The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-01-01

his S~V'VVV NOW NC huS pTdycFS on INC
Sabbath and every day Of the week, but
he has dropped the catechism. The
wheel of fortune turns up again, and
he gets his $50 600. Now he has prayers
on Sabbath morning alone. The vince
OF fortune keeps turning up, and he has
$500, 900, 'and now he has prayers on
Sabbath morning when he feels like 1t
and there is no company. The wheel
OF fortune keeps on turning up, and
he has his $500, 900 and no prayers ut
all. 9Four-leaf clover in pasture field
is not SO rare as family prayers in the
houses of people who have more than
S300,O90. But now the wheel of for
tune turns down, and the man loses
$500, 900 out of the $500, 900. Now on
Sabbath morning he is on n stepladder
looking for Bible under the old news
papers on the bookcase. lie is going
to have prayers. His affairs are more
and more complicated. and after awhile,
crash goes his last dollar. Now he has
prayers every morning, and he hears
his grandchildren the catechism. Pros
perity took him away from God; adj
versity drove him back to God. Hot eli
mate to make the coral; hot and scald-
ing trouble to make the jewels of grace
in the soul. We all hate trouble, and yet
it does II great deal Tor us. You have
heard, perhaps, of that painter who
wished 10 get an expression of great
distress for his canvas, and who had
his servant lash a man fast and put
him to great torture, and then the
artist caught the look on the victims
face and Immediately transferred it &c
the canvas. Then he said to the ser.
want, ''Morc torture" and under more
torture there was more thorough ex-
preston of pain, and the artist said:
stop there; wait till catch that ex-
preston. There. Now have it upon
the canvas. Let loose the victim. |
have n work that will last forever"
"Oh," you say, she was an nhuman
painter" No doubt about it. Trouble
is cruel and inhunan; but he is IL great
painter and out OF our tears and blood
on his palette, he makes colors that
never die. Oh, that it might be a pic
ture OF Christian fortitude, of shining
hope!
On the day | was licensed TO preach
the Gospel an old Christian man took
my hand and said: "My son, when
you get in tight corner on Saturday
night, without any sermon, send for
me, and will preach for you" Well,
it was great encouragement to be
backed up by such a good old minister,
and it was'not long before l got into
tight corner on Saturday night,
without any sermon, and | sent for the
old minister, and he came and
preached, and it was the last sermon
he ever preached. All the tears | cried
at his funeral could not express my af-
lection for that man. who was willing
to help me out OF tight corner. All!
my friends, that is what we all
want-somebody to help us out
Of tight corner. You are in
one now. How do l know it?
am used to judging of human countc-
nances, and l see beyond the smile and
beyond the courageous look with
which you hide your feelings from 9TH
ers. l know you are in IL tight corner.
What to do? Do rs did when | sent
for old Dr. Scott. Do better than did
send for the Lord God of Daniel, and
of Joshua, and of every other man who
got into u tight corner. 90" says
some one, "why can not God develop
me through prosperity instead of
through adversity?" | will answer
your question by asking another. Why
does not God dye our northern and
seas with the coral? You
say: "The water is not hot enough"
There. In answering my question you
have answered your own. hot climate
for richest specimens of coral; hot
trouble for the jewels of the soul. The
coral shers going out from Tore del
Greece never brought ashore such fine
specimens as are brought out of the
scalding surges of misfortune. | look
down into the tropical seSs and there
is something that looks like blood, and
| say: HAS there been a great battle
down there?' Seeming blood scattered
all up and down the reefs. 1t is the
blood OF the coral and it makes me
think of those who come out of great
tribulation and have their robes
washed white in the Blood of the
Lamb. But these gems of earth are
nothing TO the gems of Heaven. mo
mention shall be made of coral"
One specim en- of coral Is called the
because is like tree
another is called the astrara, because
it is like star; another is called
the brain coral, because it IS
like the convolutions of the hui
man brain; another is called fan coral, |
because it is like the instrument with
which you cool yourself on hot day;
another specimen is called the organ
pipe coral, because it rescm bles the
king of musical instruments. All the
flowers and all the shrubs in the gar
dens of the land have their corre-
spondencies in this garden of the sea.
Corallum 1T is synonym for beauty.
And yet there is no beauty in the
coral compared with our religion.
1t gives physiognomic beauty. 1t
does not change the features; it does
not give features with which the per-
son was not originally endowed, but
it sets be hind the features of the home
lest person a Heaven that shines clear
through. So that often, on first ac-
quaintance, you said of a man: HE is
the homel est person L ever saw" when,
after you came to understand him and
his nobility of soul shining through
his countenance, you said: "IIe is the
loveliest person | ever saw" No one |