Smyrna times., 1858-09-23

work; man is only the humble Iaborer who
lie honors to perform it. 1t was God who :
s strained the raging sea, at whose rebuke Il
waters fied,-who, when the strained tmbe
groaned and the vessels mast bent like rec
spoke the waves into peaceful calm, that Fl
servant man, might fulfil this great design.
was lie who walketh upon the wings of Il
WIND, who tempered them in their fury an
power, that this great cord, which was
Olhd two continents, might not snap like
Unread at every blast that strained its iron 6bre
IL was not mere chance, a concurrence ,
lortuitous circumstances, a happy accident -
ouch thought detracts from the glory due +
God IN the highest, and the honor due to tb
brave men who faced danger and the threat y
defeat--the leIrned and patient man of science
VINO 1r't gave speech to electricity. Nothing
happens by chance. There is a law-subtl,
and secret as It is yet none the less active ano
universal-which controls the origin, growtF
and development Of all things, whether in the
vegetable, anma or mineral ingdom-whethel
IN the physical or the spiritual world; and thai
Is the law of nature, and "nature is but name
for an effect, whose cause is Cod" It is God who
constructed, regulates and moves the machinery
OF the Universe, and nothing ever comes from
the everything loom of mans invention which
does not bear upon its warp and woof the stamp
of the Infinite Mind. Not until the vision of
the tabernacle in the clouds was revealed to
man. did he ever conceive of the idea of con.
structing a temple to God, or a fit abode for
himself. The insecure and simple tent was
once the type of his pilgrim life. and the best
shelter he thought of, from the blightng lrosts
of winter and the burning noon of summer.
The ark that saved Noah and his family from
the flood that deluged the earth, was the model
upon which the inventive genius of man has
Improved, even to the construction of the noble
steamer which, " like thing of life" rides the
sea, and, as the Niagara or Agamemnon is at
once a floating palace of pleasure and brist-
ling fortress of death. Thus God is suggesting
wonderful inventions and discoveries by reve.
ation or by the analogics of nature, as in the
of vessels after the outline of
bird, or various orders of architecture, after
he growth Of trees or by the still more vivid
md imposing structures OF cloudy palaces aud
;un.bullt turrets and domes which He paints
Ipon the evening sky. Experimenting was
le6ned by Lord Bacon, TO mean, " asking ques-
ions of Nature" that is, Of God. And it is
,nly to those who knock loudly at her doors,
hat she opens,--only to those who seek her
ar and near, long and patiently, that she at last
reveals herself,--only TO him who bows at her
ihrines aud asks in the believing spirit of her
children, that she gives of the treasures OF her
'tore-house. Nothing of any moment in sha.
ping the condition or destiny Of man, is the pro
luct of chance-nothing, indeed, that trans.
1ires throughout the limits of Gods universe.
1t was not purely conjecture which led CO.
umbus to brave the dangers Of the unknown
'ea, the threats of his mutnOus crew, and the
'idicule Of the incredulOus prophets of evil OF
lis day. There were leadings of Providence,
Indications of the form Of the earth, too unmis
akably revealed to him to allow his mind to
loubt Like the Apostle opening the Church
% the Gentle world, we may imagine the dis
;overer of America receiving from God "the
Keys" to unlock and open the gates of a new
world to the church. For that heaven-guided
explorer had scarce seen tithe of the new
when, like another sun to light it
lp, the morning of the Reformation broke in
lpon the nations of the Old World. Was not
y IL 4 4 CN-I.
ike a second Moses, over that wilderness of
waters, to a land OF promise-"a good land and
Q Large"-a land of oil, and corn, and "bread,
which strengthened mans heart, aye, more,
! land that was to become the home of religious
and civil liberty, where every true descendenl
Of the spiritual Israel might find an asylum
from the Pharoahs in The church and the State
where every man might make his own laws
and worship God according to the dictates of a
free and enlightened conscience! Yes this
was to be the new field from which the seed of
Divine truth, scattered "like an handful of corn
in the earth," was to spring up into a golden
harvest" and the fruit thereof shall shake
like Lebanon" This was TO be the new sphere
for the Gospel to luIhl It's Werk, and the scene
of its grandest triumphs. Yet, doubtless, when
the Italian admiral spread his charts and brought
forth the unquestionable specimens of that new
land, the barbaric costumes Of The aborigines
and the glittering dust Of that distant soil,
there were many TO wonder why the whole
population of the place where he landed, should
accompany him and his crew TO the church aud
not strai ightway to The sovereigns--why the re-
ioieing should be consecraled by the ministers
of religion, and be hailed by Gods people as an
event in which they should render Him the
praise. 1t was because they did not consider
that it was an accident or mere good fortune,
but that it " was Gods doing, and marvellous
in their eyes,"
Again: Il was an instance of God working
tbrough The fundamentally of man, ia consuIn.