Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-09

Fire burns, WINDS DlOW, the 6lQ6S rise and
fall at his order. The seasons come and
go, and the hours of time are hurrying on
to the last one, when time shall be no
| more, bet God is over all.
There is no such thing as chan ce in re-
lation to the affairs of this world.
Every thing Is moving on
to the accomplishment of
one great plan conceived and carried out
by God himself.
Why, in this plan, God permits SO much
sin and sorrow no man can tell. We may
conjecture that they are necessary to
the full and perfect development of man
kind, we know they are the heritage of the
human race, descending from father to
son. Coming into this Inheritance the
only thing human being can change is
his share of sin, To be good or bad lies
in the reach of all, and every one can be
| just what he wills
| The other circumstances of life, health,
knowledge or wealth depend greatly upon
other things than a mans desire. An
inherited malady will defy the best
personal care, and the s kill of physicians.
knowledge is denied to many who thirst
for it. Elihu Burrit might study while
| shoeing horses or POWELL Buxton brew one
hour and study the next, but they but form
the exception that prove the general rule
that the acquisition of knowledge demands
certain freedom from care and toll.
They, to whom the creator has given
brains, and that nice equipose of Judgment
and mental energy that makes all things
possible, are often handicapped by the
burdens of poetry and the claims of kin
dred, so that the particular prize for
which they longed was debarred to them.
Wealth does not depend upon the throw
of the dice, nor can anyone say with conf
dence "If live I will be rich" He may
do all that shrewdness and energy dictate,
but the crops may fail, the speculation
prove abortiye, fire, flood or wind destroy
the work of years. He may plan and
build up great enterprise and in the hour
of success leave it forever. M. D. Potter
| toiled and planned to establish the Cincin-
natl Commercial, and when success was
assured he died. The pen dropped from
his hand and his ears were deaf to the
praise that accompanies success.
A young minister full of love
for his Master and zeal
for his work, left home and kindred to
bear to the heather the messages of love
and pardon. Eight days after landing at
Calcutta he died. Not one word could he
speak for his God and Savior. Did chance
direct the apparently useless journey? Was
there no purpose in this seemingly wasted
life? What hope have men if there be
no over ruling power, if all things COME
and go by chance?
No man with ell his sagacity or power
can provide against the calamities the
morrow may bring. There is no other
way to stand in the confused and tangled
web We call life, but to hold fast to our
faith in God. There is no better way
for q man than to use the talents given
him, in such manner that his two shall
gain other two, or his five other five be-
side them. He is wise who knows that
neither knowledge or wealth are the prizes
of life, but honor, truth, charity, humil-
ity.
Revelation declares that God is above
| all, and that in his own good time he will
right all the wrongs, dispel all doubts,asa
vindicate his justice and mercy. These
are no happenings in this world, but all
things have an appointed time. "What
man can do that can I, if God Wills"
is the language of faith and courage.
Unbelievers in God act as if there wore
fixed laws which govern the universe.
They do not wait like Macawber for "some-
thing to turn up" but work toward GER
tain ends, and expect, unless some catas-
trophe intervenss, that the effect will fol-
low the cause. Do not laws imply law
giver, ruleri
In what respect has the infdel the ad-
vantage over the Christian? He believes
IN nothing; he hopes for nothing. Life
and death are without use or meaning;
honor, truth and purity are fables. He
sees world where the ''wicked flourish
like a green bay tree" where the
innocent suffer for the guilty where wrongs
and unredressed and deceit and vice pre-
vail, and he believes that all this sin goes
unpublished and goodness and evil fade
alike from the earth. Not so the Christian.
He believes that no cry is unheard, no
tear unnoticed, no sin uRrecorded by
God of infinite love and justice. And in
all times of trial and calamity, in hours of
Joy and prosperity, in life or death, his
hand leads and his right hand guides his
children.
If there be no God the Christian must
God the! Christian is safe, but where will the
infdel appear.
CLOSING OF UNION PARK FOR SEA
SON 1888.