Sharp County record., 1885-10-29

under disas ter, cutting mercIlessly' lnoy
bagin bv soft expression OF sympathy
and pitv and half praise, and lather the
,,;ctim all over before they put on Inc
charm edge. Let US be careful how we
shoot at hers lest we take down lhe
wrony one. remembering the servant OF
Kino William Rufus who shot deer, Dut
the arrow glanced against a tree and killed
tbe King. Instead of going out with
sbafts TO pierce and razorS to cut, we had
hottar initiate the friend of Richard Coeur
de Lion, who, in the war OF the
Crusades, was captured and lmpris'
oned. but none of his friends knew
,,bare. So his disciple went around
the land from penitentiary to penl'
tentiarv, and sang at each window snatch
If song that Richard Coeur de Lion had
Taught him in other days. And one day.
coming before a Jail where he suspected
his king might be incarcerated, ne sang
two lines of song, and Immediately King
Richard responded from his cell with the
other two lines, and so his Whereabouts
was discovered, and Immediately sue
cessful movement was made for his I'D
eration. So let us go up and down the
world with the music Of kind words
and sympathetic hearts, serenadlng lhe
unfortunate and trying to get out Oh
trouble men who had noble natures, but
by unforeseen circumstances have been In
carcerated, thus liberatng kings More
bvmn-book and less razo'.
Especially ought we to be apologize ana
merciful toward those who, while they
have great faults, have also great vlr'
tues. No weeds, verify, but no flowers
must not be too much enraged at
nettle along the fence if it be in a mel d
containing forty acres of ripe Michigan
wheat. At the present time naturallsts
tell us there is on the sun spot 2O,0OO
miles long, but from the brightness and
warmth conclude it is a good deal Of
sun yet.
Again, when read in my text that the
Lord shaves with the hired razor OF As
syria the land Of Judea, bethink myself
of the precision of Gods providence A
razor swung the tenth part of an inch out
of the right line means either failure or
laceration, but Gods dealings IL YER slip,
and they do not miss by the thousandth
part of an inch the right direction. Peo.
pie talk as though things in this world
were at loose ends. Cholera sweeps across
Marseilles and Madrid and Palermo, and
we watch anxiously. Shall the epidemic
sweep Europe and America? People say:
"That will depend entirely on whether
the incubation is a successful experiment;
thai will depend entirely Oh quarantine
regulations; that will depend on the early
or late appearance of frost; that epidemic
is pitched into the world and it goes blum
dering across the continents, and it is all
ouesswork and an appalling perhaps"
My friends, think perhaps that God had
something to do with it, and that his
mercy may have in some way protected
US, that he may have done as much for
us as the quarantine and the health
officers. 1t was right and a necessity
that all caution should lie used, but there
has come enough maccaroni from Italy,
and enough grapes from the South Of
France, and enough rags from tat'erdema-
LIAM, and hidden in these articles of
transportation enough choleric germs to
have left by this time all Brooklyn mourn.
ing at Greenwood, and all Philadelphia at
Laurel Hill, and all Boston at Mount Au-
burn. l thank all the doctors and quaran.
tines, but more than all and first of all and
last of all and all the time, THANK Cod
In all the 6,0O0 years of the worlds exist
ence there has not one thing merely "hap.
pened So" God is not an anarchist, but a
king, father. When little Todd the son
of President Lincoln, died, all the land
sympathized with the sorrow in the White
House. He used to rush into the room
where the Cabinet was in session, and
while the most eminent men Of the land
were discussing the questions of National
exs tence; but the child had no care about
those questions. Now, God the Father and
God the Son and God the Holy Ghost are
in perpetual session in regard to
this world and kindred worlds. Shall
you, his child, rush in to criticise
or arraign or condemn the Divine
government? No, the cabinet of the
eternal three can govern and will govern
in the wisest and best way, and there
never will be a mistake, AMI like razor
skillfully swung shall cut that which
ought to be cut and avoid that which ought
to lie avoided. Precision to the very hair.
breadth. Earthly timepieces may get out
Of order and strike wrong, saying it is one
O'Clock when it is two, or two when it is
three Gods clock is always right, and
when it is one it strikes one, and when it
is twelve it strikes twelve, and the
second hand is as accurate as the minute
hand.
Further, my text tells us that God
sometimes shaves nations. "In the same
day shall the Lord shave with the razor
that is hired" With one sharp sweep he
went across Judah, and down went it's
pride and its power. In 1861 God