Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-12-21
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fs been Just ahead, and they altogether
Sht have gone down in the vortex Of
VIZ ailiness which every year swallows up
10, 900 households. And so he went while
he was humble and consecrated. and they
were by .he seventies of life kept close to
Christ and fitted for usefulness here and
high seats in heaven. and when they meet
at last before the throne they will ac.
was hot, 1t purified them and pre-
pared them for eternal career Of
glory and reward for which no other kind
Of life could have fitted them. On the
other hand, the useless man lived on to
Atty or sixty or seventy years because all
the ease he ever can have he must have in
this world, and you ought not. therefor.
begrudge him his earthly longevity. T.
all the ages there has not a single loafc
ever entered heaven. There is no place f.
ai.n there to hang around; not even In tn
mples, for they are full of vigorou-
alert and rapturous worship. II the goo
and useful go early, rejoice for them tina.
they have so soon got through with human
life, which at best Is struggle. And Ii
the useless and the bad stay, rejoice tina
they may be out In the worlds fresh b air
good many years before their final incar-
ceration.
Interrogation the second: Why do good
people have so much trouble, sickness,
bankruptcy, persecution, the three black
vultures sometimes putting their fierce
think now of good friend once had. He
was q consecrated Christian man, an elder
In the church, and as polished a Christian
gentleman as ever walked Broadway. First
his general health gave out and he hobbled
around on cane, an old man ct forty.
After awhile paralysis struck him. Having
by poor health been compelled suddenly to
quit business, he lost what property he
had. Then his beautiful daughter died;
then a son became hopelessly demented.
Another son, splendid OF mind and COM
manding OF presence, resolved that he
would take care Of his fathers household,
but under the swoop Of yellow fever at
Fernandina. Fla, he suddenly expired. So
you know good men and women who have
had enough troubles. you think, to crush
fifty people. No worldly philosophy could
take such a trouble and set 1t to music, or
play it on violin or flute, but dare to open
that dark saying on a gospel harp.
You wonder that very consecrated people
have trouble? Did you ever know any
very consecrated man or woman who had
not had great trouble? Neverl 1t was
through their troubles sanctified that they
were made very good. II you find any-I
where in this city a man who has now, and
always has had, perfect health, and never
lost a child, and has always been popular
and never had business struggle or misfor-
tune. VINO is distinguished for goodness,
pull your wire for telegraph messenger
boy and send me word, and 1 will drop
everything and go right away to look at
him. There never has been man like that
and never will be. Who are those arro-
CANT, self conceited creatures who move
about without sympathy for others and
who think more of a st. Bernard dog
or an Alderney COW or Southdown
sheep or a Berkshire pig than OF manf
They never had any trouble, or the trouble
was never sanctiied. Who are those men
who listen with moist eye as you tell them
OF suffering and who have pathos In
their voice and kindness In their manner
and an excuse or an alleviatfon for those
gone astray? They are the men who have
graduated at the Royal Academy OF Trou-
ble and they have the diploma written In
wrinkles on their own countenances. My,
myi What heartaches they hadl What
tears they have weptl What injustice
they have suffered! The mightiest infiu-
ence for publication and salvation IL
trouble.
There are only three things that can
break off a chain hammer, a file or fire
and trouble Is all three OF them. The
greatest writers, orators and reformers get
much of their force from trouble. what
gave to Washington Irving that exquisite
tenderness aud pathos which will make his
books favorites while the English language
continues to be written and spoken? Ar
early heartbreak, that he never once
mentioned, and whom thirty years aftsi
the death OF Matilda Hoffman, who was
TO nave Deen MS prfue, nef latner picked
up piece of embroidery and said,
"That Is piece OF poor MatiIda's
| workmanship" Washington Irving sank
| from hilarity into silence and walked
away. Out OF that lifetime grief the
| great author dipped his penis mightiest re-
enforcement. Calvin's Constitutes OF Re-
ligion," than which a more wonderful
book was never written by human hand,
was begun by the author at twenty-five
i years OF age, because OF the persecution
BY Francis. king OF France. Faraday