The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1901-03-16

KNOW nov INC hcAt Woffu WNt R~"
and how Il looks and who live there and
how they dress. He reads Revelation
ten times now where he reads Genesis
once. The old story. "In the beginning
God created the heavens and the
earth" does otthrill him half as much
as the other story, II sawA new Heaven
and a new earth" The old mans hand
trsmhles as he turns over this apoe-
alyptical leaf, aud he has 10 take out
his handkerchief TO wipe his apeetaclea
That book Of Revelation is aprospectus
now Of the country into which he 10
soon 10 imnigrsts; the country In
which he he's lots already laid out and
avenues opened and mansions built
Il l. trouble. my friends that nskss
NJ feel cur dependence upon God. We
60 not know Gu own weAknsssor Gods
strength until the kat plank breaks. IL
IL contemplate IL Us that oaly whsn
there is nothing slss 10 take hold o. we
catch hold Of God. Why. DO you knew
who the Lord is? He IL not an autoerat,
seated far up In . palace. from which
He emerges once q year, preceded BY
hsralds swinging swords TO clear the
way. No. he i 9 father. willing at
our call 10 stand by us In every crisis
and p~redicsment Of life. Itsii you what
soms Of you business nen make me
think OF. A man 10 unfortunate IN bis
business. He hAs to raise a good deal
Of money. and raise Il quickly. He Dor
rows on word and note al be can bor-
row. After awhile he puts mortgage
on his house. Altar awhile he puts q
second mortgage On his house. Then
he makes over bic life insurance. Then
he ssigns all his property. Thes be
goes 10 his ta~theF1nlsw aHd asks for
help. Well. having Jailed everywbsrA
completely failed. he gets down on hii
knees and says: "oh. Lord, / have
tried everybody and everything; now
help me out OF this financial trouble"
He makes God the lat resort Instead
Of the first resort.
Again, II 10 the use OF trouble to
~eapacitate US for the Office Of sym
pathy. The Priests. under the old
dispensation. we're set apart by hav.
ing water sprinkled upon their hands,
feet and head, and by the spriAkling
of tears people are now set apart to
the Office Of sympathy. When ve
are In prosperity, we like TO have 0
great many young people around as,
and we laugh when they laugh, and
We romP when they romp, and we
sing when they sing, but when we
have trouble we like plenty Of old
folks around. why3 They know how
TO talk. Take an aged mother. rs
years OF age, and she is almost om-
nipotent IN comfort. why7 She has
been through IL all. At seven o'clock
in the morning she goes over to com
fort q young mother who has just
lost her babe. Grandmother knows
all about that trouble. Fifty years
ago abe felt II. A. 10 o'clock Of that
day she goes over TO comfort a Wild
owed soul. She knows all about that.
She has been walking In that dark
valley 20 years. AZ four o'clock In
the afternoon some one knocks at
the door. wanting bread. She knows
all about that. Two or three times
In her life she came 20 her last loaf.
At ten o'clock at night she goes over
20 sit up with some one severely sick.
She knows all about II. She knows
? all about fevers and pleurisies and
orcKeu eons.. she hxs bvsn- doc
, toSins all her life, spreading plasters
and pouring out DIttur urops aaa
shaking up hot pillows and contriv-
, ing things to tempt a poor appetite.
|, Drs. Abernethy and Rush and Hosaek
and Harvey were great doctors, but
the greatest doctor the world ever
r saw is an old Christian woman. Dear
$ mel Do we not remember her about
the room when we were sick In our
E boyhood7 Was there anyone who
I could ever 80 touch q sore without
hurting it7 And when she lifted hei
q spectaeles against her wrinklsd fore
head 80 she could look closer al tn:
wound IL was three-fourths healed
I And when the Lord took her home
although you may have been mel
and women 50, 40. 50 years OF age,
you lay on the coma lid and sobbed
as though you were only ave or ten
years Of age.
Where did Paul get the ink with
2 which to write bis comforting epis.
u tiss7 Where did David get the ihi
le 10 write his comforting psalms
IL Where did John get the ink to write
& his comforting R~eveistionf They go'
p It out Of their own tears. When {
man has gone through tho eurricu
!, lum and has taken a course Of dun
d geons and imprisonmenta, he Is quail
fled for the work Of sympathy.
a gesus had enough trial TO make hin
o. sympathetic with all trial tn
h shortest verse IN the Bible tells tn
IL story, "Jesus wept." The scar ON tn
I'd back Of his either hand, the AGAR OF
y the arch Of either foot, the rov o
- SCARF along the line OF the hair. VII
keep all Heaven thinking. On. tina
NJ Great wesper IL Just the n 70 81
ID lence all earthly trouble, wipe on
III all stains Of earthly grief dtntle
I'D Why, His step IL softer thsn the ate
hs Of the dew. Il will not be 3 tyrsn
I'D bidding you hush your oryins.
OF win be q Father who will take 20
a on His left arm. His face besmin
/, . into yours, while with the soft Zip
ar. Of the fingers Of the right Aand H
~ ,hall wipe away all tears from you
w eyes.
TO You have noticed when the ehildre
get hurt and their mother 10 avs
70 from home they always GENE 10 20
oe, the father, for comfort and syn
az pathy, but yeu have noticed whs
GU the children get hurt and the
'Ee mother IL at home they 70 right PEI
you aAd 10 her, and you are Of no Q
count. 30, when the soul comes I
pr into Heaven out Of the wounds
this life, II will not step TO look 4
Paul or Moses or David or job
isn These did very well once, but No