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Sunrise at Midnight * A Sermon by the late DR. W. B. HINSON Paator of the East Si “Find me a man who is a man and he is always the man who came up out of the wilder ness. Where did I learn that? From my Lord Christ! He said one day, What went ye out into the xvilderness to see?’ A dude clothed in fine raiment poisoning the live air by his Pe?~ fumery? No ! What went ye out into the wil derness to see? A reed shaken with, the wind? A pussy-footed man?— a mati'who walks in the middle of the road and never sits doxvn unless it be astride 'the fence? ‘N o !’ said my Lord Christ, 'but out in the wilderness you found a m a n A n d I question if you ever found a man anywhere else but in the wilderness^ You find caricatures of men, and you find little substi tutes used by society and custom because they cannot get real men / but men come up out of. the wilderness." —From "The City of Tadmor,” by D r . W. B. H i - nson . book of Job. When Job’s friends went to see him in his overwhelming trouble they sat there silent day after day like wise men. But when they opened their mouths and began to explain things, then they became fools. Oh, but I have said to many of you people, “ I do not know, and I cannot tell.” Why the life was cut oft in the bubbling waters the other day, I do not know. Why deprivations starve the mind and the heart and the soul, I cannot tell. And in the presence of a hundred questions I am silent and for them have no reply. “ What I do thou knowest not now. The Revelation d f the Coming Years “ But thou shalt understand hereafter.” Ah, doeB not that sound good? The coming years will bring revelation that explains very much.. I remember, Saul-like, I kicked against thè pricks when I was trying to acquire an education and was in such grinding poverty that I was cold and hun gry three-fourths of the time. And I wanted to know why other men had got money and why I lacked it, why they were warmly clad and I shivered, why they were well fed and I was hungry. But *1 understand that now. We cannot go to school today unless we have a guarantee of money and a trunk full of clothes. No! I sometimes wish we had to do the thing as some of us did it ih the bygone days. We might not be quite so sporty, but we would be a hundred times more sensible! We might not have little badges and medals that told of our prowess on the campus, but we would not be quite so empty headed! The coming years reveal the meaning of a great deal. I planted some pansy seed last Friday, and I talked to those seeds— as I always do. And I said, “ This looks bad, does it not; throwing you down in the earth, and then covering you over as if I had no care for you at all. And pretty soon, Seed, the pelting rain will come upon you and you will think it is Noah’s flood. And then the cold nights will come and you will think you are having a lot of trouble. But do not worry and do not lose heart, for next March you will come up in the sunlight, and next April you will bud and blossom, and then people will look at your varied beautiful color and praise God, and they will inhale your I 2
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