The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-12-05


to silence and walked away. Out Of that
lifetime grief thu great author dipped his
pen's mightiest reinforcement Calvin's
"Institutss Of Religion" than which .
more wonderful book was never written
by human hand, was begun by the author
at 26 years Of age because Of the perseou-
tion by Francis, king Of France. Faraday
toileti for all time on salary of ESQ year
and candles. As every brick Of the wah
Of Babylon was stamped with tho letter
N, standing for Nebuohadnezzar, SO every
part Of the temple of Christian achieve
ment Is stamped with the letter I, stand
ing for trouble.
All Ia For the Best.
When IN England man is honored with
knixhthood, he 10 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 fiat of the sword,
but with the keen edge of the scimeter.
To build his magnifoence Of character,
Paul could not have spared one lash, one
prison, one stoniDg, one anathema, one
poisonous viper from the hand, one ship
wreck. What Ia true Of individuals Is true
Of nations. The horrors OF the American
Revolution gaze this, country this side OF
the Mississippi river to Independence, and
the ooptliot between England and France
gave the most of this country west ef the
Mississippi to the United States. France
owned it, but Napoleon, fearing that Eng
land would take 1t, practically made o
present to the United States, Tor ne receiy'
ed only s,ssuSu,uoo Tor Louisiana, Mis-
souri,, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa,
Minnesota, Colorado, Dakota, Montana,
Wyoming and the Indian Territory. Out
of the fro of the American Revolution
came this country east of the Mississippi,
out of the European war came that west
Of the Mississippi river The British EN-
pfre rose to its present overtowering gran
deur through eunpewder plot, and Guy
Fawkes' conspiraoy. and Nortbnmpton in
surreotion. and Walter Raleieh's behead-
ing, and Bacon's bribery, and Cromwell's
dissolution Of parliament, and the battles
Of Edge Hill, and the vioissitudes Of CEN
turtles. SO the earth itself, before it could
become an appropriate and beautiful resi-
denoe for the human family, had, accord.
ing to geology, to be washed by universal
deluge and scorohed and made incandes-
cent by universal fires, and pounded by
sledRe hammer of loebergs, and wrenohed
by earthquakes that split continents, and
shaken by volcanoes that tossed mountains
and passed through the oatastrophes Of
thousands of years before Paradise became
possible and the groves could shake out
their green banners, and the first garden
pour It's carnage Of color between the
Gihon and the Hiddekel. Trouble good
thing for the rocks, good thing for ma
tions as we'll as good thing for individ-
uals. So when you push against me with
sharp Interrogation point, Why do the good
suffer- I open the dark saying on harp
and, though can neither play an organ or
cornet or hautboy or bugle or clarinet,
have taken some lessons in the gospel harp,
and II you would like to hear me l will
play you these: "All things work together
for good to those who love God" "Now
no chastening for the present seemeth to
be Joyous, but grievous nevertheless after
ward 1t yieldeth the reaceable fruit Of
righteousness unto them which are e1er-
for night, but Joy oometh In the morn
Ing" What sweet thing is a harp, and
wonder not that IN Wales, the country
Of my ancestors, the harp has become the
national instrument, and that they have
festivals where great prizes are offered In
the competition between harp and harp, or
that weird Sebastian Erard was much OF
his time bent over this ohorded and vibrat-
ing triangle and was not satisfied until he
bad given 1t compass OF six ootaVes, from
to with all thu semitones. or that
when King saul was delnented the son OF
Jesse came before him and, putting his
fingers among the charmed strings OF the
harp, played the devil out OF the crazed
monarch, or that In heaven there shall be
harpers harping with their harps. so you
will not blame me for opening the dark