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THE ENTERPRISE, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER.
THE USES . OF TEOUBLE.
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Sermon by; R. f)oWltt Tal
' - mage, D. D.
Ti. ou.e la Deilirncd to Kep the World
From Being Too Attractive How
Human Beings are Fitted for '
Heaven bj Their Suf
fering on Earth.
, The text of Dr. Talmaffo's rocont ser
mon at the Brooklyn Acadomy of Musio
was: "God shall wipe all tears from
their eyes" Rev. vli., 17. The eloquent
divine spoke as follows:
Riding across a Western nralrlo. wild
flowers up to the hub of the carrlafroJ
any shelter, there came a sudden shower,
and while the rain was falling in tor
rents, the sun was shining as bright
as I ever saw it shine; and I thought
what a beautiful spectacle this isl
So. the tears of the Bible are not
midnight storm, but rain on pansied
firalries in Qod'a sweet and golden sun
Igbt. You remember that bottle which
David labeled as containing tears, and
Mary's tears, and Paul's tears, and
Christ's tears, and the harvest of joy
that is to spring from thesowingof tears.
Ood mixes them. God rounds them. Ood
Bhows them where to fall. God exhales
them. A census Is taken of them, and
there is a record as to the moment when
they are born, and as to the place of thoir
grave. Toars of bad men are not kept.
Alexander, in his sorrow, had the hair
dipped from his horses and mules, and
made a great ado abont hfs grief; but in
all the vases of heaven there is not one
' of Alexander's tears. I speak of the
tears of the good. Alas! mo! they are
falling all the time. In summer, you
sometimes hear the growling thundor,
and you see there is a stdrra miles away;
but you know from the drift of the clouds
that it will, not come anywhere near you.
So, though it may be all bright around
about us, there is , a showor of trouble
somewhere all the time. Tears! Tears!
What is the use of them anyhow?
Why not substitute laughter? Why not
, make this a world where all the people
are well and eternal strangers to pain
and aches? What is the use of an east
ern storm when we might have a per-
fietual nor'woster. Why, when a family
. s put together, not have them all stay,
or If they must be transplanted to make
other homes, then have them all alive?
the family record telling a story of mar
riages and births, but of no deaths.
Why not have the harvests chase each
other without fatiguing toll? Why the
hard pillow, the hard crust, the hard
struggle? It is easy enough to explain
1 smile, or a success, or a congratula
tion; but, come now, and bring all your
lictionaries and all your philosophies
and all your religions, and help me ex
plain a tear. A chemist will tell you
that it is made up of salt and lime and
other component parts; but he misses
the chief ingredients the acid of a
loured life, the viperlne sting of a bitter
memory, the fragments of a broken
heart. I will tell you what a tear is; It
la agony in solution. - .
Bear me, then, while' I discourse to
rou of the uses of trouble.
First It Is the design of trouble to
keep this world from, being- too attrac
tive. Something must be done to make
us willing to quit this existence. . If it
were not for trouble this world would
be a good enough heaven for me. You
tnd I would be willing to take a lease of
life for a hundred million years if there
wero no. trouble. The earth oushloned
and upholstered and pillared and Chan
lellered with such expense, no story of
other worlds could enchant ns. We
would say; "Let well enough ajone. If
vou want to die and have your body dis
integrated in the dust, ana your soul ff
out on a celestial adventure, then you
San go; but this world is good enough
for me.'' You might as well go to a man
who has just entered the Louvre at
Paris, and tell him to hasten off to the
picture galleries of Venice or Florence.
''Why," he would say, "what Is the use
of my going there? There are Rem
brandt and Rubenses and Raphaels here
that I haven't looked at yet."
No man wants to go out of this world,
ir out of any house, until he has a bet
ter house. To cure this wish to stay
here God must somehow create a dls
rust for our surroundings. How shall
He do it? He can not afford to deface
His horizon, or to tear off a flory panel
from the sunset, or to substract an an
ther from the water lily, or to banisb
the pungent aroma from the mignonette,
or to drag the robes of the morning in
mire. Yon can not expoot a Christopher
Wren to mar bis own St Paul's cathe
Iral, or a Michael Angelo to dash out bit
own "Last Judgment," or a Handel to
liacard his "Israel in Egypt;" and you
:an not expect Ood to spoil the archi
tecture and mnsto of his own world.
