The commonwealth., 1898-01-21

beard, perhaps, Of that painter who
wished to get an expression Of great
| dlstresS for his canvas, and who had
his servant lash man fast and pu,
1 him 10 great torture, and then the
/ artist caught the look % the victim,
face and Immediately transferred IL tc
| the canvas. Then he said TO the ser
want, More torture" and under more
/ torture there was Ii more thorough ex
/ preston OF pain, and the artist said
/ stop there; wait till catch that ex
! preston. There! Now have It i Dor
the canvas. Let loose the victim.
have a work that will last forever
/ "Oh, you say she was an inhumau
| painter No oubtaboutit. Trouble
/ Is cruel and iuhumau; but he Is a great
J painter, aud ont OF our tears and blood
I On his palette, he makes eolors tina,
never die. oh, that it might be pic.
1 ture OF Christian fortitude, Of sh siing
( hopcl
GA the day ! was licensed TO preach
the Gospel nn old Christian man took
'''F ''hN hh' Shtis NlF sou, NntD
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 he
backed up by such good old minister,
ana it was no, long before got in TO
q ught corner on Saturday night,
without any sermon, and sent for the
old minister, and he eame and
preached, and ii WAS the last sermon
he ever preached. Althe tears / cried
AZ his funeral could not express my af-
lection for that man. who was willing
to heip me out Of IA tight corner. Ali
my friends, that Is what we all
"ant-somebody to help us out
OF light corner. You are in
one now. How do know it?
am used to Judging of human count te-
nanees, and | SEE beyond the smile and
beyond the courageous look with
which you hide your feelings from 9TH
ers' know You are in tight corner.
W nat to do3 DO as | did when sent
for old DE- Scott Do better than did
send for the Lord iod of Daniel aud
OF Joshua, and Of every other man who
got INTO tight corner. 90" saws
some one, why can not God develop
me through prosperity instead of
through aiversIty?' / will answer
your question by asking another. Why
does not God dye our northern and
temperate seas with the coralp You
say: ''Fhe water is not hot enough"
There! In answering my question YOU
nave answered your own. Hot climate
for richest specimens OF coral; hot
trouble for the jewels Of the soul. The
corai-lshers going out from Tore del
Greece never brought ashore such fine
specimens rs are brought out Of the
scaldlng surges Of misfortune. | look
down into the tropical sea, and there
is something that looks Ike blood, and
say: Illus there been a great battle
down there?' Seeming blood scattered
all up aud down the reefs. 1t is the
blood of The coral, and it makes me
thlnk OF those who come ont Of great
tribulatiun and have their robes
washed white in the Blood of the
Lamb. But these gems of earth are
iothing to the gems Of Heaven "No
tion shall be made Of coral
take your hand again and walk a
little further on in this garden of the
'ea, and | notice the durability of the
work of the coral Montgomery
'peaks OF it, He says: "Frail were
heir forms, ephemeral their lives,
heir masonry imperishabe." Rhlzo- |
'ods are insects 50 small they are in. |
ils'ble, and yet they built the |
lppenines and they planted for
holr own monument the Cor
tllleras! 1t takes $4,000, 900 of them
% make one grain, Corals are chang
ng the navigation of the sea, saving
% the commerce Of the world: Take
his channel;" take that channel:"
avoid the other channel" Animal
nIes beating back the Atlantic and
'ncIiic seas. If the insects of
he ocean have built II reef
housand miles long, who knows
mt that they may yet build reef
900 miles long, and thus that by ona
tone bridge Europe shall be united
With this continent on one side, and bv
mother stone bridge Asia will be
uted with this contincnton the other;
nd the tourist of the world, without
he turn OF steamers wheel or the
pread OF ships sail, may 20 all
round the world. and thus be fulfilled
he prophecy: There shall be NO more
en-,
One specimen OF coral is called Tho
because I is like a tree:
mother is called the astrara, because
~ like star, another is called
he brain coral, because it IS
Ike the convoIutions of the hu.
nam brain; another is called fan coral
because 1t Is like the instrument with
which you cool yourself on hot dav.
mother specimen is called the organ
'ipe coral, because 1t resembles ,bs
.lng OF musical instruments. All the
lowers and all the shrubs in the gar
lens of the land have their corre-
pondencles in this garden of the sea,
}oraIlum III is II synonym for beauty.
Ind yet there is no beauty in the
oral compared with our religion.
I gives physiognomic beauty. 1t
oes not change the features; Il ;iaes
'Cs gre f"nln-"s VITA which the per-
on was not originally endowed, but
I sets be hind the features OF the home.
lest person Heaven that shines clear
trough. So that often, on first ac-
Iuaintance, you said of a man: "He is
he homel'est person lever saw" when,
fter you came to understand him and
lis nobility of soul shining through
lis countenance, you said: He is the
oveliest person ever saw" No one
vcr had Il homcly Christian moth
+. Whatever the world may have
hought of her, there were two
Who thought well-your father, who
ad admired her for 30 years, and you,