The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-06-26

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the lungs and Affects the liyst, IL WI
AFFECT your immortal soul. Appealing
to God for help, brace yourself against
these whitening blasts and destroying
Influences, lest that which the Psalm
ist said, broke the ships Of Tarshish,
shipwreck you. ~
But notice In my text that the Lord
controls the east wind: The Lord
brought the east wind" He brings It
for a special purpose; It must some
times blow from that quarter; the east
wind IL just as important MS the north
wind, or the south wind, 1.-The west
wind, but not so pleasant. Trial must
come. The text does not say you will
escape the cutting blast. Whoever did
escape It? Especially who that accom-
plished anything Tor church or state
ever escaped It? was in the pulpit Of
John Wesley In London, q pulpit where
he stood one day and said: II have
been charged with all the crimes in the
catalogue except one-that Of drunk
enness," and a woman arose In the au-
dience and said: "John, you were
drunk last night So John Wesley
passed under the fail. saw in for
eign journal report Of one Of George
Whitefield's sermons-a sermon preach
ed hundred and twenty or thirty
years ago. 1t seemed that the reporter
stood to take the sermon, and his chief
idea was to caricature It; and these are
some Of the reportorial interlnfngs Of
the sermon of George Whitefield. After
calling him by nickname Indicative
Of physical defect in the eye, it goes
on to say: Here the preacher clasps
his chin on the pulpit cushion. Here
he lowers his voice. Holds his arms
extended. Brawls aloud Stands tremb-
ling. Makes frightful face. Turns
up the whites Of his eyes. Clasps his
hands behind him. Clasps his arms
around him, and hugs himself. Roars
aloud. Hollows. Jumps. Cries. g ha
aloud. Hollows and jumps. Cries and
changes from crying. Hollows and
jumps again." Well, my brother, if+
that good man went through all that
process, in your occupation, In your
profession, In your store, in your shop.
ut the bar, in the sick room, in the edi-
torial chair, somewhere, you will have
to 60 through similar process: YOU
cannot escape 1t.
Keats wrote his famous poem, and
the hard criticism Of the poem killed
him-literally killed him. Tasso wrote
his poem entitled, "Jerusalem Deliv-
ered," and it had such q cold reception
it turned him into raving maniac.
Stillingdeet 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 de-
c%u INV taS n1,saf1x
cause he wanted the fence to remain,
bility and uncertainty Of the popular
favor.
And you will have trial of some sort
You have had it already. Why need Z
prophecy? might better mention an
are merchant. What time you had
hard it was to get rid Of him! Before
of you, what magnitude Of annoyanceN
certain sum Of money to have him go
q store of the same kind Of business in.
same kind Of business US near to you as
as far as he could take them? And
then knowing all your frailties and
weaknesses, after being in your bust
ness firm for SO many years, is he. not
now spending his time in making q
commentary on what you furnished as
q text? You are physician, and In
your sickness, or in your absence, you
get q neighboring doctor to take your,
place in the sick room, and he ingrati-
ates himself into the favor Of that FAM
lily, so that you forever lose their pat
ronage. Or, to take patient through
the serious stages of a fever, and some
day the impatient father or husband Of
the sick one rushes out and gets an
other medical practitioner, who comes
in Just in time to get the credit Of the
cure. Or, you are lawyer, and you:
come in contact with trickster in
your profession, and In your absence
he moves non-suit or the dismissal of
| the case; or, you are the Judge on the
bench, remembering an old political
grudge, rules against you every time he
gets q chance, and says with snar,
IF you don't like my decision take an
exception" Or, you are q farmer and
the curculio stings the fruit, or the
weevil gets. into the wheat, or the
drouth stints the corn, or the long-con-
tineud rains give you no opportunity
for gathering the harvest. Your best
COW gets the hollow-horn, pour best
horse gets foundered. A French prov
erb said that trouble comes in on
horseback and gets away on foot. So
trouble dashed in on you suddenly,
but, oh, how long It was in getting
| awavN Came on horseback poes AWAY
on foot. Rapid in coming, slow in go
ing. This 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
troubles and trials for some particular
purpose. They do not come at random.
Here is the promise: "He stayeth His
rough wind I'm 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
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