Milford chronicle., 1896-06-12

/ SAW IN foreign journal report q
ore of George Whitelluld's serinons--a Sc.
mon preached 100 or no years ago.
seemed that the reporter stood TO take tn
sermon, aud his chief idea was TO carica
ture 1t, and these are sumo of the ropoE
torlal interliniHgs of tho sermon OF Georg
Whiteleld. Ahor calnlg hin by a nick
name indicative Of physical defect in tn
eye it goes on To say; Here tho preaohe
: clasps his chin ON the pulpit cushion Her
he clovates his voice Hero he lowers hi
voice; holds his arms extended; bawl
( aloud; stands trembling; makes fright
full face; turns up the whites Of his eyes
4 clasps his hands bohind him; clasps his
arms around him and hugs himself; roar
aloud, halloos, jumps, cries, changes from
/ crying, hallaos and jumps again" Well
1 my brother, If that good man went through
all that process, in your occupation, IL
I your profession in your store, in YOU
/ shop. at the bar, In tho siokroOm, In thu
editorial chair, somewhere, you will have
to 90 through a similar process. You can
not escape it
Keats wrote his famous poem, and thI
hard criticism Of the poem killed him
literally killed him. TassO wrote his poem
entitled "Jorusalom Delivered. and II
had such a cold reception it turned him
into a raving maniac. Stillingfleet was
slain by his literary enemies. The frowi
of Henry VIII slow Cardinal WolSey. The
Duke OF Wellington refused to have the
fence around his house, which had been
destroyed by an excited mob, rebuilt bo-
cause he wanted the fence to remain as II
was, IA reminder of the mutability and un-
certainty Of the popular favor.
Gods Purpose.
And you will have trial Of some sort.
You have had 1t already Why need
prophesyg l might better mention a his
torical fact in your history. You are a
merchant. What time you had with that
old business partnerl How hard 1t was to
get rid of him! Before you bought him
out, or he ruined both OF you, what mag
nitude of annuyancel Then after you had
paid him down certain sum Of money to
have him go out and to promise he would
not open n store of the same kind of bust
ness in your street, did he not open the
very same kind Of business as near to you
as possible and tulSe all your customers as
far rs he could take them? And then,
knowing all your frailtios aid weaknesses,
after boing In your business firm for so
many years, Is ho not now spending his
your furnished as a text? You are phy-
sioian, and in your Sickness or In your alb
senco, you get nelghboring Doctor to take
your place in tle sickrnUm. and he in
eratiates himself into the favor of that
family, so that you forever lose their pat
ronage. Or you take patient through
tho serious stages of fever, and some day
the impatient futher or husband of the
sick one rushes out and gets another med
ioal practitioner, who comes in just in time
to got the credit Of tbs cure, Or you arc
a lawyer, and you come in contact with a
trickster in your profession, and in your
absence, and contrary to agreement, he
moves nonSuit or the dismissal OF the
case or the judge on the bench, rcmen-
bering an old political grudge, rules
against you every tino he gots n chance
and says with snarl, "If you don't like
my decision, take an exception" Or you
are farmer, and the curculio stinSs the
fruit, OF the weoyil gets into the wheat, or
the drought stunts the corn, or the long
continued rains give you no opportunity
for gathering the harvest. Your best COW
gets the hollow horn, your best horse gets
foundered. A French proverb said that
trouble comes in on horseback and goes
away on foot. So trouble dashed in on
you suddenly, but, oh, how long it was in
getting away 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 tho cast
wind. 1t may DO blowing from that di-
reotion now.
My friends, God intended these troubles
and trials for some particular purpose.
They do not como at random. Here is the
promise, He stayeth his rough wind in
the day of tho east wind" In the Tower
of London the swords and the guns Of 9th
or ages are FURNISHED and arranged into
huge passion flowers and sunflOwers and
bridal cakes, and you wonder how anything
so hard as steel could be put into such
floral shapes. l have to tell you that the
hardest sharpest, most cutting, most piero-
Ing sorrows of this life may be made to
bloom and blossom and put on bridal fes-
tiyity. The Bible says they shall be miti
gated, they shall be assuaged, they shall
be graduated. God is not going to allow
you to be overthrOwn. A Christian wom-
an, very much Respondent, was holding
her child in her arms, and the pastor, try
ing to console the woman In her spiritual
-~ai1 "There, you will let your
child drop" "Oh, no.; she said, Il
couldn't lot the child drop" He said,
You will let tho child drop" why" |
she said, iii l should drop the child here,
it would dash his life putp' "Wol, now"
said tho Christian minister, 8 don't you
think God is as good as you ares Won't
God, your Father, take as good care Of /
you, his child, as you take caro- of your
child? God won't let you drop.
Why Bitter Winds Blow.
I suppose God let's tho east wind blow
Just hard enough to drive us into the har- (
Dor of Gods protection. We all feel VIC .
can manage our own affairs. We have /
helm and compass and chart and quadrant. /
Give us plenty Of sea room, and We sail on I
and sail on, but after awhile there comes q /
Caribbean whirlwind up the coast, and .
we are helpless in the gallo, and we cry out |
for harbor. All our calculations upset, /
we say with the poet:
Change and decay ON all around see.
Oh, thou who changest not, abide with mel
The south wind of mild Providence
makes us throw OFF the cloak Of Christian
character and we catch cold, but the sharp
8ast wind of trouble makes us wrap around
us tho warm promises. Tho best thing
That over happens to us is trouble. That
IS a hard thing perhaps to say, but re-
peat It, for God announces 1t again aud
again, the best thing that happens to US is
rouble.
Whom the French army wont down into
Egypt under Napoleon, an engineer, in
digging for fortress. came across n tab
let which has been called the Rosetta stone.
There were Inscriptions in three or four
languages GU that Rosetta stone. Scholars
studying out the alphabet Of hieroglyphics
from that stone were enabled to read an
,ient Inscriptions on monuments and on
Well, many Of the handwrit-
ngs of God in our life are indecipherable
We cannot understand
hem until we take up the Rosstta stone
If divine inspiration, and the explanation
al comes out, and the mysteries all van
sh, and what was before beyond our I'M
Outstanding now is plain in its meaning