The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-12-16

workmanship" Washington Irving sank
from hiiarity into silence and walked
away. Out OF that lifetime grief the
great author dipped his pens miyhtiest re-
enforcement. Calvin's institutes OF Re-
ligton," than which a more wonderful
book was never written by human hand.
was begun by the author at twenty-five
years OF age, because Of the persecution
by Francis, king OF France. Faraday
toiled for all time on a salary Of $50 a wear
and candles. As every brick OF the wall Of
standing for Nebuchadnezzar. so everv
part OF the temple OF Christian achfeve-
ment Is stamped with the letter 7. stand
ing for trouble.
When in England a man Is honored with
knighthood, he is struck with the fiat OF
the sword. But those who have come to
knighthood in the kingdom OF God were
first struck not with the nat OF the sword,
but with the keen edge OF the sclmeter. To
build his magnifcence OF character Paul
could not have spared one lash, one prison,
enc stonfng, one anathema, one poisonous
viper from the hand, one shipwreck. What
is true OF individuals Is true of nations.
The horrors Of the American Revolution
gave this country this side OF the Mtssiss-
ippj River to independence and France gave
the most Of this country west OF the Miss
issippi to the United states. France
owned it, but Napoleon. fearing that
England would take it, practically
made present to the United States-for
he received only SIS 900 900 for Louisiana.
Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado, Dakota, Mon
tana, Wyoming and the Indian Territory.
Ont OF the fire Of the American Revolution
came this country east OF the Mississippi,
out OF the European war came that west
OF the Mississippi River. The British en-
pire rose to it's present overtowcring
grandeur through gunpowder plot and Guy
Fawkes' conspiracy and Northampton in
surrectton and Walter Raleigh's beheadinS
and Bacon's bribery and Cromwells disso-
luton OF parliament and the battles OF
Edge Hill and the vicissitudes OF centuries.
So the earth itself. before it could become
an appropriate and beautiful residence for
the human family, had, according to geol-
oRy, to be washed by universal deluge and
scorched and made incandescent by uni
Versal fires, and pounded by sledgc hammer
OF icebergs and wrenched by earthquakes
that split continents, and shaken by vol
canoes that tossed mountains and passed
| through the catastrophes OF thousands OF
years before paradise became possible and
the groves could shake out their green ban
ners and the first garden pour its carnage
OF color between the Gihon and the Hidde-
| kel. Trouble-a good thing for the rocks.
good thing for nations. as we'll as good
thing for individuals. SO when you push
| against me with n sharp Interrogation
| point, Why do the good suffer? 1 open the
| dark saying on harp, and, though can
neither play an organ or cornet or hautboy
! or bugle or clarinet, have taken some
! lessons on the gospel harp. and II you would
| like to hear me will play you these: 'All
things work together for & good to those who
| love God"
Interrogation third Why did the good
| when He might have kept them out? My
reply Is, He had a good reason. He had
| reasons that He has never given US. He
| had reasons which He could no more make
| Us understand in our finite state than the
| father, starting out on some great and
| elaborate enterprise, could make tho two
year ~ So1iild in its armed chair compre-
bend II i1u5wa,to to dem onstvrhe es Otelrlio
| deur conquer and no trouble to consoIa
l. by corShls universe would Eey.r bey,
nhomHnn Abraham or n Moses or n Joshnn
w w "L Ezekiel or Paul or a Chriat or
WasninS Ston or John Milton ora John
howard. and u million Victories yhich Loa
Deen gained by the consecrated sn,ritS 20
AL ages would never have been pninaJ
hau there been no battle, there woufj bova
pssa no victory. Nine-tenths Of Ia, nm.
thems OF heaven would neyer bnvn -
sung. Heaven could never nave Hoou oa
no .uU"sandth part OF the heaven that it is.
VII not say that am glad that sin and
M, "sa anter-but do say that lam
~! atd DC In small sing Ting ,sall-Uis.
| I1r--.aloerG and Gottschalk and Wagner on5
Deetnoven and Rheinberger and S,6um,mn
suouiu all at once enter Tho inmortnis
.hat nave been chanting 10, 900 wears hnrora
iibre.,nS nrone .eo VIII say, as they close their
tuie,.oS, On, II we could only sine Iiro
that!' But God will say to those wbo hns.s Me
never 1ailen and consequently have no,
been redeemed, "You must be s;,nmt @ iot
you nave not tho qualification for ti,i ~
men,. SO they sit with closed line mn,
ioioed hands, and sinners saved hv 80, t
lake up the harmony for the Bihlo go
no man could learn that song but the h"1n
Ureu ana torty aad four thousand Will
were redeemed from the earth"
great primn donna who can now !,
anylninS with her voice, told mo tbpt 49,,
hrst started in music her tencher In
h'st hbetiih told her she could be ~ good sinoar
o uut certain note she could mover rn5ch'
.,',a Ahu then, she said, went to WORK and
sauu.eu ana practiced for years until T did
daa ~. bul the song OF the singer re-
ueouieu' ' the Bible says. the exalted bor.
iuonis1s VINO have never sinned could no,
reach and never will reach. WouId @ no.
he 70 near me in u very Door wav nI,. "
snatch OF that tune? enn "iypa p"y :.
only one bar OF the music on this you
hafp, Unto Him that hath inraad dJspei
,na una Washed us from our sins in Uis oa
p.oou ana hath made us kings ana nrinst.
up,o God md tho Lamb, to Him be nIo.,
iiiil uu ,uominion forever and ever, amen
God let sin come into the world, let me shy
that great battles seom to be nothing but
and outrage ut the time Of their
while past we can see that il was better Tor
them to have been fought, namely. Sal
amis. Inker:nan, Toulouse, .Arbeln, Agin-
court. Trafalgar, Blenheim, Lexington,
Sedan.
so4ve nys tcres 1 add totuc mYstcfy ti,IS
We. have already wondered at--numcly /
why preachers should keep on after all the
hearers are tired. SO Gatherup into ono