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ROBERT COLLYER. f He Took For FTU Subject * Lijjht on a ! ; Hidden W.iv "?Every Life Should lie an Open. Self-Contained Frovidence? ; < ? %T_. . . ?? i t-oBt* ?n nt'ari aiiu jiujict i Brooklyn-, X. Y.?Dr. Robert Collrer, who recently passed his eightieth birthday. freached Sunday morning in the Second 1 nitarian Church. The audience filled ' the church and listened with great atten tion to the eloquent words of the famous preacher. Dr. Collyer took for his subject 'Light on a Hidden Way." His text was j Job iii: a: "Why is light given to a man whose way is hid?" He said: "The Book of Job." says Thomas Carlyle, ' "is one of the grandest things ever written with a pen; our first statement, in books, \ of the problem of the destiny of man and the way God takes with him on this < earth; grand in its simplicity and epic [ ' melody, sublime in its sorrow and recon- 1 ciliation: a choral melody, old as the 1 heart of man. soft as the summer mid- i night, wonderful as the world with its ? seas and stars; and there is no other thing ' in the Bible, or out of it, of equal merit." 1 I suppose it is not possible now to tell J whether the book is a true story or a sort 1 of Oriental drama. The question is one * that will always keep the critics at work < as long as there are rational and what ' ought, in all fairness, to be caHed not | rational schools in theology. My own * idea is that the rude outline of the story < was floating about the desert, as the story ] of Lear or Macbeth floated about in later J times among our own fore-elders, and that, ' like those great dramas, it was taken into a the heart of some man now forgotten and ' fame out again endowed with this won- ' drous quality of inspiVation and life, that [ will bear it onward through all time. But 1 whatever the truth may be in this direc- 3 tion this is clear, that when Job put the t question I have taken for a text he was as j far down in the world as a man can be ? io cm t ITilV iO itVb uwugwu %jj .. Job had been the richest man in the countryside, honored by all who kaew hira for his*wisdom, his goodness or hisi money. : He was notv so poor that, he says, men ; derided him whose fathers he would n.ot j have set with the dozs of his flock. He : had been a sound, healthy man full of human impulses and activities; he had been sight to the blind, feet to the lame, a father to the poor and a defender of the oppressed. He was now a diseased and ! broken man, sitting in the ashes of a ruined home; his fire3 all gone out, his household goods all shattered, his children all dead, and his wife, the moth(r of his ten children, lost to the mighty love which will take ever so delicate and trut-hearted s a woman at such a time and nrake her t a tower of strength to the man. His wife, 1 who should have 9tood, as the angels stand. 1 at once by his side and above hint, turned t on him in his uttermost sorrow, end said, t "Curse God, and die." t Two things, in this sad time, seem to * have smitten Job with unconquerable } pain. First, he could not make his condi- 1 tion chord with his conviction of what j ought to have happened. He had been * trained to believe in the axiom we put up } in our Sunday-schools, that to be good is to 1 be happy. 2so\v he had been good and yet here he was. as miserable as it was pos- ^ sible for u man to be. And the worst of | all was. he could not deaden down to the ] level of his misery. The light given him 1 on the divine justice would not let him * rest. His subtle spirit, pierced, restless, J dissatisfied, tried him every moment. ( Questions like these came up in his mind: t '^Vhy have I lost my money? I made it * honestly, and made good use of it. Why i is my home ruined ? I never brought u;;>on f * i v _ t 1 it one snaaow 01 disgrace, way am 11 ; bereaven of my children, and worse than bereaven of my wife? If this is the result of goodness, where i? cause and effect? What is there to hold on by, if all this misery and mildew can come of upright, downright truth and purity?" Questions like these forced themselves upon him and would not be silenced. If these spirits that troubled him could have whispered. "Now, Job, what is the use of your whining? You know that you have got just what you deserve; that you are a poor, old pewter Pecksniff, with not one grain of r;al silver about you. Your whole life has been a sham." The second element in Job's miserv seems to lie in the fact that there appeared to be light everywhere except on his own life. If life would only strike a fair average; if other good meif had suffered, too, or even tad men?then he could bear it better. Eut the world went