Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-06-17

~ ehnNhheoS, anu II woman rose In the
audience and said: .John. you were
drunk last night" So John Wesley
passed under the fail. 1 saw in for
eign journal a report of one of George
Whiteheld's sermons-a sermon preach
ed hundred and twenty or thirty
years ago. 1t seemed that the reporter
stood TO take tho sermon, aud his chief
idea was to carieature it; and these are
some OF the reportorial interlinings of
the sermon of George whitefeld.
After calling him by a nickname indi-
cative of physical defect in the eye, it
goes on to say: "Here the preacher
clasps his chin on the pulpit cushion
Here he elevatee his voice. Here he low
ers his voice. Holds his arms extended.
Bawls aloud. Stands trembling. Makes
frightful face. Turns up the whites
OF his eyes. Clasps his hands behind
him. Clasps his arms around him and
hugs himself Roars aloud. Hollos
Jumps. Cries. Changes from crying
HOLDS and jumps again" Well, my
brother, IL that good man went through
all that process, in your occupation, In
your profession, in your store, in your
shop, Mt the bar, in the sick-room, in
the editorial chair, somewhere, you
Will have to go through a similar
process; you can not escape it.
Keats wrote his famous poem, and
the hard criticism of the poem killed
him-literally killed him. Tasso wrote
his poem entitled Jerusalem Deliver
ed, and it had such a cold reception it
turned him into n raving maniac
Stillingheet was slain by his literary
enemies. The frown of Henry VIII,
slew Cardinal Wolsey. The duke of
wellington refused to have the fence
around his house, which had been de-
stroyed by an excited mob, rebuilt, be-
cause he wanted the fence to remain
as 1T was, reminder of the mutability
and uncertainty of the popular favor
And you will have trial of 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 partner! How
hard 1T was to get rid of him! Before
you bought him out, or he ruined both
of you, what magnitude of ANNOYANCE!
Then after you had paid him down a
certain sum of money to have him go
out, and to promise he would not open
a store of the same kind of business in
your street, did he not open the very
same kind of business as near to Won
as possible, and take fall your Gus
toners 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
spending his time in making a com
mentary on what you furnished as a
text? You are physician. and in your
sickness, or in your absence, you get a
neighboring 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 patron
age. Or, You take a patient through
the serious stages of fever, and some
day the impatient father or husband
of the sick one rushes out and gets an
other medical practitioner, who comes
in just in time to get the credit of
the cure. Or, you are LAWYER.
and you come in contact with n
trickster in your profession. and in
your absence, and contrary to agree
ment, he moves 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 chance, and SAYS with a snarl.
IF you don't like my decision. take an
exception" Or, you are farmer. and
the curculio stings the fruit. or the
wecvil gets into the wheat. or the
drought stunts the corn, or the long
continued rains give you no opportuni-
ty 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 i'll on you suddenly, but
oh, how long 1T was in getting away!
Came on horseback, goes away on
foot. Rapid in coming, slow in going.
That is the history of nearly oil your
troubles. Again and again and again
you have experienced the power of the
east wind. 1t may be blowing from
that direction now.
My friends, God intended these
troubles and trials for some particular
purpose. They do not come at random.
Here is the promise: 'He staveth his
rough wind in the day of the east
wind" In the Tower of London the
swords and the guns of other ages are
FURNISHED and arranged into huge pas
sion flowers, and sunflowers and bridal
cakes, and you wonder how ANYTHING
so hard as steel could be put into such
floral shapes. have TO tell you that
the hardest, sharpest, most cutting
most piercing sorrows of this life may
be made To bloom and blossom and
put on bridal festivity. The Bible
says they shall be mitigatcd. they
shall be assuaged, they shall be gradu-
ated. God is not going to allow Won TO
be overthrow. a Christian woman
very much respondent, was holding her
child in her arms, and the pastor trying
to console the woman in her spiritual
depression. said: There, YOU will Lot
your child drop" ooh, no" she said
II couldn't let the child drop" He
said: You will let the child drop. -
why She said, 'If should drop the
child here IL would dash his life out,'
well, now +" said the Christian minis
ter, don't you think God is as good as
you are? Won't G,d, your Father
take as good care OF You, His child. as
you take care Of your child? God won't
let you drop"
] suppose God lets the east wind
blow hard enough to drive us into the
harbor OF Gods protection. We all feel