Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-10-12

seek it. He knows what obstacles You
have fought against, and the more trial
the more help. After all, there are no
orphans in the world, for the great God
is the Father CT Us all.
Again, our subject is an illustration
Of what religion nay be under tho pres
sure Of poverty. Tho captivity and
crushed condition Of this orphan girl
and Of the kind man who adopted her
suggest a condition Of poverty. Yet from
the very first acquaintance we had with
Hadassah we find her the same happy
and contented Christian. 1t was only
by compulsion she was afterward taken
into a sphere Of honor and affluence. In
the humble home Of Mordecai, her
adopted father, she was light that H.
lumined every privation. In some period
in almost every mans life there comes
a season of straitencd circumstances,
when the severcst calculation and most
scraping economy are necessary in order
to subsistence and responsibility. At
the commencement Of business, at the
entrance upon a profession, when
friends arc few and the world is afraid
of you because there is a possibility of
failure, many Of the noblest hearts have
struggled against poverty and are now
struggling.
The Wear of Anxiety.
To such | bear q message Of good
cheer. You say it is a hard thing for
YOU to be a Christian. This constant
anxiety, this unresting calculation, wear
out the buoyancy Of your spirit, and al
though you have told perhaps no one
about it cannot I tell that this is the
very trouble which keeps you from be-
ing what you ought to be? You have no
time to think about laying up treasures
in heaven when it is q matter Of great
doubt whether you will be enabled to
pay your next quarters rent. You can
not think of striving after a robe Of
Righteousness until you can get means
enough to buy an overcoat to keep out
the cold You want the bread of life,
but YOU think You must get along with
out that until you can buy another bar
rel Of -four for your wife and children.
Sometimes you sit down discouraged
and almost wish you were dead.
Christians in satin slippers, with their
feet On damask ottoman, may scout at
such q class of temptations, but those
who themselves have been i'll the strug-
Gle and grip of hard misfortune can ap-
prcciate the power Of these evils to dis
suade the soul away from religious
duties. We admit the strength Of the
temptation, but then we point to Ha-
dassah, her poverty equaled by her
pietv. Courage down there i'll the bat
| tie! Hurl away your Disappointment
Men of half your heart have, through
Christ. been more than conquerors. In
the name Of God, come out Of that!
The religion of Christ is just what you
want ont there among the empty flour
barrels and beside the cold hearths. You
have never told any one Of what hard
time Won have had, but God knows it
as well as YOU know it. Your easy times
will come after awhile. DOnot let your
shirts break down midlifc. What If
vour coat is thin? Run fast enough to
! keen warm. What if you have no lux
uries on your table? High expectations
will make your blood tingle better than
the best Madeira. If you cannot afford
to smoke, you can afford to whistle.
But merely animal spirits are not suffi-
Gent, The power of the gospel-that is
what you want towrench despair out Of
the soul and put you forward into the
front Of the hosts incased in impenetra'
BILE armOr.
Beauty and It's Perlls.
Again, our subject illustrates what
religion may be under the temptation Of
personal attractivenoSs. The inspired