The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-08-05

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can not live without plenty of sunlight.
So you must always have enough light
for me. Two ships meet mid-Atlantic.
One is going to Southampton, the other
to New York. Provide weather for
that, while it is abaft for one ship it is
not a head wind for the other. There
is a farm that is dried up for lack of rim;
and here is a pleasure party going out
for a field excursion. Proyide weather
that will please the excursion and suit
the dry farm, No, sirs. | will not take
one dollar of stock in your weather com.
pany. There is only one Person in the
universe who knows enough to provide
the right kind of weather for this world.
and please all. Hath the rain a father"
My text a'so suggests Gods minute
supervisal, You see the Divine Sonship
ia every drop of rain. The jewels of
the shower are not thown away by a
spendthrift who knows not how many
he throws or where they fall. They are
all shining Princes of heaven. They all
have an eternal lineage; and are all the
children of a King. Hath the rain a
father?" Well, then, l say if God takes
notice of every minute raindrop. He
will take notice of the most insignificant
affair of my life. 1t is the astronomical
view of things that bothers me. We
look up into the high heavens and say:
"Worldsl worldsl" and how insignif.
cant w feel We stand at the foot of
Mount Washington or Mount Blanc, and
we feel that we are only insects, and we
say to ourselves: Though the world is
so large, the sun is 1,400, 900 times lar.
ger" 49," we say, ut is of no use, if
God wheels that great machinery thro'h
immensely, He will not take the trouble
to look down at me-" Infdel conclusion.
Saturn, Mercury and Jupiter are no more
rounded and weighed and swung by the
hand of God than are the globules on a
lilac bush the morning after a shower.
God is no more in magnitudes than He
is in minuti@, If He has scales TO weigh
the mountains, he has balances delicate
enough to weigh the infnitieimal. You
can no more see him through the teles.
cope than you can see him through the
microscope: 10 more when you look up
than when you look down. Are not
the hairs of your head all numbered?
And if Himalaya has a God, "hath not
the rain a father" l take this Doctrine
of a particular Providence and thrust it
into your every day life. If God fathers
a raindrop, is there anything so I~nsignif.
icant in your affairs that God will not
father? When Druyse, the gunsmith,
invented the needle gun, which decided
the battle Of Sadowa, was it a mere acci.
dentP When a farmer boy showed Blu.
cher a shortcut, by which he could
bring his ar y up soon enough to decide
Waterloo for England, was it a mere &C.
cidentP When Lord Byron took a piece
of money and tossed it up to decide
whether or not he should be atianCed to
Miss Millbank, was it a mere accident
which side the money was up and which
was down? When the Protestants were
besieged at Bezurs, and a drunken musi.
clan came in at midnight and rang the
alarm bell, not knowing what he was
doing, but waking up the host In time to
fight their enemies that arriving, was it
an ACCIDENT When in the Irish rebel.
lion a starving mother, flying with her
starving child, sank down and tainted
on the rocks in the night, and her hand
fell on a warm bottle of milk, did that
just happen 90? God is either in the
affairs of men, or u religion is worth
nothing, and you had better take it away
from us, and instead Of this Bible, which
teaches the doctrine, give us a secular
book, and let us, as the famous Mr.. Fox,
the member of Parliament, in his last
hour, cried out: Read me the eighth
book of Virgil" 0, my friends, let us
rouse up to an appreciation of the fact
that all the affairs of our lives are under
a Kings command, and under q Faith,
er's watch. Alexander's warhorse, Buce.
phalus, would allow anybody to mount
him when embarrassed, but as soOn as
they put on harness, that wal horse, Bu.
| Cephalus, would allow no one but
Alexander the conqueror to touch him,
and if a s%oullesa horse could have sc
much pride in his owner, shall not We
immortals exult in the fact that we are
owned by a King? Hath the rain a ia
ther2'
Again, my subject teaches me thai
Gods dealings with us are inexplicable
That was the original force of my text
The rain was a great mystery to the an.
clients; they could not understand why
the water should get into the cloud, anC
getting there, how it should be suspend
ed, or falling, why it should come dowr
in drops. Modern science comes along
and says there are two portions of all
of different temperature, and they arr
charged with moisture, and the n por
ton of air decreases in temperature, 81
the water may no longer be held in va
por, but it falls. And they tell us tina
some of the clouds, that look to be NJ
larger than a mans hand, and to be al
most quiet in the heavens, are grea
mountains of mist, 1000 feet from basr
to top, and that they rush miles a min
ute. But after all, these brilliant exper
iments of DR.. James Hutton, and Lau
sure, and other scientists, there is al
infinite mystery about the rain. Their
is an ocean of the unbelievable in ever,
raindrop, and God says to-day, as he dir
in the time Of Job; IF you can not TN
derstand one drop of rain, do not b
surprised if my dealings are inexplica
ble." Why does that aged man, decrep
id, beggared, vicious, sick of the world
and the world, sick Of him, lives on
while here is a mar in mid.life Consecra
ted to God, hard working, useful in ev
cry respect, who dies2 Why does tina
old gossip, gadding along the street, talk
ing about everybody's business but he
own, have such good health, while tbs
Christian mother, with a flock of littl
ones about her, whom she is preparin
for usefulness and for heaven-the on
E who you think could not be spared a
hour from the household-why does sh
lie down aud die with a canGer2 WI
does that man, selfish to the core, go o
adding dollar to dollar, consuming ever
thing on himself, continue to prospe
while that man who has been giving !
per cent of his income to God and tn
church, goes into bankruptcy Befor
!, we make stark fools of ourselves, let I
stop pressing this everlasting why