The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-03-09

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cough, frowning future-three trou
blesi There is maiden with din
cult school lesson she can not get.
face that is not as attractive as some
of her schoolmates, prospect that
through hard times she must quit
school before she graduatcsvthree
troublesi There is an author, his man.
uscript rejected, his power Of origina-
ton In decadence, numbness
in forefngcr and thumb which
| threatens paralysis = three trou-
bles! There is reporter OF
fine taste sent to report pugilism in
stead of an oratorio, the copy he hands
| in is rejected because the paper is full,
a mother to support on small income
three troubles! could march right of
these seats and across the platform, IL
they would come at my call, five hun
dred people with three troubles. This
is the opportunity to play the hero or
| the heroine, not on small stage with
few hundred people to clap their ap-
proval, but with all the galleries Of
Heaven filed with sympathetic and APP
plauding spectators, for we are sur
rounded by great cloud of witnesses. !"
NY 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,
a voice parts the heavens, saying: my
grace is sufficient for thee" Whom
the Lord loveth, he chusteneth." You
shall be more than conquerors. And
that reminds me of letter on my
table written by some one whom
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
thirtieth psalm, fifth verse: Weeping
may endure for n night, but joy cometh
in the morning. and much oblige a
downtown business man" So, to all
downtown business men, and to all up
town business men, say, if you have
Oh hand any goods that you can
not sell, and debtors who will not,
OF IAN not, pay, and you are also suf-
fei.ng from uncertainty as to what
the Lmbecile 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 lion, and pit, and
a snowy day. If you have only one
you to-day. You must have at least
three, and then remember how many
have triumphed over such trial of
misfortune. Paul had three trou bles:
Sanbedria denouncing him-that was
one great trouble physical inflrnity,
which he called "a thorn in the
fesh," and although we know not
what the thorn was, we do know
from the figure he used that 1t must
have been something that stuck HIM
that was the second trouble; approach
ing martyrdom-that made the three
troubles. Yet, hear what he says: IF
had only one misfortune, l could
stand that: but three are two many?"
No; l misinterpret. He says: "Sor-
rowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet
making many rich; having nothing,
yet possessing all things" Thanks be
unto God, who giveth us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ"
David had three troubles. A bad
boy, a temptation to dissoluteness, and
dethronement. What does he say?
GOD is our refuge and strength;
very present help in time of trouble.
Therefore, will not we fear, though
the earth be removed, and though the
mountains be cast into the midst of
the sea"
John Wesley had three troubles:
Defamation by mobs; domestic in
felicity; fatigue from more sermons
preached and more miles travelled than
almost any man of his time. What does
he say? "The best of all is, God is
with u.s." And when his poet brother,
Charles Wesley, said to him: brother
John, If the Lord were to give me
wings, I'd fly" Johns reply was:
Brother Charles. if the Lord told me
to fly, PdrdoNit, and leave Him to find
the wings"
George Whitefeld had three trou-
bles: Rejection from the pulpits of
England because he was too dramatic
that was one trouble; strabismus, or
the crossing OF his eyes that subjected
him to the caricature of all the small
wits of the day; vermin and dead ami
mails thrown ut him while he preached
on the commons-that made three
troubles. Nevertheless, his sermons
were so buoyant that little child dy-
ing soon after hearing him preach said
in the intervals of pain: Let me go
to Mr.. Whitefeld's God" Oh, l am SO
glad that Benaiah of my text was not
the only one who triumphed over a
lion in pit on a snowy day.
Notice in my text a victory over bad
weather. 1t was a snowy day, when
ones vitality is at low ebb, and the
spirits are naturally depressed, and
one does not feel like undertaking a
great enterprise, when Benaiah rubs
his hands together to warm them by
extra friction, or thrcshcs his arms
around him to revive the circulation
of the blood, and then goes at the lion,
which was all the more fierce and
ravenous because of the sharp weather.
Inspiration here admits atmospheric
hindrance. The snowy day at Valley
Forge well nigh put an end to the
struggle for American independence.
The snowy day demolished Napolcons
army on the way from Moscow. The
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