Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-08-25
IALMAGE'S SERMON.
PEOPLE OF MANY TRouR, re
THE SUBJECT.
from l samuel, 1ai4, as Follows; .T,.x.
was a sharp Rock on One Side. an,
q sharp Rock on she otbsr"-s..,,u
Ing Of the P~hiIhtines.

uouy-euard to do that thing. Jona-
nan is the hero of the scene. know
mat David cracked the skull OF the
giant with a few pebbles we'll slung.
ana that 300 Gideonites scattered ten
thousand Amalekites by the crash Of
broken crockery; but here is a more
wonderful conflict. Yonder are the
Fniiistines on the rocks. Here is
Jonathan with his bodyguard in the
VaIley. On the one side Is a rock
called Bozez: on the other side is a
rock called Sneh. These two were as
Famous in olden times as in modern
times are Plymouth Rock and Gibral-
tar. They were p~recipitous, unscala-
Die and sharp. Between these two
rocks Jonathan must make his ascent
The day comes for the scaling of the
nelght. Jonathan, on his hands and
teet, begins the ascent. With strain,
n slip and bruise, l suppose, but
still on and up, first goes Jonathan and
then goes his b~odyguard. Bozez on
n eide, Seneh on the other. After a
sharp tug and push, and clinging, /
see the head Of Jonathan above the
hole In the mountain; and there is a
challenge, and a fight, and a supernat-
ural CONSERVATION. These two men,
Jonathan and his bodyguard. driv
back and drive down the Philistine.
over the rocks, and open a campaign
which demolishes the enemies OF Is
rael. / suppose that the overhang-
ing and overshadowing rocks on either
side. did not balk or dishearten Jona-
than or his bodyguard, but only oused
and filed them with enthusiasm as
they went up. There vas a sharp
rock on the n side, and a sharp rock
on the other side
Ny friends, you have been, or are
now, some of you, in this crisis of the
text. II a man meets one trouble he
can go through with it. He gathers
all his energies, concentrates them On
n point, and In the strength of God
or by his own natural determination,
goes through II. But the man who has
trouble to the right Of him, and trou-
BILE to the left of him, is to be pitied.
Did either trouble come alone, he might
endure 1t, but two troubles. two dis
a~sters, two overshadowing misfortunes
are Bozez and Seneh. God pity him.
There is a sharp rock on the one side.
and a sharp rock on the other side"
In this crisis OF the text is that man
whose fortune and health fail him at
the same time. Nine-tenths OF all
our merchants capsize in business be-
fore they come to forty-five years OF
age. There is some collision in COM
mercial circles, and they stop payment.
II seems as II every man must put his
name on the back of a note before he
learns what a fool a man is who risks
all his own property on the prospect
that some man will tell the truth.
1t seems as II a man must have a large
amount of unstable goods on his own
shelf before he learns how much easier
Il is to buy than to sell. 1t seems as
IL every man must be completely
burned out before he learns the impor-
lance Of always keeping fully insured.
It seems as IL every man must be
wrecked in a financial tempest before
he learns TO keep things snug in case oil
a sudden euFoclydon.
When the calamity does come 1t is
awful. The man goes home in despair,
and he tells his family, Wen have to
20 to the poor-house." He takes a do
lorous view OF everything. 1t seems as
II he never could rise. But a little time
passes, and he says, why, ! am not so
badly off after all; ! have my family
left"
Before the Lord turned Adam out
of Paradise, he gave him Eve, so that
when he lost Paradise he could stand
Il. Permit one No has never read
but a few novels in his life. and who
has not a great deal of romance in his
composition, to say, that II. when a
mans fortunes fail, he has a good wife
"a good Christian wife-he ought 0
70 BE respondent. "0h," you say,
..that only Increases the embarrass-
ment, since you have her also to take
care Of" You are an migrate, for the
woman as often supports the man as
the man suppor,s the woman. The man
may bring all the dollars. but the wom-
an generally brings the courage and the
faith in God.
We'll. this man OF whom l am speak
,,g looks around, and he finds his fam
Civ Is left, and he rallies, and the light
comes TO his eyes, and the smile to MS
toco and the courage to his heart. In
NO wears he is quite over 1t. He makes
h,s financial calamity the first chapter
g. a new era of prosperity. He met
.hot one trouble-conquered 1t. lie
80, down for a little while under the
Grim shadow of the rock Bozez; yet ne
soon rose, and began, like Jonathan
a. climb. But how often is 1t that
nbveical ailment comes with financial
embarrassment. When the fortune
taiIed II broke the mans spirit. his
nerves were shattered. His brain was
,unned l can show you hundreds Oh
NOR in our cities whose fortune ana
health failed 1t the same time. Iney
came prematurely TO the stan. lnelr
hand trembles with incipient paralysis
They never saw a we'll day since the
saMr when they called their creditors
.osatber for a compromise. II such
non are impatient, and peculiar, anu