Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-12-21

toiled fo- all time on SALARY OF ESQ year
and candles. As every brick OF the wall OF
Babylon was stamped with the letter Y,
standing for Nebuchadnezzar. so every
part OF the temple of Christian achieve.
ment is stamped with the letter T. stand.
ing for trouble.
When in England 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 scimeter To
build his magniacence OF character Paul
could not have spared one LASH one prison,
one stonin.. one anathema. one pois onous
viper from the hand, one shipwreck. What
ia true of individuals is true of nations
The horrors of the American Revolution
gave this country this side of the Mississ-
ipp, 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
he received only SIS 900 900 for Louisiana.
Missouri. Arkansas, KANSAS, Nebraska,
Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado, Dakota, Mon
fana. Wyoming aud the Indian Territory.
Ont OF the fire OF the American Revolution
came this country east OF the Mississippi,
ont OF the European war came that west
of the Mississippi River. The British en-
grandeur through gunpowder plot and Gay
Faykes' conspiracy and Northampton in
surrection and Walter Raleigh's beheading
aud Bacons bribery and CrouiwelPs disso-
luton of parliament and the battles OF
Edge Hill and the vfcissitudes OF centuries.
So the earth itself, before it could become
an appropriate and beautiful residence for
She human family had, according to geol
,Xn--Ssshed by p.iversal deluge and
scorched and ma3e incandascent by uni
4 l.,ryl yl.aI. IN uf,af9t slr
OF icebergs and wrerched by earthquakes
that split continents, aud shaken by vol
canoes that tossed mou ntains and passed
through the eatastrophes oil thousands o!
years before paradise became possible anu
the groves could shake out their green BAN
ners and the first garden pour its carnage
OF color between the Gihon and the Hidde-
ke. Trouble-a good thing for the rocks,
a good thing for nations, as well as IA good
thing for individuals. So when yon push
against me with a sharp interrogation
point, Why do the good suffer? | open the
dark saying on harp, and, though | eau
neither play an organ or cornet or hautDoy
or bugle or clarinet. 1 have taken some
lessons on the gospel harp. and IL you would
like to hear me will play you these: "Ali
things work together for good to those who
owe God"
Interrogation third: Why did the good
God let sin or trouble come into the world
when He might have kept them out2 My
reply is, He mad 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 the two
year-old child in its armed chair compre-
bend it. One wa to demonstrate what gran
deur of character may be achieved en- earth
by conquerlng evil. Had there been no
evil to conquer and no trouble to console,
then this universe would never have
known an Abraham or Moses or "a Joshua
or an Ezekiel or a Paul or Christ or
Washington or John Milton or John
Howard, and million victories which have
been gained by the consecrated spirits of
all ages would never have been gained.
Had there been no batti~ there would have
been no