The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-03-29

rs an. inner light evolving out of a
dark cloud, irradiating it, transform
ing it and clarifying it.
Elijah was caught up in a whirlwind
but enclosed with and EMBODIED within,
was the chariot OF Israel with its heav-
emily messengers to take him home.
In chariot of trouble many Christ
tian warrior has gone home. In fact
many of the noblest characters of this
earth have gone home that way.
Sorrow may have a mission to the
world. ''Jesus was a man Of sorrow
and acquainted with grief.' Sorrow
is the mother of sympathy. 1t has
power to soften and purify the affec-
tions, to enlarge and refine the capac-
ity of spiritual receptiveaess and to
render human hearts serviceable to
each other. 1t is to DE feared that this
would be less noble world if there
we're no sorrows in it. The noblest
painting, perhaps the greatest in ex-
istence with the possible exception OF
that of the TRANSPORTATION" now
hanging in chapel Of the Vatican, is
that of our Lords sorrowful leave
taking OF His deciples, when over
Swallowed by the thought of the agon-
les of Gethsemina and the cross, and
the greatest creations in music and the
most enduring songs Of earth are those
enshrining the sorrowful feelings of
the human heart. One poem, alone,
from the poetical writings of the great
est English poet of the nineteenth CEN
fury, would have made his name inn
mortal, and it was a poem OF bereave-
ment and inconsolable sorrow. Sor-
row causes us to set our affections up
on things above and to rely upon that
which is eternal.
We seem to be living in world
ruled by memorable law, Death reigns
here contrary to the intention of God.
But the laws of nature although they
allow death are not fate-fun laws.
They are expressions of the will OF
loving Father, who suffered for us and
suffers with us. 1t is said of natural
laws that they are "the lines of order
drawn through perfect world" The
fault is not in them, but in us; in the
imperfect adjustment of our race tc
them. We stand in wrong relations tc
those laws. ''The laws of nature have
not broken humanity but humanity
has broken the laws of nature" We
know that God is love and whatever
of trouble is allowed to His people or
earth, whether we can understand il
or not, is because God has forsaken us
1t has been said of natural law as we
know it "that every glimpse we have
into it, as rightly adjusted, discloses {
heavenly beauty translated to the
earth and under these laws, as far al
we are able to conform to them we fine
ourselves happy, well and free." We
know that our Heavenly Father, is il
sympathy with us whatever our earthly
experiences, and yet so long as it i!
necessary for the present state of being
to continue, it is necessary for the law!
of nature to do their work. 1t ha.
been said that imam has undone him
self in Gods fair universe, and thu
heart of God is sorry for him with {
divine pity and pain, and the consola
tions OF God are poured out upon hin
through the Christ, the Redeemer. ,
s'For the good of all, the order must q
on, we do not look for the suspension
of laws and the elimination of pain il
the present order. But we look for ;
new heaven and a new earth wherein
dwelleth Righteousness, when the tab
ernacle of God shall be with men, ant
i He shall dwell with them and they
shall be His people, and God Himself
shall be with them to be their God
when He shall wipe away every teal
from their eyes, and death shall be NJ
more, neither shall there be any mourn
ing, nor crying nor pain any more
for the first things shall have passed