on just the same. The sun shone with as much splendor as on his wedding day. The moon poured out her tides of moulton gold, night fretted the blue vault with fires, tree* blossomed, birds sang, and young men aud maidens (lanced under the palrn.i. Other homes were full of gladness. This man had sold his clip for a great price; the i lightning had slain Job's sheep. Tkit | j man had done well in dates; the tornado J had twisted Job'a trees down. Nay, woret ] of all, here were wicked men, nighty .in 1 wealth; their houses in peace, without fear; < their children established in their sight, f sending forth little ones like a flork, spend- 1 ing their days in prosperity and yet sav- 1 ing, ''Who is the Almighty that we should i fear Him?" While here he was, a poor; wreck, stranded on a desolate shore: a broken man. crying, "Oh, that it were with me as in days gone by, when the candle of ] the Lord shone round about me; when I < took my seat in the market place, and j justice was my robe and diadem? When I j think of it, I am confounded. One dieth j in the fullness of his prosperity, wholly ; at ease and quiet; another dieih in the j bitterness of nis soul, not haviig tasted ( pleasure. How is it? What does it mean? ? Whv is light given to a man whcse way is i hid?" . Now, I suppose that not many men ever fall into such supreme desolation as this, i that is made to centre in the life of this most sorrowful man. "It is the possible of that which is in itself positu-a^ But < then, it is true that we may reach out in all directions and find men and women who are conscious of the light shining, but i who cannot find the way; whose condition will not chord with their conception of life, and who, in a certain sense, would be better if they were not so good. The very perfection of their nature is the way by which they are most easily bruised. Keen, earnest, onward, not satisfied to be below their own ideal, they are yet turned so woefully this way and that by adverse circumstances that, at the last, they come to accept their life as a doom, and bear it in grim silence, or they cut the masts when the storm conies and drift, a helpless hull, broadside to the breakers, to go down finally like a stone. A young man comes to town from the countrv full of nurpose and hope. He finds difficulties confront him; he strives, but remains poor. At last, when hungry anil faint ana alone, the devil comes?a nice person, probably, but still a devil?and tempts him. The young man yields. Or. he succeeds, and then slides into the belief i"* it-. !11 i mat mere is a iroviaence mat win accp him prosperous because he is a good man. Disaster conies, and he loses his all. including ais belief in God. Or, a maiden leaves her home full of trust and love. Under adverse conditions she loses hope, and asks: "Why i3 life given when the wav is hid?" Or. here, in the larger life, is a prince and leader of men. The roots of his power begin to ramify through all the land. He Bfems to be the one indispensable man of the time. In the sorest need of all, he is smitten down and dies. Or here is a great cause, reaching back into a great principle. The light of the divine justice shines on the principle and so wins men ; to it that they cannot rest. Year after year they will stand, suffering, toiling, I ' . , ' ' ' " * " .. ' ' I . - '-,y ' " ' ' '' ' ' dying for tlicir cause; but tbo wav does not open. Yet they cannot choose but follow the light. ]f tlie light had not shone so.in our own land we might have ground along in some sort of affinity to s.avery, It was light pouied on the conscience oi the nation that brought on the war; it was light shining through the darkness that kept the nation steady, IHad no such light shone, we should have constructed a new Union with the snaekles of the slave for a wedding ring. Hut the light stood like a wall of tire; yet bow long it was j>nly a iij;ht shining on a hidden way! Our homes, b.acK with acso.ation; fathers, mothers, wives, only putting on a cheerful look, because they would not, by their sadness, dishearten the great hear: 51 the nation. And so, I say. in men and nations you will find everywhere this discord between Lhe longing that is in the soul, and what the raart can do. Our life, as some one said of the Cathedral of Cologne, seems to be a broken promise made to Cod. Now, in trying to find some solution of this question, I want to say frankly that [ cannot pretend to make the mystery all dear, so that it will give you no more trouble; because I cannot put a girdle ivound the world in forty minutes, and llso because a full solution must depend jreatlv on our own dissolution, i believe, liso, that the man