The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-06-26

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TALMA0E,S SERMON
'And the Lord brought an east wind upon
the land all that day and all TINT night
Exodus x.:18.
The reference here is not to q cyclone
but to the long-continued blowing Of
the wind from an unhealthy quarter.
The nodth wind IL bracing, the south
wind Is relaxing, but the east, wind 10
Irritating and full Of threat. Eighteen
hines does the Bible speak against the
east wind. Moses describes the thin
ears blasted by the east wind. The
Psalmist describes the breaking of the
ships Of Tarshish by the east wind.
The locusts that plagued Egypt were
borne in on the east wind. The gourd
that sheltered Jonah was shattered by
the east wind; and In all the six th0us-
and summers, autumns, winters and
springs of the worlds existence the
worst wind that ever blew Is the east
wind. Now, If God would only give us
/ climate Of perpetual nor wester how
genial and kind and placid and indus
trious Christians we would all beA
But 1t takes almighty grace to be what
we ought to be under the east wind.
Under the chilling and wet wing of the
last wing the most of the worlds vii
lainies, frauds, outrages, suicides and
murders have been Matched out. I
think IL you should keep meteorolog-
lcal history of the days of the year and
put right beside it the criminal record
Of the country you would find that
morals which under the north or west
wind, and that those were the worst
days for public morals which were I'M
der the east wind. The points Of the
compass have more to do with the
worlds morals and the church's piety
than you have yet suspected. Rev. DR..
Archibald Alexander, eminent for
learning and for conservation, when
asked by one Of his students ut Prince
ton whether he always had full assur-
ance Of faith, replied: Eyes, except
when the wind blows from the east"
Dir. Francia, dictator of Paraguay,
when the wind was from the east,
made oppressive enactments for the
people; but when the weather changed,
tepented him Of the cruelties, repealed
tn enactments, and was in good humor
with all the world.
Before 0vertake the main thought
Of my subject I want to tell Christian
people they ought to be observant of
climatical changes. Be on your guard
when the wind blows from the east.
There are certain styles of temptations
that you cannot endure under certain
styles of weather. When the wind
blows from the east, IL you IRE Of q
nervous temperament, go not among
exasperating people, try not to settle
bad debts, do not try to settle old dis
putes, do not talk with bigot on re-
ligion, do not go among those people
who delight in saying irritating things,
do not try to collect funds for charita-
BILE institution, do not try to answer an
insulting letter. If these things must
be done, do them when the wind is
from the north or the south or the
west, but not when the wind is from
the east.
You say that men and women ought
not to be SO sensitive and nervous. I
admit it, but am not talking about
what the world ought to be; am talk
about what the world is. While
e are persons whose dispositions
aot seem to be affected by changes
he atmosphere, nine out of ten are
htily played upon by such influ-
IS. o Christian MANI under such
umstances do not write hard things
inst yourself, do not get worried
ut your fuctuating experience. You
to remember that the barometer in
soul is only answering the bar
ter Of the weather. Instead of sit
down and being discouraged and
ing, II am not a Christian because
ont feel exhilarant," get up and
(: out of the window and see the
rter, and then say, "Get thee be-
l me Satan, thou prince of the
'er Of the air; get out of my house!
out Of my heart, thou demon Of
zness horsed on the east wind.
ay!" However good and great you
be in the Christian life, your soul
,.... never be independent of physical
condition. feel I am uttering a most
practical, useful truth here, one that
may give relief to a great many Chris
tians who are worried and Respondent
at times.
Dr. Rush, a monarch in medicine,
after curing hundreds of cases of men,
tai depression, himself fell sick and
lost his religious hope, and he would
not believe his pastor when the pastor
told him that his spiritual depression
was only consequence of physical
depression. Andrew Fuller, Thomas
Scott, William Cowper, Thomas Bos-
ton, David Brainard, Philip Melansal-
thon We're mighty men for God, but all
of them illnstrat ions Of tho fna4 4l,o4