The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1896-10-09

ever Is elected to the Presidency, the wheels
OF Government turn So slowly, and a caucus
In yonder white building on the hill may
tie the hands OF any President. Now,
though we who live in the District of Column
b!a cannot vote, We can pray, and my prayer
day and night shall be, 'Oh God. hear
Thou who hast brought the wheat
and corn OF this season to such magnt-
tude OF supply, give food to man and beast.
Thou who hadst not where TO lay Thy head,
pity the shelterless. Thou who hast brought
to perfection the cotton OF the South and the
flax Of tho North, clothe the naked. Thou
who hast filed the mine with coal, give
fuel to the shivering. Bring bread to the
body, intelligence to the mind. and saliva
tion to the soul Of all the people! God save
the Nation
But we must admit it is a hard gate to
push back. Millions of thin hands have
pushed at 1t without making 1t swing on Its
hard hinges. 1t Is a gate made out OF empty
out apparel. and cherries homes, and un-
medicated sickness, and ghnstliness and
horror. It is gate Of struggle. A gate OF
penury. gate Of want, A gate OF disaP-
pointment. A red gate, or what Isaiah would
have called a gate OF cnrbuncles.
Now. as 1 have already suggested, as
there arc obstacles in all our paths, we will
be happier If we consent to have our life
struggle. l do not know anyone to whom
1t is not a struggle. Louis the Fourteenth
and fixed to stay, and so he had the great
clock at Bordeaux made. The hours OF that
clock were struck by figures In bronze rep
resenting the kings OF Europe, and at GER
tain time OF day William the Third of Eng
land and other kings were made to come out
and bow TO Louis the Fourteenth. But the
clock got out OF order ono day and just the
opposite Of what was expected occurred, as
the clock struck n certain hour Louis the
Fourteenth was thrown to the feet OF Will
daSfinv
brings many surprises and those go down
that you expected to stand. and NJ the foot
OF disaster most regal conditions tumble. In
all styles otlife there come disappointment
and struggle. God has for some good rea-
son arranged It 50. II it is not poverty 1t is
sickness. II 1t "a not sickness, II is persccu-
tion. fit is not persecution, 1t Is contest
with some evil appetite. II 1t is not some
one thing, 1t is another. Do not get soured
and CROSS and think you: case Is p ,culiar.
You are just like the rest of US. You will
have to take the bitter draught whether 1t
be handed to you In golden chalice or pewter
mug. man who has II thousand dollars
year income sleeps sounder and has better
ave millions. II our life were
not n struggle We would never consent to
get out OF this world, and we would want to
advancing generations. BY the time that
man gets to be seventy years OF age, and
sometimes by the time he gets to be fifty
years OF age, he says: II have had enough
OF this, and when the Lord Wills II am
ready to emigrate to a country where there
are no taxes and the silver Of the trumpet
puc to ones lips has no quarrel with the
gold OF the pavement under his feet" We
have In this world more opportunity to cul-
tivate patience than to cultivate any other
grace. Let that grace be strengthened in
the Royal Gymnasium OF obstacle and OPP
position, and by the heip of God. having
overcome our own hinurances and worri-
ments, lot us so forth to help others wcose
Struggle IS greater than our own.