The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-08-27

medical advice, and he could have ha,
the very best attendance, and lonl
lines of carriages would have stoppe,
ut the front door to inquire as to hi
welfare. But poverty on the one sid,
and sickness on the other are Bozez anG
Seneh, and they interlock their shad
ows, and drop them upon the pool
mans way. God help himl "Thers
was sharp rock on the one side, and
a sharp rock on the other side"
Now, what is such man to do? In
the name OF Almighty God, will tell
him what to do. Do as Jonathan did
climb; climb up into the sunlight OF
Gods favor and consolation. can go
through the churches, and show you
men who lost fortune and health at the
same time, and yet who sing all day
and>dream of Heaven all night. II you
have any idea that sound digestion,
and steady nerves, and clear eyesight
and good hearings and plenty of friends
are necessary to make a man happy,
you have miscalculated. Il suppose
that these overhanging rocks only
made Jonathan scramble the harder
and the faster to get up and out into
the sunlight; and this combined shadow
of invalidism, and financial embarrass-
ment has often sent man up the
quicker into the sunlight of Gods favor
and the monday of His glorious
promises.
1t is a difficult thing for a man to
feel his dependence upon God when he
has $40, 900 in bank and $50, 0D0 in gov
eminent securities, and block of
stores and three ships. "Well," the
man says to himself, lit is silly for me
to pray, give me this day my daily
bread, when my pantry is full, and
the canals from the west are crowded
with breadstuffs destined for my store
houses" Oh, my friend; if the COM
bined misfortunes and disasters Of life
have made you climb up into the arms
of sympathetic and compassionate
God, through all eternity you will bless
Him that in this world "there was a
sharp rock on the side, and . sharp
rock on the other side"
Again, that man is in the crisis of
the text who has home troubles and
outside persecution at the same time
The world treats man well just as
long as it pays to treat him well. As
long as it can manufacture success out
of his bone and brain and muscle, it
favors him. The world fattens the
horse it wants to drive But let a man
see it his duty to cross the track OF the
world, then every bush is full of horns
and tusks thrust at him. They will be-
little him. They will caricature him.
They will call .his generosity self.ag-
grandizement, and his piety sane
timoniousness. The very worst persecu-
ton will sometimes come upon him
from those who profess to be Chris
tians.
John Milton-great and good John
Milton-so far forgot himself as to
pray, in SO many words, that his enc
mics might be eternally thrown down
into the darkest and deepest gulf of
hell, and be the undermost and most
detected, and the lowest down vassals
of perdtionl And Martin Luther so far
forgot himself as to say,in regard to his
theological opponents: "Put them in
whichever sauce you please, roasted,
or fried, or baked, or stewed or
boiled, or hashed, they are moth
ing but asses!" ALI, my friends,
if John Milton or Martin Luther
could come down to such scurrility.
what may you not expected from less |
opponents? Now, sometimes
the world takes after them; public |
opinion takes after them; and the UNI
fortunate man. is lied about until all |
the dictionary of Billingsgate is ex-
iausted on him. You often see a man
whom you know to be good and pure
Ind honest, set upon by the world, and
nauled by whole communities, while
'icious men take on supercilious air
n condemnation of him; as though
Lord Jeffreys should write an essay on
yentleness, or Henry VIII. talk about
purity, or King Herod take to blessing
title children.
Now, certain amount OF persecution
ouses mans defiance, stirs his blood
or magnificent battle, and makes him
% times more man than he would
lave been without the persecution. So
was with the great Reformer whe n
he said: II will not be put down; l
will be heard" And SO it was with
Willard, the preacher, in the time of
louis ri. When Louis Nj. sent word
o him that unless he stopped preach.
ng in that style he would throw him
nto the river, he replied: "Tell the
ling that l will reach Heaven sooner
" water than he will reach it by fast
orses." certain amount OF persecu-
ion is a tonic and inspiration, but too
,uch OF 1t, and too long continued, be.
ONES the rock of Bozez throwing a dark
hadow over mans life. What is he to
o then9 Go home, you say. Good ad-
ice, that. That is just the place for a
ian to go when the world abuses him.
o home. Blessed be God for our quiet G
nd sympathetic honest But there is
iany man who has the reputation of
aving home when he has none.
trough unthinkingness or precipita- Q
on there are many matches made that S
nght never to have been made. An t
priest can not alone unite a u
'uple. The Lord Almighty must pro- {
aim banns. There are many homes j
which there is no sympathy, and no t
appiness, and no good cheer. The
amor Of the battle may not have {
sen heard outside; but God knows, II
all the playing C
the "Weudinp March md ali tho | u