Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-06-19

1 MIGHT ualIrr mgItIul an historical lhei IN
your history. You ARE r merchant. WAL
time sou had With that old business pauhet.
How hard o. VS. 10 rci ria Of him. Before
yau bought him cut. OF he ruined both OF
YOU. what magnitude oi annoyance. lhen
after YOU had paid him down "a certain SUM
of money 10 have him 80 lut and % promise
hs wuulI not uIeu "a lurg Oi the same Aihu
of business I'm your street, did ne no'
omen the very sane kind OF Dust
mess as near % You as possible and taAe
all your customers as lar NJ DE epuld lAAc
themg And then, showing all your iral lie
and weaknesses, after being 10 your cuisines
firm Tor So many years, D. be not now -peul-
fr. his time On making a commentary on
what Won furnished as a teXi2 You are
arysfri.n. and in your sickness, or IN No.I
aIsaUas Won GET n neighboring doctor 70
take YOUR place in the sick room, and he IN
-ratiates himself into the favor Of that lam
fIy sorbat YOU forever lose their patronage.
or won take q patient through the serious
-tn.,as of fever. and some day theimpAu,lt
father or husband Of the sick one ru-hrs
ont and gets another medical pra,u-
iioner. who comes in just In time TO get inc
credit Of the cure. Or. you are lawyer
and YOU come in contact with trieks'er IN
vour profession, and in your absence, anu
contrary 20 agreement, he moves non-ult .
or the dismissal Of the case. Or the luuSe F.
ON the bench remembering an old pohucM .
drudge. rules against YOU every time ne gets .
p chance, and saws with n snorl, III you
don't like my decision, take an exception.
or. YOU are a farmer and the curcuho SUM,
the fruit. or the weevil gets into the Wh'''
or The drought stunts the corn, or the l'nE-
continued rains give you no opportunity lor
Gathering the harvest Nour hest cow E-lS
fine no low horn: your hest horse gets '"IH-
drred A French proverb said that Uouo.o
/ comes on horseback and goes away on 'pu,'
/ So trouble dashed in on Won suddenly; uu',
7 oh. how l--7=-4t was in getting away. Cano
on horseback, goes away on loot. h3pu III
/ coming slow In going. Inat IS th' hls.uIS
Of nearly all YOUR troubles. Again ana
AGAIN and again you have experienced the
I mower OF the east wind II may be blowing
/ from that direction now.
NV friends. God intended these troubles
and trials for some particular purpose. lney
do not come at random. Here IS the promise;
ale staveth His rough wind in the Jay oil
the east wind" In the tower oil Lohdohlho
sr,orfls AMI the guns Of other ages are hurh-
ished and arranged into huge passion now
ers and sunllowcrs and bridal cakes, and you
wonder how ANYTHING 50 hard Ms sleel colld
be nut into such floral shapes. | have to ten
YOU that the hardest, sharpest, most cutting
most piercing sorrows Of this life may DC
made to bloom and blossom and put on
bridal festiyity. The Bible says they shal'
be nltigated. thew shall be assuaged, they
snail be graduated. God is not going to al
low YOU to be overthrown. A Christian wo'
man. very much desponlent, was holding
her child In her arms, an the pastor, tryinl
to console the woman in her spiritual depres
sion, said. "There, YOU will let your chlI'
/ / drop" ooh, no, "sh0 said, 81 couldn't le
3 the child drop" He said, "You will let tn
5 child drop" "Why," she said, ri shoul,
drop the child here. It would dash his III
} ont" "WcIl, now, " said this Christian min
I lister "don't YOU think God is as good a
t YOU are? Won't Col, your Father, take q
. good care Of YOU. His child, as you take car
n of your child? God won't let you drop
n / suppose God lets the east wind blow JUS
hard enough TO drive rs into the haroor
4 Gods protection. We all feel we can mar
g ace our own affairs We have helm an
= compass and chart and quadrant. GIVE U
Il plenty of sea room and we sail on ana s'
r. on. but Qttera while there comes Caribnea
10 whtrlwirl up the coast, and we are helple
3 in the gale. and we cry out for harbor A
> our calculations upset, we say with the poe
- Change and decay on all around see.
