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MUTILATED T he D aily L eader . II.-KO. 4. GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y„ MONDAY, SEPTEMBERS, 1888. WHOLE NO. ai5 IIAVISMSKS’ G U ID E . tOHNSTOWN AND GLOVERSVIIiLE /iiob Tsfr , low il e lia a A.U. Ift liiH ii )BK CENTRAL AN D HUDSON RIVEE oad.—Trains leave Fonda as follows: aOINQ EAST. !S sr - ist;: V i l l ■; Ilf ■ '£P?S' . iKii - 9:15 p. M. GOING WEST. ssirsis”: SUNDAY TRAINS. i:53 A. M. 3:35 v. M. 327 and 4:03 p. M GOING EAST. est Shore Ex. •• - - ; L S l . R . E . E ' x p r e s GOING WEST. - ■ IVAY.-TBAINS LEAVE Ills rO\VN AND GLOVERSVILLE STREET ANSING, 15 North Jtain St. aV S IC lA N S AND SITKGEONS. It. iRiysIcloh and surgeon. MISERiBLE COMFORTERS. REV. DR. TALMAGE DISCOURSES AT EAST HAMPTON, L. I.. Why D id God Let Sin Come Into the World?—No One Can T e ll Until H e Gets on the Other Side ot the River o f Death. Im parting Comfort to the Trouhled. E ast H ampton , N. Y ., Sept. 2.—The Rev. T, Do W itt Talmage, D. D., who spends a o£ his summer rest here, took for kJ’ Hisi was, “Miserable comfortere are ye all Job x v i, 2. Following is the sermon: The man o f ITz hod a great many trial the loss o f his family, the loss of his pr 1th; but the most e x- lo ought have sympathized id upon them, i he utters the words o f m y text. ito the work isew h o ought to him. Lookiug , and weighing w'hat f the words of m y text. W hy did God let sin come in to the world? It is a question I often hear discussed, but never satisfactorily answered. God made the world fair and b eautiful a t the start. If fli-stst parentsarents had not sinned in Eden, our fli’ p 1 they might have I around the North and >arth—Europe, Asia, Afric iouth Amei'ica—so m any flower gardens, or rchardsof fruit, redolent and luscious. I when Go( the Susquehanna; the whole earth w as very fair and beautiful to look upon. W h y did it not stay so? God had the power to keep back sin. and woe. W hy did ho not kepp them back? W h y not every cloud roseate, and every step a joy, nud every sound music, and all the ages a long jubilee of sinless men and sinless wo men? God can make a rose as easily as ho can make a thorn. W hy, then, the predominance of thorns? He can make good, fair, ripe fruit as well as gnai'led and sour frait. W h y so much, then, that is gnarled and sour? He •can make meu robust in health. W hy, then, ai-o there so many invalids? W hy not h:|ve for our whole race perpetual leisure, instead ■ ........................... livelihood? me into the it on the other side o f tho lat is the place where such fl E. C 110 MWELL Dentist, .•:0. l;} North Main Street, GloverKhlle. mOHTEER--:- RESTAURANT ED. FOX, 32 SOUTH MiVIN ST., G l o v e k s v il l e . world—when I gel River o f Death. That is the place where such questions will b e answered and such myster ies solved. Ho who this side that river a t tempts to answer tho question onlyillusti-ates his 03vn ignorance and incoinpetenoy. A ll I know is one great fact, and that is, that a herd of woes have come in upon us, tram pling down everything fail* and beautiful. A sword at the gate of Eden, and a sword at every gate. More people un der tho ground than on it. Tho grave yards in vast majority. The six thousand I winters have made more sears than the s ix thcusand summei-s can cover up. Ti’ouble has taken tho tender heal’t o f this world in its two rough bands, and pinched it until tho nations wail with the agony. If all USE ALIBAL POULTRlY FOOD. il MRS.HUCKANS’ For all the Neatest Styles in PELTS, j FANCY FEATHERS, RIBBOKS, E t c . f o r P A L L , at Bottom P r ices. A N e w L o t J u s t A rrived. Mrs. 6. L. HDCKAKS, 51 PLACE BLOCK, MAIN ST. A fine stock of Hair Goods, al ways on hand. Combings made up for 25o. per ounce. PHARMACY HALL! Second - Edition. In making our first bow to the people <■ Gloversville we stated that we should let a FIRST-CLASS DRUGSTORE, isked a .sliai e o f the public’s patron- W e have m et our part of the ■inent and have been pleased to ‘(-thatthe people have responded, dial! continue to give honest goods innest prices. Courteous treatn ulands and receives just recognit n need of anvthing ih the line of IS, MEDICINES, T « L 3 T ARTI- ■ , CIGARS or STA1T0|'ERY, give S. M. TOOK S to., ,ain