Milford chronicle., 1905-10-20
Calnaqe
Sermon
BY Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmaee. D.D.

"3Et fOrg,t hila"
How soJl "t!e plowman cal 0vcl
take the ra2pe-," as the an cicgt pr3phe
saidl How soon after the harvest Eei
glovs with its crop Of ripenirg grain
ready for cutting ana garuering, doe
tle plow come to tear up the rich sol
With IFS ruthless sharel How soon tn
midnight frosts cover ne fruits will
their cold, cammy death sweat! The ia
vorltes of f5rtune are sometimes rapidly
lifted 10 success, but not so quickly a.
the victims Of misfortune are dragged
down to rain. The stone drops from
the highest cliit TO the bottom of the
deep canyon more swiftly than the
powerfully winged eagle scars up and
up until he dyes his feathers with the
golden pigment # the rising sun. The
kings frown and the kings smile may
follow each other even more rapidly
than the changes Of the tickle weather
Of the spring, VIII, 4 King Solomon de-
scribed when he ID, "And the clouds
return after the r..l."
Could any lark VI III a broken pinion
fall to the grouHl more suddenly than
Napoleon Ill fell from his throne? In
1879 he was considered the most pow
erful ruler Of all Europe. His great
uncle's name, his brilliant coup d'etat,
which placed him upon the French
throne after he had been elected pres
ident for ten years; his fostering of the
arts in his kingdom. his past military
record circled Il halo around his ner-
sonllity Gnl made LIN the man Of the
hour When the Suez canal was open
ed Nov. 1G, 1850. all Europe came to
participate in the marriage of the wa
ters of the Mediterranean with the wa
ters of tie EeI sea. Many kings and
queens. princes and Trincesses were
there, but tie royal yacht, which ear
ried on boarl the beautiful Empress /
Eugenie, was the center of all eyes At /
that gathe" 20 she was the ruler Of /
kings and the queen of queens. No black
cloud darkeued her horizon. Yet in a
little over OLe year the Franco Prus-
sian war broke out Napoleon III. in
a short time was an eX-emperor, Sedan
had been fought, the Tuilcries was ex-
changed for Chiselhurst Then the only
crown Of Eugenie was a crown Of
thorus, pressed into her agonized brain.
With one mighty crash the Napoleonic
dynasty fell into a heap of ruins.
"Foor Empress Eugene" you say.
Why poor Eugeniel She had no mo-
nopoly Of trouble. To be hurled in a
few molths from throne into exile
q - limo faA l. ]
have misf2rtunes come as swiftly and
as poignantiy? They pounce upon us
as swiftly as a hawk darts for his
prey. They come upon us as quickly as
they came to Joseph and to the chief I
baker and the chief butler in the Egyp-
ian prison But though they have t
come to us quickly in the past, yet c
many of us are like the chief butler of l.
'haraohs court. As soon as our trou- ?
lies leave US we forget all about them 0
ND their wounds. We forget that the n
anne kind of troubles may afflict us d
gain. Thus we go on practicing the D
anne sins that flung us into our past Il
iticulties Let me draw from this "
imple Bible story some plain, practi- 81
al gospel lessons. May you and l not o.
e like the forgetful butler, but like the
nforgetful Joseph, who in his prosper
y remembered his old father Jacob c.
nd his brethren and who in his beau Dl
ful. forgiving nature will always re- 10
lain as one Of the Old Testaments hi
ure and noble types of the life Of 81
esus Christ &c
Promises of Youth. III
like the restored butler are we be- u
luse, in the first place, we have for en
'tten the promises we made when 60 NJ
g through the struggles of youth. ap
hen iniustices We're practiced upon ne
, when we were working during the ~
~ and studying during the night for d
] education, when we had to wear 81
abby clothes and had to hear the uo
eers and the taunts OF the world, III
l,t did we then say? "Ah, if ever an
cceed in life l will help all the young tl
en- and women l can who are in the WI
ne predicament as l am" We have ne
c coded. Are we fulfilling our prom ph
IS As successful ministers. have we WI
mplthy with young ministers? As pa
ceessful doctors have we sympathy as
th young physicians? As successful mi
{, chants have we sympathy with dli
ung merchants? As successful CON ou
actors have we sympathy with Young
nt.actors? No That is not the gen OF
al rule. When the doors Of Phara- err
s court were opened for US ana sue th'
IS was ours Ike the chief butler we Ter
got all about out past promises and be.
: Josephs whom we left behind in ira
son We forgot our troubles almost inc
This statement is true 70,
/ only Of one but Of many depart the
nts Of life. ee.
Tow was it In reference to your col ~ ~
e daysg Who was the meanest ana -,
most contemplate man ON your ~
ulty? Was he the great Drained ~. ~
world honored Mask Hopkins or a.,
lhalet Mott or Tlmotay Dwight or, H.,
Tie boys used to lovingly call him, 81,
my AlcCosh, who, though the ablest bo
fhanfooiallS on observation-disclosures