who thinks he has left nothing unexplained, in the mystery of providence and life, has rather explained nothing. I listen to him, if I am in trou)le, and then go tome and break mv heart ill the same, because I see that he has not >nly not cleared up the mystery, tyit that le does not know enough ahout it to ;rouble him. The "Prineinia" and the ingle Rule of Three are alike simple and fasy to him because he does not know the Etule of Three. And so I cannot be satsfied with the last words which some later land has added tc the book that holds this tad history. They tell us how Job has all lis property doubled, to the last ass and :amel?has seven sons again and three laughters, has entire satisfaction of all lis accusers, live3 a hundred and forty rears, sees four generations of his line and hen dies?satisfied. Need I say that this solution will not itand the test of life, and that if life, on Jie average, came out so irorn us most xying ordeal, there would be little need or our sermons. For then, every life vould be - an op sn, self-contaiued provilence and the last page in time would vinlicate the first. Men do not so live and lie; and such cannot have been the primi;ive conclusion of the history. It has leeper meaning and a sublimer justifica;ion, or it had never been inspired by the Koly Ghost. And this issure to suggest itself to you is you read the story, that Job, in his Touble, would have lost nothing and piined very much if he had not been so imvitient in coming to the conclusion that lod had left him, that life was a mere ipple of Sodom, that he had backed up to p-eat walls of fate and he bad not a fnend eft on the earth. His soul, looking through ler darkened windows, concluded the heav:ns were dark. The neihre, quiv4ring at he gentlest touch, mistook the ministraion of mercy for a blow. He might have ound some cool shelter for his agony; he jreferred to sit on the ashes in the burnne sun. He knew not where the nest obe was to come from; this did not deter lim from tearing to' shreds the robe that vas to shelter him from the keen winds. It was a dreadful trial at the best; it was fforse for his way of meeting it; and, then he was at once in the worst health end temper possible, he said: "Why is ight given to a man whose way is hid?" is not this, now, jis it was then, one of the nost serious misiakes that can be made? [ try to solve j.Teat problems of provilence, perhaps, when I am so unstrung as be entirely unfitted to touch tneir nore subtle, delicate and far reaching harnonies. As well might you decide on some requisite anthem when your organ is woken, and conclude there is no music n it because you can make no music of t, as, in such a condition of life and such i temper of the SDirit. trv to find these jreat harmonies of God. When I am in ;rouble, then, and darkness comes down m me like a pall, the first question ought ;o be, "How much of this unbelief about wovidence and life, like Cowper's sense )f the unpardonable sin, comes from the nost material disorganization? Is the iarkness ][ feel in the soul, or is it on the windows through which the soul must ?ee?" Then, clear on this matter, the nan tried so will endeavor to stand at the irst, where this sad hearted man stood iz the last, in the shadow of the Almighty, f he must stand in a shadow, and hold on /? fVio s>nnfi^onr>p fhnf. Rnmewhpre within ill this trial ia the eternal, the shallow of i great rock in a weary land. Friends >peculate all about the mystery, and their :onclusions from their premises are entire'y :orrect; but they have forgetten to take n the separate sovereign will of God, as vorking out a great purpose in the man's ife, by which he is to be lifted into a rrander reach of insight and experience ihan ever he had before. Job said: "I suffer, I am in darkness and disappointment and pain, because it is fate." Job's friends said: "Xo, you suffer because voa iave sinned. Rushes never grow without mire." They were both wrong; and all wrong. He suffered because that was the divine Way of bringing him out of hia sleek, well satisfied content; and when :hrough suffering this was done he said: "I bave heard of Thee with mine ears, but now mine eye seeth Thee." If I had never gone into darkened rooms, where the soul stands at the parting of the worlds; or sat down beside widows and little children, when the desire of their :yes was taken away with a stroke, or grasped the hands of strong men, when ill they had toiled for was gone, nothing left but honor; or ministered to men mangled on the battlefield beyond all telling: and heard in till these places where darkness was on the. way, melodies, melodies that I never heard among the com