and Church S ts v bloeraville. mnds of graveyards that have been lifted re put side by side, y ou might step on them a nd on nothing else, going all around tho world, and around again, and around 0 tho facts. And now I hi again. These are tho facts. And now I have to say that, in a world liko this, tho grandest occupation is that of giving This holy seieince grande: „ ing condolence, ie of imparting comfort to tho troubled wo ought all of us to study. There ai*o many of you who could look and upon some • wish you v yet bo nblo your days of trouble, “Miserable comforters blopcoploare incompeteul giving comfort. Bildad oi iz had tb cred Job’s life out. Alas for these voln- leople that go among tho houses of tho afflicted and fefllc, and talk, and talk, and “^hoy rehe.n-so their own sorrows, and icted 8 talk I Tho then they tc feel badly m rehe.n-so their own sorrows, tho poor sufferers that they ■, but they w ill feel woi-so a fter nee! Do you expect with a rt plaster o f woi'ds to heal a wound deep as the soul? Step very gently ai-ound about a broken heax-t. Talk very softly ound those whom God has bereft. Then ly has n ot But the n e ighbor have heard of the accident, and they come in, and they say, “Let us see it.” And the bandage is puUed off, and this one and that one must feel it, and see how much it is swollen; and there is irritation, and inflammation, and exasperation, where there ought to be healing and cooling. The surgeon comes in, and says: “What does all this mean? You have no business to touch those bandages. That wound w ill never heal unless you let it alone.” So there ai*e souls broken down in sor roxv. What they most want is rest, or very careful and gentle treatment; but tho neighbore havo heard of the bpi*eave- menb or of tho loss, and sympatl ‘ wound, learso now lb or of tho loss, and they com ipathize, and they say: “Show Is now the WhatIiat wereere hisis lastast words?ords? Re- w h l w hearse now the whole scene. How did you feelwhon you found you wero au orphan?” Tearing off the bandages here, and pulling them o ff there, leaving a g hastly wound that the balm of God’s grace had already begun to heal. Oh, let no loquacious people, with ever rattling tongues, go into the homes of the distressed! Again I remark, that a ll those pereons are incompetent t o give a ny kind of comfort who act merely as worldly philosophei-s. They come in and say: “W hy, this is what you ought to have expected. The laws o f nature must have their w a y ;” and then they get elo quent over something they havo seen in post mortem examinations. Now, away w ith all human philosophy a t such a tim e! W hat dif ference does it make to that father and mothei* what disease their son died of? Ho is dead, and it makes no difference whether tho trouble w.as in tho epigastric or hypogastric region. If the philcsopher be o f the stoical school he w ill come and say: “ You ought to control your feelings. You must not c ry so. You must cultivate a cooler tempemment. one string. Tho human scul is au iu of a thousand strings, and all sorts of emo tions wei-o made to pJ.-.y c.u it. NiJw an anthem, now a dirge. Is is no ovLlcr.oo of weakness when one is ovcrooino of sorrow. Edmund Burke v/as found in tho pasturo field with his arms aroauil a horse's neck, caressing him and some one sold: “Why, tho ■ great man has lost him mind!” No, that horse, belonged to his son who had recently died, and his great h-m t broke over tho. grief. It is no sign of w a k n e ss that men nro overcome of the relief of tears. is no sign of w a k n e ss that men nro o theii* sorrows. Thank God for of tears. Have you never been in trouble when yon could not weep, and you would have given anything for a good cry? David did well when he mourned forA b - salbm, Abraham did well when he bemoaned Sarah, Christ did well when he wept for Lazarus, and the last man I want to see come anywhere near'mo when I have any land of trouble is a worldly philosopher. in I remark that those persons ai*o in litt foror thehe workork off comfortomfort bearingearing competen f t w o c b who have nothing but cant to Offer. There are those who have the idea that you must groan over the distressed and afflicted. There are times in g rief when one cheerful face dawning upon a man’s soul