The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-03-15


IN his business. Tie has TO raise a good
deal OF money am, raise II quickly. lie
borrows on word and note all he can bor-
row; After while he puts a mortgage on
hts house; after while he puts a second
mortgage on has house. Then he puts a
has hte insurance; then he assigns all his
property; then ne goes 10 his father.
lnlaw and asks for help. Well,
hav'ng failed everywhere. completely
failed. he gets down on his knees
and says 20 Lord, have tried
sysFsGGSS sSs " sb. and sysy.Sns now help
God the last resort instead o. the II re-
sort
A Young man goes of from home to earn
his fortune, He goes with his mothers
consent and benediction. She has large
wealth, but he wants TO make his own
fortune. He goes far away, falls sick and
keeper where he is staying. asking for le-
nienee, and the answer he gets is, If you
do not pay up Saturday night you'll be re-
moved to the hospital" The young man
sends TO a comrade in the same building;
no help. He writes 20 a banker who was
TREND OF his deceased father. no relief
saturday night comes. and he Is moved 90
the hospital Getting here, he is frenzied
with grief, and he borrows sheet of
paper and postage stamp, and he sits
down, and he writes home: Dear mother,
] am sick unto death. Come IL il TWEEN
~ minutes OF 10 o'clock when she gets the
letter. At 10 o'clock the train starts. She
is five minutes from the depot She gets
there in time to have five minutes to
spare. She wonders why the train that
can go forty miles an hour cannot go
eighty miles an hour. She rushes into the
hospital. She saws; "My son, what does
all this meany Why did YOU not send ior
fn AAtfa ant -. la. I...
knew | would and could help YOU Il this.
the reward ! get for my kindness 20 YOU
always" She bundles him up, takes him
home and gets him well very soon.
Now, some of YOU treat God Just as that
young man treated his mother. When you
get into financial perplexity you call ON
the banker, you call on the broker, you
call on your creditors. you call on your
lawyer for legal counsel YOU call upon
everybody, and when you cannot get any
help. then you go To God. You say. 20
Lord, | come TO Thee! Help mr now out
of my perplexlty.' And the Lord comes,
though { is N the eleventh hour, in
says. Why did YOU not send for Me he
foreg As one whom his mother comfort.
eth so will comfort yoG." Ii is TO throw
us back upon God that we have this minis
try of tears.
Again IL is the use Of trouble 10 capaci.
tate us for the office of sympathy. The
priests under the old dispcnsation were
set apart by having water sprinkled upon
their hands, feet and head, and by the
sprinkling OF tears people are now set
apart To the Office of sympathy. When we
are IN prosperity we like to have a 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
Innty hntp 20, tall Tal. .uaI har
seventy-tive years of age. and she is almost
omnipotent IN comfort. Why She has
been through Il all At o'clock IN the
| morning she goes To comfort n young
mother who has just lost her babe. Grand
mother knows all about that trouble.
Fifty years ago she felt it, At II o'clock
OF that day she goes over To comfort a
| widowed soul. She knows all about that.
She has been walking IN that dark valley
| twenty years. At 4 o'clock in the after.
| noon some one knocks at the door, want
ing bread. She knows all about that.
| Two or three times IN her life she came
| TO her last loaf At 10 o'clock that night
she goes over TO SIT up with some one se-
verely sick. She knows all about IT, She
knows all about fevers and pleurises and
| broken bones. She has been doctoring all
| her life, spreading plasters md pouring
out bitter drops and shaking up hot pill
lows and contrying things To tempt a poor
appetite Drs. Abernethy and Rush and
| lIosack and Harvey were great doctors,
| but the greatest doctor the world ever
saw is an old Christian woman. Dear me,
| do we not remember her about the room
when we were sick IN our boyhood? Was
| there any one who could ever 40 touch a
| sore without hurting IL? And when she
| lifted her spectacles against her wrnkled
| forehead 80 she could look closer at the
wound IL was three fourths healed. And
when the Lord took her home. although
| YOU may have been men and women thirty,
| forty, fifty years of az you lay on the
| coffin lid and sobbed as though you were
| only five or ten years OF age.
Your troubles are educational / 90
| into the office Of a apidary, an artlicer IN
| precious stones, and ] see him at work on
one precious stone for few minutes, and
he puts IL aside finished / see him take
| up another precious stone, and he works
| on that all the afternoon, and j come in
the next day and still find him working on
| II. and he Is at work on Il all the week.
| ! say TO him, why did you put only
twenty minutes work on that one precious
| stone and put "A whole week on this
other" "Oh," he says, that one upon
| which ] put only twenty minutes work ~
OF but little worth and soon got through
with It, But this precious stone upon
which have put such prolonged and care
| ful work ~ Of vast value and u IL TO fash
go through life with only little cutting
OF misfortune, for he does not amount To
much, he ~ a small soul and OF compare
lively little value, but this other is Of
great worth, and It y cut Of pain, and cut
Of bereavement, and cut OF persecution,
and cut Of all kinds Of trouble, and
through many years, and i ask, Dear
Lord, why all this prolonged and severe
process" and God says This soul il Of
infinite value, and II is TO fash IN a kings
coronet. He shall be Mine in the day
when make up Ny jewels"
You know, on a Widespread table the
food becomes more delicate at the last I
have fed you today with the bread OF con.
ISOLATION. Let the table now be cleared,
and let Va set on the chahce Of heaven
Let the Kings cupbearers come in. oh"
says some critic IN the audience, the
Bible contradicts itself IL intimates again
and again that there are 10 be no tears
IN heaven, and II there be no tears IN heav.
en- how II II possible that God will wipe
any away" ] answer, Have you never
seen child crying one moment and laugh
ing the next and while she was laughing
you saw the tears still on her face" And
perhaps you stopped her in the very midst
Of her resumed gee and wiped of those
delayed tears. So think after the beav-
eny raptures have come upon VS. there
may be the mark Of some earthly grief.
and while these tears are glittering IN the
light Of the jasper sea God will wipe them
away How well lie can do thstl
Friends, II we could get any apprecia.
tiOn Of what God has IN reserve for Us, u
would make us 20 hOmesick we would be
unfit for our everyd day work Professor
Leonard, formerly Of Iowa University, put
IN my hands a meteOric stone, a stone
thrown of from some other world 10 this.
How suggestive u vas 90 me- And j have
20 tell you the best representations we
have Of heaven are only serolites flung OF
from that word which rolls on, bearing
the multitude % the redeemed We ana
.yze these aerolites and find them crystal.