Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-03-13

Jared and chandeliered az such expense,
no story Of other worlds could enchant
| us. We would say: Let well enough
/ alone. il You want to die and have
your body disintegrated in the dustand
your soul go out on a celestial adven-
tGre. then You can go. but this world
is good enough for me" You might as
well go TO man who has just entered
| the Louvre AZ Paris and tell him 70
hasten off TO the picture galleries OF
Venice or Florence. Why" he would
say. what is the use OF my going
there? There are Rembrandts and Ru-
benses and Titians here that have not
looked at yet No man wants TO go
out Of this world or out Of any house
until he has n better house.
TO cure this wish 10 stay here God
must somehow crea re a disgust for our
surroundings. How shall He DO it?
He cannot afford 10 efface His horizon
or TO tear off u fiery panel from the
sunset or TO subtract an anther from
the water lily or TO Danish the pungent
aroma from the mignonette or to drag
the robes Of the morning in mire. You
cannot expect u Christopher Wren TO
mar his own ST. Paul's cathedral or a
Michael Angelo to dash out his own
Last Judgment" or a Handel TO dis
cord his Israel in Egypt" and you can
not expect God 10 spoil the architecture
and music OF His own world. How,
! then, are we TO be made willing to
! leave? Here is where trouble comes in
| After man has had a good deal OF
| trouble he says: We'll, I am ready TO
go. II there is a house somewhere
whose roof does not leak. would like
! 10 live there. If there is an atmosphere
! somewhere that does not distress the
lungs, | would like TO breathe il. If
! there is society somewhere where
! there is no title tattle. ] would like to
| i've there. Ifthere is a home circle some
! where where ] can find my lost friends,
/ would like 10 go there" He used TO
read the first part of the Bible chiefly;
now he reads the last part of the Bible
chiefly. Why has he changed Genesis
! for Revelation? All. he used TO be anX-
! ious chiefly 10 know how this world was
made and all about its geological con
! struction. Now he is chiefly anxious 10
/ know how the next world was made
! ano how II looks and who live there and
! how they dress. He reads Revelation
| ten times now where he reads Genesis
once. The old story. I'm the beginning
God created the heavens and the
earth. does notthrill him half as much
as the other story, Il saw new Heaven
and new earth" The old mans hand
trembles as he turns over this apoc-
alyPtical leaf, and he has 10 take out
his handkerchief TO wipe his spectacles.
! That h0Ol- oF =
now of the country into which he is
| soon 10 immigrate; the country in
which he has lots already laid ont and
avenues opened and mansions built
1t Is trouble, my friends, that makes
us feel our dependence upon God. We
! Go not know our own weakncsso or Gods
strength until the last plank breaks. 1t
! IS contemplate i'm us that only when
there IS nothing else to take hold Of we
catch hold of God. Why. 90 you know
! who the Lord is? He is not an autocrat
seated Tar up in n palace. from which
lie energies once year, preceded by
J heralCS swinging swords TO clear the
way. No. He is father, willing at
cur call 10 stand by us in every crisis
anG predicament of life. tel! Won what
some OF You business men make me
think Of. y man is unfortunate in his
business. He has 20 raise a good deal
OF money. and raise it quickly. He Dor
! rows on word and note all he can Dor
! row. After awhile he puts a mortgage
on his house. After awhile he puts =
second mortgage on his house. Then
he makes over his life insurance Then
he assigns all his property. Then he
n I,te Fa1I
hcip. Well, having failed everywhere,
completely failed, he gets down on his
knees and says: "Oh. Lord. | have
! tried everybody and everything; now
help me out OF this financial trouble"
lie makes God the last resort instead
OF the first resort.
Again, IL is the use OF trouble to
capacitate us for the Office of SWIM
PATTY. The priests, under the old
dispensation, were set apart by bay-
ing water sprinkled upon their hands
feet and head. and by the sprinklinp
OF tears people are now set apart TO
the Office OF sympathy. When we
are III prosperity, we like to have n
great many young people around us
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. Why? They know how
TO talk Take an aged mother, rs
years Of age. and she Is almost ON
nipotent i'm comfort. Why She has
been through il all. At seven o'clock
iu the morning she goes over to com
fort young mother who has lust
lost her babe. Grandmother knows
all about that trouble FIFTY yeors
ago She felt IT.. At ~ o'clock OF that
day She goes over 20 comfort "a wild.
owed soul. She knows an about that
She has been walking boo that dar.,
valley 20 years. st four O'Clock I'm
the afternoon some one knocks at
the door. wanting bread. She knows
al about that. Two or three times