Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-08-24

it beautiful lt IL tho earnestness OF it.
OH tell you. man IL In earnest when
his stripped and naked soul wadcs out In
the soundlcss. shorelcss, bottomiess ocean
of eternity.
Il is trouble. my friends, that makes US
feel our dependence upon God. We do mob
know our own weakness or Gods strength
until tho last plank brcaks. II Il con-
temptiblc In ms when there Is nothing eisc
70 take hold OF that wc catch hold OF God
only. Why, you do not know who tho Lord
Isl He Is not IN autocrnt seated far up In
palace from which he cmcrgcs once o
year. preccded by hcralds swinging swords
20 clear tho way. No. But Father will
ing ut our call 20 stand by us In every crisis
and prcdicament Of life. tell you what
some Of you business men make me think
Of. A young man goes of from home TO
earn his fortune. He goes with his moth
er's consent and bcncdiction. She has
large wealth. but no wants TO make his
own fortune. He goes far away, falls sick.
gets out Of money. He sends for the hotel
keeper where he is staying. asking for le-
nicncc. and the answer he gets Is. ''If you
don't pay up Saturday night, you'll be re-
moved to the hospital"
The young man sends 70 q comrade in
the same building. No help. He writes
10 a banker who was friend of his de-
ceased father. No relief. He writes 90 an
old schoolmatc. but gets no help. Satur-
day night comes, and he Is moved 20 the
hospital.
The Last Resort.
Getting there. he Is frcnxicd with grief,
and he borrows n sheet OF paper and pos
tage stamp, and he sits down and he writes
home, saying: Dear mother, am sick
unto death. Come" 10 IL ten minutes Of
10 O'Clock when she gets the letter. Al 10
O'Clock the train starts She Is i've min
utcs from the depot She gets there in
time 70 have I've minutes to spare. She
wonders why train that can 60 80 miles
an hour cannot 20 60 miles an hour. She
PUSHES into the hospital. She says: my
son, what does all this meant Why didn't
you send for met You sent 60 everybody
but me. You knew could and would
help you. ID this the reward get for my
kindness 20 you alwaysv Shc bundles
him up, takes him home and gets him
well very soon. Now, some Of you treat
God just rs that young man treated his
mother. When you got into a financial
pcrplcxity, you call on the banker. you
call on the broker. you call on your credit
ors, you cali on your lawyer for legal
counsel, you call upon everybody, and
whom you cannot get any help. then you 60
10 God. You say:"O Lord. come 20
thcel Help me now out Of my perplexity."
And the Lord comes. though Il Il the
eleventh hour. He says: "why did you
not send for mo before. As one whom
his mother comforteth, 80 will I comfort
IA Il A. - - -
that we have this ministry Of tears.
Again, Il Is the use OF trouble to capac-
itntc US for tho Office OF sympathy. The
priests. under tho old dispcnation, were
set apart by having water sprinkled upon
their hands, feet and head, and by the
sprinkling OF tears people arc now set
apart 70 the Office of sympathy. When we
arc In prosperity, We like 20 have great
many young people around Us, and We
laugh when they laugh and We romp when
they romp, and We sing when they sing,
but when we have trouble we like plenty
how 20 talk.
Take an aged mother 20 years Of age
and she IL almost omnipotcnt in comfort.
Why! She has been through it all. AT
o'clock In the morning shc goes over 20
her babe. Grandmother knows all about
that trouble. Fifty years ago she felt Il.
At ~ o'clock Of that day she goes over to
comfort a widowed soul. She knows all
about that. She has been walking In that
dark valley 20 years. At 4 O'Clock I'm the
afternoon some one knocks at the door,
wanting broad. She knows all about that
Two or three times In her life she came 70
her last loaf. At 10 O'Clock that night she
goes over TO sit up with some ono severely
sick. She knows all about It, She
knows all about fevers and pleurisics and
broken bones. She hns been doctoring all
her life. spreading plasters and pouring out
bitter drops and shaking up hot pillows
and contriving things to tempt poor ap-
petite. Drs. Abcrnethy and Rush and Hos
ack and Harvey were great doctors, but
the greatest doctor the world ever saw In
an old Christian woman. Dear mel Do
we not remember her about tho room when
we were sick In our boyhood! Was there
any one who could ever 30 touch q sore
without hurting it!