Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-05-17

mountain of despair, we will descend
into the valleys of life with stronger
hopes and determination than ever be-
fore. AS Whitcomb Riley so aptlY
put it:
81 always noticed great success
Is mixed with trouble, more or less,
And it's the man who does the best
That gets more kicks than all the rest -
We may also take the condition of
Tennyson, who, on the death of his
friend, Aurthur Hallam, wrote in re-
memberance of the four sweet years
they had passed together, his famous
poem, SIN Memoriam" 1t is a poem
that gives comfort and relief to those
that are afflicted with earthly cares, as
we may see in the following quotation ::
81 hold it true whate'er befall,
I feel 1t when 1 sorrow most,
IT'S better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all -
It seems that we are all born into
this world for some purpose, to &C
complish all we can Cor the benefit of
mankind. It may be done in many diff
ferent ways, and while some will do it
easily, others Will meet many difficult
les. AS a rule, the greatest results are
accomplished by those that have the
greatest difficulties to overcome.
This should teach US to endeavor to
put forth a willing hand that we may
overcome all. We should learn to take
the bitter with the sweet, for when the
bitter trials are DER, the sweet will
still remain, as the most nourishing in
grediant of life.
This calls to memory the incident of
VIM. Cowper, who on becoming tired
of the cares and troubles of this world
decided that suicide was the only re-
lief. He ordered cab to take him to
a river in which he might meet his
death. But the cabman, being be-
wildefed by a storm and the intense
darkness, stopped, supposing they had
arrived at the river, which, to their
great surprise, was the place from
which they had started. Cowper, very
much disappointed, sat down and wrote
that famous old hymn that has given
so much light to the world
''God moves in mysterious way,
His wonders to perform;
lie plants his footsteps in the sea
And rides upon the storm. -
Disappointment not only comes to
the poor, but to the rich not only to
the small, but to the great as we'll, for
even Alexander was disappointed after
he had conqered the world and wept
because there were no more worlds to
conquer.
Addison says that off we hope for
things of which we have not thoroughly
considered the value, our disappoint-
ment will be greater than our pleasure
in the fruition of them"
It is evident that the fruits of our
lives are appreciated more when they
have been gathered from the thorns of
difficulties, than when they have been
given to US. And on our journey thro'
life we learn to realize that the dark
ness may not pass away at once night
may enfold US in it's embrace, but its
terrors will dissipate, its gloom and
sadness fee away and in the simple
grasp of the Fathers hand, sweet peace
will be given US and we shall rest Sc
curely, Knowing that the morning
cometh."
We may notice the life of Byron, who
desired to be an athelete, but being
crippled had to choose different
course in life, that of writing. Today
the world is greatly indebted to this
result for some of her best literature.
But the greatest disappointment,
with the greatest result, is yet to be
mentioned. It is not that of an indi-
vidual, but that of nation-one which
should be familiar to old and young
the story of 1.-THE Hope of Israel" OF
how they anticipated that Christ, the
Savior, would come as a deliverer that
he would gather their people from the
four corners of the earth and set up a
temporal kingdom that might surpass
the great empire of the mighty Gaze
sars' But when they discovered that
He would not build up earthly nations,
but fairer kingdom in the hearts of
men, they were disappointed and be-
came maddened until they finally cru
Gifted Him. What was the result? There
was resurrection morn" It was the
only refuge of sinful world-a world
that lay in wickedness and disgrace a
land of universal darkness; one which
for many centuries had been seethed by
the floods of heathenism.
Bnt it can be seen that circumstances
were preparing for change, as in the
conquest of Alexander The way in
which Greek learning was being scat
tered in all parts of the civilized world,
thus opening the way to our great
fields of literature. And since that tri-
umphant awakening great changes have
come to pass, changes which we can
not comprehed. We in this twentieth
century have been permitted to walk
in that perpetual ray of light-the
light which has raised the yate of
eternal darkness, lifted the burdens of
iniquity from the sin-laden souls and
given salvation to the world.
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