.Bow then are we to' be tnada willing tc
leave? , Hera is where trouble comes In.
After isaan' has v good deal of trouble
he sayw..'Weltv I an ready to go. II
therein a house somewhere whose tool
ioeaWtJeakyl would like to live there.
It thare.ls an atmosphere somewhere
that does not distress the lunge I would
like to breathe It If there is a society
where there is no tittle-tattle, I would
like to live there. If there Is a home
slrole somewhere where I can find my
lost Jriends; I would like to go there.'
He used to read the first part of the Bible
shlefly, now he reads the last part of the
Bible chiefly. Why has he changed
3enesls for Revelation? Ahl he need to
. be anxious ohlefly to know how this
world was made, and all about Its geolog
ical! construction; -Now he Is chiefly
ulrious to know how the next world was
made, and how it looks, and who live
therb, and how they dress. He reads
Revelation ten . times sow where he
read Mneufl onee. V Te old story, "In
the beginning God created the heavons
ind the earth," does not thrill him half
is much aa the other story, "I saw a new
heaven .and a new earth." The old
man's hand trembles as he turns over
this apocalyptio leaf, and be has to take
out his handkerchief to wipe his speo
tacl. ' That book .of Revelation Is a
prospectus now of theoountry into which
he is to soon immigrate; the country in
which he has lots already laid out, and
tvenues opened, and trees planted, and
mansions built
The thought of the blessed place
omos over me mlghtly, and I declare
that if this house were one great ship,
snd you all were passengers on board It,
snd one hand could ' launch that ship
into the glorlei of heaven,' I should be
tempted to take the responsibility end
launch you all i Into glory : with one
stroke, holding on to the side of the boat
until I could, geti it) "myself. 'And yet
there are people 'here to wnom'thls
world is brighter than' heaven. Well,
toar eonlm I idfr'not Wame yoo;' It is
o.atural. But aftlr'a whije Jott will be
ready to go;,. It was not antll Job had
been worn' out with bereavements and
carbuncles and a pest of a wife that he
wanted to see God. It was not until the
-orodlgal got tlrod of living among tofl
hogs that he wanted to go to bis father'!
house. It is the ministry of trouble to
make this world worth less and heaven
worth more. . ' i
Again, it is the use of trouble to make
us feel our comploto dependence upon
God. King Alphonso said that if he bad
been present at the creation he could
have made a better world than this.
What a pity he was not present! I do
not know what God will do when some
men die, Men think they can do any
thing until God shows them they can do
nothing at all. We lay our great plans
and we 'like to execute them. It looks
big. Uod comes and takes us down. As
Prometheus was assaulted by his enemy,
when the lance struck him it opened a
great swelling that had threatened his
death, and he got well. So it is the ar
row of trouble that lots out great swel
lings of pride. We never feel our de
pendence upon God until we got into
trouble. I was riding with mv little
child along the road, and she asked if
she might drive. I said: "Certainly."
I handqd over the reins to her, and I
had to admire the glee with which she
drove. But after awhile we met a team,
and we had to turn out The road was
narrow, and it was sheer down on both
sides. (She handed the reins over to me,
and said: "I think you had better take
charge of the horse." So we are all
children; and on this road of life we
like to drive. It gives one such an ap
pearance of superiority and power. It
looks big. But after a while we meet
some obstacle, and we have to turn out,
and the road is narrow, and it is sheer
down on both sides; and then we are
willing that God should take the reins
and drive. Ab! my friends, wo got upset
so oi ton oecause we ao not nana over the :
reins soon enough.
Can you not tell when you hear a man '
pray, whether he has ever had any :
trouble? I can. The cadence, the
phraseology indicate it Why do women
pray better than men? Because they
have had more trouble. Before a man i
has had any trouble, his prayers are -poetic,
and he begins away up among
the sun, moon and stars, and gives the
Lord a great deal of astronomical in
formation that must be highly gratify
ing. Ho then comes down gradually over
beautiful tablelands to "forever and ever
tmon." But after a man has had troublo,
prayer is with him a taking hold of the
arm of God and crying out for help. I ,
have heard earnest prayers on two or
three occasions that I, remember.
