The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-04-18

III perfect health. There is an indus
',ious and consecrated woman COM
plete invalid Explain that. There is
Dad man, with $4,000 of income.
mere is a good man with $500 of in
come Why is that? There is foe of
society who lives on, doing all the
damage he can, to rs years of age, and
mere is Christian father, faithful in
every department of life, at 35 years
Oh age taken away by death, his fam
NY left helpless. Explain that. Oh,
mere is no sentence that oftener drops
from your lips than this: Il cannot
understand it, l cannot understand
it,"
well, now religion comes in just at
that point with it's illumination and it's
explanation. There is : business man
VINO has lost his entire fortune. The
week before he lost his fortune there
were 20 carriages that stopped at the
door of his mansion. The week after
ne lost his fortune all the carriages
you could count on one finger. The
week before financial trouble began
people all took off their hats to him as
he passed down the street. The week
his financial prospects were under dis
cussion people just touched their hats
without anywise bending the rim. The
week that he was pronounced insol-
vent people just jolted their heads as
they passed, not tipping their hats at
all, and the week the sheriff sold him
ic fr,a AI,o
store windows as they went down past
him.
All Is for the Rest.
There are hundreds of people who
are walking day by day in the sublime
satisfaction that all is for the best, all
things working together for good for
their soul. How man can get along
through this life without the explana-
ton is to me mystery. What! Is
that child gone forever? Are you new
Ell to get it back? Is your property
gone forever? Is your soul to be bruis-
ed and to be tried forever? Have you
no explanation, no Christian explana-
ton, and yet not maniac? But when
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
be. A man passed down the street
without any shoes and said: II have
no shoes. Isn't it hardship that
no
shoes. No shoes, no shoes!" until he
saw man who had no feet Then he
learned lesson You ought to thank
God for what he does instead of
grumbling for what he does not. God
arranges all the weather in this world
the spiritual weather, the moral
weather, as we'll as the natural wealth
er. What kind of weather will it be
today?" said someone to farmer. The
| farmer replied, 1T will be such wealth
er as 1 like" What do you mean by
that?" asked the other. We'll" said
the farmer, st will be such weather
as pleases the Lord, and what pleases
the Lord pleases me-"
Oh, the sunshine, the sunshine of
| Christian explanation! Here is some
one bending over the grave of the
dead. What is going to be the conso-
lation? The flowers you strew upon
the tomb? Oh, no. The services read
at the grave? Oh, no. The chief con-
ISOLATION on that grave is what falls
from the throne of God. Sunshine,
glorious sunshine! Resurrection sun
shine!
A Place for Study.
And geology! What a place that
will be to study geology when the
world is being picked to pieces as
easily as school girl in botanical les
sons pulls the leaf from the corolla!
What a place to study architecture,
amid the thrones and the palaces and
the cathedrals-St. Marks and st.
Paul's rookeries in comparison.
Sometimes you wish you could make
the tour of the whole earth, going
around as others have gone, but Won
have not the time, you have not the
means. You will make the tour yet,
during one musical pause in the eter-
nal anthem. say these things for the
comfort of those people who are
abridged in their opportunities, those
people to whom life is humdrum, who
toll and work and toll and work and
aspire after knowledge, but have no
time to get it and say, IF l had the
opportunities which other people have,
how | would fill my mind and soul
with grand thoughts" Be not dis
couraged, my friends. You are going
to the university yet. Death will only
matrculate you into the royal college
Of the universe.
What a sublime thing it was that
DR.. Thornwell of South Carolina ut
tered in his last dying moments! AS
he looked up he said, 1T opens; it ex-
pands, it expands Or lis Mr.. Top
lady, the author of Rock of Ages"
in his last moment or during his last
hours looked up and said, as though
he saw something supernatural,
Light" and then as he came on near
er the dying moment. his countenance
more luminous, he cried, Light" and
at the very moment of his departure
lifted both hands, something superrat-
ural in his countenance as he cried,
Light" Only another name for sun
shine.
The Celestial Profession.
And then l stand at the gate of the
celestial city to sea the nrocec ions