~ Oh, Thou who changest not, abide with m
~ The south wind OF mud Providence max,
If us throw OF the cloak Of Christian chara
O. ter aud we catch cold, but the sharp ca
4 wind Of trouble makes us wrap around
~, ! tho warm promises. The best thing III
sGr ever happens 10 US is trouble. That Is
hard thing perhaps to say; but repeat
nj for God announces il again and again, I
MI best thing that happens to us is trouble
h. When the French army went down IN
Egypt under Napoleon, an engineer, IN a
er ging for a fortress. came across TAP
,s which has been called the Rosetta stor
ma There were inscriptions IN three or 10
or languages un ttUt n1ACAtd StS'nG' beih0ie
,al studying out the alphabet Of hieroglyph
Al from that stone were enabled to read ancit
nj a
m stones. Well. many Of the handwritings
,r3 God in our life are inIecipherable hierog
rs phcs. We cannot understand them until
not take up the Rosetta stone OF divine lnspl
nj ton, and the explanation all comes out, q
no the mysteries all vanish, and what was
nth fore beyond our understanding now is plt
m, in its meaning, as we read, "Ali thil
en- work together for good to those who lc
me God" So we decipher the hierogIyphi
5ut Oh my friends, have you ever calcul
I'M ed what trouble did for Dayld2 1t ms
1od him the sacred minstrel for all az
,eir What did trouble do for Joseph? Mt
nto him the keeper OF the corncrhs
Egypt. What dtd1t do for Paul? Made
men the great apostle 10 the gentiles. What
ful. II DO for Samuel RutherIord2 Made his
en- validism more illustrinus than robust heal
: | What did il do for Richard Baxter G
,art him capacity TO write OF the Saints EN
tell lasting Rest" What did it do for John b
ed YAM Showed him the shining gates OF
ing city. What has it done for your Since
ark loss Of that child your spirit has been pu
God Since the loss OF that property you h
Sc found out that that earthly investments
low insecure Since you lost your health
NM feel as ever before rapt anticipation
,led eternal release. Trouble has humbled y
lodi has enlarged you, has multiplied your
oss, sources, has equipped you, has loosel
orv YOUR grasp from this world ami tighter
.g,rt,, an Iva llAZl
will the east wind, 1t has driven you into
NV harbor of Gods sympathy.
Ms Nothing like trouble TO show US That
world is an insufficient portion. HogS
Cor- was about done with life and he wantet
No. paint the end of all things He put on car
uIse shattered bottle, cracked bell, an
m strung harp, a sign board Of a tavern ca
'eefs 1.-THE Worlds End" falling down, s.
feet wreck, the horses of PhGbus lying dea
for the clouds, the moon in her last quarter,
rIno the world on fire. Zone thing more"
tbaf Hogarth, "aud my picture is done" I
u of he added the broken palette of a pair
Then he died. But trouble, with h
con- mightier and more skillful than Hogart
the pictures the falling, failing, molder
NM, Smo diving world. And We want something
fiat manent to lay hold Of, and we grasp
.tant both hands after God, and say, "The
The is my light, the Lord is my love. the Lol
must my fortress, the Lord is my sacrifice,
will Lord, the Lord is my God"
cane Bless God for your trials. Oh, my CT
INV. tan friend, keep your spirits up by
= T power of Christ's gospel. Do not SURF
Lon er. DO you nor KaoW that Wheh you
and up, otners VIII give up lou nave c0ur
the and others will have courage. The Ror
at If went into the battle, and by some acct
n the there was an inclination Of the stand
runk The standard upright meant forward ma
nder the inclination of the standard meant
render. Through the negligence of the
one who carried the standard, and the inc
rmOn ton OF 1t, the Amy surrendered. On, II
hirty keep the standard up, whether 1t be bl