The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-30

because they were better, and God wanted to make them best. By the carefulness of the thrashing you may always con- clude the value of the grain.
 Helps Us Bear Burdens.
 Next. my text teaches us that God proportions our trials to what we can bear-the staff for fitch as, the rod for tho cummin, the iron wheel for the corn "Oh. I can't bear it!' But you did bear it. God would not have sent 1t upon you If he had not known that you could bear it. You trembled and you swooned but you got through, God will not take from your eyes one tear too many nor from your lungs one sigh too deep nor from your temples one thsob too sharp The perplexities of your earthly business have not in them one tangle too intricate. You sometimes feel as if our world were full of biudgeons flying haphazard. Oh, no they are thrashing instruments that God just suits 10 your case. There is not a dollar of bad debts on your ledger or a disappointment about goods that you expected to go up, but that have gone down. or a swindle of your business part ner or a trick on the part of those who are in the same kind of merchandise that you are. but God intended 10 over rule for your immortal help. oh you say. there is no need talking that way to me. I don't like to be cheated and outraged" Neither does the corn like the corn thrasher but after it has been thrashed and winnowed 1t has a great deaLbetter opinion of winowing mills and corn thrashers.
 We'll you, say, If I could choose troubled" An, my brother, then it would not be trouble You would choose some- thing that would not hurt, and unless 1t hurt it does not get sanctiied Your tISl perhaps may be childlessness. You are r>1d of children. You say. Why does God send children to that other household. where they are unwelcome and beaten and banged about when l would have taken them in the arms of my affection?" You say. Any other trial but this" Your trial perhaps may be a distigured countenance or face that Is easily caricatured. and ycu say, I could endure anything if only l was good looking" And your trial perhaps is a violent temper. and you have to drive 1t like six unbroken horses amid the gCnpowder explosions of a great holiday and ever and anon it runs away with you. Your trial is the asthma. YouNsay If 1t were rheumatism or neuralgia or erysipelas, but it is the asthma, and it is such an eXhausting thing to breathe. " Your trouble is husband, sharp snap py and cross about the house and rais- ing small riot because button is off How could you know the button is off? Your trial is a wife ever in contest with the servants. and she is a sloVen. Though she was very careful about her appear ance in your presence once, now she is careless. because. she says, her fortune is made! Your trial is a hard school les son you cannot learn, and you have bit ten your finger nails until they are 8 sight to behold.
 Everybody has some veXation or an noyanee or trial. and he or she thinks Is the one least adapted. Anything but this. all say; anything but this. My nearer, are you not ashamed to be com blaming all this time against God? Who manages the affairs of this world any how? Is it is an infinite Modoc or a Sitting Bull savage or an omnipotent Mana Sahib? No; it is the most merciful and glorious and wiseN being in all the universe. You cannot teach onllpotence anything You have fretted and worried almost enough. Do you not @ thlnk s,o so' Some of you are making yourselves rldle- ulous in the sight of the angels. Here is A naval architect, and he draws out the plan of ship of many thousand it for a long while. The ship is done, and some day, with the flags up anu the air gorgeous with bunting. that yes sel is launched for Southampton. Al that time a lad six years or age comes running down the dock with toy boat which he has made with his own jack knife, and he says: Here, my boat IS better than yours. Just look at this iibboom and these weather crossJdcK braces" And he drops his little boat beside the great ship, and there is roar of laughter on the decks. An. my friends, that great ship Is your llfe as God planed it-vast. million tonned, ocean destined. eternity bound! That little boat is yoir life as you were trying to hew It out and fashion it and launch it. Do not fry to be d rival of the great Jehovah. God is always right. and in nine eases out of ten you are wrong. He sends just the hardships. just the bankruptcies; just inc cross that it is best for you to have. He knows what kind of grain you are. and he sends the right kind of thrashing machine. It will he rod or staff or iron wheel just according as you are htches or cummin or corn.