6 THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., DEC (MBER 15, 1808, BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE There Is Sunshine on Every Cloud Says Dr. Talmage. What We Consider God's AfMlictions om Us Are Always Inflacnces for Good—=Why the Useful Are Taken, [Copyright, 1898] In this discourse Dr, Talmage tokes an optimistic view of many things that are usually accounted as inexplicable in human experience and shows us that even trouble and aflliction may not be wholly without their Text, Psalm 49:4: “I will open my dark saying upon the harp.” Washington, Deo. 4 brighter wide. - The world is full of the inexplic the impassable, the insurmou le. steps in any dir up against a hs dles, parad rinths, pro hieroglyphics that we cann anagrams we cannot spell that speak. For David in my text prop« some of these somber and dar} and try to set them to swee “I will open my harp.” So I look off upon society and find people in unhappy conjunction of circumstances, and they do not know what it means, and they have a right to ask: Why is this? Why is that? And I think I will be doing a good work by trying to explain some of these strange things and make you more content with your lot, and I shall on questions that have « me or that i while music and open harp. Inter: God take are useful and many wh world? 1 the inscrutables men and of age, whil ple alive Careless wrote to Bradford, who was soon 10 be put to death. saying: “Why doth God suffer me and other such cat- erpillars to live that can do nothing but consume the alms of the church and take away so many worthy workmen in the Lord's vineyard?” Similar ques- tions are often asked. Here are two men. The one is a noble character and a Christian man. He chooses for a lifetime companion one who has been tenderly reared, and she is worthy of him and he is worthy of her. As mer- chant or farmer or professional man or mechanic or artist he toils to edu- cate and rear his children. He is sue- ceeding, but he has not yet established for his family a full competency. He seems indispensable to that household, but one d before he has paid off the mortgage on his house, he | home the } end a four d ly career into His 1 thoug supp cerv st in t} His b lounge use ti becau out will not 1] wed dark sayings on a ly be answering ften been asked we i try * cannot spare yod health nes 10 lea t eave 80 very t st useful wom 30 or 40 years e you often find useless peo- and 80. John ] at 60 and 70 3Y he is coming h a strong northeast to & iat r things abou furnjshe The be that fan neral, bu on and ticed 1} cut off, w vital I take my harp and give tl} » or fou } ms on t} string } hope! was 1a and his { they « prosper ahead gone d whicl hou wae | were to (C1 and ! thev mes last before tho throne will a nace pared them for the nal career would 3 declit He lives on and on. So we have all no- at many of the useful are early e the parasites have great ter when they h the fur and pre of no other On lived glory kind of life the other hand, the use! nan on to 50 or 60 or the ease must have in this world, and y¢ ot there- fore begrudge him his earthly longey ity. In the ages ther: has not a single ever Heaven, There is no place for him there to hang around. Interrogation ths second: Why good people have so much trouble, siek- ness, bankruptcy, persecution, the three black vultures, sometimes put ting their flerce beaks into one set of jangled nerves? I think now of a good friend 1 once had. He was a conse- erated Christian man, an elder in the ehurch, and as polished a Christian gen- tieman nas ever walked Broadway. First his general health gave way, and he hobbled arcuad on a cane, an old nian at 40. After awhile paralysis struck him. Having by poor health been compelled suddenly to quit busi- ness, he lost wlmt property he had. Then his beautiful daughter died; then a son became hopelessly demented, Another son, splendid of mind and com- manding of presence, resolved that he wonld take care of his father's hone them 70 years because all he ever ocan have ] uoughtr entered do H hold, but under the swoop of yellow fove r Fla., he ly expired. So you know good men und women have had enough troubles you think, to erush 50 people No worldly philosophy could take such a trouble and set it to music or play it flute, but I dare to open that dark saying g You wonder that very people have trouble? very woman who had not had great trouble? It sanctified that they were at Fernandina, sudden whi on violin or on a golden harp conrecrated Did consecrated YOu ever know any man or Never! was through their troubles made very good If you find anywhere in aman who has now and health has never had busines city had perfect child, und always never le popu i strug and and alwnys been Tie ist who is di ngu , pull misiortune, oO your wire the trout jy never are those men ten wit) who lis eye as you them of suffering who have a pathos i kindness in or an astray? their n cuse alleviation They are the men w at the royal ac adem) they hi wrinkles on graduated trouble, written and in nances. My! my they had! tears tl What inju The migt and salvation fit for wheat they There three break off a chain ible ig all ti Are only a fire—and tro The greatest ora formers get much « trouble. What gave Irving that exquisite ter pathos which will », f +) 1 14a jert make his hile the English ls and s; he vearsafter the as to vorites w tinues to be written early heartbreak that never once mentioned, and when, 3 death of