Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-03-14

~ schoolmates, prospect tina
through hard times she must o,,i
school before she graduatas--tb,a,
| 'rou oies' There is an author, his manu-
script rejected, his power of origina
c'oii ~ uecadence, numbness in fore
niger ana thumb, which threatens ca
faiysls-three troubles! There is re-
porter OF line taste sent to report 4
pugiiism instead OF an oratorio, the
copy ne hands in rejected because the
paper IS full, mother to support on
small lncome-three troubles.
could march right off this seat, and
across the platform, if they would
come at my call, five hundred people
WIN three troubles. This is the oppor.
tunlty to play the hero or the heroine,
not on a small stage with a few hun
urea people to clap their approval, but
with all the galleries of Heaven filled
with sympathetic and applauding spec
tators' Tor we are surrounded by a
great cloud of witnesses" Ny brother,
my sister, my father, my mother what
achance 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
Tor thee;" Whom the Lord loveth, He
chasteneth;' "You shall be more than
conquerors.
ana 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
VIII 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
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-
Gle 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
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 of
misfortune. Paul had three troubles
Sanhedrim denouncing him--that was
one great trouble; physical infrmity,
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
Yet, hear what he says: If had only
one misfortune, could stand that, but
three are too many!" No, l misinter-
pref He says: "Sorrowfully, yet al
ways 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 de-
What does he say? GOD |
is our refuge and strength, very pres
ent help in time of trouble. Therefore.
will not we fear, though the earth be
and though the mountains be
cast into the midst of the sea"
John Wesley had three troubles: De-
famation by mobs, domestic infelicity,
fatigue from more sermons preached
and more miles travelled than almost
any man of his time. What does he
saw? ssThe best of all is, God is with
us" And when his poet brother,
Charles Wesley, said to him: Brother
John, if the Lord were to give me wings
I'd fy," Johns reply was: Brother
Charles, if the Lord told me to fly, I'd
do it and leave him to find the wings
George Yhitefeld had three troubles:
Rejection from the pulpits of England
because he was too dramatic-that was
one troubles strabismus, or the cross
inc of his eyes, that subjected him to
the caricature of all the small wits of
the day; vermin and dead animals
thrown at him while he preached on
the commons made three trou-
bles, Nevertheless, his sermons were
% buoyant that little child dying
soon after hearing him preach said in
the intervals of pain, Let me go to
Mr.. Whitefield's God" 0, l am SO glad
hat Benaiah of my text was not the
,nly one who triumphed over lion in
, pit on snowy day.
Notice in my text victory over bad
Weather. 1t was snowy day, when
,ne's vitality is at low ebb, and the
spirits are naturally depressed, and one
loes not feel like undertaking a great
enterprise, when Benaiah rubs his
lands together to warm them by extra
or threshes his arms around
i'm to revive circulation OF the blood,
md then goes at the lion, which was
III the more fierce and ravenous be-
,ause Of the sharp weather. Inspiration
,ere admits atmospheric hindrance.
The snowy day at Valley Forge well
,;oh put an end to the struggle for
merican independence. The snowy
IN demolished Napoleon's army on the
vav from Moscow. The inclemency Of