Once, on the Cincinnati express train,
going at forty miles the hour, and the
train jumped the trnck, and wo wore
near a chasm eighty feet deep; and the
men who, a few minutes before, had been
wearing and blaspheming God, began
to pull and jerk at the bell ropo, and got
op on the back of the seats and cried
out, "0 God, save us!" There was an
other time, about eight hundred miles,
out at sea, on a foundering steamer,
after tbo last lifeboat had boon split
finer than kindling wood. They prayed
then. Why is it vou so often hear peo
ple, In reciting the last experience of
tome friend, say: "He made the most
beautiful prayer I ever' heard?" What
makes it beautiful? It is the earnest
ness of it Oh, I tell von a man is in
lamest when his stripped and naked
soul wades out in the soundless, shore
less, bottomless ocean of eternity. I
It is trouble, my friends, that makes '
as feel our dependence npon God. : We
io not know our own weakness or God's I
strength nntil the last plank breaks. It
Is contemptible in us when thore Is ';
nothing else to take bold of, that we
satch hold of God only. A man lannfor- :
tunate in business, lie has to raise a
rood deal of money, and raise it quickly,
lie borrows on word and note all he oan I
borrow. After awhile he puts a mort- I
rage on his bouse. After awhile he puts j
t second mortgage on his house. Then
be puts a lien on his furniture. Then he 1
makes over his life insurance. Then he '
assigns all his property. Then he goes '
to his father-in-law and asks for help! ,
Well, having failed everywhere, com- i
pletely failed, he gets down on his knees
ind says: "0, Lord, I have tried every- I
body and every thing, now help me out
of this financial trouble." He makes I
Uod the last resort instead of the first
resort There are men who have paid
ten cents on a dollar who could have ;
paid a hundred cents on a dollar If they i
had gone to God in time. Why, you do !
not know who the Lord is. He is not !
tn autocrat seated far up in a palace,
from which He merges once a year, pre
ceded by heralds swinging swords to
olear the way. No. But a Father, will
ing at our call, to stand by us in every
srUis and predicament of life.
1 tell you what seme of you business
men make me think of. A young man
roes off from home to earn his fortune.
He goes with his mother's consent and
benediction. She has large wealth but
he wants to make his own fortune. He
goes far away, falls sick, gets out of
money. He sends for the hotel keeper
where he is staying, asking for lenience,
and the answer he gets is: "If you don't
pay us Saturday night you will X re
moved to the hospital" The young men
sends to a comrade In the same building.
No help.' He writes to a banker who
was a friend of bis deceased father.- No
relief. He writes to en old schoolmate,
but gets no help. Saturday nlghtcomes,
and be is moved to the hospital.
Getting there he Is frenzied with grief,
and he borrows s sheet of paper and a
postage stamp and he sits down and ne
writes home, saying: "Dear mother, I
sm sick unto doath. Come." It is ten
minutes of ten o'clock when she gets
the letter. At ten o'clock the train
starts. She Is five minutes from the
iepot ' She gets there in time to have
five minutes to spare. She wonders why
a train that can go thirty miles an hour
jan not go sixty miles an hour. She
rushes into the hospital: She says: 'My
son, what does, all this mean? Why
lidn't you send for me? You sent to
sverybody but me.- You knew I could
and would help you. Is this the reward
( get for my kindness to you always?"
3be trundles him np, takes him home,
nd gets him well very soon.
Now, some of yon treat God just as
that young man treated his mother.
When you get into a financial perplex
ity, vou call on the banker, yon call on
the broker, you call on your creditors,
you call on your lawyer for legal coun
sel; you call npon everybody, and when
you can not got any help, then you go to
Bod. You say: '
"0 Lord, I come to Thee. Help me
now out of my perplexity." And. the
Lord oomes, thoujrh it is the eleventh
hour; ; He says: "Why did you not send
for me before? As one whom his moth
sr comforteth, so will I comfort you." It
Is to throw us back npofi an all comfort
ing God that we have this ministry of
tears.
Again,' It is the m of trouble to
sapacitato ui for the offioe of sympathy,
The pWfxjts Ainder the old dispensation,
were. t apart iy having water sprinkled
on ibefr bands, feet, aud head; and' by
the aarlaklWof tears people erenow
set apart ' to' JUttf efflce of sympathy.
