The Globe-republican., 1901-04-18

Christi He denies himself pardon for |
sin. he denies himself peace of con- |
science, he denies himself the joy of |
the Holy Ghost, he denies himself a
comfortable death pillow. he denies
himself the glories of heaven Do not
talk to me about the self deniais of
the Christian life Where there is one
in the Christian life there are a thou
sand in the life OF the world Her
ways are ways Of pleasantness-
Again. find a great deal of religious
sunshine in Christian and divine eN-
PLANTATION To great many people
life is an inexp1icable tangle. Things
turn out differently from what was
supposed There IS a useless woman
in perfect health. There is indus
trious and eonsecrated woman COM
piete invalid Explain that. There is
a bad man, with $50, 900 OF income
There is good man with $500 of in
come Why is that2 There is foe OF
society who lives on, doing all the
damage he can, to as years of age, and
here is Christian father faithful III
every department of life, at 35 years
of age taken away by death. his fam
lily left helpless Explain that Oh.
there is no sentence that oftener drops
from your lips than this: Il cannot
understand it. 1 cannot understand
it,
Well, now religion comes in just at
that point with its illumination and its
explanation There is a business man
who has lost his entire fortune. The
week before he lost his fortune there
We're 20 carriages that stopped at the
/ door of his mansion. The week after
he lost his fortune all the carriages
| you could count on finger. The
/ week before financial trouble began
| people all took off their hats to him as
| he passed down the street. The week
| his financial prospects were under dis
/ cussion people just touched their hats
Without anywise bending the rim. The
week that he was pronounced inso1-
vent people just jOltcd their heads IS
| they passed, not tipping their hats at
all. and the week the sheriff sold him
out all his friends We're looking in the
| store windows they went down past
| him.
All Is for the Best.
There are hundreds of people VINO
are walking day by day in the sublime
satisfaction that all is for the best, all
things working together for good for
their soul. How a man can get along
through this life without the explana-
ton is to me a mystery What! Is
that child gone forever? Are you new
er to get it back? Is your property
gone forever? Is your soul to be bruis-
ed and to be tried forever? Have you
no explanation, no Christian exp1ana-
ton, and yet not a maniac? But when
you have the religion of Jesus Christ
in your soul it explains everything SO
far as it is best for you to understand.
You look off in life, and your soul is
full of thanksgiving to God that you
are so much better off than you might
be- A man passed down the street
without any shoes and said: Il have
no shoes Isn't it hardship that
have no shoes? Other people have
shoes No shoes, no shoes,'' until he
saw a man who had no feet. Then he
learned lesson You ought to thank
God for what he does instead OF
grumbling for what he does not. Goo
arranges all the weather in this world
the spiritual weather, the mora
weather, as we'll as the natural wealth
er. What kind of weather win it be
today?" said someone to farmer. The
farmer replied, 1T will be such wealth
er as I like What do you mean by
that?" asked the other. -tWen,'' saiG
the farmer e'it will be such weather
as pleases the Lord, and what pleases
the Lord pleases me-
oh. the sunshine, the sunshine O.
Christian explanation! Here is some
one bending over the grave of the
dead. What is going to be the conso
lation? The flowers you strew upo1
f the tomb? Oh no. The services reas
at the grave? Oh no. The chief con
| ISOLATION on that grave is what fall
from the throne of God. Sunshine
glorious sunshinei Resurrection sun
shinei
a Place Study.
+ And geologyi What place tha
will be to study geology when tn
, | world is being picked to pieces a
easily as a school girl in botanical les
sons pulls the leaf from the corolla
What a place to study architecture
, | amid the thrones and the palaces an
the eathedra1s-St. Marks and 81
| Pau1's rookeries in comparison.
Sometimes you wish you could max
/ | the tour of the whole earth, goin
: around as others have gone, but yo
t have not the time, you have not tn
+ means. You will make the tour We
. during one musical pause in the eteI
v nal anthem. I say these things for tn
e comfort of those people who ar
S abridged in their opportunities, thos
people to whom life is humdrum, w h
f toll and work and toll and work an
e aspire after knowledge, but have n
I time to get it and say, IF 1 had tn