Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-10

..uu not understanding human nature.
said to her, "Why did you not cry be.
fore?" She answered, "There was no
one to cry to-" Now, have to tell you
that while human sympathy may be alb
sent divine sympathy Is always accessi-
BILE. Give God your love and get his
love, your service and secure his help,
your repentance and have his pardon.
God friend? Why. that means all
your wounds indicated, all your sor-
rows soothed, and if some sudden catas-
trophe should hurl you out Of earth 1t
would only hurl you into heaven.
If God is your friend, you cannot go
out Of the world too quickly or sudden
ly SO far as your own happiness Is con-
cerned. There were two Christians who
entered heaven. The one was standing
at window in perfect health. watch
ing a shower, and the lightning in
stantly slew him, but the lightning did
not flash down the sky as swiftly as his
spirit flashed upward. Tho Christian
man who died on the same day next
door had been for year or two failing
in health, and for the last three months
had suffered from disease that made
the nights sleepless and the days an
anguish. Do you not really think that
the case of the one who went instantly
was more desirable than the one who
entered the shining gate through long
lane Of insomnia and congestion? In
the one case it was like your standing
YEARLY at a door, knocking and wait
ing and wondering if 1t will ever open,
and knocking and waiting again, while
in the other case it was swinging
open of the door at the first touch Of
your knucklo Give your friendship to
God and have God friendship for you,
and even the worst accident will b. a
victory.
Value Of Divine Friendship.
How refreshing is human friendship,
and true friends, what priceless treas
ures When sickness comes and trouble
comes and death comes, we send for our
friends first of all, and their appearance
in our doorway in any crisis is re-en-
forcement, and when they have enter
ed, we say, "Now 1t is all right" Oh,
what would we do without personal
friends, business friends. family friends?
But we want something mightier
than human friendship in the great
exigencies. When Jonathan Edwards,
in his final hour, had given the last
goodby to all his earthly friends, he
turned on his pillow and closed his
eyes, confidently saying, "Now where
is Jesus of Nazareth, my true and never
failing Friend?" Yes, I admire human
friendship as seen in the case of David
and Jonathan, of Paul and Onesiphorus,
of Herder and Goethe, CT Goldsmith
and Reynolds, of Beaumont and Fletch-
er, of Crowley and Harvey, of Erasmus
and Thomas More, of Leasing and Men
delssohn, of Lady Churchill and Prin-
cess Anne OF Orestes and Pylades, each
requesting that himself might take the
point of the dagger, SO the other migL.
be spared; of Epaminondas and Pelopi-
das, who locked their shields in battle,
determined to die together, but the
grandest, the mightiest, the tendereSt
friendship in all the universe is the
friendship between Jesus Christ and q
believing soul. Yet, after all I have
said, I feel I have only done what
James Marshall, the miner, did in 1S4e
in California, before it's gold mines
were known. He reached in and put
upon the table of his employer, Captain
Suffer, thimbleful of gold dust.
"Where did you get that?" said his en-
ployer. The reply was, II got 1t thit
, morning from mill race from which
the water had been drawn off," But
that gold dust, which could have beer
, taken up between the finger and the
, thumb, was the prophecy and specimen
! that revealed CALIFORNIA; wealth to al
nations. And today have only put be-
fore you specimen Of the value Of d.
I vine friendship, only thimbleful o.
mines inexhaustible and infinite, though
all time and all eternity go on with thu
i. exploration.
k1AN