Connecticut western news., 1896-06-11

blow from that quarter. The east wind is just as important as the north wind. ox the south wind, or the west wind. but not so pleasant Trial must come The text does not say you will escape the cutting blast Whoever did escape its Especially who that accomplished anything for church or state ever escaped its was in the pulpit of John Wesley, in London. n pulpit where ha stood one day and said, II have been charged with all the crimes in the catalogue ex- oept one-thst If drunkenness, " and a woman arose in the audience and said. John, you werc drunk last night. So John Wesley passed under the fail
 l SAW in a foreign journal a report of one of George whiteheld's sermons-a sermon preached hundred and twenty or thirty years ago IL seemed that the reporter stood to take the sermon, and his chief idea was to caricature il, and these are some of the reportorial inter Innings of the sermon of George White field. After calling him by a nickname indicative of physical defect in the eye, it goes on to say: "Hore the preach er clasps his chin on the pulpit cushion. Here he elevates his voice. Hero he lowers his voice Holds his arms ex- tended. Bawls aloud. Stands trembling. Makes frightful face. Turns up the whites of his eyes Clasps his hands be- and hugs himself. Roars aloud Halloos. jumps, cries Changes from crying. Halloos and jumps again" We'll, my brother. if that good man went through all that process, in your occupation, in your profession, in your store, in your shop at the bar, in the sickroom, in the editorial chair, somewhere you will have to go through a similar process You cannot escape it.
 Keats wrote his famous poem. and the hard criticism of the poem killed him-iterally killed him. Tasso wrote his poem, entitled Jerusalem Deliv ered.'' and it had such cold reception it turned him into raying maniac. Sellingfeet was slain by his literary en- emies The frown of Henry VIII slew Cardinal wolsey. The Duke of Well hngton refused to have the fence around his house, which had been destroyed by an excited mob. rebuilt. because be wanted the fence to remain as 1t was. reminder of the mutability and uncer- tainty of the popular favor.
 In Time of rrial
 And you will have trial of some sort, You have had it already. Why need l prophesys 1 might better mention an historical fact in your history. You arc 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 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 you us possible and take all your customers 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 spend ing his time in making a commentary on what you furnished as text? You are physician, and in your sickness. or in your absence. you get a neighbor- ing 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 patronage. Or, you take a patient through tho serious stages of fever, and some day the impatient father or husband of the sick one rushes out and gets another medical practi- sioner. who comes in just in time to get she credit of the cure. Or, you are a lawyer, and you come in contact with I trickster in your profession, and in yoor absence, and contrary to agree ment, he moves a nonsuit or the dis misssl of the case. Or the judge on the bench. rcmembering an old political grudge. rules against you every time he gets a chance. and says with a snarl, If you don't like my decision. take an exception. Or, you are a farmer and tho curculio stings the fruit. or the wee yil gets into the wheat. or the drought stunts the corn, or the long continued rains give you no opportunity for gath ering 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. slow in going. That Is the history of nearly all your troubles. Again and again and again you have experienced the power of the east wind. It may be blowing from that direction now.
 My friends, God intended these trou- bles and trials fer some particular purs pose. They do not come at random. Here is the promise: ''He stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind" In the tower of London the swords and the guns of other ages are burnished and arranged into huge pas sion flowers and sunfiowers and bridal cakes, and you wonder how anything so hard as steel could be put into such floral shapes. Ihave 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 mitigated. they shall be as- suaged, they shall be graduated. God is uot ktiLS tV aA1oW you to uS oNtIIIl IL A Christian woman, very much de- spondent was holding her child in her arms, and the pastor, trying to console the woman in her spiritual depression. said, ''There, you will let your child drop ''Oh, no" she said, 1T couldn't t let the child drop" He said, You will let the child drop" Why" she said. If should drop the child here, it would lash his life out." Well, now," said the Christian minister, 'don't you think God is as good as you areg Won't God, your Father, take as good care of you. his child, as you take care of your childf God won't let you drop"
 Uses of Trouble
 suppose God lets the east wind blow just hard enough to drive us into the harbor of Gods protection. We all feel we can manage our own affairs We