Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-04-19

AAA - rOE Nne Best
There arr hundreds Of people who are
walking day by day In the sublime sat
iSfaction 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 explanation
/ is to me- Il mystery. What! Is that
| child gone forever? Are you never to get
/ il back? Is your property gone forever?
/ Is your soul to be bruised and to be tried
forever? Have You no explanation, no
/ Christian explanation. and yet not a ma
! MAC? 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 ne. A man passed down the street
without any shoes and said: Il have no
shoes. Isn't II a hardship that have no
shoes? Other people have shoes. No
shoes. no shoesT until he saw a man
who had no feet. Then he learned q les
son. You ought to thank God for what
he does instead of grumbling for what he
does not. God aTanges all the weather
in this wor,d--the spiritual weather, the
moral weather, as well as the natural
!
be today?" said some one to a farmer
Tile farmer replied. 1T will be such
weather as l like" what do you mean
by that?' asked the other "Well," said
the farmer, 1T will be such weather as
pleases the Lord. and what pleases the
Lord pleases me-"
Oh. the sunshine, the sunshine Of Chris
tian explanation. Here is some one
bending over the grave of the dead
, What is going to be the consolation? TIL,
. flowers you strew upon the tomb? Oh
P no. The services read at the grave? oh
! no. The chief consolation on that gray,
is what falls from the throne Of God
Sunshine. glorious sunshine! Resurrec
c ton sunshine.
8 Again, l find a great deal Of the sun
5 shine of this Bible and of our religion i
r the climacteric joys that are to come.
e man who gets up and goes out from
e concert right after the opening voluntar
t has been played and before the prim
!. donna sings or before the orchestra bC
It gins has a better idea of that cOnceI
L than that man has who supposes that th
chief joys of religion are in this wOrl,
We here have only the first note of til
4. eternal orchestra. We shall in that wOrl
10 have the joy of discovery. We will
= five minutes catch up with the astrOn,
~ mers. the biologists. the scientists, ii
it philosophers of all ages who so far su
y, passed us in this world. We can affOI
y. to adjourn astronomy and geology an
Id many Of the sciences to the next wor
is because we shall there have better app
IN ratus and better opportunity | mu
no study these sciences so far as to help n
Ill in my work. but beyond that I must gil
Is myself to saving my own soul and sa
al ing the souls of others. knowing that
ne one flash of eternity we will catch it a
X, Oh, what an observatory in which
b study astronomy heaven will be-nOt
eel power of telescope. but by supernatur
to vision, And if there be something dOul
5. full 100000 miles away. by one strO
pc. Of the wing you are there. by anoth
I'm stroke Of the wing you are back agai
1t and all in less time than tell you, cato
d. ing it all in one flash Of eternity.
Of Place For study.
OF And geology! What a place that W
ice be to study geology when the world
= being picked to pieces as easily as
lts schoolgirl in botanical lessons pulls I
m leaf from the cOrolla! What a place
l study architecture. amid the thrones a
lat the palaces and the cathedrals-I
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