Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-06

tsnt;a ,ana from penitentiary to nsni.
w. "slary' and sang at each winjow = .na.as
y. song that Richard Cosur do I;am hsa
co usne NM in other days. And one DIV,
~. before a Jail where he .nsnoo.c.
t tns snug might be iucarcerated. he ssna
".iines OF song, and immediatolv r.
t..enasd responded from his col, With +he
was !" iihes, and so his whereabouts
cess,, discovered, and Immediately a suc.
srotiua movement was made for his lih.
, n,o.,9 SO let us go up and down the
~ Win tho music Of kind words
"As sympathetic hearts, serenading tho
unfortunate and trying to get ont If
aouoie men who had noble natures. ,,,t
y, unforeseen circumstances have been in.
,a'cetated' thus liberatiny kings. Move
hymn'book and less razor. o
especially ought we to be apoloretic and
,hercltul toward those who. Will, thew
nave great faults, have also great viz.
,ues' No weeds, verify, but no flowers.
l must not be too much enra9sd ~ .
asS..e along tue fence if it BIZ in a feld
.on'alhlng forty acres of ripe Michigan
"neae' AT the present time natmalists
ee.l us there is o IN the sun a spot %. 1904
mics long, but from the brightness and
warmth l conclude it is a good deal ~ a
u yet.
again. when read in my text that the
LORD shaves with the hired razor ne A..
syria tue Ian OF Judca, I bethink mvself
Oh the precision of Gods providence. A
razor swung the tenth part of an inch ont
Oh the right line means either failure 81,
iaceration, but Gods dealings never slim.
and they do not miss by the thousandth
part OF an inch the right direction. poo.
PIE TAX as though things in this world
were a loose ends. Cholera sweeps across
Marseilles n Madrid and Palermo, and
we watch anxiously. Shall the epidemic
sweep Europe II America? People saw.
"Ihat will depend entirely on wbethe,.
tho incubation is a successful experiment.
that will depend entirely on quarantine
regulations; that will depend ON the early
OF late appearance Of frost; that epidemic
Is II ltchedlnto the world and it goes blum.
dering across the continents. and it ia all
guesswork and an appalling perhaps"
My friends, l think perhaps that God had
something to do with 1T, and that hi.
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 be used. but there
mas come enough maccaroni from Italv.
and enough grapes from the South Of
France, and enough rag from t%atterdema.
lians, and hidden in these ortic,os of
transportation enough choleric germs to
nave left by this time all BROOKLYN mourn.
ing at Greenwood, and all PHILADELPHIA at
Laurel Hill, and all Boston at Mount An
burn. l thank all the doctors and ouaran.
tines, but moro than all and first of all and
last of all and all the time, THANK God.
In all the COCO years of the worlds exist.
ence there has not one thing merely chan.
Pehed So" God is not an anarchist, but a
king, a father. When little Todd, the son
OF President Lincoln, died, all the land
sympathized with the sorrow in the White
House. He used 10 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
existence; but the child had no caro- 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 c%riticise
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 viii be q mistake, and 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
throe. 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 SLAVES nations. tin 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 it's power. In 1861 God
shaved u Nation. We had al.
lowed to grow Sabbath dissertation
and oppression and blasphemy and fraud
and impurity and all sorts of t%urpitude.
The South had its sins, and the North its
sins, and the East its sins, and tho West
its sins. We had been warned again and
again, and we did not heed. Atlength the
sword of war cut from the st. Lawrenceto
the Gulf, and from Atlantic seaboard to
Pacific seaboard. The pride Of the land
not the towards, but tho heroes-on both
sides went down. And that which we took
for the sword Of war was the Lords razor.
In 1862 again it went across the land. In
1863 again. In 1864 again. Then the sharp
instrument was encased and put away.
Never in the history of the ages was any
land more thoroughly shaved than during
those four years of civil combat, and, my
brethren, if we do not quit some OF our
individual and National sins, the
Lord will again take US in hand.
He has other razors within reach
besides war, epidemics, droutbs, delnges,
Neutrality-suspicious. and locust
or our overpowering success may so far
excite the jealousy Of other lands that,
under some pretext, the great nations of
Europe and Asia may combine to put us
down. This Nation, so easily approached
on north and south and from both oceans,
might have on hand at once more HOSTILE
ties than were ever arrayed against any
one power. We have recently been told
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