Newport weekly independent., 1902-07-11

7 breaks on the ear of the world the sad news from London. Sickness lays the great king low, and his coronation is off. The mute crowds in the streets of London see the magnificent decora- tions removed, hear the sound of the hammer and the saw as the miles and miles of grand stands are removed, be- hold the special coronation ambassa- dors depart to their respective coun- tries. The sound of the grating key in the doors of Westminster abbey rasps on the ears IS the vast audi torium which was to have been the scene of the crowning is closed. The powerful fleet of majestic battleships steals out of the harbor. The hotel men and the tradesmen and the in- surance companies face heavy loss instead of the harvest of golden coins. London is left in her gloom. The world reads the sad story, but will it learn the lesson?
 All the kings power and all the kings wealth, all his influence, all the wisdom of his statesmen, all the skill of his physicians, all the devotion of
 
 and navy, all the sympathy of the na- tions of the earth, cannot stay the march of the disease that places the 1 monarch on bed instead of in the waiting coronation chair. Can you be- | hold such a spectacle, can you thus stand before such impotency and weak ness, and turn with untouched heart from the message of God as He de- clares that your life is but vapor that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away? Can you stand before that silent ruin of St. Pierre with it's crumbled walls and buildings and it's pail of volcanic dust covering the crushed and blackened bodies of thousands upon thousands of strong men, and fair women, and lit- tie children, and be unmoved by the uncertainty of life? Again hear God speak: ''Boast not myself of to-mor- TOW; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth"
 In this modern day in which you and I live the island of the sea has thun- dered forth message which has echoed throughout the world, telling the madly-rushing nations of the un- certainty of life. The nations repre- sentatives have gathered while the warning of Mont Pelee was still ring ing in their ears and have stood bowed before the sick bed' of a king, instead of paying him homage as he sat with a magnificent crown upon his head in the coronation chair, and have turned | 1;ziro cH | weak the human arm is, and that life is indeed but a vapor, that appeareth for little time and then vanisheth away. In the name of the Lord, who loves you with love unspeakable, learn the lesson of the hour before it is too late, and link your life into the latter thought of our text: Eff the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that"
 Planning With God.-It is blessed thought full of inspira tion and comfort that in Christ Jesus we become linked with God in a copartnership relation which it is our privilege to realize in the everyday affairs of the home, the shop, the office, the profession, every where, and wherever God has set our feet and called us to labor. If We are kept by the power of God and realize it, we can serve and plan with an eye single to His glory and know that come what may we are in the hollow of the hand of the Almighty God and nc thing can remove us. Misfortune may rob us of every earthly possession, but we are still rich in Him and heir to the wealth of Heaven. Calamity may come and the fire of a Mont Pelee may en- wrap us, but it is only to be set free from the prison house of this body and to be forever with the Lord. Sickness may come, or cruel accident, and lay us low upon our beds, but again we can sing that we are more than conquer ors through Him that loved MS and gave Himself for us, and can make the sick bed and the racked body sure stepping stones to the carrying out of the plans we have made with God. Oh! it is blessed indeed, by the will of God to do this or that, if we live. It is a weary struggle to plan and work alone. No wonder we hear on every hand the discouraged cry: "Is life worth liv- ing?" Apart from God it is not. It is weary, uncertain struggle here and darkness beyond the grave. But with God as the active agent ruling in and over our lives the earthly walk becomes one of victory, for i've run, not as un- certainly; we fight, not as one that beateth the air."
 The pattern of life we weave as we plan with God bears the impress of