El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-13
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passengers give themselves to the ga lie
and were driven fercely before it.
Luke's description is vivid, "And when
the ship was caught and we could not
bear up into the wind, we let her
drive"
Human ability has limit. Man is
not omnipotent. He can exercise only
the smallest control over the forces
that play upon him. He is not infre-
quently at their mercy. There are
times when we are by no means mas
tiers of the situation. We cannot steer
our boat in the direction We want it to
go, for the winds will not let us, and
having done our utmost, we can only
let things take their course and wait.
l have seen business man facing
disaster and failure. Everything
seemed to be going smoothly when the
crash came suddenly from an uuex-
pected quarter and the entire business
was in jeopardy. The son had to be
called back from college to help make
living. The daughter came from the
boarding school, and kitchen duties
took the place of music lessons and
studies in French aud Italian. Bare
floors and rag carpets took the place OF
Brussels and Velvets and Administers.
l tell you it was dark and the little
of the elements. l have seen a
young man, just when success
10 his chosen vocation seemed assured,
smitten with sickness and laid aside
ia helplessuess. The ample income
shrank into insufficient proportions, or
stopped altogether. And there stood
the patient wife and the little family
and proverty knocking at the door and
starvation close behind, another storm
Moli &C, .,f1 f,
and snott er little boat in danger. And
1 have seen mother facing death.
Her hand had grown thin, the blue
veins were visible through the trans
parent flesh. L have heard the fatal
cough, and seen the hectic flush and
watched her as she called her childr en-
to her-John and James and
Mary and Carrie--all so young
and inexperienced, and laid
her hands upon their heads and talked
sweetly while the narrowing thought
surged through her, bosom: "Wkst
will become of them when L am gone?
Who will care for them like moth
err? Who will tuck them in at night
and hear their, Not 1 lay me?'
Who? God of heaven, Who? Human
ability has limit. There are times
when our hands are tied. This is life
"a voyage over turbulent sea with
winds like hurricanes and waves ike
mountains. [ do not say it is all of
life or the most of it, but adversely has
it's big place.
What can we do? Very often nothing.
What did Paul do? Let the vessel
drive. In the panic of 1857, bankruptcy
were swept away. Commercial tran
sactions were at standstill. People
crowded into the churches and prayed
for relief. Horace Bushnell addressed
the men of New England through the
press, "Men of the business world" he
said. ''you have done your best and
you cannot stop the storm or control
the winds blow and the waves beat. |
There is God behind the storm. He
rides upon the wings of the wind. Fear |
not. All will be we'll, ''Let her drive. |
Let her drivep So with us, circum-
stances will work out their own solu-
ton because God is behind the circum-
stances. God is in his heaven, and all's |
right in the world" Trust God and
wait!
But we must not give up to the drift
of circumstances until our own efforts !
are exhausted. We are not expected |
to capitulste to adversely and make DO
struggle. Paul's sailors undergirted |
the ship, pulled down the gear, threw |
over the cargo, and then gave their |
vessel to the wind. The brave man |
turns even adversely to his benefit. He |
gets gold out OF the very stone he |
stumb les over. God will take care of
you when your own strength fails. |
Blow on, ye winds, and howl We hur- |
ricaue of satanic hate. The God who |
made the sea will take care of every |
barke that rocks upon it's pillows.
A tender story is told of the father |
of Prof. Herkomer of the Royal Aca- |
DENY, London. The Cd man lives with |
his son. In his youth he used to model |
in clay. He has taken it up again in
his old age. But his fingers are not so |
supple as they once were and his one
fear IL, that his work will show imper-
lection. He goes early to bed, and
when he has gone, his talented son
goes into the studio and takes up bis
fathers feeble attempts and makes
them as beautiful as art can make
them. When the old father comes
down in the morning he goes into the
studio and takes up the models and
looks at them, and rubs his
hands and exclsims, "Ha! Ha! can
do it as we'll as ever 1 could.' So
when our strength fails and sorrow
and troubles deplete our energy. God
goes into our workshops and does our
work for us. Dear friends, this is not