is worth a thousand dollai*s to him. Do n ot whine ov’or the afflicted. Take the promises'of tho Gos pel, and utter them in a manly tone. Do not be afraid to smile if you feel like it. Do not drive any more hearses through that poor soul. Do not toll him the trouble was fore ordained; it w ill n ot be any comfort to know it was a m illion yeam coming. If you want to find splints for a broken bone, do not take cast iron. Do not tell them it is God’s jus tice that weighs out grief. They want now to heal* of God’s tender mercy. In other words, do nob give them aqua fortis when they need valerian. A gain I remark that those persons are poor comforters who have never had any trouble thcmsslves. A larkspur cannot lecture on tho nature of a snowflake—it never saw a snowflake; and those people who have al ways lived in the summer of prosperity c an not talk to those whOjOre frozen in disaster. God keeps aged peopl^in the world, I think, for this v ery work of sympathy. They havo bean through a ll these trials. They know a ll that which irritates and aU that which soothes. If there are men and women here who havo old people in the house, or near at hand so that they can easily reach them, 1 congratulate them. Some of us have bad trials in life, and, although we havo had many friends around about us, we have wished that father and mother were still alive that we m ight go and toll them. Perhaps they could n o t say much, but it would have been such a comfoi*t to have them around. These aged ones who have been all through the trials o f life know how to give condo lence. Cherish them; let them lean on your arm -these aged people. If, when you speak to them, they cannot hear just what you say tho first time, mid you havo t o s a y it a ueoiitu tim e, when y o u say it tho second time do iiof say it shai'ply. If you do you will bo sorry for i t on the day when you take tho last look andbimsh back the silvery locks from the wrinkled brow just before they screw the lid on. Blessed bs God for the old people! They may not havo so much sti-eugth to go around, but they ai*a God’s appointed minis- tei-s of comfort to a broken heart. .People who have not had trials themselves camiot give comfort to others. They m ay talk very beautifully, and they may give you a great deal o f poetic sentiment; but while poetry is perfume that smells sweet, it makes a very poor salve. If you havo a grave in your pathway, and somebody comes and covera it all over w ith flowess, it is a grav§ y e t Those who have not had grief them selves know not the mystery of a broken heai’t. They know not the meaning of child lessness, and the having no one to put to bed at night, or tho standing in a room where every book and pictui*o and door is full of meniorios—the door m at where she sat, tho cup out of which she drank—the place where she stood at the door and clapped her hands—.the o d d , figures that she scribbled—tho blocks she biult into a house. Ah, no; you must havo trouble yourself before you can comfort ti’oubla in others. But come a ll yo who havo been be reft and yo who havo been comforted in yom* sorrows, and stand around these afflicted souls, and say to them: “I had that very sorrow myself. God comforted mo, and he w ill comfort you;” and that w ill go right to tho spot. In other words, to comfort others wo must havo faith in God, practical expori- enco and good, sound common sense. But there are three or four considerations that I w ill bring this morning to those who are sorrowful and distressed, and that wo can always bring to thein, Icnowing that they w ill effect a cure. And the fii-st con sideration is, that God sends our troubles in love. I often hear people in their troubles say, “W hy, I wonder what God has against me!” They seem to think God has some grudge against them because trouble and mis£oi*tuno havo come. Oh no. Do yo*a not remember that passage of Scripture, “ Whom the Lord loveth ho cbisteneth?” A ch.Id comes in w ith a very bad splinter in its hand, and you try to extract it. It is a very painful operatiem. The child draws back from you, but you peroist. You are going to take that splinter out, so you tako the child with a gentle but firm grasp; for al- m a y b e pain in it, the spluit-s* it. And it is love that dictates