MatN¥da Hoffman, have been his bride, her father j up a piece of embroidery and = “That is a piece of poor Matilda's work manship,” Washington Irving sank from hilarity into silence and walked away. Out of that lifetime grief the great author dipped his pen’s mightiest Calvin's “Institutes of who w ked id reenforcement, Religion,” than which a more wonder ful book was never written by human hand, was begun by the suthor at 23 years of age because of the persecution i king of France. Fa yn a salary of 4 b Francis, raday toiled for al by Year anc car As every bri was stamped vy earthquakes ti nd shaken by vo untains the catastrophes of thousands of years and reen : canoes seed mo and passed through before Paradise became possible, the groves could shake out their g banners, and the first garden pour its irnage of color between the Gihon and the Hiddekel thing for the rocks, a good thing for nations, as well as a good thing for individuals, So when you push against me with a sharp interrogation point: Why do the good suffer? I open thedarkeaying on n harp and, though 1 ran neither play an organ or cornet or hautboy or bugle or clarinet, I have taker some lessons in the Gospel harp, and if you would like to hear mie I will play you these: “A’l things work together for good to those who ove God." “Now no chasten- ing for the present >«emeth to be joy- ous, but grievous, nevertheless after ward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are ex- ercised thereby.” “Weeping may en- dure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” What a sweet thing ix a harp, and 1 wonder not that in Wales, the country of my anrestors, the harp Trouble a good hae become the national fastrument, | | | and that they have festivals where great prizes arc offered in the competition be- tween harp and harp, or that weird Bebastian Erard was much of his time bent over this chorded and vibrating triangle and was not satisfied until he had given it a compass of six octaves, from FE to E that when King Saul was demented the with all the semitones, or gon of Jesse came before him and, put ting his fingers among the charmed strings of the harp, played the devil out of the erazed monarch, that in Heaven there shall be harpers harping with their harp S0 you will pot blame me for opening lh Your har Dowr or the dark saying on the ope arp rembling saints, ng awake! ttle more here ly robe ten per ce: lined overcoat: om of the let me better ti 't think you a: enred for It be divinely was said that Diana, the god id not be present to keep her at Ephe- gus from burning because she was at- tending upon the birth of him who was to be Alexander the Great. But I tell you that your God and my Ged is so great in small things as well as large things, that He mould attend the cradle of a babe and at the same time the burn- ing of a world. And God will make it all right with you, and there is one song that you will sing every hour your first ten years in Heaven, and the refrain of that song will be: “I am so glad God did not let me have it my own way!” Your ease willbe all fixed up in Heaven, and there will be such a reversal of conditions that we can hardly find each other for some time. Some of us who have lived in first-rate houses here and in first-rate neighborhoods will be found, because of our lukewarmneas of earthly service, living on one of the back streets of the celestial city, and elear down at the end cf ft at No. 808 or 909 or 1505, while some who had unattractive carthly abodes, end a cramped one at that, will in the heavenly city be ina house iront- ing the royal plaza, right by the im- perial fountain or on the heights over looking the river of life, the chariots of salvation halting at your door, while those visit you who are more than con yuerors, and those who are kings an” queens unto God forever, ter | and pe " | believe it is ¢ MARIE'S CHOICE. Years since, there was in the eity of St, Petersburg a young girl so beau. tiful and lovely that the greatest prince of Europe, had he met her even in # peasant’s hut, might well have turned his back upon princesses to offer his hand and throne. But, far from hav ing seen the light In a peasant’s hut she was born in the shadow of the proudest throne on the earth. It was Marie Nicolaewna, the adorned daugh ter of the Emperor of Russia father w her woming lke flower and sought for her ell of rovi . he cast his eves ! and the ith the dare “It must be weaker than On the fo CIal ance, F BAUS ack the Color said } him with you are handsom erg in Eu levated mind lively and a loyal character of the grand duchess, Marie Nicolaewna?" “The Marie, claimed he, reading at last heart without daring to read that of the czar, “your anger would crush me if I told you what I think of her, and I should die of joy if you permitted TRE taste for my daughter, Princess pire his ex own ILL “You love her-"tis wall resumed the czar, with a benignant smile; and the royal hand from which the duke was awaiting the thunderbolt, deliv- ered to the colonel the brevet of gen. eral alde-de-camp of the emperor, the brevets of commandant of the cavalry, of the Guards, of the Regiment of Hus- gars, of chief of the Corps of Cadets, and of Mining Engiceers; of president of the Academy of Arts and member of the Academy Sciences of the Univer. gities of St. Petersburg, of Moscow, of Keasan, of the council of the military schools, ete, All this with the fitle of imperial! 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