When we are in prosperity we like to
have a groat many young people around
us, and we laugh when they laugh, and
We1 romp then they romp, and ne sing ,
when they sing; but when we have
trouble . we like plenty of old folks ,
around. Why? They know how to talk. ,
Take an aged mother, seventy years of
age, and she is almost omnipotent in
comfort Why? She has been through .
wall. :&t seven o'oiock in tne morning
9he goos over to comfort a young mother
who has just lost her babe. ' i i
; Grandmother . knows all about that
trouble. Fifty years ago she felt it ' At
twelve o'clock of that day she goes over
to comfort a widowed soul. She has been
walking in that dark valloy- twenty"
years. At four o'oiock In the afternoon
some one knocks at the door wanting
bread. She knows all about that. ' Two
or three times in her life she came to j
ber last loaf. At ton o'clock that night
sho goos over to Bit up with some one se
verely sick. She tnows all about It
She knows all abont fevers and pleuri
sies and broken bones. . She has been
doctoring all her life, spreading plasters
and pouring out bitter drops, and shak
lnguphot pillows, and contriving things
to tempt a poor appetite. Doctors Abor
nethy and Rush and Uosack and Harvey
were great doctors, but the greatest doo
tor the world ever saw is an old, Chris
tian womaa.i Dear met Do wo not re
member her ' about the room when we
were sick in our boyhood? Was there
any one who could ever so touch a sore
without hurting It? ,
And when she lifted ber spectacles
against her wrinkled forehead, so she
could look closer at the wound, It was
three-fourths healed. And when the
Lord took her home, although you may
have been men and women thirty, forty,
fifty years of age, you lay on the coffin
lid and sobbed as though von were, only
five or ten years of age, , 0, man, praise
God if you have in your memory the
picture of an honest, sympathetic, kind,
self-saoriflclng, Christian- mothor. O,
It takes these people who have had
trouble to comfort othors in trouble.
Where did Paul get the Ink with which
to write his comforting epistle? . Where
lid David get the ink to write' bis com
forting Psalms? Where did John get the
Ink to write his comforting Revelations?
They got it out of their own tears. When
a man has gone through the currioulum,
and has taken a course of dungeons and
Imprisonments and shipwrecks, He is
qualified for the work of sympathy.
When I began to preach, my sermons
on the subject of troublo were all poctio
and in semi-blank verse; but God
knocked the blank verse out of me long
ago, and I have found that I can not
;omfort people except as I myself have
been troubled. God make me the son of
sonsolatlon to the people. I would
rather be the means of soothing one per
turbed spirit to-day, thaji to play a tune
that would set all the sons of mirth,
reeling in the dance. I am a herb doe
tor. I put into the caldron the Root out
of dry ground without form or comeli
ness. Then 1 put in the Rose of Sharon
and the Lily of the Vallev. Then I put
Into the caldron some of the leaves of
the Tree of Life, and the Branch that
was thrown into the wilderness Marah.
Then I pour in the tears of Betban v and
Golgotha; then I stir them up. Then I
kindle under the caldron a fire made out
of tbo wood of the cross, and one drop
of that potion will care the worst sick
ness that ever afflicted a human soul.
Mary and Martha shall receive their
Lazarus from the tomb. The damsel
Shall rise. And on the darkness shall
break the morning, and God will wipe
til tears from their eyes. .
You know on a well spread table the
food becomes more delicate at. the last
I have fod you to-day with the bread of
sonsolatlon. Let the- table now be
ileared, and let us set on the chalice of
Heaven. Let the King's cup bearers
some In. Good morning, Heaven! "0,"
says some critic in the audlonce, "the
Bible contradicts itself. -It intimates
again and again that there are to be no
tears in Heaven, and If there be no tears
in Heaven how is it possible that God
will wipe any away? I answer have
you never soen a ohlld crying one mo
ment and laughing the next; and while'
ihe was laughing you saw the tears still
on her face? And perhaps you stopped
oer in the very midst of her resumed
rlee, and wiped off those delayed tears.
So, I think, after the heavenly raptures
have come upon us, there may be the
mark of some earthly grief, and while
those tears are glittering in the light of
the jasper sea, God will wipe them away.
