THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSL AY, NOVEMBER 26, 1806, OUR TRIALS. | They Are Very Oftoh Blessings in Disguise. God's Plan of Helping Men to Overcome Their Weaknesses is to Allow Them to Wrestle With Them He Will Holp Us If We Ask Him, In his latest Washington sermon Dr. {Talmage brought a message of cheer and encouragement to those who are { bravely struggling against adversity land temptation, « Gen: rosis 89: “And when he saw that "he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of Joint as he wrestled with him. And + he said, Let me go, for the day break- eth. And he said, I will not let thee £0 except thou bless me.’ There is a cloud of dust from a traveling herd of cattle, and sheep, and goats, and camels. They are the pres. ent that Jacob sends to gain the good will of his offended brother, That night Jacob halts by the brook Jabbok. But there is no rest for the weary man. No shining ladder to let the angels down into his dream: but a severe struggle, {that lasts until morning, with an un- (known visitor. They each try to throw the other. The unknown visitor, to re- veal his superior power, by a touch wrenches the thigh bone from its sock- et, perhaps maiming him for life. As on the morning sky the clusters of pur- ple cloud begin to ripen, Jacob it is an angel with whom he eontending coad jutors His text was: 25-20: SEC08 has been and not one of his brother's “Let angel, lifting himself up into increas- ing light, the day breaketh.” You see, in the first me go cries the allows good people into a terrible s good man; the midnight to v dous influ For J beast’ and a blood-red scalding From seen men | for no help, Lut re re : strugy if they their again its infern soul fr we force borrowed harled it into onter darkn But better thank God, | seen ao I have for such termination this nen prepare themselves They help as they went into combat, than seen a wrest of God's The giant habit, regaled by the cup of many ling iaid hold dissipations, came out strong and defi ant. They « There writhings distortions of a fearful struggle waver; enched were the and ut the old giant began to in the midnight, alone, with none but God to witness, by the brook Jabbok, the giant fell: and the triumphant wrestler the darkness with “Thanks be and at last, broke the unto God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.* There is a widow's heart, that first was desolated by bereavement, and since, b¥ the anxieties and trials that came in the support of a family, It is a sad thing to see a man contending ery for a livelihood under disadvantages; but to see a delicate w oman, with help leas little at her back, fighting the gland of poverty and sorrow, is more affecting. It was a humble home; and passers-by knew not that within within those four walls were displays of courage more admirable than that of Hannibal crossing the Alps, or in the Pass of Thermopylae, or at Balak- lava, where “into the jaws of death rode the six hundred.” These horoes had the whole world to cheer them on; but there were none to applaud the struggle in that humble home. She fought for bread, for clothing, for fire, for shelter, with aching head, and weak side, and exhausted strength, through the long night by the brook Jabbok. Could it be that none would ve her help? Had God forgotton to 8? Nol contending soul, The midnight air is full of wings, coming to the rescue, She hears it now, iu the sough of the night wind, in the ripple of the brook Jabbok, the promise made 0 ago, ringing down the ky: “Thy erless children, I will pre ones | street, when I come | thao our beloved dead to us? | havea right to weep | to seald the heart | cause { forth their bloom | that wrings its hands, and serve them alive, and let thy widows trust in me!” Some one said to a very poor woman: “How is it that in such distress you keep cheerful?’ She said: “I do it by what I eall crosssprayers, When I had my rent to pay, and noth. ing to pay it with, and bread to buy | and nothing to buy it with, I used to But now 1 do not I go along the to the corner of street, 1 say: ‘The Lord help me!” | then goon until I eome to another crossing of the street, and again 1 say: ‘The Lord help me!" Andsol utter a prayer at every crossing; have got into the habit of ‘cross-prayers,” I have been keep up my courage.” sit down and ery, got discouraged, If able to people sometimes are surprised to find out that what they have been strug- | : 3 1 3 i gling with in the darkness is really an |! "angel of blessing.” Jacobfound in the was not an enemy, but a God-dis- patched messenger to promise prosper ity for him and for his children. 50 many a man, at the close of trial, bas found out that he has been trying to throw down his own blessing. If you are a Christian man, I will go back in your history and find that the grandest things that have ever hap- pened to you have been your trials Nothing short of scourging, imprison ment and shipwreck could have made Paul wwhat he was, When David was fleeing through the wilderness, pursued by his own son, he was prepared to sweet singer of Israel. The pitand the dungeon were the best schools at which Joseph ever graduated. The hurricane that the tent, and killed Job's children, prepared the man of Uz to be the subject of the magnificent poem being become upset that bas astounded the ages. There is noway togetthe wheat outof the straw t to thresh it fy the g There is no way to old but to burn it J pee pie who ! Look at ave always had ay They are proud, d useless and unhappy. If » find cheerful folks, g » have been purifie had rend s hundr meat with a grea alls mping on You need not Dur surprised those who have passed through the fire do not feel did. Do not those who come not i | hey loss, and yet their gait shall tell you that they have been trouble touched Are we stoies that we can unmoved 8% FAY as once they out of pa ¢ 10¢ Wi out ol their despondency may triumph over their see our cradle rifled of the bright eves andthe sweet lips? Can we stand un moved and see our gardens of earthly delight Will wept Himself, be angry with us if we tears into the that swallow down what we loved Was Lazarus more dear to Him No. We Our tears must shall not drive them back They fall into God's have died be. weep Thank uproated? Jesus, who pour our ITAYeSs yy pen to best? You come. Afflicted they eould Dottie, ones not {| God for the sweet, the mysterious re- | lief that eomes to us in tears! Under this gentle rain the flowers of hope put God