Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-12-05
LIES MINOR CHORD
OH' TALMAes TALKS OF mAN,s oo,.
pENSAT'oN FOR SUFFERING

tooPyrlght 1898. by American pro.
elation.l fNSso-
WASHINGTON, Dec. Ain th;s a..
course Dr. Talmage takes an on,;r,;a.;.
view OF many things that are usna,iu
accounted as inexplicable in human er
peiiehce ana shows us that even ,rorh1o
and a1iliction may not be whoI,r 49,.
out Their brighter side; text ps.,m
XIX 4. Il will open my dark savina
upon the harp" ''s
Inc world is full of the inexplicab,o
tne impossible, the unfathomable tho
lnsurmountabls We cannot On tbroo
steps in any direction witbout com;no
up against hard wall of mystery, rid,
oies' paradoxes, profundities, iabv.
rlhths, problems that we cannot solve
h'eroalyphics that we cannot decjnber
anagrams we cannot spell out, spbjnyes
that VIII not speak For that reason
David III my text proposed to take nm
some OF these somber and dark thinps
ana try to set them to sweet music. 81
VIII open my dark sayings on a harm.
so ] look OFT upon society and find neo.
pie III unhappy conjunction of cjrcum.
stances, aud they do hot know what il
means, and they have right to ask
why is this' Why is that? and think
VIII be doing good work by irving
TO explain some Of these strange things
and make you more content with yonr
LOT, ana | shall only be answering cues.
tlons that have often been asked me. or
that we have all asked ourselves, while
try to set these mysteries to music
and open my dark sayings on harp.
Interrogation the first: Why does God
take out of this world those who are
useful and whom we cannot spare and
leave alive and in good health SO many
who are only nuisance to the world?
l thought | would begin with the very
toughest OF all the seeming inscrutables
Many Of the most useful men and WON.
Ell die at 80 or 40 years of age, while
you often find useless PEOPLE alive at 90
and 10 aud 50 .Ionn Careless wrote to
Bradford, who was soon to be put to
death, saying. "Why doth God suffer
Inc and spch other caterpillars to live
that can do nothing but consume the
aims of the church, and take away so
many worthy w0rkmen in the Lords
vineyard Similar questions are often
asked Here are two men. The one is a
noble character and a Christian man
He chooses for a lifetime companion one
who has been tenderly reared and he
| is worthy of him and he is worthy of
| her AS merchant or farmer or profess
sioual man or mechanic or artist he
tolls to educate and rear his children.
He is succeeding, but he has not yet
established for his family a full COM
potency He seems indispensable to that
household; but one day, before he has
paid off the mortgage Oh his house, he
| is coming home through a strong north
east wind, and chill strikes through
him, and four days Of pneumonia end
his earthly career, and the wife and
| children 90 into struggle for shelter
and food His next door neighbor is a
man who, though strong and we'll, lets
his wife support him He is around at
the grocery store or some general Loaf
| ing place in the evenings while his wife
sews His boys are initiating his exam
pie, and lounge and swagger and swear
All tho use that man is in that house Is
| to rave because the coffee is cold when
he comes to late breakfast, or to say
emitting things about his wltes LOOKS,
when he furnishes nothing fol her
wardrobe Tie best thing that could
hanreu to that family would te that
mans funeral. but he declines to die
| He lives On and on and on, So we nave
all noticed that many of the useful are
early cut off, while the parasites have
great vital tenacity
The Darker Way.
| take up this dark saying on my
harp and give three or four thruins Vi,
the string in the way of surmlslng ana
bopeful guess Perhaps the useful man
was taken out Of the world because ne
and his family were so constructed 'ha'
thew could not have endured some great
nrosneri,y that might have been just
ahead and they altogether might nave
oone down in the vortex OF worlu'lhess
which every year swallows up lo,ooo
households And Sd he Went "hi'e lie
,,,,. hr,nhIa and cousecraed, ana they
were Nv the seventies of life kept cios0
,o Christ and fitted for usefulness nele
ord hioh seats in heaven, ana "hen
,hsr meet at last before the throne they
will acknowledge that, though 'ne iui
mace was hot, it purified them anu pre-
vowed them for an eternal career u
elorv and reward for which no o'ner
Eva If ,ife could have fitted them. w
tha other hand, the useless man 1i'ou
on to so or 60 or 70 years because es ",a
the ease he ever can have ne mus. ., n",o
~ tbis world, and you ought not tnere'
fora heprudge him his earthly lonee.i
~ In all the ages there has not Ell.
',Ia ,oafer ever entered heaven. iheie
r. M nlace for him there TO i'ans
around; not even in the temples Ia ~,
thev are full of vigorous alei. 49,, 49,
w. nt,rous worship. If the good ana use. 50.
fni 90 early, rejoice for them tna' .ney
49, har o. % soon got through with nulna ~
H.; IT, which 1T best is a struggle Anu -
the he useless and the bad stay reyJirs
that they may be out in the new. wo 4heir
trs"h mir air. a good many years before their
final incarceration. WIN do
N" intarrnpation the second why o w.
ln'er aon1a have so much trouble SICK
ness bankruptcy, persecution, . ;mo their
black vultures sometimes pul II. isenaled
e elaoe beaks into one set OF 3 angt9I1
nerce o0I. ~ III, now of good frlenu