The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-12-10
BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE
There Is Sunshine on Every Cloud
Says Dr.. Talmags.
What We Consider Gods Amietisns
On Us Are Always Influences fer
0OOd-WAy the UssfuI Are
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In thiA discourse Dr. Talmage taxes
40 optimistic view OF many things that
are usually accounted as inerplieable
10 human experience and shows rs that
even trouble aud affection may net be
wholly without their brighter nde.
Text. Pxaim 1914. Il will open ny dark
sAyipg upon the harp"
The world 10 full Of the iperplicable
ID, lmpassable. the unfsthomsble, the
ip.urmouu,able. We cannot 10 three
steps In n direction without coming
up auainst 4 hard wall OF uysiery. nd
die. pandoxeA, profunditieA laby.
rinth.. problems that we cannot solve.
hieroslyphics that We cannet deciph.r,
snagrams we caunot spell out, sphinxes
that will o o speak. Fer that reasnn
David 10 my text proposed 10 take up
soms OF these somber and dark thinRs
and try 10 VI them to sweet music.
81 will open nv dark saving, On 4
harm" So I look OF upou ~.oci.ty and
1pd people In unhappy conjunction Of
circumstapces and thew do not know
what II means. and thew have a rirht To
AJAX, Why is this? Why is thatS And
think 1 will be doing . good work by
irving 10 explain some Of thee strange
things and make YOU more content with
%yuur-fcr. Sruf onIy~pesmrvTfnR
questions that have often been asked
me or that we have all asked ourselves
while ! try 10 set these mysteries to
music and open my dark sayings OIL q
harp
Interrogation the frat: Why doe,
God take out Of the weird those WHIT
sr useful and whom we cannot SPAR
, and leave alive and in good health .,
mapy who are only a nuisance to III,
worldP thought / would begin will
the very toughest Of all the seeming
inscrutables. Many Of the most usefu
men and women die at 30 or 40 year,
Of age. while you often FAD useless PEG
pie alive al 60 and 70 and so Johl
3 Careless wrote 10 Bradford, who va
soon TO be put TO death, saying: "wh,
doth God suffer me and other such cat
erpillsrs TO live tha, can do nothing bu
consume the aims of the church an
take away 80 many worthy workmel
IN The Lords vineyard?" Similar que,
lions are ef,en asked. Here are tw
men. The one Is a noble character an
9 Christian man. he chooses for
lifetime companion one who has bee
fenderly reared. and she IL worthy O
him and he is worthy Of her. As mel
chant or farmer or professional ma.
!, or mocha mic or artist he tolls to edr
cate and rear his children. BE In sue
ceedlng. but be has not vet establishe
for his family a full competency. B
I seems indispensable 10 that househslt
g bu, one day. before he has psid Of Ii
mortgage on bis house, he 10 comm
+. bone through a strong northeast uint
and a chill strikes through him. an
four days Of pneumonia end his earth
Iy career. and the wife and children Z
into q struggle for shelter and fsot
His next door neighbor 70 q man wht
though strong and well. let's his vii
support him. Be IL around at the grt
Gerry store or some general ioafng piac
in tbe evenings. while his wife sew
Bis boys are intts,ing his example an
lounge and swagr. ard swear. All ii
use that man Is In that house r. TO "a,
because the cofeeiS cold when he com,
90 a late breakfas. or 10 say cuttin