The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-03-31

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FOR you and me. For duty Is terrible.
OF course, rs 1t relates itself to tho
measure of personal strongth-torriblo
!, for Daniol to daro the whole court OF
Darius. and pray three times a day to
his own true God
: II Is oven more evident with the
passive than with tho active duties. No
duty Of doing fr'ghtcns and dismays
the human soul Hike the duty OF mere
suffering. l know nothing that Will
SO COW and crush II strong. we'll man,
| with tho red blood riotous in his full
veins, as O certain conviction coming
suddenly upon him that his strength
is TO DO taken from him: that lie is 70
be n poor, miserable. dependent in
valid ali the rest of his days until
no dies. Nothing makes man cry
out to die like that. It Is tho most
terrible sight one ever sees. We in
our health cannot begin TO guess the
blank of his poor soul. Nothing is
lcft-no hope. no strength, no energy;
nothing but misery to wall out his
foriorn and frightened cry. Father,
save me from this hour"
s., Ana then comes the most beautiful
sight one ever secs. AS the man lies
there In his misery, out OF the dark
ness comes his past and reads itself
ito him. Each bright old year OF
health comes with It's message Of
Gods unforgetting love. Each strong
deed of his vigorous youth turns to
an angel, bringing him and laying ut
his bedside the trust which It accu-
mulated. He slowly secs that all the
past OF active duty was stocking his
i lie with the graces that should 1T
MN Tor these slow years of suffering
duty. This bed of wrctchedncss was
the result to which cvcry path of edu-
cation led. Slowly his soul accepts
the lesson. Father. save me from
this hour. Nay, for this purpose came
unto this hour. Father, glorify THY
name" Then the hands drop patient
~ from their resistance. The meek
lips are put up to tasto tho bitter cup.
The life grows happy In It's now en-.
! ltShtenmcnt of pain.
Glory to God. to God, he saith;
knowledge BY suffering ontcroth.
And life is perfected By DEATH"
So of bereavement and poverty. 81
Oh every cross the life is called to
pear. Every cross. since Christ the
| Light hung upon His. is n light givcr.
| Q sufferer with any namelcss agony,
! rejoice IL thy cross llghtens thy life
as thy Saviour's did His. II It let's YOU
see the higher end of life-that men
ana women were not born to live
daintlly and sail smooth wators leissed
by sunny winds. but to brihr praise
to God. to let their Father glorifv
Ills name In them; that the iire in
which this Is attained Is tho sue
cessful life--if this has been revealed
to thee by suffering. rejoice and glory
! In thy every pain as Elijah must have
slorificd in the fiery horses that bore
him up to God.
This, then. Is the lesson OF our Nas
tcr's struggle. The sam. Saviour rho
came in the morning over tho Mount
of Olives, herulded by hosannus, tread
ing the palm branches and the people's
garments under his ass's roct-hero
He Is I'm the evening. struggling with
His destiny, and leaving us an eternal
soul troubled: and what shall L say?
Father. save Me from this hour. But
for this cause came unto this hour.
Father. glorify Thy name"
1t teaches us that struggle is not
wrong. 1t IS inevitable. To be weak
and tempted Is not wicked. 1t is
human-that is all. Jesus was tempt.
ed. too.
1t is so hard TO do right. you say.
Yes. of course. IL is; and the soul that
tries to do right does wrong so con-
stantly. But then It Is so glorious
glorious to do right through strug-
gle: glorious to mount from the lower
to tho higher life. and seeing how God
has bound our perfection to Ills own,
have but one confident prayer for
both-not, Father save me from this
hour"-from any hour, however hard
it be-but. Father. glorify Thy name,
And as to Christ when lie prayed so
often TO us-sharers not only OF Ills
struggles, but of His triumphs-thcre
shnll como voice from heaven say
| ing. II have both glorifed It, and will
glorify II now again in thee" Who
cannot dare all things and bear all
things In the celestial courage of that
promise?
Colonel Roosevelt says: LET tho
people read what I say and take 1t at
Its exact face value. Any one who
tries to detract from anything say