| Show A MODERN SERMON the following bays rays an english paper exhibits the tho method upon ubon aich which some parsons nowadays con coh their delectable discoursed brethren the words of my text are I 1 ud vid mother hubbard Hub rard tard ehe khe went west to the cupboard to got yet her ber poor dor dog do a bone but when bho she got thero there tha the cupboard ws hare tare and athe so the tho poor dog doe had nome none i these beautiful words dear friends carry with them a solemn lesson I 1 propose this thia evening to analyze their menning meaning and aud to at tempt to apply it lofty as it may be to our everyday every day life g old mother hubbard sho she went to cupboard to at got her tier poor deg dee a pone cl mother Hub rub hubbard bards you bees see bee was os old there being no mention of others we may presume that she aho wag was wislon siow alow i e a widow a friendless old solitary widow yet did she despair did she bit alt down and weep or read a novel or wring her hands handa nol me fhe went to the cupboard and here observe that bhe she went to the cupboard she did not hop or ship or run or jump bruse or use any peripatetic artifice she solely and merely went to the cupboard we have havel seen siren that she was old and lonely and we now further see that she was poor for mark the words are the cupboard not rone cone one of atthe the cup cap cupboards boards or the cupboard dr or the lefthand left hand cupboard or the one above or the one below or or the one under the j floor but just the cupboard the one humble little cupboard the poor widow possessed and why did hiie she go to the cupboard was it to b bring ng fo forth th golden goblets or glittering t erin precious stones or costly apparel P arel or feasts or any other attributes b U 13 of wealth it tt waa was to get her poor dog a bonet bonal not only was the widow poor but her dog the sole bole prop of he ner her rage nage age was poor too 10 we can imagine the beene acene th the a poor dog crouching in the corner looking wistfully at the solitary cupboard and the widow going goin g to that cupboard in hope in expectation may be to open it although we are not distin distinctly cily eily told that it was not half open or ajar to open it for that poor dog but when she sho got there tho the cupboard was bare and BO so the poor doz doff had none cc 9 when ghen she got there you sees see dear brethren what perseverance is you see the beauty of persistence in doing right she got there therel there were no turnings and twist ings lugs no slip pinga or sli all el dings iding no loaning to the right cr falte rings to the tha left with glorious simplicity we are told she got there and how was waa her noble effort rewarded the cupboard was bare barev it was bare there were to be found neither apples nor oranges nor cheese cakes nor penny buns nor gingerbread nor crackers nor nuts nor lucifer matches the cupboard was bare barel there was but one only one solitary cupboard in the whole of that cottage and that one the sole hope of the widow and the glorious loadstar load star of the poor dog was bare barel had there been a leg log of or mutton a loin of lamb a fillet of veal even an ice from gunter guntor athe case would have been different the incident would have been otherwise but it was bare my brethren bare as a bald head bare as an infant born without a caul abany many of you will probably say with all the pride of worldly sophistry t I 1 Y the widow no doubt doubty went OU out I 1 nd and bought a dog biscuit ali ah nol noi no far removed frem fiem these earthly lly ily ideas these mundane desires poor mother hubbard the widow whom many thoughtless world linea lings would despise in that she only owned one cupboard perceived or I 1 might even say saw at once the relentless logic of the situation aud nud aud and yielded to it with all the heroism of that nature which had enabled her without deviation to reach the barren cupboard did not attempt tem 1 1 like the sc offers of 2 this 1 generation to war against the inevitable she ghe did not try gy like the so called men of science to explain what she did not understand she did nothing the poor dog had none and then at this point our information ceass cears ceases 8 but do CIO we not know sufficient are we not cognizant of enough i who would dare to pierce the veil that shrouds the ulterior fate late of old mother hubbard her poor dog the cupboard or the bone that was not there must we imagine her still at the board door depict to ourselves the dog still drooping his bia disappointed tail upon the floor the sought for bone i ahill renial remaining ning somewhere e ejae ise ibe ali ah no my dear brethren wo we are not nob so permitted to attempt p t to read tho the future futi fut ure bre ire iro bunnice suffice it forus to glean wom nom this beautiful story its many lessons suffice it for us to apply app ly them to study them as far as in irk us lies lles and bearing in mind the natural frailty of our ila iia nature ture to avoid being widows to shun shull the tho patronymic of hubbard to have if it our means afford it more than one cupboard in the house and to keep stores in them all and oh dear friends keep keeping liag ilag in recollection what we have learned this thi aday day let us avoid keeping doga dogs that are fond of bones bonez but brethren if we do if fate has hag ordained that we should do any of these things let us then go yas as mother hubbard did straight without curve curveting cur our tin g or prancing to our cupboard empty though it be let iet us like ilke her accept the inevitable with calm steadfastness and should we like her ever be left a hungry y dog and an empty cupboard may future chronicles be able to write witte also of us in the beau words of our text 1 1 i and EO so the poor dog dug had none A well known london phy physician sican calling on a lady tho other evening found her busily engaged reading 91 twelfth night when shakespeare wrote about abo ut patience on a monument did he mean doctors tors torb i pat patients lents remarked the sawbones bon ess trying to be clever clover no answered the fair one 1 you yon dont find them on donual monuments 0 rits lits but under them A young man of teutonic parentage got a marriage license at the courthouse court house a few days since and remarked as he turned to go by this is the most handiest gourt bourt house in the country gou you gits your marriage license in this room und den you can sheep right into int 0 room und get married und den you can yoost go 90 right up allt slit airs in the gount and get a div divorce orcel peoria call cau |
