The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-05
oVERCOMINGs OF FAITH.

But tribbles aye rim in pairs
Lang Syne, McIatcn.
Editor News and ObServer.--Whv do
troubles run in pairs"?It seems really
true that this old Scotch saying has
some foundation in fact to rest upon.
The old Gaelic word means to pillow up,
that is to turn, TO stir. Hence, trouble
means to turn and stir the soul by dis
appointment, bereavement ntagonsm
and loss. It's final result is sorrow anu
sadness. So the Lord invites the soul
Call upon me in the day of trouble
and ! will deliver thee
But why does trouble come in pairs ?
We often see il when the fact is open
and plain. But may it not also be true
even when we do not see it? We see
one trouble that fills brothers. heart
with sorrow, But the other may not he
known, or even suspected by us: and
is only known to him who bears it.
Does not the immanence of God in
nature. involving His fatherhead, and
hence His providence, provide this as a
remedial mercy?It is said by philoso-
pliers that two rays of light meeting
in exactly opposite directions produce
darkness. Likewise, two troubles
meeting in the same soul may serve to
counterfeit each other to some extent.
The soul has an opportunity to stand
still between the two forces and rest.
1t is little remarkable that the most
incurable mental disease is where there
is only one well-marked hallucination.
The constant dwelling upon this makes
the cure very difficult. So one great
trouble would, by it's constant effect
upon the mind. wear the soul out with
sorrow, because of no stopping place to
think of something else. The other
trouble furnishes this diversion.
MAN is born TO trouble as the sparks
fly upward" that is, it is the result of
law. Law that is beneficent as well
as philosophical in its operation. Be-
neficent, because ii reminds the soul
that this world is not it's final home
n world of constant change and too
narrow for the ever broadening soul OF
man, and leads him 10 the apprehen-
sion of home as wide and glorious as
God, and permanent III the heavens
Philosophical, because it teaches the
soul the necessary lesson that, if the
soul would rise to the divine model, it
must fight its way upward. He who
knows nothing of the pains of unques-
tioning obedience, knows nothing OF
the glory and pleasure of absolute
command. THE captain of our saliva
ton was made perfect through suffer
ing"
The one all-peryading force behind
this struggle with sorrow and the con-
sequent ascension, is faith. The word
confidence exhibits this power in it's
subjective and objective movement.
Confidence III God, in ones self, in
ones destiny. No science ever pro-
ceeded upon any other basis. Keplar,
in working ont his three laws. took by
faith the work of others before him,
and he began where they left off. So
did Tycho, so did Newton, Brewster,
Hervey, Fulton, Morse and all. APP
piled to religion it is the same thing,
assisted by the spirit Of His Presence,
who is the father of us all. And the
Apostle says this faith is the victory
that overcometh the world" With his
companion in stripes and imprison
ment, he reioiced in the Phillipian jail,
because he knew the browning day was
coming by and by. And they. with all
who suffer and are true and faithful,
shall be crowned, and shall reign when
the sun is blown out and the stars shall
turn to dust. +. a. YATES.