The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-10-12

AT the present time naturalists tell us
there Is on the sun a spot 10000 miles
long, but FROM It's brightness and
warmth | conclude that il il good
good deal of q sun yet.
Again, whom read in my text that
tho Lord shgves, with the hired razor
ot Assyria, the land OF Judea, / be.
mink myself OF the precision of Gods
frovidence. A razor swung the tenth
part OF an Inch out OF tho riaht line
means either failure or laceratiOn, but
GOD'a DEALINGS NEVER SLIP,
Snd thoy do not miss by the thou.
.RAdth part oil AN inch the right direc.
Won People talk AZ though tkiucs in
this world were at loose ends. Chol-
era sweeps ncross Marsailles, aud
haorid, and Palermo, and wo watch
anNlously. Shalt the epidemic sweop
Europe and Amefioa? People ssy.
'EhAt will entirely depend on whether
th6 innoculation In a successful Ak
pertinent; thai will depend entirely on
quarantine regulations; that will de-
pend on The eearlv or late appearance
OF frost; tnht epidemic is pitched into
the world aud IL goes laundering
across tho continents, and IL is ali
gnesgwork and an appalling perhaps
MY friends, | think perhaps that God
hao something 10 do with IL,
ana thai his mercy may have in some
way protected us; that He may have
done ns much for us as tho quarantine
and tho heath officers. IL was right
aud neceasity that all caution should
bs used, but there has come ensugS
macsroni from Italy, aud enough
grspes from the south OF France, and
| opough rags from tatterdemaliors snd
hidden III those articles of transnorta.
tioa, enough choltraic germs TO h-ve
leIr ny this time all BROOKLYN mourfi-
ing ~ Greenwood, and ali Phl,.Ciol-
phin at Laurel Hill, and all Boeton At
Mount Auburn. l thank all tho doe.
tors and qusrantiues, but more than
Al, and first OF oil, and last of all, aud
ali The time, thank God that In all
tho 5000 yssrs of tho worlds existence
thero laB not one thing merely hsc-
! pen0d ae.'
GeD IS NOT AN ANARcHIsr,
! bus q hing, " father. when little
.npdd, the son of President ldncoin.
ltlsd, ail tho land sympathisad Nith
lb9 borrow i'll the White House. Ho
uasd to rush into tho room whers tho
aapnot was IN session, and while tho
| most eminent men OF tho iand were
dlscu@sing the questi0ne Of nsti0nal
| eAiate&e>. But thu child haG 40 care
about those questions. Nov God tho
FRtter, srd God tho Son and Gsd lne
Holy Gbose are j., perpetual session Ii,
legsId To thia world ana kinurAd
iorlds' Shall you, his child, rush ia
@ critioise or arraisn or condemn the
aivlne government? NJ; The Cabinet
u tue Etcrnal Three can govern snd
Will govern III tho wisest and best wsv,
.nd thero mover will ho X mistake, aud
Ike razer. skilfully swung, shall cut
tnat winch ought to be cut and AVOID
thst Whioh ought to be avoided. Pre-
e'el0n 70 The very hsirbre8d.l. EARTH
tlme-rioces may got out of )gder raa
strike wrong, saying j. IL o'clook
when 1t 49,, or z when i Is 8. Goa's
clock IL always right, ami when IL ~ /
c'clocz ID strikes i, ana when it ia n
o'clock 1t strikes IL, and the sepor 3
I and is ms accurate 10 the minute ha, a
| Further, my text tolls us that Col
gsmetimes shayes nations: I'm th.
sno day ehail tho Lord shave Wit
shs rszoc that is hired. With on
eherp sweep He went across Jades, an d
1851 1870" "a
doD SHAVED OUR NATION,
| We Il allowed TO groW Sabbath des D.
cration,and oppression aud blaspheny, ',
and fraud ard impurity, ana ali sorts
OF tDrpitude Tho South had ity sins.
anu he North its sins, and the East its
aims, and tao West its sins. Wo hnd
baen warned again and again, and wo
did not heed. At length The sword of
war cut FROM the st. Lawrence to tho
gulf, anu from the Atlantic seabpard
~ the Ieciiic soaboard, The pride of
the isns~-not me oowerds, but the he
roos--on both sidca went down, and
that which wo took for tho swOrd a {
war YVES The Lords razor. In lsga
again it went AcrOss The lnns
In 1903 again. In 1891 aud,u.
Then tho sharp inatrumant weg s1-
case d aud put away. Never IN tte HIS
tory Of tho ages wa any land more
thoroughly shaved than during th0so
four years Cf civil combat, nnd, NV
brethren, II wo do not quit some uf onr
| indiVidual and national sing, Tho Lord
will again take az In hand. He has
| other rszors within reach ba,ides war:
Epidomics, drpushts, deinges, nlsguos
srassh0ppers aud locusts; or our
oYertoWoriuB nucceEs may soisr excite
thc Jealousy of other lRnda lhot, llnOer
GomD preieXt, tho great nGti1us Of Eu-
| rope and Asia may combiuo To nut ua
down. This nation, SO easily approach
cd on north and south and from both
oceans, might have oa hand no once
| more nostiliiies than wero ever array.
ed against any one power. Wo have
recently been told by skilllul or ,lneers
hat oil our fortresSes around New
York hnrhor could not keep tho shells
nom being hurled from the sen into
the hoars OF these great oities.
lnsulled CHI the weal,hiost
IAN nations, ~ yill bo realized when
hsr re- ircos t.a developed, will have
adopted al tl0 n0dos OF n0dorn war.
iatc;sld al tho Golden Cato NAV bp
dlhcusalrg whether Americans must
go, III the combiued jeslouBies Of Eu-
Iopo ana Asia should come upon uh'
" should have moro work nn hand
lhSn would DO plotsaut. j hope no
tuvh computation aCainB, ue win over
% formed, but want 30 chow that, nv
AssYRIA WAS I'm inBED RAZOR
sghuai Judah Guo Cytug, tho hired
razor against Babylon and tho Huns,
me higcd razor against tho Gothr'
thcre aro now mcry razora tha. mo
l1ro ceuld MIRO II, becRusB OF our ra.
liiiNt hIltf iiU bAtulu undertake 10
hisv0 u,. il 1879 Germany
Nab tho razor with which
the Lord shaved Frsnee. Enrlnnd IA
the razor with which very shortly Tho
iior VIII shave Russia. Eut nniinnn
arc io ropent ~ day. Msr q speedy
ana Ggflu'wiie ceming 90 God hindor,
an both sides oc the ass, all national
eslaliity. But DO not let MS, 10 a n.y.
ton, tithor by unrlgh.oous lew a.
N%hinLtna or h'd ltvns among our
sb'val, uefy tho Almighty. One would
thirit thab our uhiiunnt symbol OF tha
eagle might sYmcI'lnos aurgest an
othnr oaylc--thst which auulant Rplnp
ca11ed, Is the l8i1nr Of that ,eple
wtre clut1hod st one timo Britain,
FrrAcc, Spain, Italy, Dhlmntis,
khootls, Nurioum, panuonia, Moesin'
eaola, Hhracc, Narudpnia. GREECE.
hf'H Minor, Ahsyria, phmulcla, pal6s
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