T /vAiiIri r> V>e* CO ruuiipiaurs ui *. w ->~ s?ire as I aai that God often darkens the way so that the melody may grow clear and entire in the soul. There is a story in the annals of science touching this principle, that we cannot struggle faithfully with these things tand leave thom as we found them. Plato, piercing here and there with his wonderful Greek eyes: "Searching through all, he felt and saw The springs of life, the depths of awe, To reach the law within tne law," was impressed by the suggestive beauty w the elliptic figure. He tried to search out its full meaning, hut died without the sight. A century and a half after Plato, Appolonius came, was arrested in the same way, took un the question where Plato left it, tried to find out its full meanings, and died without the sight And so, says a fine writer, for eighteen centuries, some of the best minds were fascinated by this problem, drew from il strength and discipline; and yet, in all this time, the problem was an abstract form a beautiful or painful speculation. It die not open out into any harmonious prin ciple. There was light on the thing, but nc light on the way. In the full time, Keplei came; sat down "to the study; and by whaj we call the suggestion of genius, but ougln to call the inspiration of the Almighty found that the orbits of the planets wer< elliptical, and he died. Then Xewcon wm born, took up the problem where Keplej had laid it down, made all the establisnei facts the base cf his mightier labors; and when he had done, he had shown that the figure, this problem, which had heid mei spellbound through the ages, is a prim* element in the law of universal gravitatior ?at once the most beautiful theory anc the most absolute conclusion of science Then men could see how it was, becausi " 1 1 ' ?J- it. ft,. uou naa muue iuk iikui< numt ?.< thing, that the way was found. From Newton Back tos Plato, in true apsotolic order every man, bending over this mystery o a light where there was no way, and wrest ling faithfully with it, had not only growi \ : " ' ' ' * , ; ' - / ' T' - T i ;nor? noble in bis own soul in the siruzp'e, but he'd done his share toward the sointrcn > found by this greatest mid Just, who was I also "born under the law that they might I . receive the adoption ol sons.'' : &o. I tell you, is this restless search for a ; : condition that shall answer to our eoncep- ; i lion; this fascination, which compels i;s i' i ? t i'. - -t:!_a.?^ ./ , -A ' ' io searen ouc cue empuc oi providence, . the geometric certainty underlying the i apparent eccenlririty. -And every struggle t to find this certainty; ever> endeavor to ; plumb the deepest causes of the* discord between what the nature bears and vmu; the soul believes: every striving io ;ind the God o: uuv locticst faith in our darkest day, will, in some way, aid the demonscra tion, until, in the full time, some Xewcoa of the soul will come and, gathering the j result o: all these struggles between our j conception of life and our condition j in life, will make it the base of some vast generalization, that will bring the I 1 ripest conclusions of the science oi provi- ; dence into perfect accord with the grand i apostolic revelation. "We know that ail things work together for good to them that love God." We wrong the deepest revelations of life when wc are not content to let this one little segment in the arc of our existence stand in its own simple, separate intention, whether it be gladness or gloom; and trust surely, if we are iaithful, the full and perfect intention must come out in the full range of our being. God seldom perhaps never, works out His visible purpose in one life, how, then, shall He in one life work out His perfect will? The dumb poetry in William Burns, the father, had to wait for Robert Burns, the son; Bernardo waited to be perfected in his son, Torquaio Tasso; William Herschel left many a problem in the heavens for John Herschel to make clear; Leopold Mozart wrestled with melodies that Chrysostom Mozart found afterward' of themse.ves in every chamber of his brain, and Raymond Bonneur needed his daughter Rosa to come and paint out his pictures lor mm. w. Reid has said, that when the bee makes * its cell so geometrically, the geometry is not in the bee, out in the geometrician that made the bee. Alas, if in the Maker there is no such order for us as there is for the bee! If God so instruct the bee; if God so feed the bird; if even the lions, roaring after their prey, seek their meat from God; if He not only holds the linnet on the spray, but the lion on the spring, how shall we dare lose heart and nope? So, then, while we may not know what trials wait on any