Year: 1869

Proverbs, "An her ways are pleasantness, and nll
her paths are peace.n Prom these words the rev.
erend gentleman preached most instructive ser
mon. Solomon here referred to the ways and
paths OF the present life Of ali men. 1t lay In
the power OF all TO make their s0j0urn here
ways of pleasantness and paths Of peace. Joy and
sorrow were the inevitable accompaniments. In
good. These TRIALS and sorrows only tended, and
were designed by God himself, to develop TO train
and strengthen the better faculties OF man; and the
more he overcame those surerings the nearer he
approached that perfection permitted TO the human
fsm rsaGss suffering taught %sa ss sna
Ss a higher over
The school OF creative industry one OF the I'VE
schools through which man had TO graduate 70 NJ
him Tor the cares and needs Of this life Some there
were who thought this was o necessary evil. Inc
Church vas another school, In which man was Taught
moral IDEAS The teachings Of these schools, though
antagonsm. The Church gave to man that
spiritual and technical instruction, Mnica
prepared him for all the higher duties OF OF
life. But there were many things to be learned
most essential TO the discharge Of all moral duties
before the man received that also needlul instruc-
tion from the Church But the eliminating instruc-
ton was that received through the Church from the
Lord Jesus Christ. The Church was the highest de-
In the university Of @ Man an sSs
cation. There was first the family or home world,
the physical world, the civil world, the Industrial
word and last the Church world. The Church pre-.
pares them for all the higher and nobler duties OF
life, bringing them from step to step til man Is
made perfect man, 80 far as human mature
lies in the way Of all. 1t was by trials that man be-
came what God meant man should be. Sorrow is
the conflict through which man goes to all his higher
developments. 1t Is conflict between man's higher
and lower qualities. Man from the cradle has always
TO The Ghd puts It's ,a nand IN e
pain teaches the child not to do SO again. Man ID
selfish and hence the cause Of most OF all his
sorrows. lie draws pain upon himself by this very
sel1shness, but he does not always learn like
the child 10 avoid what gave him pain. II man only
knew the right pain through life and followed 1t un-
deviatingy ne would not suffer pain. Virtue Is the
road 10 travel In this world IAN her ways are
ways OF pleasantness and all her paths are peace.n
chastsements provided by God in His benedcence TO
keep man In the ways OF pleasantness and In the
paths OF % peace Pam tan and suffering were not ae


Of the Creator, ana bringing man TO 3
be useless endeavor to seek out the origin Of evil


As well might q man seek for the philosophers
stone. Evll ls part OF mans organization Man
was made 10 advance in knowledge. Knowing
nothing at rst he has all to learn and suffering Is
the motive the nducement and the pressure that are
brought to bear upon him to make HIM seek know
ledge Is OF the greatest Of the vir-
tues, but 1t does not require man to go into
monastery or into the wilderness to produce It, A
man IN the wilderness IL not alone, tor the
all the devil has that man all to himself.
In the populous city the devil cannot well
single out one for his arts and practces as he
has there too many to attend to for him to attach
himself to But this Ia not so in the wilderness,
and therefore was no proof Of to go into
q monastery, to immure oneself In cave, TO 60
into the wilderness or to stand upon o column TO
give proof Of self-denlaL The great work OF self
among the busy haunts of men. Love was
the motive and active power here, and he who
gave best Proof Of l8ye Tor hls islSw 6t beings, %
to him the ways Of the world were ways OF pleasant
ness and all It's paths were peace. 1he man OF SELF
denial. the man with most love for his fellow man,
stood, really Is. Sorrow Is the trump which an
nounces that the enemy is approaching the camp;
1t blows aloud to warn you to meet your adversary
Sorrow is the friendly voice which whispers in your
ear, while you lie asleep amid the suffocatlng fnmes
TO nee from the imminent danger. Sorrow Is allied
TO love- and thus the that loves and sorrows for
the ills Of Others, while he rises above his own ap-
proacnes nearest the perfect man.