Show III I II i 1ii School of Life I 1 Tn the da oC 11rOslelIt be joyful and In flte day or ndYe13It consIdtr God also bath set the one Ocr against the other Eccleglastcs vII H Gods prodences are Interlaced 01 I interwoven tuireatis of iron crossing I threads of gold the dtlltest web Is shot through with threads of lIght the I brightest with threads of darkness God i I hath set the one over asaim the other Gods proIdences art also veIled We cannot be sure what kind of thread we i shah l be weaYIIlg tomorrow It may he 1 while 01 It may be black Ve know I I not what a day mllY bring forth No man Is able to foresee that which Is to I collie i But we many iJi general rely upon the I I doctrIne of averages thlcad of gold I and threads or Iron days or sunshine I 1 and days oC cloud places which arc I straight and places which arc crooked I the major and tine rumor the hlnck I keys and the white keys gladness and I I sadness ease and disease abundance l f and want Prosperity and adversity are never lvorced the one from the I other God has set the one over against the othCl lllis Is the phase of thc wise i I I mans thachicigs which 1 wIsh tv em I t I lhasl7c thlg morning i I In this world joy Is never very far I I I I from sorlOw or sorrow far from joy I Gladness md sadness ale interlacing I experiezices Vc speak of happy child hood and childhood Is for most of us I lierhmaps the happiest period or lire I 1 Yet children have theIr vexations their I I j dlsapPolntmentli their hrealdngs or the I will and theIr terrors and I am not sure j I that thesE trIals arc not as real as the I I I more serIous testlngs of lldull ycar I Many a child has wished quite as sin J I I ccrely as any mon that hc were dead I Grownup people arc not tile only ones i i that must learn In sorrow that they i cannot always have their own Wit nor I icc men acid I women atone In their un I satisfied hunger for apprecJation and I snnpltthIy Tine real reason why the I children tjcm happier Is that they tithe their joys and sorrows as they come I I they neUlel brood OVer that whIch Ii I past nor forbollc concerning that which Is to come When they arc hurt they ely but whell they Ire healed the arc I just us ready to iaughn A wholesome child nclther nurses past grievances l < s nor worries over grief which may connie it thlOnS Its heart Into expelIences of the Ilusslng day So God Sllllts us all with the true IhIrooph or life As we get older our cappclty Ion joy enlarges hut so does our capacity for Borro The vehemence oC our vital h Ity the vIsor of our wills and the ardor I of out affections malee us al ociec caa ble or the cxtremes of delight and an guish r have Itnowneohlege l men to cry JUte children over defeat In a col 71 lege contest Ten yeitns later tIJIH men will Ilccept the most Herlous defeat In business or professIon with seeming equanimity r Amid who has not known trdcnt 01llJls annul nnnnidens to suffer sanely through i dIsappoIntments or misplaced affections as they will even afterward suffer hrourrh afffcllons oC the most satisfy ng sort Ye brcale i anti hearts aver cx perlenens r which twenty JCU1 latCI we I remember wIth r smile And yet I do not think we should malte JIEht or any I tjL t sincere sorrow Perhaps you know n man who Is ready to asSent that his grief us a chlld ocr the crushing of his dog was just as real as his grief as a man over the death of IL brolhcr or perhaps you know a woman whose teuts were as sincere when she found hel affection misplaced as they eer aftelward weme In the sad experiences of faIthll affection When the tloot1 tide of life runs highest God placei sorrow sor-row acid joy oven against each other rjulis truth becomnes mOlc evident as we enter the reslons of nnhdtlie life Il is th exceptionul man 01 woman who has enlered tine forties who meyer ate hIs bread with tears nor Illalllt thc wIne of sorrow DlslIPointment disease dis-ease dIsaster death who has not Jmol1 them In his family chcle 01 circle or friends As well expect a good sol dhH to get through twenty yecurs of campaigning without tasting hardship 01 Cer being called on to confron death To live is I to risk and the brolet the richer the lecpel the life tine greater the risks Thc more extensive exten-sive your Inleresls the more aggressive your actions and more tender your srtnpathIes the more opentyou are to the slIngs and alrowa o1outraeous fortune To hid for plosperlty 115 1 to lIme adversIty You cannot ride