Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1898-12-17

70 nave been bis bride. her father pIckei \
mp piece Of embroidery and said. |
workmanship" Washington Irving eank
From hiiarity into silence and walked
away. Out OF that lifetime grief tho
great author dipped his pens nighticst re-
iiglon." than which a moro wonderful
book was never written by human hand.
was begun by the suthor at twenty-ffve
years OF age. becanse Of the persecution
by Francis. king OF France. Faraday
toiled for all time on a salary Of $50 q year
and candles. As every brick Of the wall OF
Babylon was stamped with the letter "
standing for Nebuchsdnexzar. so every
part OF the temple Of Christian achieve
ment is stamped with the letter T stand
fns Tor rroupies
When On England q man Is nonorci with
knfghthood. he Is struck with the fat OF
the sword. But those who have come 20
knighthood IN the kingdom. OF God were
first struck. not with the nat OF the sword.
but with .he keen edge the seimeter. To
build his mRcninceace OF character Paul
could not have spared one lash. one prison.
one stoning. one ensthema. one poisonous
viper from the hand. one shipwreck What
IS true OF individuals Is true OF nations
The horrors OF the American Revolution
gave this country this side OF the 1Ilssiss-
ippi River to Independence and France gave
the most OF this country west OF the Miss
sssippi 20 tho United States France
owned Il. but Napoleon. fearing that
England would take It. practically
made present 20 tue United States-for
ne received only els. 600 900 for Louisiana
Missouri. Arkansas. Kansas. Nebraska.
Iowa, Minnesota. Colorado. Dakota Mon
tana. Wyoming aud the Indian Territory.
Out q the FIRE % 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-.
1 Qire rose 10 its present overtowering
grandeur through gunpowderplot and Guy
I Fawkes' conspiracy and Northampton in
surrection ana Walter Raleigh's bchenting
and Bacon's bribery and Cromweirs disso-
I lction OF parliament and the battles Of
( Edge Hill and the vicissltuies OF centuries.
SO the earth itself. before IL could become
an appropriate aud beautiful residence for
/ the haman family. had. according 20 Ccol-
OSy. 10 be washed by unive rsal deluce and
scorched and made tncandescent BIZ uni
7 verSRl 0res. and pounded by sledce hammer
I Of icebergs and wrencaod by earthquakes
7 that sQlit continents, and shaken By vol
canoes that tossed mountains auI passct
through the catastroples o. thousands Of
years before paradise became possible and
I the groves could shake out their green ban
ners and the irst garden pour its carnage
I OF color between the Gibon aud the HIDE
( kel. Trouble good thing Tor the rocks
4 good thing Tor nations. a. we'll As n good
I thing for Individuals. So when you push
/ against ms with a slaro Interrogation
7 point, Why DO the good suffer- I open the
/ dark saying on a harp. and. though I can
/ neither play an organ or cornet or hautboy
or bugie or clarinet. I have taken some
lessons on the gospel harp. aud Il you would
I ike 20 hear me / viii play you these. "All
things work together Tor good 70 those who
/ love Cod"
Interrogation third: Why did the good
( God let sin or trouble come into the world
/ when he might have kept them out2 Nv
T reply T.. He had good reason. He bad
1 reasons that He has never given u. he
( had reasons which He could no more make
I u understand IA our finite state than the
I father, starting out on some great an 1
elaborate enterprise. could make the two
I year-old child In It's armed chair compre-
7 bend e. One waste demonstrate what gran
I ser- % character may be achieved Ct earth
/ BY conquering evil. Had there been no
I evil 20 ce1quer and no trouble 10 console.
then this universe would never have
known an Abraham or a Moses or a Joshua
Or 40 Ezekiel OF g Paul or Christ or
Washington or John Milton or John
Howard. and a million victories which have
been Eainet BY the ccnscerate1 spirits OF
al ages would never have been gaiuei
Had there been no battle. there would have
been no victory Nine-tenths OF the an
khems % heaven would never have beer
sung. Heaven could never have been .
+ thousandth part Of the heaven thai 10 Is
Will not say that an glad that sin ani
sorrow did enter. hut ! DO say that I an
Slad that after God has given all Hl'
Z reasons 20 an assembled universe He vii
7 never entered aud that the unfalioI
ceiestiais wiu be outdone AMI viii pu'
I down sheir trlmpets 10 listen and Il vii
D. In heaven when those who have con
I quered sin and sorrow shall enter as n
would be N a small singing school on eartl
81 IhalDerg aud G0ttschalk and Wagner ans
Beethoven aud Rhcinberger and Schuma0r
should all AZ once enter. The immortal
that have been chanting 20. GOO years befor,
tue throne VIII say, az they close thei
Abr-ttos. "Oh, AZ we could only sing Tx,
THAR But God will say 20 those who hAv'
never fallen and consequently have no
been redeemed. You must be silent now
. I yCu have not the qualification for this an
shem-" SO they SIT with closed lips an;
folded hands. and sinners saved BY grac'
take up the harmony, Tor the Bible say
''no nan could learn that song bat the hun
dred and forty and four thousand whicl
, were redeemed from the earth"
A great prima donna. who can now a
, anything with her voice, told ne that wheI
! she first started IN music her teacher Il
{ Beriin told her she c0uld be a good singer
bat a certain note she could never reach
And then. she said, - went 20 work an
I Studted and practsce1 for years Until I 81
, reach r." But the song OF the singer II
, deemed. the Bible says. the exalted har
: rnonists who have never sinned could nc
h. 4 reach aud never will reach. Would yo
. Ike 20 acar me IN a very poor way play
snatch OF that tuner / can give 70
only one bar OF the mussc on this gosps
I Flarp. Unto Hin that hath loved u
: and washed rs from our sins In His ow
} blood and hath made as kings and priest
I nnto God and the Lamb, 20 Him be gior
, And dominion forever and ever, amen.
I Bat before le1ving this interrogafory VIII
, God Jet sin come tltO the world let me "a
J <hat great battles seem 10 be nothing bu
suffering and outrage az the time OF the.
3 recurrence, YET after they have been lon
= while past we can see that 10 MAS better q
3 lien 20 have been fought, namely. Sa