Bow well He can do that
Jesus had enough trial to make Him
lympatbetle with all trial. The shortest
verse in the Bible tells the story: "Jesus
wept" ' The scar on the back of either
hand, the scar on the arch of either foot
the row of scars along the line of the
hair, will keep all Heaven thinking; 0,
that great weeper is lust the one to si
lence all earthly trouble, wipe out all
stains of earthly grief. Gentle! Why,
His step is softer than the step of the
lew. ' It wDl not be a tyrant bidding
you to huso iipr your crying1.' It will be
I father who will take you on His left
srm, his face gleaming into yours, while
with the soft tips of the fingers of the
right hand He shall wipe away all tears
from your eyes. 1 have noticed when the
shildren got hurt, and their .mother M
sway from home, they always come, to
me for comfort and sympathy; but I
have notloed that when the children get
ourt and their mother is at home they
ro right past me and to her; I am of m
teoouBt. s ' ' . . ,"' x'i. ! . i ) . '. '
So, when the soul oomes up into
Heaven out of the wounds of tbU llo, it
will not stop to look for Paul or Moses,
or David, or John. These aid very well
snce, but now the soul shall rush fast
jrylng: "Where Is Jesus? Wherv U
lesus?" Dear Lord, what a magnificent
thing to die if Thon shalt thus wipe away
ur tears. Methinks it will take us some
time to get usod to Uoaven; the fruits oi
3od without one speck; the fresh pas
tures without' one nettle; the orchestra
without one snapped string; the river oi
rladness without' one torn -bank; ths
solferinosand the saffron of sunrise and
unset swallowed up the eternal day
'.hat beams from God's oountenanoe,
Why should I wish to llnrw In ths wild,
svhen thon are walUns, Father, to raoslve thy
child . .,, . J. ..I, .'
Still, if we eould get any appreciation
of what Ood has fn reserve for us, it
would make ns so homesick we would be
an fit for our every dsy work. Professor
Leonard, formerly of Iowa University,
put in my hands a meteoric stone, a
tone thrown off from some other world
to this. How suggestive it was to me..
And I hsve to tell yon the best re pre-,
sentations we have of Heaven are only
Broil tos flung off from that world which
rolls on, bearing the multitudes of the
redeemed. We analyse these serolltes,
snd find them orystalllzatlons of tears.
No wonder, flung off from Heaven. "God
hall wipe away mil tears from their .
syes." '
Hsve you any appreciation of the great
snd glorious times your friends are hav
ing In Heaven? IIow different It is
when they get news there of a Christian's
leath from what It is here. It is the
inference between embarkation and
somlng into port Every thing depends
upon which side of the river you stand
amen von hear of Christian s death.
It yon stand on (this side of the river
you mourn that they go., 11 you stand
on the other side of the' river you re
joice that ' they come. 0,'tb.e difference
between a funeral on earth and a jubilee
In Heaven between requiem here and
triumphal -march there parting here
and reunion thero. . Together! Have
vou thought of it? ,Thcy are jtogethcr.
Not one of your departed friends in one
land and another in another land; bnt
together, in difforent rooms of the same
house the house of many mansions.
Together! v
I never appreciated that thought so
much as when we laid away in her last
slumber my sister Sarah. Standing
there in the village cemetery, I looked
around and said: "There is father,
there is mothor, there is grandfather,
there is grandmother, there are whole
circles of kindred;" and I thought to my
self, "Together in the grave together
In glory." I am so Impressed with the
thought that 1 do not think it is any
fanaticism when some one is going from
this world to the next it you make them
the bearer of dtnpatob.es to your friends
who are gone, saying: "Give my love to
my parents, give my love to my chil
dren, give my love to my old comrades
who are In glory and tell thorn I am try
ing to fight the good fight of faith, and I
will join them after a while."
I believe the sesuge will be deliv
ered; and I bcllevt- it will increase the
gladness of those who are before the
throne, Together are they, all tholr
tears gone. No trouble getting good
society for them. All kings, queens,
princes and princesses.. In 1751 there
was a bill offered In the English parlia
ment proposing to change the almanac
so that the 1st of March should come
Immediately after the 18th of February.
But oh, what a glorious change in the
calendar when all the years of your
earthly existence are swallowed up in the
eternal year oi Uodl
My friends, take this good cheer home
with you. These tears of bereavement
that course your cheek, and of persecu
tion, and of trial, are not always to be
there. The motherly band of God will
wipe them away. What is the use, on .
the way to such a consummation what "
Is the use of fretting about any thing?
0, what an exhiliratlon it ought to be In
Christian work! See you the pinnacles
against the sky? It Is the city of our
Uod, snd we are approaching it O, let
us be busy in the fow days that still re
main for us. ' The Saxons and the
Britons went out to battle. Tbo Saxons
were all armed. The Britons had no
weapons at all; and yet history tells us
the Britons got the victory. Why?
