El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-06
In The CHURCHES.

the rain came down and it
was so dark, I heard her in the next
room saying to herself: Il fear no
evil for thou art with me-. He said
he never saw a purer, teuderer, more
humble person than his mother. Oh,
it is the law OF nature that ali that is
useful and profitable has SUI SUI
ing, threshing, grinding, baking of
wheat before it is fit for the tables OF
kings and princes. 1t is discipline, no:
acknowledgements that tests character
our losses not our retainings. Every
strong character, every admirable
character, every noble character has
had its Gethsemase.
The grace of humility scarcely grows
in it's beauty on any other Dough.
Suffering If endured rightly ripens
men, mellows character like the sun
the apple on a July tree. and how 1t
helps US to understand and love one
another.
"If none were sick, II none were sad, what
services could we render?
L think If we were always glad we scarcely
could be tender
Blessed be suffering! The martyr
dOms of the past were the cradl1ngs OF
Professionalism and the immense light
and liberty and privileges we enjoy to-
u6y We Cdu tToCO W VIC LOo1 eshNA hoSAA
ty OF those who sealed truth with their
own blood. All, how suffering gives
eyesight-far-sight. Many man has
never known what true life is till a
coffin is carried out of his
front door. Many son has
mad new vision and has become q
mau the day he saw his father lowered
to the grave. Many thoughtless girl
has become a serious woman the day
she returned from her mothers funeral
and put her untried fingers to the du-
ties that now must be hers if the home
is to be kept up. There is no doubt
that thousands are more Influenced for
God by friends in heaven than If those
same friends we're at the
earthly Preside. A baby in heaven has
a more refining, spiritualizing, soften
ing Influence on some parents lives
than if that babe were in those par
ents' arms. Suffering brings heaven
closer. It swings back the gates,
shows US the snowy robes and the
cleaning strand.
The wisdom of God! LIT US trust it.
Our light is the light of the glowwOrm;
Gods light is that of a million suns.
Shall the glowworm argue with mil
lion suns? A mother prays: "God
save my babe-my will not thy will,
Lord, be DONE" The babe is spared,
grows into murderer. dies
on the scaffold and the mother with
broken heart cries, ''Oh that
e; God iota nsd s token G %y o ssys
son and daughter, "Ssve my father
The father is spared, becomes a victim
of an agOnizing disease, suffers for
twenty years in mind and oOdy, and
the children q Thousand times say,
''Oh 1t would have been better If faith
or had died and were now in the tear
ess happy land" Better let God have
1is way. Doubt the wisdom of God in
anything and history becomes q
yea of trembling pillows, dark and
hat have lived become but dying me e.
DIS shooting across the horizon to die
10 the blackness. God reigns-Thisi is
5he lesson of the feverish centuries.
God is training race from moral evil
and moral error. II we cannot under
stand let US adore and wait.
Let US look up to the house ofmany
mansions. Hear the great APOSTLE say,
For the sufferings of the present time
are not worthy to be compared to the
glory that shall be revealed" Dear
friends, we are all mute organs till
Gods fingers sweep the keys. We are
silent harps hanging on the willows
till the Master touches the
strings. Let him plav on our lives
either in JOY or suffering, and we
can thus give the world the sweetest
music. Oh my brothers, you who hear
nothing in this universe but the rumb
ing of iron wheels, let me tell you as
Gods ambassador, that back of all
Gods working is thu great throbbing
heart of father. Live thus, believe
n your soul this, apd you already have
IN your head the invisible crown. Oh
;he relief in being able to say:
Father. know that all my life
Is pOrtioned out for me-