Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-06-11

charged with all the crimes in the DATA
logue except one-that of drunkenness, "
and woman arose In the audience and
said, "John, you were drunk last night. ~
So John Wesley passed under the fail.
saw in foreign journal report OF
one of George whltefleld's serInons-a ser
mon preached 1870 or 1870 years ago. II
seemed that the reporter stood to take the
sermon, and his chief idea was to oarica-
ture 1t, and these are some of the repor-
torial interlinings of the sermon of George
WhiteAeld. After calling him by q nick.
name indicative of physical defect in the
sye 1t goes on to say: Hero the preacher
clasps hts chin on the pulpit cushion. Here
he elovates his voice. Here he lowers his
voice; holds his arms extended; bawls
aloud; stands trembling; makes q fright.
full face; turns up the whites of his eyes
clasps his hands behind him; clasps his
arms around him and hugs himself; roars
aloud, halloos, jumps, cries. changes from
crying, halloos and jumps again" Well,
my brother, II 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 similar process. You can
not escape It,
Keats wrote his famous poem, and tho
hard criticism of the poem killed him
literally killed him. Tasso wrote his poem
entitled Jerusalem Delivered" and 1t
had such cold reception 1t turned him
into raving maniac. Stillingfeet 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
destroyed by an excited mob, rebuilt, be-
cause he wanted the fence to remain as 1t
was, a reminder of the mutability and un-
certainty Of the popular favor.
Gods Purpose.
And you will have trial Of some sort.
You havo had 1t already. Why need I
prophesyf l might better mention his
torical fact in your history. You are q
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 mag
nitude 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 bust.
DtSS III yOIE oJIOout uiu io hou Opch buo
very same kind of business as near to you
as possible and take all your customers as
far MS he could take themp And then,
knowing all your frailtics and weak nesscs
after being In your busi ness firm for so
many years, Is no not now spending his
time In making commentary on what
your furnished as textP You are ply.
stefan, and In your sickness, or In your ab-
oh no ;,,y 30 La
your place In the sickroom, and he in
gratiates himself into the favor Of that
family, SO that you forever lose their pat
ronage. Or you take patient through
the serious stages of n fever, and some day
the impatient father or husband of the
sick one PUSHES out and gets another med
ioal practitioner, who comes In just In time
to got the credit Of the cure. Or you are
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, remem-
boring an old political grudge, rules
against you every time he gets chance
and says with snarl, "If you don't like
my decision, take an exception" Or you
are a farmer, and the curoulio stings tho
fruit, or the weevil gets into the wheat, or
the drought stunts tho 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 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 d.
rection now.
My friends, God intended these troubles
and trials for some particular purpose.
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 9TH
er ages are FURNISHED and arranged into
huge passion flowers and sunflowers and
bridal cakes, and you wonder how anything
so hard as steel could bo put into such
floral shapes. I have to tell you that the
hardest, sharpest, most cutting, most pierc-
ing SORROWS of this life may be made to
bloom and blossom and put on bridal fes-
tivity. 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
depression, said, "There, you will let your
child drop" "Oh, no." she said II
couldn't lot the child drop" He said,
"You will lot the child drop" "Why,"
she said, 'if l should drop the child here,
it would dash his life outl' "Well, now, -
said the Christian minister, "don't you
think God Is as good as you aref Won't
God, your Father, take as good care of
you, his child, as you take care Of your
shild? God won't let you drop"
why Bitter Winds Blow.
suppose God let's the east Wind blow
just hard enough to drive us into the har.
Dor Of Gods protection. We all feel we
can manage our own affairs. We have
helm and compass and chart and quadrant.
Give us plenty OF sea room, and we sail on
and sail on, but after awhile there comes a
Caribbean whirlwind up the coast, and
we are helpless In the gale, and we cry out
for harbor. All our calculations upset,
we say with tho poet:
Change and decay on all around see.
Oh, thou who ohangest not, abide with me
The south wind Of mild Providence
makes us throw of the cloak of Christian
character and we catch GOLD, but the sharI
east wind of trouble makes us wrap around
us the warm promises. The best thing
that ever happens to us is trouble. That
is a hard thing perhaps to say, but re-
peat II, for God announces 1t again and