They went Into the battle shouting
three times, "Halleluiah!" and at the
third shout of "Hallelujah," tholr en-
smios fled panic stricken; and so the
Britons got the victory.
And, my friends, if we could only ap
preciate the plojles that are to come, we
would be so filled with enthusiasm that
no . power of earth or hell could stand
before us; and at our first shout the op
posing forces would begin to tremble,
snd at our second shout they would begin
to fall back, and at our third shout they
would be routed forever. There is no
power on earth or in hell that could
stand before three such volloys of halle
luiah. I put this balsam on the wounds of
your heart Rejoice at the thought of
what your departed friends have got rid
it, and that yon have a prospect of so
toon making your own escape. Bear
sheerfully the ministry of tears, and ex
alt at the thought that soon it is to be
snded. ; - . ' i
There we shall march np the heavraly street,
Ad ground oar arms at Jeaua' feet.
HUMAN DEPRAVITY.
The Almost Unlveraal DUpoeltloa to Ap
propriate Umbrellas.
In my opinion there Is no moral phe
aomenon in the universe more insorut
tble than the disposition I had almost
aid the universal disposition to steal
umbrellas. If I should say that the
most honest person that ever lived, or,
for that matter, the most devoutly pious
person that ever lived would steal an
juibrella It ho had a good chance, 1 would,
perhaps, put it too strongly. But just
let me give one Instance from a full
repertoire of adventures with my um
brella. A wcok ago I came into my
sanctum with my umbrella, which was
s good one, in my hand, and set it
p in the corner of the room. An
hour later a very respectable gentle
man, who brought no umbrella called
on me, and, after transacting his
business, took his departure.,' A
half hour later he came .back sornewbat
out of breath and remarked; '"Oh! I left
my umbrella," and, snatching my um
brella from the corner, was making hla
way rapidly toward , the door, when I ar
rested him. by. oalljB out:- "Are yoil
sure eu left iOflrsoiVrollaljin-er t'0l
yes, yes,,t-rrt) Satd,Htin going: 'BiHare
you sure that that one is yours?" I added,
with muoh (nxlflty;:"Ohtmy,yes,?,he
said, glancing at It carelessly, and still
spproachlng the door. - ;"liut," 1 said,
"are you sure that that is your name en
rraved on the handle?;' .Nover. was a
man uore SbaahnL' He glanced timidly
st the 'metal 'plsq bXbW1'6-
umbrella, with ffj -nargrved on It
In full, airf -imetf, potting ir down hur
riedly in the first place h same to where
It would stand. '.up, disappeared into the
ball. I am still waiting for his apology
or erplanaUombirt not with any hope of
retting- ttr-tynclr tw hnman- nature.
Chicago Journal
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'MirMO''ReepJe''the prwimhif
to o.iiiivv A iii'-'lii l.l i-'.Jw ' -r .'.y
j A Bdted swtrqTtior In s,hswf ;W. the
question;, "Whajt is the best soursS (p
fiursue In aiding people whu are drown
ng," says: "Take them by the back hair
and bold them at arm's length. . I've
noted one thing about drowning peo
ple. When they are sinking, the first
time' If they see you and. they rise
again they know where to grapple with
yen, and, the result is you both g o' down
together, with a strong probability that
you will be drowned. It Is my advice,
(bat if you go to roscne a drowning per
son you should swim around him and
keep behind him, so he won't ' see you
when he comes up the second time. An
other thing, when going to a person's
rescue try to gain Els confidence. It is
a fact tbat one finger placed under a
swimmer's body will keep him afloat if
you oan only get him to believe It" N.
Y. Star.
'Those who profess to be perfoo
would give bettor evidence of their pert
faction it they did not talk so much
sbout It CaftTyle says: "The greatest
of faults Is to be conscious of hone."
When all is over and we get to Heaven
what a reversal of judgment there will
be I Three things will surprise ns very
muoh: 1. That some are there whom
we never expected would be there. S.
that some are not there whom we did
sxpect would be there. 8, That we
gurselves are there. Christian Inquirer.
Conscience should lead each Mi to
be a silent court of Justice in himself.
Himself the judge and jury and himself
the prisoner at the bar. Gotthnld.
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