The Monitor-register., 1896-06-12
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lowers his voice. Holds his arms ex.
tended. Bawls aloud. Stands trembling.
Makes a frightful face. Turns nm the
whites of his eyes. Clasps his hands he
hind him. Clasps his arms around him
and hugs himself. Roars aloud. Halloos
jumps, cries. Changes from CRYING
Halloos and jumps again" Well NV
brother, if that good man went tbrouoh
all that process, in your -occupation. in
your profession, in your store. in vonr
shop' at the bar, in the siokroom, 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-literally killed him. Tasso wrote
his poem, entitled Jerusalem Deliy.
cred, and 1t had such a cold reception
it turned him into a ravinp maniac
Stillingfeet was slain by his literary en-
emies. The frown of Henry VIII slew
Cardinal Wolsey. The Duke of We'll
lington refused to have the fence around
his house, which had been DESTROYED by
an excited mob, rebuilt, because he
wanted the fence to remain as it was. a
reminder of the mutability and uncer-
tainty of the popular favor.
In Time of Trial.
And you will have trial of some sort,
You have had it already. Why need I
prophesy? 1 might better mention an
historical fact in your history. You r
a merchant. What a time you had with
that old business partnerl How hard it
was to get rid Of himl Before you
bought him out, or he ruined both of
you, what magnitude of annoyancei
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 as
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
~ oo AldiJ JOa1o, 40 h0 AOb uOW Sp6uu-
ing his time in making a commentary
on what you furnished as a text? You
are a 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
| 20 10 q nafinnt %hror1ph tho oarfo,xo aka xoo
of a fever, and some day the impatient
| father or husband of the sick one rushes
out and gets another medical practi-
toner, who comes in just in time to get
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 agree
ment, he moves a 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 a chance, and says with a snarl.
eff you don't like my decision, take an
exception" Or, you are a farmer and
the curculio stings the fruit, or the wee
vii 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 awayl Game on horseback,
| goes away ON foot. Rapid in coming,
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. 1t may be
blowing from that direction now.
NY friends, God intended these trou-
| bles and trials for some particular pur-
bose. 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
FURNISHED and arranged into huge pas
sion flowers and sunfowers 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
not going to allow you to be overthrown.
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, "Icouldn't
let the child DROP" He said, "You will
let the child drop" "Why," she said,
s'if 1 should drop the child here, it would
dash his life outl' "Well, now" SAID
the Christian minister, "don'tyou 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"
Uses of Trouble.
suppose God lets the east wind blow
just hard enough to drive US into tne
harbor of Gods protection. We all fee
we can manage our own affairs. we
have helm and compass and chart and
ouadrant. Give us plenty OF sea room
and we sail on and sail on; but after
awhile there comes a Caribbean whlrl-
wind up the coast, and we are helpless
in the gale, and we cry out for harDor.
All q calculations upset, we say with
the 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 off the cloak OF Chris
tian character and we catch cold, but
| tbe sharp east wind of trouble makes US
wrap around us the warm promises.
The best thing that ave happens to us
ia trouble. That is a hard thing perhaps
to say; but I repeat it, for God an,
nounces it again and again, the pes1
| thing that happens to us is trouble.
When the French army went down
| into Egypt under Napoleon, an engl-
neer, in digging for a fortress, came
across a tablet which has been called
| the Rosetta stone. There were 1nscrlp-
tions in three or four Languages ON that
Rosetta stone. Scholars studying out
the alphabet of hieroglyphics from that
| stone were enabled to read ancient IN
scriptions on monuments and ON omb
| stones. Well, many of the handwritings
| of God in our life are indecipherable
| hieroglyphics. We cannot understand
| them until we take up the Rosetta stone
of divine inspiration, and the explana-
| ton all comes out, and the mysteries all
vanish. and what was before beyond
| our understanding now is plain in Its
meaning, as we read, "A1l things work
| together for good to those who love
| God" So we decipher the hieroglyphics.
Oh, my friends. have you ever oalculat-
| ed what trouble did for David? 1t made
him the sacred minstrel for all ages.