Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1857-01-02

GOD, IN PASSING EVENTS.
To recognize God, in the events noso
transpiring, seems to be one of the most
difficult tasks of the human mind. It
can look backward and see that God scas.
The footprints Of His acts, in times past,
are so legible that comparatively few fail
to SEQ them. We can look forward and
believe that He sgiH Be, and that, hereafter,
He viii do thus and so. Most men, in
Christian countries, believe in the general
truths, not only Of the historic but the
prophetic portion Of Revelation, but TO re-
alize that God Is-that He nue works,
and that He takes as much interest in
passing events, as He once did in events
that are past, or as He ever viii, in events
yet to transpire, ssews much more diff
cult
This isnot peculiar to this age-it was
always 50. Itlsnot confined to the ire
ligious, for even professors find the same
difficulty, to considerable extent. No
ses was man Of faith, he could see that
the God Of his fathers had boon in the his
tory Of Joseph and his brethren, but ID
was far more difficult to realize His hand,
in the events which drove him from his
brethren, at the moment that he hoped to
liberate them from their bondage, and
which made him forty years an alien
in the land Of indian. When the forty
years were ended and he began to work
--immediately-for the benefit Of his
brethren, be could not understand why SO
Just cause should be delayed BY the OBJ
stinacy Of Pharoah. Pharoah knew that
God had manifested himself God OF
power, but he saw no present God, but he
impionsly asked "who 10 the Lord that 4
should let Israel 60 The suffering and
oppressed Hebrews believed in God; they
had seen Him in the history Of Jacob and
Joseph. and they knew that dark events,
in their history, had been the precursors
Of signal favors, but they could not SEQ
God in their increased burdens and doub-
led Affections To them, God had boon,
but was not,--IIis justice and His mercy
seemed both to sleep. Belshazzar knew
that God had dealt with his fathers. In
Judgment but he could SEQ no God in his
day. Not even the army Of Cyrus. open
ing the "two-leayed gates" could con-
vince him Of present God. God had
been, but was not until the mysterious
hand on the wall convinced him that God
was eternal, and omnipotent and that he
had condemned His authority too long
Our history equally abounds with facts IL
Illustrative Of this truth. None Of the
revolutionary fathers doubted the supcrin-
tending and controlling providence Of God
In the lives and fortunes Of the pilgrims.
They sought religious liberty, but God
directed their steps. The new continent
was before them, but flesh and blood pro-
fered not to grapple with the stern diff
eu'ties winch my IN tna' al'ec''on'-
henee 'ney were perm'''ea 70 uy 'ne'r
fortunes IN Holland ior season' "hne
God was preparing them 'or degree Oh
liberty that they were not thinking Of
preparing them TO endure joyiuiiy inc
s'n Oh planting 'n' ss'a % CIV" anu ~.
hgious merry III virgin so''' whe'e I"
might grow unsrams.ea oy the oonven-
uonaiiues OF inc o'a wo''a' ihouSh
mon o. aeso'eo p'e'y' .ney '0a,a not to
aii-e 'na' 'he'' "aS D'S'he io"'' VI
rectnS tner steps
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look BACK upon INC his'o'y Oh 'ho'' i''n-
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event was 10 % prou8ht hoout py human
inssrumen'ai'iy' eod permitted tho mad
ness Of the king and parliament to car
ry measures to such an extent as to scvss
the tic that bound the old and new world
together There was a God in the events
OF those tlmes' though the men oil the
times hardly recognized HIM. franklin
and Quincy, and Adams and Hancock
and Washington, often used expressions
equivalent 70 the iamensation OF jacob
"All these things are against me-" but VIZ
now see that they WcrO not. Wc. thcl1