The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-13

eighty thousand dollars Now he has
prayers on Sabbath morning alone. The
wheel of fortune keeps turning up, and
he has two hundred thousand dollars, and
now he has prayers on Sabbath morning
when he feels like it and there is no COM
pany. The wheel of fortune keeps on
turning up, and he has his three hundred
thousand dollars and no prayers at all.
"Four-leaf clover in a pasture field is
not so rare as family prayers in the
houses of people who have more than
three hundred thousand dollars. But now
the wheel of fortune turns down, and the
man loses two hundred thousand dollars
out OF the three hundred thousand. Now
on Sabbath morning he is on q step-lad-
der looking for a Bible under the Old
newspapers on the bookcase. He is go
ing to have prayers. His affairs are more
and more complicated, and after awhile,
crash goes his last dollar. Now ne has
prayers every morning, and he hears his
grandchildren the catechiSm. Prosperity
took him away from Cod adversely drove
him back to God. Hot climate 10 make
the coral; hot and scalding trouble TO
make the jewels of grace in the soul.
Our Matred uf Trouble.
I'VE all hate trouble, and yet II does
great deal for US. You have heard of that
PAINTER who wished TO get an expression
of great distress for his canvas and who
had his servant lash a man fast and put
him to great torture, and then the artist
caught the look on the victlmS s face, and
fmmediat Ely transferred il TO the canvas.
Then he said to the servant: More tor
ture' and under more torture there was
a more thorough expression of pain, and
the artist said: Stop there; wait till l
catcn tl,at expression. There! Now
have il upon the canvas. Let loose the
within have a work that will last for
ever oh you say, he was an inhuman
painter.' Nodoubt about ii. Trouble is cruel
and inbuman. buI he is a great painter;
and out of our tears and blood on his pail
ette he makes colors that never die. Oh,
that il might be a picture OF Christian
fortitude, of shining hope.
ION the day / was licensed 70 preach
the Gospel an old Christian man took my
hard and said: My SON. when you get IN
\ tight corner on Saturday night, without
any sermon send for me, al7 | Will
nrfach for you. Well. u was 4 great en-
coura cement TO be backed up b. such
a good old minister, and Il was not long
before | got inro 4 tight corner On SAT
urdav night without any sermon. and /
sent for the old minister. ana &C came and
preached and il was tne last sermon he
ever preached. All the ears / crI9d IT
his funeral could not express my anecJiOn
Olit Of a tight corner. An! my friends,
that is what We all wsnt-s1ineDOdy 10
heiD US out OF a Ilght corner. You are
in one now. How do ! know Ii: / am
used 10 judging OF human eounienances,
and | see beyond the smile and beyond
the courageous look with which people
hide their feelings from others. | know
you are in tight corner. What 10 uoE
DO as die when | sent Tor old Dr. Scott
10 better lhan I did-send fOr the Lord
= 1 - Tga - a IaGnFF4 n . ayT-
cry other nan who got iEto a tight Cor
ner
Hot Climate for Richest If Specimens
40 saws some one, why cannot God
develop me through prosperity instead OF
through adversely? ] win answer your
question by asking another. Why does
NOT God dye our northern AMI temperate
seas with coral? You say; The wateC is
not hot enough There. In answering
nv question you have answered your
own. Hot climate for richest specimens
of coral: hot trouble for ne Jewels of the
soul The coral fishers going out from
Tore del Greece never brought ashore
such fine specimens - are brought out OF
the scalding surfes OF Misfortune / look
down into the tropical sea, ana thcTc =
something that looks ike Ol01d, aid 1
sav. Has there been a great batle down
there Seeming blood scattered al up
and down the reefs. II is he blood Of
Inc coral, and IL makes me think of those
who come out OF great tTibaIatiJn and
haye their robes washed IN the Blood Of
me Lamb But these gems u earth are
nothing 10 the gems OF heaven No meii-
tiou shall br made or coral
Again. | take your haEd, ana We Walk
on through this garden Of the sea. and
look more particularly than We d.d at ffe
beauty Of the coral The poets nave eli
! 4 cd rS-fr lf
wrote.
'sTlsere with a bread ani ezEy u1tcn,
ne f2a coral ssEsgs through the cless eeep sea
ana the yellow ana scsTlst tuftE % the ocean
srt beat ike cora 81 tAe upisAa lea
zone specimen Of coral is called dendro-