pity that dry, withered, parched, all-consuming grief grinds its teeth, and bites its nails intothe quick, but cannot weep! We may have found the comfort of the cross, and yet ever after show that in the dark night, and by the brook Jabbok, we were troubles touched, Again: We may take the iden of the text, and announce the approach of the day-dawn. No one was ever more gd to see the morning than was Jacob, after that night of struggle. It is ape propriate for philanthropists and Chris. tinns to ery out with this angel of the text: "The day breaketh.” The world's prospects are brightening. Superstition has had its strongest props knocked out. The tyrants of earth are falling flat in the dust. The Chareh of Christ is rising up in its strength to go forth “fair as the morn, clear as the sun and terrible as a army with banners.” Clap your hands, sil ye people, “the day breaketh,* BEE —— a. and since 1 | saying these | And | his | { counseled in manhood | ing soul erled unto the | As I look around about me, I see many who have passed through waves of trouble that eame up higher than their girdle. In God's name I proclaim cessation of hostilities You shall not always go saddened and heart-broken, will lift your burden. God will bring yourdead to life, God will stanch God | the heart's bleeding, | know he will. | Like ms a father pritieth his ehildren so the Lord pities you. will end. The tomb will burst. The dead will rise, The morning star trembles ona brightening sky. The gates of the cast begin to swing open. “The day breaketh. ” Luther and Melancthon were talking The pains of earth | together gloomily about the prospects | of the church, 1 bey could see no hope Learn again frcm this subject that | of deliverance, A fter awhile got up and said to "Come, Philip, let sixth psalm, ‘God Luther Melancthon us sing the forty- is our refuge and strength in every time of trouble.” morning that this strange personage | Death to many, naay, to all, is a strug. gle and a wrestle We have friends whom it would leave, 1 many hard to care not how bright our future hope is. Itisa bitter thing to look upon be | this fair world and know that we shall | never again see its blossoming spring, its autumnal fraits, its sparkling | streamas, and to say farewell to those with whom we played in childhood or In that night, ilke Jacob, we may have to w restle, but God will not lea ve us unblessed. It shall mot be told in God for help, but The lattice may be turmed to keep out the sun, or a to dim the light of 1 night taper; or the wis not delivered book set mid- be filled with the cries of orphanage or widow- hood ar he room may Christ f the Church of may mourn over our going; but, Jesus The the brook 1s well, wWros- the wurs of death Ss nigrnat will pass along; } i 1 | n tl A OF inne i ' ne breaketd SAVES HIS MASTER'S LIFE. DOG Animal Seratches Away Which the Man nt the Gravel In War Buried y or iife Was al vioe or left © x ped Abie to bres NaS sO ¥ ed down He and : sible t4 shouted foraid unt e was! was a boul to give up in sought of ais dog. Calling despair, when he £3 the dog to him, he bade him dig. Ihe dog seemed to compre bend the situs | tion and seratched gravel al an astor halt ishing rate hour Mr. M Arm and s : ’ nimaseil s0 that a bout LIE Was 20 10 move one On succeeded In extrieating at his experience and train into the city BATTLE WITH AN EAGLE. Bird of Prey Attempts to Sere One of Two Habbo. The other afterncom while Mrs. F. Corruther and Mrs, A. Stewart were walking with two little babes near St Joseph river, three miles from Bento Harbor, Mich. they were attacked by an enormons bald eagle. The bird was evidently im search of prey, and when it saw the infants it decided to seize one. The women were attracted by the noise of the wings and saw the bird when it was within a fow feet of them. Getting near esch other, the women yelled and threw clodsof earth and clubs at him Thus discouraged, he retreated, flying the while in circles and making darts repeatedly at them The womens continued thelr yelling and throwing till the bird firally flew away, took the Brat Strategy Well Kem ployed. The wise men of the east understand the value of strategy and know when touse itt A rich merchant died He bad one son, who when quiten lad had been sent to an uncle in Indian, When on his way home the young fellow was shipwrecked It was believed that he escaped drowning, though no tidings of him could be oblained. His father died, leavingr his fortune to the esre of an old friend, not to be handed over to any claimant until certain Injunctions had been fulfilled, Atthe end of a year a young man appeared, who declared himself the heir; then & second and a third arrived on the scene. The guard. fan gave to each a how and arrow and desired them to use the dead nan's pie- ture as a target to alm at the heart The first nesrly hit the moark, the see- ond drove his arrow home, but the third burst into tears and refused to dis honor his father's memory by desecrat- ny the portrait of one wwhom he had loved and rovered. Them the guardian knew which of three was entitled to the fortune, ra Ma Heaven that a dy- | ATSe, He was thoroughly frightened | FIRST SYMPTOMS, Why Are Women So Careless as to Neglect Them ? SEVERE SUFFERING SURETO FOLLOW Mrs. C. C. Mott, of Danbury, Conn., Warns Women to Act Promptly—Praises Mrs. Pinkham, and is Thankful One Woman Made Women’s Complaints a Study. It is wonderful how little importance most 10 first sy and this simple fact is really the « for half life. A woman's the whole re {er tion women attach a ploms, Huse the suffering later inn their body is the repo mo chanism , ind ye women t out of orde« DACK aches i had womb clors said it : A. . 3 inflammat ie of the and now I think | The first svn are backacl tation of Remember woman any male physician in America. the all-important fact that in addressing Mrs. Pink- ham yoss are communicating your private ills to a a woman whose experience is greater than You can talk freely to a woman when itis revolting to relate your private troubles to a man. rs. Pinkham, at | yn, Mass., is more tham ready and willing to have you write her if you are in doubt, She will gladly answer every letter, Her advice is free. PROFESSIONAL CARDS IS | D. F. Fortm ker) Attorme oodring ba Attorney -at-law, Off Exchangre., Special ven lo surveying B. SPANGLER, Att in Eagle Building tions in mn and Eoglish ections a specialty yrucy-at-law Consulta Col. 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