Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-07-15


the field and the growing grass.
One of the messages that summer brings
to men is that of good cheer, of gladness.
The sparkling waters, the waving trees
and the green sod ali tell of gladness.
Storms may rage and rains descend, but
the golden Sunshine is just behind the
clouds. Perhaps in all nature there is no
more unremItting and powerful witness
for the Creator than the blessed sunlight,
shining alike on the good and evil, break
ing on the world every day like new rev.
elation of Gods care. and gladdening all
| nature with its healing warmth, like Gods
love.
To the Christian each dawn brings ten
| der messages of his Fathers love and care,
and with what splendor of color, what
transformation scenes is the messenger
attended. The infdel may delight in the
beauties of nature, but to the child of Go d
they have deeper meaning, ''they speak
different language" 81 the Lord made
| heaven and earth, am the Lord, 1 will
! never forsake thee,' is the lesson of great
joy and the beauty of summer teaches.
also tells of Gods care. sHis care is over
| all his works" The glorious coloring of
each petal, the perfect form of each leaf
are reminders that if "God so clothe the
grass of the field" Will he not care for his
children? Will he take such thought
for blade and flower, and
forget those he has bought with such
price. The Christian should be the hap
piest person in the world. Not that his
faith will remove the stones and bria IS
from his path, but he is held up by the
| Everlasting Arms. He can cast all his
care upon God and trust in Him. HE
careth for you," said his apostle. God
does not promise his children immunity
from trouble, pain or sorrow, but he does
promise to sustain and keep them, and to
love them with an everlasting love. This
lesson of Gods care and of trust in Him
each tiny leaf and perfect flower teaches
If the down-hearted, moody Christian can
not read the lesson written all over the
earth, in the green valleys and high noun
tains, as well as the silent wilderness. he
has reason to fear that there is something
radically wrong with his religion. Faith
in God will hold man strong in trial,
peaceful in storms, and when it does not
the failure is in the faith not in the helper.
Another lesson that summer teaches is
hope, ''the hope which is an anchor to the
soul"
Beautiful as is the world: men enjoy its
loneliness but a brief period, and then
they become inhabitants of the Silent City.
To them dawn or evening". Spring or sum-
mer are passed forever, 'they have no
more any part in all that is done under
the SUM-" The most vital question, that
can effect them is what lies beyond !?
Christ told his disciples that he would
raise them up at the last day, that
as grain of wheat must be
sown before it could be quickened, so they
must sleep in the dust of the earth, ''until
the trumpet should sound and the dead
should be raised" Hope in a resurrection
through our Lord Jesus Christ is the su-
preme lesson of this season. A few months
ago and everything in nature was bare and
desolate. The frosts of winter locked up
the rivers, and there was no sign of life or
beauty in the fields or woods. Now what
a glorious resurrection has taken place
the trees are covered with radiance, the
barren fields are wearing their green car
pet starred with white, blue and golden
flames, and abundant life is on every hand.
I Is there no meaningin all this for the chill
dren of the God who created it, who called
life out p death? Are not these changes
the ever resent witnesses of his promise,
"Whosoever believeth on me shall never
perish, but I will raise him up at the last
day." To him who has the hope ''of the
life which is to Gomez the ever renewing
life of summer tells of the coming of
Christ, the life giver. Each floral bell
rings out the glad tidings of Immortality,
every new leaf tells of the time when there
shall be no death. They are tho messen-
gers of our Father, they are the
'Emblems of our own great resurrection,
Emblems of the bright and better land"