The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-11-16

by the doctor, as the only chance for
| life, to taste the fresh air from the sea.
1t is but small expense, but one that
the poor young parents feel; yet what
they can do shall be done to save their
darling. So they carry him to the
steamboat upon the only holiday they
have-holy day, indeed, which they de-
vote to saving their child-and as they
sit upon the deck waiting to go, and the
little eyes open with fresher life as the
blood feels the breath Of the sweeter air
instantly God touched them all and
they slept. Then one man, devout
Christian, says that God of love, who
died for the sins of his children, would
not angrily destroy those children for
loving theirs. And another asks, II it
be the glosy Of Christianity that 1t abol-
ish.s ths4error Of death, why do you
call death ajudgment, as II 1t were a
dreadful doom?
Last Tuesday, slyly said newspaper
long ago, clergyman Of Ipswich was
standing upon the frame Of Deacon
jones' house, which was just raised, and
unfortunately falling, he was killed. 1t
is an impressive warning against stand-
ing upon the frames Of unfinished
houses on Tuesdays. 1t was wise sar.
casm !; for is there any end to this cheap
Interpretation Yesterday morning a
little girl going to school slipped upon a
piece Of orange peel and broke her
thigh. What a Providential ad,noni-
lion to little girls not to 60 to school in
the morning! Last week Obadiah
Sorrows gray mare ran against a SC, the
left in the pasture, and cut herself 80 Sc
verely tina. she died. The day before
Obediah Screw eat baked blue fish for
dinner. Let those who are fond of
baked blue fish reflect in time upon this
warning. This is no more absurd than
to find in an eclipse a sign of the Divine
displeasure, or in the explosion of the
Vestfeid and Ocean Wave the punish.
ment of sinners. We are all sinners,
and whatever i'll befalls US may, there
fore, be a. truly accounted II punish
ment. A burned fin4er, sprained
ankle, an indigestion, are, in this sense,
judgments.
And there Is one other point upon
which the good people who so nimbIy
pronounce q calamity to be punish
ment and a warning seem to have re-
fiected little. Why should the sin of
the poor young parents who took their
child upon the Westfeld in the pious
hope Of saving its life be, as you say,
punished in SO sudden and startling q
manner, while the sin Of robbers and
rascsls who break the hearts of widows
and grind the poor and demoralize a
copmunity is not punished at all to our
eyes, but is rewarded with unbounded
affluence, comfort, luxury, and oftep
with long and painless life? Take care,
fervent friend. that in explaining the
celestial counsels as II you had been ad-
mitted to them, you do not bring the
celestial power itself into doubt and
contempt. OF he two venerated clergy
men who were killed upon the Eastern
road, and of the poor young parents
whom we have supposed upon the
IVestfeld, you say that the sunden death
was Gods Judgment upon sin. Per-
haps. perhaps. But is il not as Christian,
as religious, IA true, to say, like men
who cannot read the mysteries Of
events. but who yet feel that all is WISE
ly and tenderly ordered, God giveth
his beloved sleep?