Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-12-02


applied to all the events of life than to the
time and manner of death. Even if we had
not the assurance of the great teacher of our
religion and his prophets and his apostles that
all the events of this life are ordered and tli-
rected by Almighty power, reason and philoso-
ply would admonish us that the great archi-
tect of the world, the creator of men, would
not leave the work of his hands, to the guild
ance of chance or mans own short sighted
| vision, and feeble efforts.
He who does not see in the history of men,
in all ages and races and nations, guiding, a
rewarding and a retributive direction, is blind
| indeed and the control is as visible in the
| life of an individual from the cradle to the
grave, if we will only place it in under the
examining microscope as it is in the move
ments of the distant worlds which come with
i'll telescope range
The objection of fatalism in the scene in
which the word is used, has no application to
this doctrine. There is line unquestionably
between free agency and involuntary action,
though we may not be able to define its pre-
else limits : and it is no very wonderful mat
ter that the single actions Of the voluntary will
are made to converge, unite and combine in
| giving effect to the ultimate involuntary con-
troll and destiny. 1t is not difficult for the re-
fleeing mind TO draw this line in its own life,
but it is more difficult tot apply it to others and
| to the great world at large. 1t seems prob
| able that it falls somewhere upon the borders
| OF these actions which affect only ourselves
and those which have effect upon others.
There is sphere up to and from which others
may help or injure us, but inside of this
sphere is another in which all that is done
must be done by ourselves, and all outside in
huences are of little or no avail. -Nesc6awyport
Herald.
DIR. CHALMER says -" If the most anxious
and unhappy men of this world were examin-
ed as to the ground of their disquetude, it
would be found in nine hundred and ninety
nine cases out of the one thousand, that the
provisions of this day was not the ground of
it. They carry forward their imaginations to
a distant futurity, and fill it up with the
spectres of melancholy and despair. What
world of unhappiness would be saved, if the
things of this day, its duties, employments
and servicec were to occupy all hearts, and
the issues OF the future committed in quietness
to God, trusting that when the day comes, the
provision OF the day will come along with it."
The Scriptures say, sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof" and farther, that
g one thing is set over against another and a
thoughtful person can derive comfort from
these considerations. If every day doth have
its care, hath not every care its day.
We are too prone to shun the present mo-
ment, and not enjoy it, when in fact that
time is all we claim as our own. We look
forward for more satisfaction than this present
day affords to us, and backwards to bemoan
past time as having been more agreeable,
when the truth is that when this past time
was present time, it found us in no better
temper for favorably thinking of enjoyment
than now. The trials and temptations of that
period are made dim by distance, but itsvivid
recall will show at once the futility, not to say
the wrongfulness of complaint while passing
through our present day.
The wind is tempered to the shorn lamb,
and many having passed through affection
will, if candid, admit that they found it true
then, but inconsistency thinking that the
merit trouble will find them UMPIRE AIRED to
withstand the blow. Our Father in Heaven
has more kindly disposed of his gifts and in
more equal proportion than any earthly father
has the wisdom, however strong the will to
do it.
JusT RISEN FROM THE DEAp.-There was
no capacity of mankind, no time. no place,
but had visible proof of the resurrection of
Christ He appeared to men and women, to
clergy and laity, to sinners OF both sexes, to
weak men and to criminals, to doubters and
deniers, at home and abroad, in public and in
private, in their houses, and their journeys,
unexpected and by appointment, betimes in
the morning and late at night, to his disciples
in conjunction, and to them in dispersion,
when they did look for him, and when they
did not he appeared upon earth to many, and
to ST. Paul and St. Stephen from heaven. So
that we can require no greater testimony than
all these are able to give us, who saw for
themselves, and for us too, that the faith and
certainty Of the resurrection of Jesus might be
conveyed to all ages and generations BisAop