Milford chronicle., 1895-08-23

! the reins over to me and said, Il thin
/ you had better take charge Of the horse.
I So we are all children, and on this road O
/ life we like TO drive. Il gives one such al
appearance of superiority and power. I
looks big. But after awhile we meet som
obstacle, and we have to turn out, and tn
road is narrow, and it Is sheer down OF
both sides, and then we are willing tina
God should take the reins and drive. All
my friends, we get upset so often becaus
we do not hand over the reins sooI
enough
Prayer In Trouble.
After a man has had trouble prayer il
with him taking hold of the arm of Goo
and crying ont for help have heard car
nest prayers on two or three occasions that
I remember. Once, on the Cincinnati OK
press train, going at 40 miles tho hour
the train jumped the track, and we were
near a chasm so feet deep, and the men
who, few minutes before had been swear.
ing and disappearing God began to pull
and jerk at the bell rope, and got up on
the backs Of the seats, and cried out, 90
God, save usl" There was another time.
about 500 miles out at saa, ON laundering
steamer, after tho last lifeboat had been
split finer than kindling wood. They pray.
cd then Why is it you so often hear
people, in reciting the last experience Of
some friend, say, "He made the most beau
tiful prayer l ever heardgn What makes
it beautiful? 1t is tho earnestness Of it.
OH tell you, man Is in earnest when
his stripped and naked soul wades out in
the soundless shoreless, bottomless ocean
of eternity.
It Is trouble, my friends, that makes US
feel our dependence upon God. We do not
know our own weakness or Gods strength
until the last plank breaks. 1t is con.
temptible in us when there is nothing else
to take hold Of that we catch hold of God
only. Why, you do not know who the Lord
Isl He is not an autocrat seated far up in
a palace from which he emerges once
year preceded by heralds swinging SWORDS
to clear the way No. But Father will.
ingat our call to stand by us in every crisis
and prcd.cament of life. tell you what
some Of you business men mako mo think
of. A young man goes off from home to
earn his fortune. He goes with his moth
er's consent and benediction. She has
large wealth, but he 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-
nience, 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 to a oomrade in
the Same building. No help. He writes |
to banker who was a friend of his de-
ceased father. No relief. He writes to an
old sohoolmato, but gets no help. Satur- |
day night comes, and he is moved to the |
hospital.
The Last Resort.
Getting there, he is frenzied with grief, |
and no borrows a sheet of paper and a pos
tage stamp, and he sits down and he writes
home, saying: "Dear mother, am sick
unto death Come. It is ten minutes of
10 o'clock when she gets the letter. At 10
o'clock the train starts She is five min
ltes from the depot She gets there in
lime to have five minutes to spare She
wonders why train that can go 80 miles
IN hour cannot go 60 miles an hour. She
'ushes into the hospital She says: "My
son, what does all this mean? Why didn't
1ou send for nc? You sent to every cody
1ut me- You knew l could and would
lelp you. Is this the reward get for my
Iindness to you always?" She bundles
lin up, takes him homo and gets him
veil very soon. Now, some Of you treat
Tod just as that young man created his
mother. When you get iICo a financial
you call on tine banker, you
all on the broker, you ea1 on your credit
RS, you call on your lawyer for legal
ounsel, you call upon everybody, and
Vhen you cannot get any help, then you go
o God. You say: 80 Lord, come to
heel Help me now out Of my perplexity."
md the Lord comes, though it is the
IL \ .
ot send for me before? As one whom
is mother oomforteth, so will comfort
on" 1t is to throw us back upon God
hat we have this ministry of tears.
Again, it is the use of trouble to capac-
ate rs for the office of sympathy The
RESTS, under the old dispensation, were
3t apart by having water sprinkled upon
leir hands, feet and head, and by the
orinkling Of tears people arc now set ,
part to the Office of sympathy. When we
re in prosperity, we like to have great
lany young people around us, and we
ugh when they laugh and we romp when
ley romp, and we sing when they sing,
ut when we have trouble we like plenty !
old folks around. Why? They know
ow to talk.
Take an aged mother 20 years Of age,
nd she is almost omnipotent in comfort. !
hy2 She has been through it all ATT
clock in the morning she goes over to
,mfort a young mother who has just lost
IT babe Grandmother knows all about j,
at trouble. Fifty years ago she felt it, !
t ~ O'Clock Of that day she goes over to
mfort a widowed soul She knows all
iout that. She has been walking in that :
irk valley 90 years. At 4 O'Clock in the !
ternoon some one knocks at the door, =
anting bread. She knows all about that !
wo or three times in her life she came to :
II last loaf. At 10 O'Clock that night she :
'es over to sit up with some one severely
* She knows all about it, She
lows all about fevers and pleurisies and ,
oxen bones She has been doctoring all :
T life, spreading plasters and pouring out d
tier drops and shaking up hot pillows I
ID continuing things to tempt a poor ap- l
tito. Drs. Abernethy and Rush and Hos i
k and Harvey were great doctors, but =
Q greatest doctor the world ever saw is 4,
old Christian woman. Dear mel Do n
, not remember her about the room when |,
were sick in our boyhoodg Was there !
y one who could ever so touch a sore /
thout hurting its Z
Written In Tears. o
NAtfu Niu ENlu BGt tut luk WIN WHICH II
write his comforting epistle? Where did h
ivid get the ink to write his comforting a
almsg Where did John get the ink TO b
tie his comforting Revolationg They L
it out of their own tears When man
S gone through the curriculum and has &
Ken a course OF dungeons and imprison- b
,nts and shipwrecks, he is qualified for Il
, work Of sympathy. q
When 1 began to preach, my sermons on
subject of trouble were all poetic and .
semiblank verse, but God knocked the I
NIX verse oEt Of me long ago, and have a.
md out that L cannot comfort peoplee x &c
It as 1 myself have been troubled. God
Ike me the son of consolation to the poo o.
! I would rather be tho means Of sooth- ~
one perturbed spirit today than to play NJ
une that would set all the sons Of mirth N
ling in the dance.
am an herb doctor. l put into the
dron the Root out Of dry ground, with :.
form or comoliness. Then I put in the "a "a
SO Of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley. Il,
en- I put into the caldron some of the %