Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-06-13

- = tscA VI ma u&y5 are Exceeu1uHiy
dark and distressing. In word, Al
mighty God seems to hide his face, and
! intrust the secret hardly to any earthly
being. / knew not what will become Of
me. There is doubtless a good deal Of
bodily affection mingled with this, but it
IS not all So ! bless God, however, that
! never lose sight of the cross, and
though ! should die without seeing any
personal interest in the Redeemer's
merits, / hope that / shall be found at
his feet / will thank You for word at
your leisure My door is bolted at the
time I am writing this. for am full of
tears. -
The East Wind.
What was the matter with the dean
OF Carlisle7 Had he got to be a worse
man? No. The physician said that the
state OF his pulse would not warrant his
living minute. Oh, If the east wind
affects the spleen, and affects the lungs.
and affects the liver, it will affect your
immortal soul Appealing to God for
neip, brace yourself against these with
erlng blasts and destroying influences,
lest that which the psalmist said broke
the ships of Tarshish shipwreck you.
But notice IN my text that the Lord
controls the east wind: 1.-The Lord
brought the east wind. y He brings it
Tor especial purpose; it must sometimes
dow 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.
Inc text does not say you will escape
the cutting blast Whoever did escape
its Especially who that accomplished
anything for church or state ever escaped
1t? l was in the pulpit Of John Wesley,
IN London, a pulpit where he stood one
day and said, 81 have been charged
with all the crimes in the catalogue ex-
cept one-that of drunkenness, and a
woman arose in the audience and said,
John. you were drunk last night " So
John Wesley passed under the fail.
saw In foreign journal report of
one OF George Whitefield's sermons-a
sermon preached 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 nickname
indicative Of physical defect in the
eye, 1t goes on to say: "Here the preach
er clasps his chin on the pulpit cushion
Here he elevates his voice. Here he
lowers his voice. Holds his arms ex-
tended. Bawls aloud. Stands trembling.
Makes frightful face Turns up the
whites of his eyes. Clasps his hands be-
hind him. Clasps his arms around him
and hugs himself. Roars aloud. Halloos,
jumps, cries Changes from crying.
Halloos and jumps again - Well, my
brother, if that good man went through
all that process, in your occupation, in
your profession, in your store, in your
shop, at tBe, bar, in the sickroom, in
the editorial chair, somewhere, you will
have to go through similar process
You cannot escape it.
Keats wrote his famous poem, and
the hard criticim of tho poem killed
him-literally lilled him. Tasso wrote
his poem, entitled Jerusalem Deliv
cred" and it had ouch cold reception
it turned him into raving maniac.
Stillingfeet was slain ly his literary en-
emies- The frown Of Henry VIII slew
Cardinal Wolsey. The Duke of We'll
lington refused to have the fence around
his house, which had been destroyed by
an excited mob, rebuilt, because he
wanted the fence to remain as it was, a
reminder of the mutability and uncer-
tainty of the popular favor.
In Time of Trial.
And you will have trial CT some sort.
You have had it already. Why need /
prophesy? | might better mention an
historical fact in your history. You are
a merchant What time you had with
that old business partnerl How hard it
was to get rid of him! Before you
bought him out, or he ruined both of
you, what magnitude of annoyancel
Then after you had paid him down a
certain sum of money to have him go
out and to promise he would not open
store of the same kind of business in
your street, did he not open the very
same kind of business as near to you as
possible and take all your customers as
far as he could take them? And then,
knowing all your frailties and weak
nesses, after being in your business firm
for so many years, is he not now spend
ing his time in making a commentary
ON what you furnished as text? You
are a physician, and in your sickness,
or in your absence, you get a neighbor-
ing doctor to take your place in the sick
room, and he ingratiates himself into
the favor of that family, so that you
forever lose their patronage. Or, you
take patient through the serious stages
of fever, and some day the impatient
father or husband of the sick one rushes
out and gets another medical practi-
toner, who comes in just in time to get
the credit of the cure. Or, you are a
lawyer, and you come in contact with
trickster III your profession, and in
your absence, and contrary to agree
ment, he moves a nonsuit or the dis
missal of the case. Or the judge on the
bench, remembering an old political
grudge, rules against you every time he
gets a chance, and says with snarl,
''If you don't like my decision, take an
exception Or, you are a farmer and
the curculio stings the fruit, or the Vice.
vii gets into the wheat, or the drought
stunts the corn, or the long continued
rains give you no opportunity for gath
ering the harvest. Your best COW gets
the hollow horn; your best horse gets
foundered. A French proverb said that
trouble comes in on horseback aud goes
away on foot. So trouble dashed in on
you suddculy; but, oh, how long it was
in getting awayl Came ON horseback,
goes away OH foot. Rapid i'll 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
Slowing from that direction now.
Ny friends, God intended these trou-
,les and trials fer some particular pur-
cnnat1on OF the standard. The standard
upright meant forward march; the in
clination of the standard meant surren-
der. Through the negligence of the man
who carried the standard, and the in
clination of it, the army surrendered.