto the quick, but cannot weep!
We may have found the comfort of the
cross and yet ever after show that in the
dark night and by the brook Jabbok we
were trouble touched.
Again we may take the idea of the text
and announce the approach of the day
dawn. No one was ever more glad to see
the morning than was Jacob after that
night Of struggle 1t is appropriate for
philanthropists and Christians to cry out
with this angel of the text THE day
breaketh. " The worlds prospects are
Frightening. The church of Christ is ris-
ing up It's strength to go forth fair as the
moon, clear as the sun and terrible as an
l.. /. l.. Ill
We people, the day breaketh. The bigotries
of the earth are perishing The time was
when we were told that if we wanted to
get to heaven, we must be immersed or
sprinkled, or we must believe in the per-
severance of the saints, or in falling away
from grace, or liturgy, OF no liturgy, or
they must be Calvinists or Arminians in
order to reach heaven. We have all come
to confess now that these are nonessentials
in religion.
The Christian Hope.
During my vacation one summer was
in a Presbyterian audience, and it was sac
ramcntal day, and with grateful heart l
received the holy communion. On the
next Sabbath was in Methodist church
and sat at love feast. On the following
Sabbath l was in an Episcopalian church
and knelt at the altar and received the CON
secrated bread. 1 do not know which serv-
ice enjoyed the most Il believe in the
communion Of saints and in the life ever
lasting" 1.-THE day breaketh"
As ] look upon this audience see many
who have passed through waves of trouble
that came up higher than their girdle. In
Gods name l proclaim cessation of hostili-
ties. You shall not go always saddened
and heartbroken. God will lift your bur
den. God will bring your dead to life. God
will stanch the hearts bleeding. l know
he will. Like as father pities his chill.
dren, so the Lord pities you. The pains OF
earth will end. The tomb will burst. The
dead will rise The morning star trembles
on Frightening sky. The gates of the
east begin to swing open. The day break.
eth.
Luther and Melancthon were talking to-
gether gloomily about the prospects of the
church. They could see no hope of deliy.
erance After awhile Luther got up and
said to Melancthon: Come, Philip, let us
sing the forty sixth psalm Of David: God
: Is our refuge and strength, q very present
help in trouble Therefore win not We
fear, though the earth be removed and
though the mountains be carried into the
midst of the sea, though the waters there
Of roar and be troubled, though the noun.
tains shake with the swelling thereof
Selah. "
The Final Struggle.
Death to many-nay, TO all--is n strug
gle and a wrestle We have many friend,
that 1t will be hard to leave. care moi
how bright our future hope is It is IA bit
ter thing TO look upon this fair world anC
know that we shall never again see it,
blossoming spring its falling fruits, it,
sparkling streams, and to lay farewell tC
those with whom we played IN childhood
or counseled in manhood. In that night
like Jacob, we may have TO wrestle, but
God will not leave us unblossed. 1t shall
not be told in heaven that dying SOU
cried unto God for help, but was not deliv
cred The lattice may be turned TO keeI
out the sun, or book set TO dim the light