The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-06-24

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co :n.er.' H. - IL Champion .ent forth
IL heEaif of some Lon.: .:.rc!. that has
TO be cared for, III behalf OF -oGs church
or God tha. has to Ls suppor.aI. in BIZ
half o: some asylum OF mercy that has
to DC sustained. Who is that woman
bending over the sewing machine or
carrying the bundle, or sweeping the
room. or mending the garment or swell
ter!ng at the washtub! That is De-
borah, one of the Lords heroines, bat
thing against Amalekitish want, which
comes down with iron chariot to crush
Eer and hers.
The great question with the vast ma
lori;y OF people to-day Is not Home
Rule bat whether there shall be any
nome to rule; not one OF tariff, but
whether they shall have anything to
tax. The great question with the vast
majority Of people is: How shall
support my family? How shall I meet
my notess How shall 1 pay my rent?
How shall I give food, clothing and ed
ucation to those who are dependent upon
me?' o, if God would help me to-day
to assist you in the solution OF that
problem, the happiest man in this house
would be your preacher! I have gone
out on cold morning with expert
sportsmen to hunt for pigeons; 1 have
gone out on the meadows to hunt for
quail; have gone out on the marsh to
hunt for reed birds; but this morning I
ain cut for ravens.
Notice in tie first place in the story OF
my text, that these winged caterers
came to Elijah directly from God. Il
have coEln.anle the ravens that they
fee l thee, ne find God saving in an adj
joining passage. They did NIT come out
of some other cave. They did not just
happen to alight there. God freighted
them. God launched them, aai God
told them by what cave to swoop. That
Is the same God that is going to supply
you. He is Your father. You would have
to make an elaborate calculation before
you could tell me how many pounds OF
food and how many yards OF clothing
would be necessary for you and your
family, but God knows without any cal
culation- You have plate at his table
and You are going to be waited on, unless
you act like a naughty child and kick and
scramble and pound saucily the plate
AMI try to upset things. God has vast
family, and everything is methodizsd,
and .ou are going to be served il you
will only wait your turn. God has al
ready ordered all the suits OF clothes
you will ever need. down to the last suit
in which you shall be laid out. God has
already ordered all the food you will
ever eat, down to the last crumb that
will be put in your mouth in the dying
sacrament. 1t may not be just the kind
OF food or apparel we would prefer. The
sensible parent depends on his own judg-
ment as to what ought to be the apparel
and the food of the minor in the family
Now, God is our Father and we are
minors, and he is going to clothe us and
feed US, although He may not yield to
our infantile wish for sweets and gilt
ter. These ravens OF the text did not
nor afrr not TO. fro, hn eli
platter OF King Ahab. They brought
bread and meat. God had ali the
heavens and earth before Him and under
Him. and yet he sends this plain food,
because it was best for Elijah to have it.
0, be strong, my nearer, in the fact,
that the Same God is going to supply
you! 1t is never hard times" with
Him. His ships never break on the
rocks. His banks never fail. He has
the supply for you and He has the leans
for sending it. He has not only the
cargo but the ship. II it were neces-
sary He would swing out from the
heavens a Hook OF ravens req ching from
MS gate to NoarS. until the food W uld
be flung down the sky from beak to beak
and from talon to talon.
Notice again in this story OF the text,
that the ravens did not allow Elijah to
hoard up a surplus. They did not bring
enough on Monday to last all the week
They did not bring enough one morning
to last until the next morning They
came twice a day and brought Just
enough for one time. You know as
we'll as I, that the great fret OF the
world is that we want surp'us--we
want the ravens to bring enough for
fifty years. You have moro conti.e nco
1if the Fulton Bank or Nassau Bank or
Bank OF England than you have in the
Royal Bank Of Heaven. You say: .sAll
that is very poetic, but you may have
the black ravens; give me the gold
eagles We had better be content with
Just enough. II in the morning your
family eat up all the food there is in
the house, do MOI sit down and cry and
say: - don't know where the next
meal IS to come from" About I'VE or
six or seven o'clock in the morning, lust
look up and you will see two black spots
on the sky, and you will hear the flap
ping of wings. AMI instead OF Edgar A.
Poe's insane raven alighting on the
chamber door, i" only this and nothing
more, you will :ind Eliiah's two ravens,
or thu Two ravens of the Lord, the one
bringing bread and the other bringing
meat--l lume.l butcher and baker. ] can
give you 4 family incident. Some gen
erat!o.Is back there WAS IL great drought
in Connecticut, New England The
water Disappeared from the hills, and
the farmers living the hills drove
heir cattle down toward the valleys,
and had them supplied at the wells and
OF the n"iShbor5. But these
after awhile began to fail. and the
leirhbors said to Mr.. Birdseyu, or whom
STALL speak: You must not send
your tiOcks and herds down here any
more; our wells are giving out" Mr..
Birdseye, the old Christian man, gath
cred his family ut the altar, and with
lis family he gathered the slaves of the
bondage was then in
Iogue in Conrecticut--and on their knees
before God they criel for water; and the
amily story is, that there was weeping
md great soothing at that altar that the
amily might not perish for lack of water,
md that the herds AMI flocks might not
perish. The family rose from the altar.
DR.. Birdseye, the OIL! man, took his
taft and walked out over the hills, and
n a place where he had been scores OF
ines without noticing anything particu-
ar. he saw the ground Vas very dark,
nd he took his staff and turned up the
round and ~. rt,,1 bn