of us, we can believe that as the days in which this man wrestled with his dark maladies are the only days that make him worth remembrance, and but for which his name had never been written in the book of life; so the days through which we struggle, finding no way, but never losing the light, will be the most significant we are called to live. Indeed, men of all ages have WTestied with this problem of the difference between the conception and the condition. Life is full of these appeals, from the doom that is on us to the love tnat is over us?irom the God we iear to the God we worship. The very Christ cries once; "My God! Why hast Thou forsaken Me? Yet never did our noblest and best, our apostles, martyrs and confessors, flinch finally from their .rust, that God is light; that life is divine; that there is a way, though we may not see it; and have gone singing of their deep confidence, by fire and cross into the shadow of death. It is true, nay, it is truest of all, that "men who suffered countless ills, in battles for the true and just," have had the strongest conviction, like old Latimer, that a way would open in those moments when it seemed most impossible. Their light on the tning brought a commanding assurance that there must somewhere, sometime, be light on the way. Aim High. If one 9eems to promote his own personal welfare, it is at the best a low aim, UI1 ?U1 VLV U1 41 I>1 UC mau? utuiouuv.oj| u& selfness, even of the highest sort, is ever below what is superior to a man- and any man and every man should always be aspiring and striving toward that which i? superior to himself. There are two vital difficulties in the way of a selfish man's strivings for his own personal good, even the highest. In the first place, it is a man's duty to seek what is more important than his own personal good; and in the second place, the man who strives to secure his own Highest personal good is pretty sure to fail in his pursuit. Any man who does his duty and fills his place has some object of pursuit which he deems more important than himself; and. on the other hand, only the man who lives for something outside of himself is successful in his striving. It is a -mistake and a folly to strive in an effort where, at the best, be will hopelessly fail. In every sphere of life the highst interest of self comes as an in- i cidental consequence oi living for something which one deems suoerior to self. Self is at the best unworthy of our life ! and endeavors. A citizen wno lives for himself, for his own welfare and happiness, is not likely ; to have happiness, or to find true enjoyl ment, or to secure the highest personal welfare. His fellow-citizen3 are pretty !? sure to be giving their thoughts ana best I regard to those who show themselves " worthy of their devotion and honor. ^ .Striving to gain in one's own way one's , personal good is, at the best, a low aim. A better way is living for others, denying self for the good of others, or in obedience 5 to God, and to honor Him. Those who ' live for self dishonor God and lose their ; best selves. Those who live for God. or [ for those to whom they are sent or set in the providence of God, honor God, and ; incidentally have honor secured to them selves.?Sunday School Times. , "Pray. Through." An interesting incident of how far-reach ing is the influence of two words, occurred ? recently at Liverpool, England, during the ' j Torrey-Alexander meeting. Mr. Alexander j had occasion to co with a friend to one of j I the leading banks in the city, in order ' t: to exchange some American coinage for ; British currency. While he was waiting . I ' ~ /?/*/ ? /NT* f-'f TT> fT I k I <X is til (J tUUUtti 14C UUbtU vu vuw I . j paper in front of him the words "Pray t! through," which he had been using in the ' course of an address. These word9 formed the motto of the convention at the Moody Bible Institute at Chicago. Almost unconsciously Mr. Alexander wrote the two . words several times on the blotting paper; [ then, having finished his business in the ; bank, he ana his friend left. Shortly after wards a customer of the bank came in. He had been passing through a time of ; great anxiety, and while he was waiting at j the counter his eye fell on the words. ; 1 "Pray through." It interested him. and i ' he asked the clerk who had written them. | The clerk was not able to tell him. but the ' [ gentleman felt it was a direct message to ! ' himself to cease his anxiety and to con- i 5 His crown; be sure that unless you follow f tinue in prayer until the cause of it was ; removed, or he was given strength to un| 1 derstand the Divine plan. Helping tlie Poor, The great need of the world to-day