irsist. My fiiends, I though there must come out it and makes you really think that nearly all this world are only the ban our sorrows in only th e hand of oiu* Father extracting some thorn. If all these sor rows wero sent by enemies .1 would say, ni*m youi-selves against them; and, as in tho tropical climes, when a tiger comes down from the mountains and carries off a child from the village, tho neighbors baud together and go into the forest anel hunt the monster, so I would havo you, i f I thought these niis- by nil enemy, g era. Dnt no; t! i a Father* so kind, so loving, so ge that the prophet, speak',:ig o f his'teuiki and mercy, drops tlic idea o f a father, and says, “As one whom his mother comforteth, so w ill 1 comfort you.” Again, I I’omark, tin re is comfort in tho thought t h ^ God, by ad 1 his process, is going to make 3 -<M^usefiil. l. . . • e i.:i e v that thoi-o who accomplish the r e ' ■* i * Go(| and heaven have a ll been under th * l . rrowi'^-Bhow me a man that has done au.'.aiug for Curict in this day, in a public ori .n vate place, who has had no trouble and who.e path has Leeii smooth. Ah, no. 1 once went thi’ough an a x factory, and I saw thein tako the bars of iron and thrust Uietn in to tto terrible furnaces. Then beswe:itod workmen with long tongs stirred tho blaze. Then they brought out a bar o f iron and put it into a crushing mnehiiio, and then they ijut it,between jaws that hi b i t in twain. Then they piitit on au anvil, and there were hammers swung bj* m achinery-each :on, it wofild have sa beating? Whyhy mustns I bo pounded any i W in than any other ii'oii'i havo said, lUt nd build tiio siu^, auu erect houses, and ccary on a thousand enter prises of civilization. That's tho reason wo pound you.” Now, God p u ts a soul into the furue.co o f trial, and then it is •brought out and run tbroiigh tlio crirdiiug machine, and then i t comes down on ibe ••.uivil, and upon it blow after blow*, blow after blow, and the soul cries out, “Q Lord, v. hat does all this ireani” God saj's, “I want to make some thing very usoftJ out of you. Yon shall be sometoing to hew vrit h and something to build with.” It is a pravticah process through which I am putting you.” Yes, my Chris tian friends, we want mcro tools church of God. Not more we-iges . brings any raeiit upon you, it is only to make you use ful. Do not sit down discouraged and say, “I have no more reason for living. I wish I wore dead.” Oh, there never was so much reason for your living as now! By this or deal you have beeu consecrated a priest of the Most High God. Go out and do your whole work for the Master. Again, there is comfort in the thought that all ourur troublesroubles arere a revelation.evel Have you o t a a r r thought o f i t iu that connection? n who has never been through chastise- about a thousand ! ht to know. For .. Ill who prides himself cheerfulness of character. He has no pa tience with anybody who is depressed in spirits. Oh, it is easy for him to be cheer ful, with his fine house, his filled wardrobe, ' o f music, and is easy tor him t o he cheerful. But suiipose his fortune goes to pieces, and his house goes down under the sheiiff’s hammer, and tho banks w ill not havo anything to do with Ills paper. Suppose those people who were once elegantly entertained at his table get .so short sighted that they cannot rccigiiize him upon the street. How thou? Is it so easy to be cheerful? It is easy to be cheerful in the home, after ibo day's work is done, and tho g a s Is turned •<n, m d the hm n is fuU of romping little • *i' .'. I'ntsnpjios-o the piano is shut because I-I'ling'rs that plai'od on it w ill no more touch the kej's, and tin childish voice that a: k'od so manj’ questions will ask no more. Then IS i t so easy? When a man wakes up Mid finds that his rtvources are all gone, he 1 egins to rebel, and he says: “God is hai*d; fiod i . outrageous. He had no business to do tbi.i inc.” My friends, those of us who havo keen through trouble know what a siii- ,nl a ial rebellious heart we have, and how iiiueli God has to put up with, and how much wo uc ’d pardon. It is only in tho light o f a ilamiiig furnace that ivo can learn our own weakness and our' own lack of moral re- _ lace. From lan>l, or Ireland,, a child •. It [, or