on the wave without dealings with ts rough Our cllvIuest joys are linked with dlI11 fH sorrow God inns set one over agul1l8t the oIlier Nobody doubts this lIS regards old age When senses full find sensations lose their rEshnQs when experlCl1c has shown us IIfcs perils and bodily wealmess has made 115 umnable l to cope with them when we arc afraid or that which IB high and feat cven to join the mourners who follow our beat loved to their graves then we shnll lenow what It means to lJt shut In to 10 set aside to be left hehlnd to bc 10nclyatHl we do well to lcmcmber that thou h we should pas our threescore yeats acid ten In sunshine wc llUSt sooner 01 later contract the Incurable disEase of oidagc and meat the approaching footsteps foot-steps of clcCLth It was one or Tolm Fosters searclning thoughts that he should train his parrot lo cry to CVrJly dapper youth and haughty gIrl who Iassed his way You wIll be nn old mml you an old woman by and by l As sure as Wf Ile this wIll be tw lhe vitality of youth and the decay oC ago Cod half set the one afulnst the other Anal In spite or the eemlnJ adrun tages of one senson oC lire over an other when we come to apply the doc lrlne of Iternges there Is not ao much difference after all Comparing spllug stimmel autumn and winter each sea ROil has Its days to be desirett l each its days which try our souls Springs flEShnC55 Is fitful nummcrl vitality Is Inot as wc gather autumns hlllcst the wOll I Is dyIng and at WC HIt hy will te15 fileslde the outside world Is cod lL 15 an open lUeutlon whet her tIne seed thne of childhood 16 hllPJllel than tho I tLplngtll11e of manhood whcthea rccl less vitality or young womanhood or manhood Is hupplel thou fIreside con tent oC old age Each season or life like each SIaOu or thE yctr has Ita compensating chlllms nml leveling dIs comforts Comfort and dlscornfrt joy and sorrow ale set ocr agulnst Iueh other everyhneie This 16 t1t1Cr than we are wont to think 01 wllat We can exceptional cxpc rlences Take the evident contrast be I tiCein IHosperlly and adelsltj belween tine rich and the POOl I question whether wheth-er tine rich mums child llcntls 11101e dt light In her doll which can talk than tine Ioor mlns chillI In lien doll made of rags whethel he mllllollains son gels mOlC recreation out or hi yacht or team of horses lhan the son or his poor el lghbor gels out of his wheel whethcr the rIch mun hlmiclJ hinds mimic com1oll In his expensive home limn the poor mall may find In his rented rent-ed rooms und whcthcl glal1dmollll Is any happlcl where the young peoII4 all weat dln1110nds than she nanny be hclc they usually wear woching clothcs On the olher hand sl1el spoons will not keep a baby crowIng 01 money keep youths iincns J > 01 heurt flom being 110 1ain 1 nor will hugs oC gold dispel R rich I malls ugly dreams or huy off declepl tude aind death Vltatevcr olll conditions condi-tions In life Joy md sorlow arc set oven lbalnsteach other g1 halth Inns its Umwhaclts and sicitnness its compensalon A man who I has neel been 111 hardly knows the joy of hieing l well So the man who has all thc nnocney 01 vitality lie can spend halllI Imows the delight lhere Is In maldug the most of a IImllCll Income And nmctcny a person novel tcnos or ap preclat tIne nlue of friends until he I Is forced lo lie down 01 sit down and let them take cure of him Thc happiest I nHln In the world Is not the man who has never blen sick but thc man who nzi been I I SIcI u unto deut 8nu1 is I con HI SICl LSdlI pam 111 IS J lcty even unlnlcrmfltent Inns its compensa tons its 1l01S oC ease ane ole of our nearest earthly approaches to heaLlude God las so set ease and disease over against each other I hac foun u sick man Imeing happier over being ahle to Hit up in an Invalids chair thn his bro11eJ could PossiblY be over n hand won ballc In huslness and an Invalid girl inajpiei OCt lien excursion to the living room than Item sister would hnve been over a longedfor excursion lo the seaside OJ mountains Hallplnrss 01 un happIness comfort 01 discomfort arc largely rclalv and they ane closely re latcd God has set one oven against the atlas rlalte anolhel extreme contrast that between fortune and misfortune Is 1m03tlmlng more Cxhluralng than a I stroke or good forunc As when C01 xample one hus gottenu golen something be olc nil he would naturally ask 01 ex pect t Or can anything he mOc 11R hearlenlng titan a sutlden stroke of ad ersl for which one 15 