The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-10-15


this world were Vi lun-e onds. chOl-
era sweeps Ror0ss Msfasilles, and
Madrid, and Palermo, aud We watch
anxiously. Snail tho epidemic sweep
Europe aud AmoIioaf People SAY,
That will entirely depend on whethor
the inuoeulatiOu IL u sn0cAi aful eN-
pertinent; that will dopHud entirely on
regulations; that VIII de-
pend ON the oaaTiv or late appearance
81 frost; that epidemic IN pitched into
the world and u gces laundering
across tho oonuoonis, ana IL Is all
guesswoek and an appalling pHrhaDs.'
My friends, I ihlns porhaps that q n
had something io do with IL,
and that His meicy may have ~ some
way protected ~; that He may hsve
done ~ much Tor na a. ,ha quarantine
ana the hoel.h OiliCe!s IL Wss right
aud = necessity that al caution should
10 used, but there mss como enough
from lsalN, and enough
grapes from the sOuJh at Franco, and
enough rags from tAt,ordemallons ana
hidden IN these articles 81 transn0rta'
zion, enough elaborate germs 10 heve
left Dy this liiuu al ErookiYn mourn
ing ~ Greenwood, and al Philadel-
poia ~ Laurel Hill, sud ali boston nc
Mount Aupurn, thauiS al the doe
tors ana quRrantiuos, but moro than
al, and hrat OF al, and last Of al, uud
Ml'the tilna, thank GOO rngt IA all
,hs 5000 years OF the wurid'a existence
thoTe has not one thing merely hap
pened so.'
COD Is NOT Az ANARCHIST,
but e king a iatnor. When little
Todd, the son OF President Lincoln,
died, al tho land sympathized with
q 40,
used 10 rush into tho room whore the
cabinet was Ia session, aud while the
most eminent men OF the land wOro
the questions Of national
sxistsuce. But tha child haa no caro-
about those questions. Now God the
Father, and God tho Son and GOD the
Holy Ghost are in perpetual session IN
regard 10 this world and kindred
worlds. Shall you, his child, rush in
IN criticis9 or arraign or crndemn the
divine government? No; tho Cabinet
III the Eternal Three eau govern and
will govern in the wisest ana be't way,
ind thero never will be mistake, and
ike razor. skilfully awunS, shall cut
hat which ought to be sut and avoid
hat which ought TO be avoided. Pro-
,lsion to the very balrbresdth. Earthly
may get oat OF order and
strike wrong, saying H. Ia i O'Clock
when il Is 2, or 2 when IL ia 3. Gods
) Ock is always right, and when a. il l
o'clock IL strikes /, and when il is y
o'clock IL strikes Il, and the second
land is as accurate as the minnie hand.
"Furlher, my text tells Us that Goa
sometimes shayes nations: 'lu the
,ame day ahaii the Lord shave With
Inc razor that is hirod.' With one
sharp sweep He went across JGdea, and
Town went its pride and its power. In
86l
GOD SHAVED OUR NATION.
We had allowed TO grow Sabbath deSs-
and oppression and blasphemy,
md fraud and impurity, and al sorts
II turpitude. The South had IT'S sins,
Ind the North its sing, and the East its
sins, and the West its sins. We had
been warned again spd again, and we
lid not heed. AT length the sword of
var cut from the st. Lawrence to the
gulf, and from the Atlantic seaboard
o the Pacific seaboard. The pride of
he land-not tho towards, but the he
both sides went down, and
bat which we took for tho sword o.
war was the Lords razor. In 1852
again il went across The land.
Ia 1868 again. In 1884 8gaip.
Then the sharp instrument was en-
,gsed and put away. Never in The his-
Dry of the ages was any Land more
thoroughly shaved than during those
our yoarS of civil combat, and, my
lrethran, i, we do not quit some Of our
ndividual and national sins, the Lord
Will again take us in band. He has
u her razors within reach besides war:
Gpidemics, thoughts, doiuges, plaques
and loousts; or our
,vertowering success may so tar excite
me jealousy of other lsuds inst, unde
Joms pretext, the great nations OF Eu-
ops and Asia may combine to put us
Town. This nation, so easily npprosch-
I'd on north and south and from both
Iceans, might have on hand at once
more hostilities than were ever array
ID against any Que power. We have
'scently been told by skilliGl engineers
hat all our foriregses around New
FORK har Dor could not keep the shells
rom being hurled from tho sea into
he heart OF these great cities.
China, the wealthiest
Il ali nations, rs will be realized when
ler resources are developed, Will have
.dupted Ill tho modes of modern war
are, and az the Golden Gate may DO
discussing whether Americans must
20. III the combined jealousies OF Ed
'opo and Asia shculQ com9 upon IA
ge should have more work on hand
han would DO pleasant. 1 hope no
,uch combination against us viii ever
20 formed, but j want to show that, as
AssYRIA WAS THE HIRED RAZOR
against Judah ana Cyrus, tie hired
aGor against y 55yloA and tho Huns,
he hired razor against tho Gothe,
here arc now many rszors that tho
Lord could hire If, because of our na-
tonai sins, He should undertake to
vas the yazor with which
he Lord shaved Francs. England is
he razor with which very shortly the
Lor will shave Russia. But naions
ire to repent in day. May % speedy
md world wide coming to God hinder,
IN both sides of tho ses, all national
calamity. But do not let us, as q ns-
ion, either by Lnrjghteous isw at
w Washington or bad lives among our
selves, defy the Almighty. One would
.hink that our national symbol OF the
,agle might sometimes suggest en-
,ther eagie--that which ancient Rome
carried. Ia the talons of that eagle
were clutched at one time Britain,
FrsHce, Spain, Italy, Dalmatia,
Noriculn, Pannonia, Moesia,
Dacis, Thrace, Mscedonis,. Greece,
Asia Minor, Assyrle, Ph@nicia, Pales-
line, Egypt and all Northern Africa,
ind ali the islands OF the Msditerra-
nean, indeed, all tho world
5kat was worth having, an 12O,-
100000 of people under the
wings of that one eagle. Where Is
she now? Ask Gibbon, the historian,
n his prose poem, the Decline and
Fall of the Roman Empire Ask her
ruins struggling their sadness
through the ageH, the screech owl at
windows out OF which worldwide
looked. Ask the day OF
Judgment when her crowned de-
oauohees, Commodus Sud Partinax
and Caligula and Diocletian, shall an
swer for their iDfamy. AS men and
~ nations let us repent, and have our
trust in psrdoning God rather than
depend on former SUCCESS for immu-
nifty. Out of Is greatest battles of the
world Napoleon had lost but one be-
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