Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1882-11-10
The Loaded Wagon.

We have been into the corr fields to
CLEAN with Boaz and Ruth, and trust
that the timid and faint-hearted have
been encouraged TO partake of tho hand
fuls which are let fall on purpose for
them by the order of our generous
Lord. We 60 to-day to the gate of the
harvest field with another object-to
see the wagon piled up alOft with many
sheaves come creaking forth, making
ruts along the field. We come with
gratitude TO God, thanking him for the
harvest, blessing him for favorable
weather, and praying him to continue
the same till the last shock has been
gathered in, and the husbandmen
everywhere shall shout the Harvest
Home What picture is wagon
loaded with corn, of you and me as
loaded with Gods merciesl From our
cradle up till now every day has added
a sheaf of blessing What could the
Lord do for us more than he has done?
He has daily loaded us with benefits.
Let US adore his goodness and yield
him cheerful gratitude. Alasl that
such sign should be capable of anoth-
er reading! Alas that while God
loadeth us with mercy we should load
him with SIM While he continually
heapeth on sheaf after sheaf of favor,
we also add inlluity unto iniquity till
the weight of our sin becomes ntolera.
BILE to the Most High and he cries out
by reason of the burden, saying: 81 am
pressed under you, as cart is pressed
that is full of sheaves." Be astonish-
ed, o heavens, and be amazed, o earth,
that God should speak of being pressed
and weighed down. LIDO not read any
where SO much as half a suggestion
that the whole burden of creation is
any weight to the Most High. "He
taketh up the isles as a very little
thing" Neither sun, nor moon, nor
stars, nor all the ponderous orbs which
bis omnipotence has created cost him
any labor in their sustenance. The
heather picture Atlas as STOPPING
beneath the globe, but the Eternal God,
who beareth up the pillars of the uni
verse, "fainteth not, neither is weary"
Nor do find even the most distant
approach to suggestion that provl.
dence fatigues its God. He watches
both by night and day; His power
goeth forth every moment. Ills he
| who brought forth MaZzaroth in his
season, and guideth Arcturus with his
sons He beareth up the foundations
of the earth and holdeth the corner
stone thereof. He causeth tie day.
spring to know its place, and setteth
bound to the darkness and the sha.
dow Of death. All things are support
ed by the power of his hand, and there
is nothing without him. Just as a
moments foam subsidies into the wave
that bears IL and is lost forever, 50
would the universe depart if the Eter-
| nal God did not daily sustain it. The
| incessant working has not diminished
his strength, nor is there any failing
or thought of failing with him. He
worketh all things, and when they are
| wrought they are as nothing in his
sight. but strange, most passing
strange, miraculous among miracles,
sins burden God, though the world cam
not, and iniquity presses the Most
High. though the whole weight of
providence is as the small dust of the
balance. Sin makes Gods creatures
unhappy. and shall not the Lord there
fore abhor it? God never designed
that any creature OF his hand should
be miserable. He made the creatures
on purpose that they should be glad ;
He gave the birds their song, the flow
ers their perfume, the air its balm. He
gave the day the smiling sun and the
night its coronet of stars; for he in
tended that smiles should be his per.
petual worship and joy the incense OF
his praise.-"Farm Sermons" by G. II
,yDurQeon.