The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1901-06-08

| why art lnOu ulsquletcu WitHin uic
Hope thou in God, for shall we
praise him who is the health OF IN.
countenance and my God
Again, is your talent that of wit o.
humor? Use il for God. Much Of th'
worlds wit is damaging. Most OF sat
ire has a sting in 1t. Much Of earea
ture Is maleyolent, Much OF smart fe
tort is yitriolic. In order to say sn'sr'
things how many will sacrifice ,hS
feelings of others! The sword thes
carry is keen, aud il Is enployrd v
thrust and lacenate. hut few aea u
all the world and in all the churches
realize that il wit is bestowed II i
given them for useful for improving
for healthful purposes IL We all had
more of il and knew how 20 use II
Alright, how much il would Improve
our Christian conversation aud prayer
meeting talk and sermon, Robert
South and Rowland Hin aud Jeremy
TAYLOR and Dean Swift and Lorenzo
Dow and George Whitetield used their
wit and their humor to gather great
audiences and then lead them into the
| kingdom of God. Frivolity is repulsive
| in religious discussion. but like the
| humor of Job when he said to his in-
solent critics: "No doubt but We are
the people, and wisdom shall die with
YOU" and | like the humor OF the
prophet Elijah. who told the Baalites
to pray louder, as their god was out
hunting or on an excursion or in such
loud conversation that he could not
hear them. ] like the sarcasm of
Christ when He told the self-right-
eous Pharisees that they were so good
they needed no help: "The whole need
/ not physician, but that they are
sick" or when in mirthful hyperpole
he arraigns the hypocritical teachers
of His day who were so particular
about little things and careless about
big things, saying: "Ie blind guides
that strain at gnat and swallow a
camel" and the Bible is all ablaze with
epigram. words surprisingly put and
| phraseology that must have made the
audiences tof Paul and Christ nudge
each other and exchange glances and
smile, and then appropriate the tre-
mendous truths of the Gospel. There
are some evils you can laugh down
easier than you can preach down. The
| question is always being asked, why
do not more people go to church,
prayer meeting and other religious
meetings? ] will tel! you. We of the
pulpit and the pew are so dull they
cannot stand it. But when we ask
why people do not go to church we ask
Il misleading question. More people
go now to church than ever in the
worlds history, and the reason is in
all our denominations there is n new
race of ministers stepping into the
pulpits which are not the apostles of
humdrum. Sure enough, we want in
the Lords army the heavy artillery,
| but we want also more men who, like
Burns, farmer at Gettysburg, took n
musket and went out on his own ac-
count to do n little shooting different
| from the other soldiers. The church
of God is dying of the proprieties.
Or is your talent an opportunity to
set good example? One person do
ing right under adverse circumstance
will accomplish more than many trea-
tiscs about what is right. The census
has never been taken of lovely old
| folks. Most of us, if we have not such
a one in Our own house now, have in
our memory such saint. We went
10 those old people with all our trou-
bles. They were perpetual eyang,l-
lists, by their soothing words, by their
hopefulness of spirit, an ineXpressible
help. ] cannot see how Heaven could
make them any lovelier than they are
or were. But there are exceptions.
There is daughter in that family
whose father is impatient and the
mother querulous. The passage of
many years does not always improve
| the disposition, and there are great
many disagreeable old folks. Some of
| them forget that they were young
themselves, and they become untidy
| in their habits and wonder how, when
their asthma or rheumatism is so bad,
other people can laugh or sing and go
on as they do. The daughter in that
family bears all ths peevishness and
unreasonable behavior of senility
without answering back or making
any kind of complaint. If you should
ask her what her five talents are or
her one talent is, she would answer
that she has no talent at all. Greatly
mistaken is she. Her one talent is "a
forbcar and treat the childishness OF
the old as well as she treats the child
ishness of the young. She is no mu
stefan, and besides there may not be O
piano in the house. She cannot skin
fully swing croquet mallet or goli
stick. Indeed, she seems shut up {,
see what she can do with q ladle an,
II broom and n brush and other house
hold implements. She liz the person.
fication of patience. and her rcwar,
will be as long AZ Heaven. Indeed
much of her reward may be given ol
. earth. She is in n rough college, fror
, which she may after awhile gradual
, into brightest domesticity. She liz
, heroine, though Mt present she ma
, receive nothing but scoIding and d,
. probation. Her one talent of pa
, thence under trial will do more goo
than many morocco covered sermon
, on patience preached to-day from tn
tasscled cushion OF the pulpit.
: There is man In business life who's
5 one talent is honesty. lie has not tn