is j not some one to bear its burden for it, | i but some one who will teach ic how to j bear its own burden. There is much done ! for the poor and afflicted in the name of I charity that falls far short of the highest , helpfulness. On every nand organizations j are springing up^ to provide rood for the t I hungry and c.otmng^ tor tne .iai<ea, ana ; some Christians are fcoiish enough to say i that they are of more value to the eomI munity than the church. To improve a . man's circumstances without improving the j man is to do him more of evil than of ?ood. ; It is better to open the eyes of the blind - and thus enabie him to provide for him- i . self than to give him alms. The cure of f pauperism will not be found in the generosity of the rich, but in the regeneration i of the poor.?W. W. Week3, D. D. - " "T^'-SI ? 0 WIND SHIELD NOT LEGITIMATE. ^Harness Expe-t Expresses Himself In ; Opposition to the Rifl. V i Among harness horsemen a question often discussed is whether or not the wind shield was largely re- . sponsible for some of the new records made this year. Concerning the wind-shield question, H. S. Johnson, of Perry, Okla., writes a3 follows: < * "Improvements in footing, shade and level for tracks, as well as improvements and inventions of modern devices in the form of sulkies, harness, appliances, shoeing, booting and 4 f guards, also legitimate and careful study of points, have rzsulted in lowering to its present standard the reoord from that made in 1856 by Flora Temple in -2.24%, the fastest harness mile ever recorded. The assistance, known as scientific intelligence, applied to the improvement of the condition of the track, driver, vehicle, harness and horse, renders him the greatest individual possible hampered by the least amount of internal trietion in the machinery of his accompanying counterpart of driver and conveyance. *>. "The second legitimate line of improvement is the result of a like Intelligence carefully classified and ajh plied to the points of breeding. The best is selected and from it raised a family of offspring from which the best again i3 selected and the procese going on through the years results in the internal improvement of the horse. Such is the legitimate. Aside from this all is illegitimate. ; \ "The wind shield has nothing te do with improvement of brack, driver, vehicle, harness, horse individual, his bread or hie progeny; Tb# wind shield is designed to remove resist^ ance of the atmosphere and canse ft moving current of air having a draw ing effect to be set in motion imme> - \ diately in advance of the horse being tested. It brings about an artificial condition recognized neither in nature ^ nor in science. It is no more legitt- /, ; mate than 'to arrange a track that is all down hill. If the removal of the atmospheric resistance is to be recognized then th-a removal of the resistance of gravity will come next and the test of speed will be developing ' of horses sufficiently strong In the shoulders to stand the work of going down hill at a breakneck pace. If we have the wind shield why not have > the corkscrew or spiral-shaped track , | on a descending plane and thereby overcome the resistance of gravity, instead of operating on the dead level &3 we do now? "In addition to this help another will come, and equally as legitimately } as the wind shield, in the form 01{ wings or flies placed on axles of the sulky in like position as the fan of - a. ?1_ j in i me present muuuuu, nucicu; mm speed of the horse and progress win cause a lifting effect upon the body and sulk/ behind him in proportion to the amount of speed attained, aa< thereby lighten the weight and bearing of sulky and driver." FOR GOOD. ' /:% Maud?I understand you are about *! to lose the young pastor that has - * been preaching for you the &st year or two. Mabel?Yes; he's going to be married next week.?Chicago Tribune. \ M ' *1 WEATHER SIGNS. Z "tars. Strongley?John, mother is ' coming to spend a week with us. Mr. Strongley?Thunder and light- ' ning. Mrs. Strongley?No, just reign.? Butte Inter-Mountain. I APPRECIATIVE. /i Fond Parent?I understand the fa?- * , ulty are very much pleased with your work. Dropped Junior?Yes, they encored my sophomore year.?Princeton Tiger. - ".rj THE PIN. "* ' . -^i She?Woman's weapon is th? pto. ' It is mightier than the swordHe?You are right The hatpin has become almost as formidable in public as the rolling pin is in the homt? TAKING THE CHANCES. "Some day you will reap the come* quencs of your sins." "Yes, of course; but there'll be lots of new harvesting machinery invented * by that time." FITS permanently cured. 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