The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-02-27

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her schoolmates, a prospect that
through hard times she must quit
school before she graduates-three
troubles! There is an author, his manu-
script rejected, his power of origina-
tion in decadence, numbness in fore
finger and thumb, which threatens pa
ralysis-three troubles! There is a re-
porter of fine taste sent to report a
pugilism instead of an oratorio, the
copy he hands in rejected because the
paper is full, mother to support on
small income-three troubles!
l could march right off this seat, and
across the platform, if they would
come at my call, five hundred people
with three troubles. This is the oppor-
tunity to play the hero OR the heroine,
not on small stage with a few hum
dred people to clap their approval, but
with all the galleries of Heaven filled
with sympathetic and applaudiug spec
tators, for we are surrounded by
great cloud of witnesses. My brother,
my sister, my father, my mother, what
chance you have! While you are in
the struggle, if you only have the grace
OF Christ to listen, voice parts the
heavens, saying my grace is sufficient
for thee;" Whom the Lord loveth, He
chasteneth;" "You shall be more than
! conquerors.
And that reminds me of letter on
my table written by some one whom l
suppose to be at this moment present,
saying; my dear, dear doctor: You
will please pardon the writer for ask
ing that at some time when you feel
like it, you kindly preach from the
thirteenth Psalm, fifth verse: Weep
ing may endure for night, but joy
cometh in the morning. and much
oblige downtown business man." So
to all downtown business men and to
all uptown business men, say: If you
have on hand goods that you cannot
sell. and debtors who will not, or can
not pay, and you are also suffering
from uncertainty as to what the imbe-
j cile American congress will do about
the tariff, you have three troubles,
and enough to bring you within the
range of the consolation of my
text, where you find the triumph OF
Benaiah over a lion, and pit, and a
snowy day. If you have only one
trouble cannot spend any time with
you to-day. You must have at least
three, and then remember how many
have triumphed over such triad oi
misfortune. Paul had three troubles
Sanhedrint denouncing him-that was
one great trouble; physical infirmity
which he called "a thorn in the flesh,
and although we know not what the
thorn was, we do know from the figure
he used that it must have been some
thing that stuck him-that was the
second trouble; approaching martyr
dom-that made the three troubles
Yet, hear what he says: "H had only
; one misfortune, l could stand that, bu
; three are too manym No, l misinter
| pret. He says: "Sorrowfullv, vet al
ways rejoicing; poor, yet mnl,in~ man
rich; having nothing, yet possessing al
: things" '"Thanks be unto God, VIII,
, giveth us the victory through our LorC
Jesus Christ"
David had three troubles: A bad boy
temptation 10 dissoluteness, and de
7 thronement. What does he say? go,
l is our refuge and strength, a very pres
$ ent help in time of trouble. Therefore
l will not we fear, though the earth b
3 removed, and though the mountains b
3 cast into the midst of the sea.
John Wesley had three troubles: De
, famation by mobs, domestic infclicitv
3 fatigue from more sermons preache
i and more miles Travelled tan alnos
9 any man of his time. What does h
:. say? "The best Of all is, God is wit
o u.s." And when his poet brother
d Charles Wesley, said to him: 'Brothe
< John, if the Lord were to give me wing
!, I'd fly" Johns reply was: "Brothe
:, Charles, if the Lord told me to fly L
n do it and leave him to find the wings.
# George Whitefeld had three troubles
e Rejection from the pulpits of Englan
because he was too dramatic-that wa
l. one trouble; strabismus, or the eros
# ing of his eyes, that subjected him I
G the caricature of all the small wits {
Q the day; vermin and dead anima
/. thrown at him while he preached O
IS the commons-that made three trol
Il bles. Nevertheless, his sermons wei
y so buoyant that a little child dyir
d soon after hearing him preach said
e the intervals of pain, Let me go
e Mr.. Whitefeld's God" 0, am so gla
e that Benaiah of my text was not IL
1, only one who triumphed over a lion
% a pit on snowy day.
h Notice in my text victory over ba
I, weather. 1t was snowy day, whe
u ones vitality is at low ebb, and IL
Is spirits are naturally depressed, and oil
rs does not feel like undertaking grei
'r enterprise, when Benaiah rubs h
le hands together to warm them by ext
n, friction, or threshes his arms arouI
g him to revive circulation, of the bloc
h. and then goes at the lion, which w
le all the more fierce and ravenous b
" cause of the sharp weather. Inspirati,
here admits atmospheric hindrance.
ic The snowy day at Valley Forge W.
~ nigh put an end to the struggle I
On American independence. The snov
at day demolished Napoleon's army on t
ne way from Moscow. The inclemency
nd January and February weather h
he some years banlzrupted thousands
on merchants. Long succession of storr
ID Sabbaths has crippled innumeral
m churches. Lighthouses yelled by t
IS, snow on many coast have failed