The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-08

Turns uu the whites OF his eyes. Clasps
his hands behind him. Clasps his arms
around lim. and hugs himself. Roars
aloud Hl.llz- Jumps. Cries Changes
from crylUe- HOIas and jumps again
~ p, nt .l9tleI' y tnat GOOD man went
tlIeu-- aA lA4l process, in your occu-
patton il your profession. fn your store.
-n your shop. at the bar. jon the sick room,
3D. i-e editorial chair. some where, you
Hl-- nave o. 60 through similar pro-
Cesr- YOU cannot escape. So.
-s wrote bis famous poem, ana the
hard criticism of the poem killed him-lit-
orally killed him. Tass0 wrote his poem
-ilttct. Jerusalem Delivered and IL
..t4 s-aI p COLO ir-eptlyn j turned aim
mo raFng maniac Stiilngtieet Vas
S.a5n 1v h.s literary enemies. The tr0Wu
~ Henry VIII slew Cardinal Wolsey. The
l'-ke Of wellington refused % have the
fence around his house. which had been
str0E-d by am excited mob, rebuilt. be-
cause ae wanted the fence 10 remain
as ia was, % reminder OF the mutabilitys
and uncertainty Of The popular favor.
And you viii have trial of some sort
You have had il already. Why need I
pFophesy. ] might better mention an his
torical fact ln your history. You are a
merchant " hat "a time you had wi n
that old business partneri How hard 81
was 10 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 nave MIN go out, and to prom
Use be would not open a store OF the
same kind OF business in your street. did
he not open rho very same kind Of bust
all your customers as far as he cOuld
take them? And then, knowing an your
fraIues and weaknesses, after being in
your business firm for so many years, ls
hc not now spending his time IN making
a commentary on what YOU furnished
text: You are physician, and In your
sickness, or in your absence, YOU get
ncighbOring doctor TO take your place
IN the sick room. and he ingratIates him
self into the favor Of that family, so
that you forever lose their patronage. or.
YOU take a patient through the serious
stages Of q fever, and some day tine inn
patient father or husband Of the sick one
rushes ont and getE another medical
practitioner. who comes in just i'm time
10 get the credit Of the cure. or. you
are "a lawyer, and you come IN contact
with trickster i'm your profession, and
in your absence, and contrary to agree
ment. he moves a nOn-Suit or the dis
miSsal of the case; or the judge on the
bench, remembering an old political
srudge, rules against you every time he
gets chance, and says with snarl, 'l-
you don't like my decision, take an ca
ceptiOn.' or, You are a farmer. and the
curculiO stiugs the fruit, or the weeVii
gets into the wheat. or the drought stunts
the corn, or the long-continued rains give
You no opportunity for gathering the har-
vest. YOUR best COW gets the hollow
horn, your best horse gets fOundered. a
French prOVerb said that trouble comes
ia on horseback and goes away on foot
but. oh, now long 1t was in getting
away, Came on horseback, goes away an
That is the history of nearly all your
troubles. Again and again and again
you have experienced ~the power of the
east wind i may be blowing from that
NY friends. God intended these troubles
and trials for some particular purpose
They do not come al random. Here is the
promise; lie staYeth MIS- 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
int hrru aiu md SIM HfslaH
ers, and bridal cakes, and you wonder
how anything so hard as steel could
be put into such floral shapes. I 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 festlvity. The Bible says
they shall be mitigated, they shall be
assuaged. they shall be graduated. God
is not going to allow you to be over
thrown; 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 let your child
drop" "Oh, no." she said, Il couldn't
let the child drop" He He said, You, viii
should SI drop the eRd here s. would
Christian minister. don't you think God
is as good as you are? Won't God, your
Father. take as good care of you, his
child, as you take care of your child?
God won't let you drop"
I suppose God let's the east wind blow
lust hard enough to drive us into the
harbor Of Gods protection. We all feel
we can manage our own affairs We have
helm and compass and chart and quad
rant 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 cal
culations upset, we say with the poet.
Change and decay on all around see;
thou who changest not, abide with me!
The south wind of mild provi-
dence makes us throw off
ter and we catch cold, but the sharp east
wind of trouble makes us rap around us
the warm promises. The best thing that
ever happens to US is trouble. That IS a
hard thing perhaps to say: but repeat it,
for God announces IL again and again, the
best thing that happens to us is trouble.
When the French army went down into
Egypt under Napoleon an engineer, in
digging for a fortress, came across a tab
let which has been called the Rosetta
stone There were inscriptions in three or
four languages on that Rosetta stone.
Scholars studying out the alphabet Of
hierOglyphiCs from that stone were
enabled to read ancient inscriptions on
monuments and on tombs tones. Well,
many of the handWritings of God in our
life are indeciphereable hieroglyphiCs
we cannot understand them until we take
up the Rosetta stone of divine Inspiration,
and the explanation all comes out, and
the mysteries all vanish, and what was
before beyond our understanding now IS
plain in its meaning, as we read, All
things work together for good to those
who love Cod" SO we decipher the hero
glyphics Oh, my friends! have you ever
calculated what trouble did for David?
1t made him the sacred minstrel for all
ages What did trouble do for Joseph?
Made him the keeper of the corn cribs
of Egypt. What did it do for Paul? Made
him the great apostle to the Gentles.
What did it do for Samuel Rutherford?
Made his invalidism more illuStriouS than
robust health What did it do
for Richard Baxter? Gave him capac-
ity to write of the Saints Everlas ting
Rest" What did it do for John Bunyan?
Showed him the shining gates of the city.
What has ii done for you? Since the
loss of that child your spirit has been
purer Since the loss of that property you
have found out that earthly investments
are insecure. Since you lost your health,
you feel as never before a rapt anticipa-
/ ton of eternal release. Trouble has hum
/ bled you, has enlarged you. has multiplied
/ your resources, has equipped you has
! loosened your grasp from this world and
/ frightened your grip on the next OH bless
God for the east wind. 1t has driven
you into the harbor of Gods sympathy.
| Nothing like trouble to show us that this
! world is an insufficient portion HOgarth