The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-06-19

contact with 3 triclxstcr In youy pro-
| fession, and in your absence, and con-
trary to agreement, he moves Q nom
suit or the dismissal Of the case; OF
the Judge on the bench, remem bering
an old political grudge, rules against
you every time he gets . chance, anu
says, with snarl: IF you don't ilSe
my decision, take an exception. VI
YOU are farmer, and the curcuiio
stings the fruit, or the weevN
rets into the wheat, or the
drought stunts the corn, or the
long-continued rains give you no
opportunity for gathering the mar
vest. Your best COW gets the hollow
horn, your best horse gets foundered'
A French proverb said that trouoio
comes in on horseback and goes away
on foot. So trouble dashed in on you
suddenly, but oh, how long it was in
getting awayl Came on horseback
goes away on foot. Rapid in coming,
slow in going. That is the history OF
nearly all your troubles Again and
again and again, you have experienced
the power of the east wind. 1t may
be blowing from that direction now.
NV friends, God intended these trou-
bles and trials for some particular pur'
pose. They do not come at random.
Here is the promise: HE stayeth His
rough wind in the day OF the east
wind" In the tower Of London the
swords and the guns OF other ages are
FURNISHED and arranged into huge
passion-fowers, and sunfowers, and
bridal oaks, and you WONDER
how anything so hard as steel
can be put into such floral shapes.
1 have to tell you that the hard
est. sharpest, most cutting, most pierre
ing sorrows of this life may be made
to bloom and blossom and put on bridal
festivity. The Bible says they shall
be mitigated, they shall be assuaged,
they shall be graduated. God Is not
going to allow you to be overthrown'
A Christian woman, very much
respondent, was holding her child
in her arms, and the pastors
irving to console the woman in
her spiritual depression, said: "There,
you will let your child drop" "Oh,
no." she said, 81 couldn't let the child
drop" He said: "You will let the
child drop" why" she said, IF |
should drop the child here, it would
dash his life out!' ''Well now" said
the Christian minister, don't you
think God is as good as you are?
Won't God, your Father, take as good
care of you, His child, as you take
care of YOUR child? God won't let you
drop"
Bless God for your trials. Oh, my
Christian friend! keep your spirits up
the power of Christ's Gospel Do not
surrender Do you not know that
when you give up, others will give upl
You have courage, and others will
have courage. The Romans went into
the battle, and by some accident there
was an inclination of the standard
The standard upright meant for
ward march; the inclination of the
standard meant surrender. Through
the negligence of the man who car
ried the standard, and the inclination
of it, the army surrendered. Oh! let
us keep the standard up, whether it be
blown down by the east wind, or the
north wind, or the south wind. No in
| clination to surrender. Forward into
| the conflict.
| There is near Bombay tree that
they call the Borrowing tree" the pc
culiarity of which is it never puts forth
any bloom in the daytime, but in the
night puts out all its bloom and all its
| redolence. And have to tell you that
| though Christian character puts forth
| its sweetest blossoms in the darkness OF
sickness, the darkness of financial dis
tress, the darkness of bereavement, the
darkness of death, weeping may enf
dure for night, but joy cometh in the
morning" Across the harsh discords
of this world rolls the music OF the
skies-music that breaks from the lips,
music that breaks from the harps and
rustles from the palms, music like
falling water over rocks, music like
wandering winds among leaves,
music like carrolling birds among
forests, music like ocean pillows
storming the Atlantic beach: "They
shall hunger no more, neither thirst
any more, neither shall the sun light
on them nor any heat; for the Lamb
which is in the midst of the throne
shall lead them to living fountains Of
water, and God shall wipe away
all tears from their eyes"
see a great Christian fleet ap
preaching that harbor. Some OF
the ships come in WITH sails
rent and bulwarks knocked way, but
still afioat. Nearer and nearer the
shining shore. Nearer and nearer
eternal anchorage. Haul away, my