The Globe-republican., 1896-06-11

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upon me. l tell nobody, but am very
much sunk indeed, and I wish l could
have the relief of weeping as l used
to. My days are exceedingly dark and
distressing. In a word, Almighty God
seems to hide his face, and intrust
the secret hardly to any earthly being.
/ know not what will become Of me.
There is doubtless a good deal OF bodily
afIliction mingled with this, but 1t Is
not all so. 1 bless God, however, that
I never lose sight of the cross, ana
though should die without seeing any
personal interest in the RedeemeTs
merits, hope that shall be found at
his feet. l will thank You for word
at your leisure My door Is bolted at
the time am writing this, for l am full
of tears"
What was the matter with the Dean
of Carlisle? Had he got to be worse
man? No. The physician said that the
state of his pulse would not warrant
his living a minute. Oh, il the east
wind affects the spleen. and affects the
lungs, and affects the liver, 1t will al
feet your immortal soul. Appealing to
God for help, brace yourself against
these whitening blasts and destroying
influences, lest that which the Psalmist
said broke the ships of Tarshish, ship
wreck you.
But notice in my text that the Lord
controls the east wind: THE Lord
i~A a
for especial purpose; it must sometimes
blow from that quarter; the east wind
is just as important as the north wind,
or the south wind. or the west wind,
but not so pleasant. Trial must come.
The text does not say you will escape
the cutting blast. Whoever did escape
it? l was in the pulpit of John Wes-
ley, in London, pulpit where he stood
one day and said: Il have been
charged with all the crimes In the cata-
logue except one-that of drunken
ness" and a woman arose in the audi
ence and said: John, you were drunk
last night" So John Wesley passed
under the fail. l saw in foreign
journal a report of one OF George
Whitefeld's sermons "a sermon
preached a hundred and twenty or
thirty years ago. 1t seemed that the
reporter stood to take the sermon, and
his chief idea was to caricature it; and
these are some of the reportorial inter-
Innings of the sermon of George White
field. After calling him by nick
name indicative of a physical defect in
the eye, it goes on to say: Here the
preacher clasps his chin on the pulpit
cushion. Here he elevates his voice.
Here he lowers his voice. Holds his
arms extended. Bawls aloud. Stands
trembling. Makes a frightful face.
Turns up the whites Of his eyes. Clasps
his hands behind him. Clasps his arms
around him. and hugs himself. Roars
aloud. Hollas. Jumps. Cries. Changes
from crying. Hollas and jumps again"
Well, my brother. il that good man
went through all that process, in your
occupation, in your profession, in your
store, in your shop. at the bar, in the
sick room, in the editorial chair, some
where. you will have to go through a
similar process; you cannot escape 1t.
When the French army went down
into Egypt under Napoleon, an en-
gineer, in digging for fortress, came
across a tablet which has been called
the Rosetta stone. There were in
scriptions in three or four languages
on that Rosetta stone. Scholars study
ing out the alphabet of hieroglyphics
from that stone were enabled to read
ancient inscriptions on monuments and
on tombstones. Well. many Of the
handwritings of God in our life are in
decipherable hieroglyphics; we cannot
understand them until we take up the
Rosetta stone of divine inspiration.
and the explanation all comes out, and
| the mysteries all vanish, and what was
before beyond our understanding now
is plain in it's meaning, as we read.
"All things work together for good to
those who love God" So we decipher
the hieroglyphics. Oh, my friends,
have you ever calculated what trouble
did for David? 1t made him the sacred
minstrel for all ages. What did trouble
do for Joseph? Made him the keeper
of the corncribs of Egypt. What die
| it do for Paul? Made him the grea
apostle to the Gentiles. What did l.
do for Samuel Rutherford? Made hi:
invalidism more illustrious than robus
health. What did it do for Rfchar
Baxter? Gave him capacity to write
Saints Everlasting Rest" What did
It do for John Bunyan? Showed hin
the shining gates Of the city. VIVA
has it done for you? Since the los:
Of that child your spirit has beer
purer. Since the loB of that pfoD
erty, you nave round out that eartniy
investments are insecure. Since you
lost your health. you feel as never be-
fore a rapt anticipation Of eternal re-
lease. Trouble has humbled you. has
enlarged you. has multiplied your re-
sources, has equipped you. has loosened