Milford chronicle., 1905-02-10

no. tnat mother as she gets I'D in the mi,
+ ~, ule or the night to put cool bandaee
: ~ upon the hot brow Of her child If IN
tbo sees any blessing in sickness. AS
llev tnat rather who takes his lovely daugh
tbo Ter down to southern climes TO bnr,
ro,, OUT with the hot rays Of the sun tn,
,o, microbes Of diseased lung If he car
1or see any blessing in one Of his dear chill
NV ureh slowly fading away as a beautiful
to mower VIII fade and wither before the
m ehhIing breath of the autumnaI frosts
as- ASK that child If she sees any blessing
70 N pain when night after night she
n. must hear her mother groan under the
= Bhawing advancement of a fatal can.
:, rer. When Christ was upon earth no
: never heard the suppliant crv ~
= leper but his hands cleansed away +bo
n scaies lie never saw one possessed
l. WIN the devils Of disease mental or
r physical unless he cast them forth.
4 even though they were legion. How
3 can there now be any blessing in pbvs- |
. lcal pain when Christ's mission on
, earth was to heal the sick and be a
ulVlne physician to the body as well
as to the soul?"
Yes. my brother, blessings can cona
and do come from physical pain In two
ways. First, in the influence of siclr.
ness upon those who are sick. You can
read this truth in the looks of those
VINO have been near to deaths door
When Dante used to walk through the ,
streets Of the city of his adoption tbe :
passersDy would stop and look at him 4
ana IN awe say, There goes a man :
VINO mas been in hell" When we soc =
Cnrlstian men and women who hive =,
luIh under the shadow Of death in a
slckroom we know they have had ex- .,
perlences which have Influenced Them -
even as Dante had when, with VirpiI =,
as his guide, he trod the hot blisterino - -
sahds where dwelt and agOnized the -
multitudes of the "lost and tho 40 -, ~
stroyed." We also know that their ex- ~
perlences of suffering have nodded Ae
Inelr lives for good, even as Samuel frC
Ionhson felt this experience in his own lin
IRE. i myself" said he, ''was for some Wi
Years totally regardless Of religion. If is
lad dropped out Of my mind. 1t was at To-,
III early part of my life. Sickness loo,
rought 1t back, and 1 hope have new +o,,
T lost 1t since" o man. is NOT tbis -
rue OF you? Do you suppose William -
lcAlnley could ever have uttered tbe ~
ords Prayer with such feeling rs he -,
ID had he not been lying upon an on 'l''i ,a
'atlhg table in the Emergency hos 80
tai OF the worlds fair? Do Won be- 80 90
we that Christ would be as near TO 49,
'u had you not talked with him in
{ midnight hour when the nurse was IT.
zlng IN her chair by your bed? "Jesus ---i4,
ou son OF David, have mercy on metz -.
ed blind Bartemeus in his phvsicoI ~ 4epie
~ SON of Davi5 g''Isiis Iais Cnrlst' Jesus, gre
have criod 20 C,,,".t iliei " Oh me! upon
'ure' DO you not see any blessing in CO.,
H. any spiritual mission in physical tbis :.
Lerfng in your past life? siI tiil' y
The BIessedness Of sickness. r,-,7
is the sick bed for tbe brood
aid. Blessed is its influence upon I,iro,s
Sc who come in touch also with the iots n
ctlhed sufferer Wendell Phillips moro
lid not have been as brave and as fod 81,
man as he was had his life not fret =
inspired by the bravery of that baen
wife who always kept SAYING to VII, !
: On, wendell, on! God has a beap 9,
lon for you. While you are ont bis e.
ing III his name / will be here nofnis+C
ing and waiting for you" Could
one read the eulogy Robert 7
ette wrote about his dead wife A shO
not realize that the frail LITTLE When 1
an whom he for years carried at first
ID IN his arms had a mighty mis- he seen
IN molding and developing her port.
mas life for Spiritual good? By came To-
'tters my mother wrote me from him in.
ipg 1,vr CiOnq
received from a sick wife or a Ihen Il
laughter or a sick mother who tremblin
II that time in the shadow Of one OF q
you know that some Of Gods ana poil
lest agents for the salvation Of great wi
'rld are to be found among those your
cheeks. thin hands and fevered When
On no. my friends, God will palace:'
take out Of this world the sDir- Ihe King
Mission of physical pain and suf- your for
until through those suferings. wiped aw
attitudes have been brought to people in
Christ at the foot Of the cross. those t.
into jewe
An Easy Task. in your cl
would it be for God to make yonder pa
light and to melt the iron heel stones ov,
my in the hot fires Of his III dead tC
II and righteous wrath. Easy them into
be for God to come forth with When he
1t legions of angels and ride cry beggil
e hillsides Of heaven upon tbe those sobs
larger Of victory Easy would last trium
God to destroy his puny ad- here your j
. as they are trying to destroy In this s
lom on earth. How do know sage Of con
the hrst chapter of Proverbs rows, our
nat when the time shall draw sadness ant
God to bear his right and come lost. The!
efense of his children by the who uses [
OF his enemies God shall love The
lso will laugh at your calam- Offering anC
VIII mock when your fear ury of gems
God will easily overthrow we shall Ii
isarles when the right time There we
'ut now even sin has its mis- whom we
Dattle against sin can devel- and tears ia
IN as youth can be develop crowns whC
against the trials OF and in the [