St. Landry democrat., 1885-10-24

Judgment and sharpen 10 on the none OIL
their own hard hearts, and then go to
work on men sprawled out at full length
under disaster, cutting mercilessly. They
begin by soft expression of sympathy
and pity and half praise, and lather the
victim all over before they put on the
sharp edge. Let US be careful how we
shoot at others lest we take down the
wrong one, remembering the servant OF
King William Rufus who shot deer, but
the arrow glanced against tree and killed
the King. Instead of going out with
shafts4to pierce and razors to cut, we had
better initiate the friend OF Richard C9ur
de Lion; who. in the war of the
Crusades, was captured and imprlss
oned, but none of his friends knew
where So his disciple went around
the land from penitentiary to penl'
Tertiary, and sang at each window snatch
of song that Richard Cueur de Lion had
taught him in other days. And one day,
coming before a Jail where he suspected
his king might be incarcerated, he sang
two lines of song, and Immediately King
Richard responded from his cell with the
! other two lines, and 50 his whereabouts
was discovered, and Immediately sue
cesSful movement was made for his lib"
GRAFTON. So let us go up and down the
world with the music of kind words
and sympathetic hearts, serenading the
unfortunate and trying to get out of
trouble men who had noble natures, but
by unforeseen circumstances have been in
carcerated, thus liberating kings. More
hymn-book and less razor.
Especially ought we to be apologize and
merciful toward those who, while they
have great faults, have also great vir.
tues. No weeds, verify, but no flowers.
must not be too much enraged at a
nettle along the fence if it be in a iel d
containing forty acres of ripe Michigan
wheat. At the present time naturalists
tell us there is ON the sun spot 10000
miles long, but from the brightness and
warmth conclude it is o good deal of
sun yet. kE#
I Again, when read in my text that the
Lord shaves with the hired razor of As
syria theland Of Jadea, 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 n4ver 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
Marseil1es 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 successful experiment;
that win depend entirely on 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
guesswork 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 be used, but there
has come enough maccaroni from Italy,
and enough grapes from the South of
France, and enough rags from tatterdema-
lians, and hidden in these articles of
transportation enough choIeric 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. / thank all the doctors and quaran-
tines, but more than all and first of all and
last of all and all the time, thank God.
In all the 5000 years of the worlds exist.
ence there has not one thing merely "hap.
pened SOD 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
existence; 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 viii be mistake, and like razor
skillfully swung shall cut that which
ought to be cut and avoid that which ought
to te 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. Sin the same
day shall the Lord shave with thes razor
that is hired" With one sharp sweep he
went across Judah, and down went it's
pride and its power. In 1851 God
shaved our Nation. We had al.
lowed TO grow Sabbath dissertation