, 1876-08-21
Tho Expulsion Of tls lib1s from tlle
Schools. ..YicwS Of the Rev. James
Natlauyhlan.
Tho Rev. John Williamson on the
Moral Influences of Games
and Pastimes.
Dedication Of tile Roman Catholic
Church Of the Ann,lncia-
tiOn.
The Disciples Of Christ Regard Preach
ers as On Excreseence on
the Church.
PROVIDENCE IN MURDER.

PROVIDENCE IN MURDER.
sERMoN HY TnR REr. JOHN ATKINSON.
Tho Rev. john Atkinson, pastor Of Grace NJ,
{. Church, corner Of Lasalle and White Streets
preached yesterday morning upon Tho Proyl-
dcnrc Of God In Murder" His text was:
rhs Kings heart is r. tho hand Of thH Lord az
lie wlll.-iFortr6a. GH., !.
lie said tic remarks lie was nbout TO make
had been called for by M inanitJ directed to
him last Monday by TIE TR1nuNE-a question
Of very great Importance ,oncwhlcll notmers'y
astatcl the mind Of tho individual who pro
pounded Il, but ono which had risen In tho
mIstls OF many persona during the time OF fear
whict, had prevailed In the community
for tic lust two weeks: What had God to do
with nuttlerl Could murder in any case be re:
Was IL oie of tic events which ,yas 10 DC rcck-
oncd ont of tho category of provldentEal dis
prtsattoils, and recognized as a t!ing which
TOD had nothing TO DO w!th, ard which, thSre-
furc, they were to regard as Ia nowisc within
the sphere Of His administration Or wero they
TO regard mn event 80 ltrcful IN It's nature and
consequcnses as within tue CIRCLE Of ~ ovsrrul-
trouble that can,o IRON such catastrophe they
could cast themselves sttl upon tue Almighty
Ruler md suy,,. IT is the Lord; let me do rs
liz ptlrlosed vlndicatlng tho why's Of God tn
man, In 50 fur as related to the present INSPECT
of The question in this community Had ('od
G.ythlng to do With decd 60 wicked and atro-
ciul,s, asll MI event 80 culnBitousl There was
either God wl,o took cognlzanee ot everything,
who governed all things, controlled nll events,
Or else there WINS not. None were SO practically
Ss to .1sr9yas Sy a ID su sa nyesss stS
All accepted tint without question. There VIA
n possibility, however, Of nien receiving thing
~ mattcr Of fact ur ot faith, and yet not H.
lowing It tn luvo my practical Influence upon
their thought or 1ifa. They might accept
sisf9s ss;s s 4 ; yss :. i. asSS 's s sss;fs ws
they might ,apparently ho orthodox, practically
excluded God from the world and from thu
sphere ot their thought. Ills hearers were not
such. They recognized God living mud gov
uMl who nerer slnmhercd Or slcpt-a God who
surrounded Himself with ali the affairs of tic
uNiytrsc, whether they be great or small. Th.s
wus fundamental In tho consideration Of tho
Gol, rs the .overruling power. ruled every
thing, or else there we're some things which lie
cid not rule. God governed all Ills rule was
partial aid incompletc That WINS to say, there
were some events that God governed according
70 this ,hypothesl;, and 'I' there might be some
:,.l, and unsatisfactory Providence This could
ant be. tod either controlled everything, Or
lie eoptrnlcd nothing II there Was such q
alI.r5,mpassnE ss, NJ Proy,dsnse II I God ruled sono
things and nut others, how wcrs we to dtstia-
gu'sh betwren those things which happened ac-
corlng, to Ills will aud plan, and the things
which He had nothing to do with Onr WIS
left In doubt In darkness. IN confusion, by this.
lie could not go 10 ('otl In the midst Of his
disaster and fny, "Ois God, Thou rHlcst aud
bn s etr" e eeSe eSents te an s
therefore, cast myself on Thee III the midst OF
this disaster, kuow1ng that IL Inns happened in
acsordanes s'!tl! Thy plan "a. and Thy xIll." -
ills seemed 10 have been the dittlealty with the
person WIN addressed the Inquiry to him; and
itwus thu difficulty n tho minds of mntltu.les
I" lnld .iod Responsible Tor the inlqu!ty f.n of
ryIl; neither trmpteth lie any nlan 70 evil"
own responsibility. G1d never introduced Gin
ibtu the world, aud God was not responsible for
auy sin thnt eyer happcnc'a In thc world. Tod
luu no plcusuru In tbs 1eeaa Of the sinner. nor
parent to Hin; llo WIS oternally at war with
all evil, and nuver cuuncnaEced It, nor instigat-
I'd, n"1 upheld T. Notw'tn.ta!d;ns, ti.M M ! wicked
ss "as Stroke % u ill liz and s In - an III Instant. s
Tho, reason thcse were wicked mcn OH
earth was not bccausc God made them
own choice tod pertnittaA thein to live, and to
carry out their wicked purposes a,nl designs.
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