lrelar._ ___________ _ iti*y. It IS very hard pc comes, after a while writing home as to whf igrates to this larting, but he ilster comes, and another, and after a wl the mother comes, and after a while the father comes, and now they are a ll here, and they have a time of p*eat congratulation and a very pleasant reunion. TFell, it is just so with oiu* families; they are emigrating to a bettor land. Now ofle goes out. Oh, how hard it is to p a itw ith him i Another goes. Oh, how hard it is to part w ith her I And .'mother, and another, and wo om*selves w ill after a while go ova*, and then we w ill be ti-vgethei*. Oh, what a reunion! Do you be lieve that? “Yes,” you say. Y o u do notl u. do n o t believe it as is, heaver away off scans and indefinite population. ••f heaven that m any of us dream about; but it h the most tremendous fact in all the an uncertain That is the kind earn about fa ct t in oil e Gospd. ■ted friends are not afloat. The I in which you live is not so r eal as tremendous fa c iiuivei'se—^this heaven of the Gospd, Our d’p.irted friends are not afloat. The resi- ucpiu teu .Lixcuu:» >v^u uicu xu vjui x&t. They do not need any of yotir pity. You might as well send a letter of condolence to Queen Victoria on her obscm’ity, or to the Roths childs on their poverty, a s to p ity those who have won ^the palm. D o not say of those who are departed, “Poor childl” “Poor father!” “Poor motherl” They are not poor. Y o u are poor—you whoso homes have been shattered—not they. You do n o t dwell much with your families in this world. A ll day long you are off to business. W ill it not bo pleasant when you can bo to gether a ll tho while? If you havo had four children and one is gone, and anybody asks how many childi'eii you have, do not be so infidel as to say three. Say four—one in heaven. Do n o t think that the grave is un friendly. You go into your room and for some grand entertainment, and you forth boautifiiUy appareled; and tho f ity having be- much condol- cueo tlierois in this thoughti I expect to .see my kindi*ed in heaven; I expect to see them as certainly as I expect to go home to day. A y , 1 shall more cei*tainly see them. Eight or tea w ill cbtrie tip ff oin the graveyai'd b:ick cf Sumer .’file; and one w ill come \up 0 mountains back of Amoy, ither w ill come Up froin the and another w ill come Up froin Cape H attcraS; a n d th ii 'ty ' -thoymarit teumpetthatsour*lshero wfll found thero. :*ape HattcraS; and thii'ty will come up from Ireenwood; attd-ft shall know them better iSw them hera And yom tie across tho sea, but th< a You w ill come up on jus^, the same daj*. Some m orning you have overslept yourseff, and y ou open yq^ir eyes and see that the sun is high in tho heavens and you say, “J have overslept and I must be up and off.” So you w ill open your eyes on the morning o f tho res urrection in the fuU blaze of God's light, and you w ill say, “1 must be up and away.” Oh yes, you will come up and there w ill be a re union, a reconstruction ot, your family. I like w h a t Halburton, I tbinir it was—good old Ml*. Halbm’ton—said in his last moments, “I thank God that I ever lived, and that I havo a father in heaven, and a mother jn heaven, and brothersm heaven,-and sisters iu heaven, and I am now going up to I remark once more: our troubles in world m’o preparative for glory. Whu. » transition it was for Paul—from iho slippery deck o f a foundering ship to the calm pres- opce o f Jesus! 'What a transition i t was for Latimer — from the stake to a throne! W hat a transition is'was for Robert Hall— from insanity to glory! 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Oar Pianos are of the best Come and see them, and invesj;. -■ In fact you’ll find most anythfUg. Fi om a Concert Grand to d Fiddle Btrii Now w e’re done: we”ll Sign o u t ntwr So please do not forget the seme. To Fred’k H. Eaton & Co., Is the place where y ou must go, , A t 23 'West Fulton street, i ■You’ll find all things both new and neetv Fred’k H. Eaton & Co., j 108 East Fulton St„ Gloversville, N. j N O T IC E . to furnish the ^ublffi a t short ^iiotiw fre^ ^ p p lyof ^ \ Bread, Cake, Confectionery, H it; Rolls and Bnns / intly kept on hand. None but experienced bakersare emj^oyed. call will convince. '• AUGUST STUMPFElX^