ennthnely incipre > pared Yot I mnlte bold lo assent that more men are Julne by success which the hnd nn rnn In nVIn t f n by adversky n nnr 1 llt they could In l inn wise forestall Tine young man who thlogh no wisdom oC his own has fallen inch to posi I Ion O mnocney is I In qulc 35 much peril as the young nina who through no fault of his own bus lost his pOlltlon 01 money Tii one Is Inn quite 1 mueh Ilungel from prIde 01 IHcsumpton > na thc other Is flom this coulagcmrJl or despair Ind there 1 a comoll In Icolng lint 10 outwll1d mlsforlune CfI n rob a man of his neal friends and hlmHell which Is moe Uln n match for tine Ilelgh tone CI n lUte In 1celnr that the wined or lortumne hng lhrwn him that which hc could not lnate clrtad t fine spIried mln would mlhel Ionic what hC inns In u ni bnl tie than own ni he has by chance Let othenl hurmh ton the lucky dog any voice lu tom the plucly Ole Talten asa as-a whole our forlune and mnihniforttnne Ilsfortmc ore mone zieunly Imlnnccd thnn mOIr we uro ready lo adml God has let one over against the other So sometimes we contrast tyIng after bug sickness with mdden dealh lhell is a special I prayer In the prayerbook for delvernce frm the Jnt l as If It were to 1f viewed with special drca amid yet I a nibni must die three months hence Is It hardel that he should go aoout his work In I thc meantime In 1 Line enjomwnl oJ hCh than that he 810ulc1 ie Loin rom his worI and melted unt his death day with thoughts or dlstluton and lroxm of paIn 7 On tine Othl hand the fore arnlng ilness has its compensaton I tIes fliends i SIcelal oPlrlun1 to show thei affectol and the one who must go I special summon lo set his Inolise lit oiden nl tu thing to he clea E1 01 clslred In time one deprtmo inlay e set oven against tine things to be dllllle < 01 desired In tine other ntmnd we ninny el rest con tnl thal we cia not have lo malee choice Vc ninny wel heave the how Hld the when of out golnE to God Jhe most distressinG oulwd concl loins and experiences oC lfe Inave them orpemmton the mosl delightful coin lions und cxIlellenccs have Uah dls trussing t thans lhcl Is always a fly In our ointment and in the vcny marrow mar-row oC the bitten we find the swcel YhaL Is j swcetel than affecLon and what Is more bitter than grief yet love acid brer arc Incparble twins God has set the one oven against the othel amiti love never hesitates she risks all ton richer 0 Joorer for Hiclmess or health for tel 01 for wone and event tClntons lleatl con wc 1n < IIcalhs I headn every marrlare cetennomny tnd are comrorted at even funeral by love that Is strongel OHl death So fa ns this liCe Is concerned God has sel love acid death over Igalnst ouch other and love must be ImmQILI to win Hut suppose we admIt that these cicn t1sts helwcm plspelty and adversity adver-sity ease ninth disease Otunc and TI fOllune joy and soriow love acid hart h-art made OJ sin whal comes or the admIssion First whcl sin ceases thelO will be no mOlc dlselse annd pain no mOle sorrow anal death out cups oC joy wl no longer Ie cmbltered by sorrow sor-row out days of case will no longer he interlaced with days ot pain anti death Itself Will dIe Second WhCl all virtue ceases there will he no more comfort unc ease no 1010 loc acid Jny our CUP or woe will be no longer l1utc11 hy mope the carcass 0 our corruption 1 hide no redeeming ScotncfH and the grizzly horton or death wi all etornnl innntstCty Yhen sin and vimLtic cease lo he mingled lo n11 1p111 u 11 I no lone > I fnnlnnt each iileI One oc tine i eLmer l I ivihl claIm uswhich shal It he Look at the t Chrlslnc I was moro I heacnly Jit wedded to mOle searehln I sonow God set once against tine other In hIm In every Ilang that rends the j hcttl tine zinnia of sorrow 111 rL PUlt hut he 101 the JOY thal was set erore him elurcl the crania and despised the palm and thnne tine loom to sinless life wide open Tie madc It Possible for us lu chooHe our conditions for tIne meal fILule Hesetlng life anti death Oel against each other he said you I musl deal i with both niow but you need olly tile once If you choose life So J you have joy malte the best oC Il JC you have S01row maim thc mosl of I Accept yuan condition In the bight sphIL of ChrIst lhu5 aixi thus mc only can you crnchn I the land whotc sorrow sor-row amid joy no longer confront etch ether hut whcro thel shal be full cncsns of joy lut plrasure rOIcvclmore LLTAi1 or IADliN Pastor ii rat Piesbytemi oh Church |