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

Subject: "Lire's Minor Chord'-Trlals and
calculations Arc Necessary For tho
Proper Development OF Character-
Mans Compensation For Suffering.
TEXT: '.I will open my fark saying upon
the harp."-Psalm Xix,
The world is full OF the iAexplicable, the
impossible. the unfathomGble, the insur-
mountable. We canuot go three steps In
any direction without coming up against a
hard wall OF mystery, riddles, paradoxes,
profundities. labyrinths; problems that we
cannot solve, hieroglyphics that we cennot
decipher. anRgraus we cannot spell out,
sphinxes that will not speak. For that
reason David I'm my text proposed to take
up some OF these somber and dark things
and try to set them to sweet music. II
will open my dark savings on harp"
SO look of upon society and find people
In unhappy conjunction OF circumstances.
and they de not know what 1t means, and
they have right to 2sk. Why is this? Why
is that? and think will be doing good
strange things and make YOU more content
with your lot, andI shall only be answer
ing questions that have often been asked
me: or that we have all asked ourselves
and open nv DARK Savings on harp.
Interrogation the first: Why does God
take ont OF this world those who are use
ful and whom we cannot spare and leave
| NiiNc Vnu III SOOu HeutCu SO many WHO are
| only a nuisapce to the world2 1 thought
would begin with the very toughest OF all
the seeming inscrutables. Many OF the
most useful men anti women die at thirty
/ or forty years OF nee. while you often nnd
useless people alive at sixty and seventy
and eighty. John Careless wrote to Brad
| ford, who was soon to be put to death,
! saying: "Why doth God suffer mo and such
other caterpilllars to live, that can do
| nothing but consume the aims OF the
| church. and take away so many
| worthy workmen in the Lords vine
yard?" Similar questions are often
| asked. Here are two men. The one is u
noble character aud a Christian man.
He chooses for lifetime rhpanion one
| who has been tenderly reared. and she
| is worthy OF him and he is worthy OF her.
As merchant or farmer or rpSatessional man
and rear his chtfdGas1 70 cceeding,
but ha has not vet es& SS9 ~ his family
full competency. Nras. lispensable
| to that household; bu1ono d before he
has paid of the mortgage on house. he
| Is coming home through a. S0kong north
east wind and chill strikes through
| him, and four days OF pneumonia end
| his earthly career, and the wife and
children go into a struggle for shelter
! and food. His next door neighbor is u
| man who though strong and we'll. let's his
| wife support him. He is around Mt the
| grocery store or some general loafng place
| in the evenings white hts wife sews. His
|
| and swagger and swear. All the use that
| man Is In that house Ia to rave because tho
coffee is cold when he comes to n late
| breakfast or to say cutting things about
| his wifes looks. when he furnishes nothing
| for her wardrobe. The best thing that
could happen to that family would be that
| mans funeral, but he declines to die. He
lives on and on and on. So we have all
| noticed that many OF the useful are early
| tenacity.
I taksup this daS my harp
and give three f&ut 1hrSS yhya -m rhe stsins Mihnls
| in the way of surmsihS ant t''IiIs weIo
Perhaps the useful man VIII ~ is.f,s nahe
the world because he and ~, ..o ai"ttS .ii.S Ut
r so constructed that they Stb, "oree. ot
Cbr.iss5 the Ha Dsd SswalIoWs HHovss nn %,
h.cLs ana ftteseeuties osseesa r., We: while
e'iis's RE ctn for ana and they
nifty or sixty or scvsrs when % tber here n;amt mnd
the ease lie ever can hsv , they win no.
this world, and yoa ouS ;, :~oibIs, oInI ac-
| begrudge him his ears ia In 10 )
all the ages thero has hot n rp;nt X,
ever entered heaven. Tlera is no place 70
! lin there to hang arc "Id; not even in th a
temples, for they are iull OF vigorous
alert and rapturous worship. II the COCA
and useful go eally, rejoice for them th,t
they have so soon got through with human
lie, which at best is n struggle. And if
the useless and the bad stay, rejoice that
| Ivy 'HHJ pC out III tue WOrl0'S freSh nj IN
| good many years before their nnal incar.
| cera.ion. "i
Interrogation the secord: Why do ,oo,
| people have so much trouble, sickness
bankruptcy, persecution, the three blact
| TuItureS sometimes putting their fierce
peaEs INTO one set OF jlnCled nerves. 7
| think now OF a good frianl once bnd NJ
was consecrated Christian man, nm elder
In the church, and as polished Christian
! gentleman rs ever walkei Broadway Eirs.
| MS general health Cl nj nd ba h
| around on u cane, an I'D man at forty
| After awhile paralysis stuck him. Havinr
| by poor health been compelled suddenIvtn
| quit business. he lost What properly he
| had. Then his beautiful daughter died. |
| then son became hoIelessly demente5 |
Another son, splendid " mind and CON !
mandiDg OF presence resolved that b, |
wonld take care Of his faher's household |
but under the swoop o yellow fever a.
Fernandina, Fla, he SUDDENLY expired. So
You know good men and yen who hava
had enough troubles, r. - to crusT
flity people. No worldly Shy couIr I
take such a trouble and u IL toySstc or
play 1t on violin or lutc, ,but dara % OPEN
that dark saying on n gspel harp.
You wonder that veryt 0ns ecrated people
have trouble? Did vi ever know anv
very c2nsecrated man r woman who had
not had great troubG? Never! 1t was
through their tToubleS jInctned that they
were made very gOod.(If You find any
where in this city ~ m who has now, aai
always Las had, per;ek health, ani never
lost child, and has Iways been popular
ahd never had bushes struggle or misfor-
tune. who Is diStinruShel for goo !ncSs