Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-19

comes out at the Promised Land. Mark
that. Mark that!
1 remark again: That all these things
that seem to be but accidents in our life
are
UNDER THE DIVINE SUPERVISION.
We sometimes seem TO be going helmless
and anchorless. You say: "lf had some
other trade: if had not gone there this
summer; if had lived in some other
house" You have no right TO say that,
Every tear You wept, every stop You have
taken, every burden You have carried Is
under divine inspection, and that event
which startled your whole house with hor-
ror, God met with perfect placidity, be-
cause He knew il WAS for your good. 1t
was part of great plan projected long
ago In eternity when YOU come TO reckon
up your mercies, you will point to that af-
Fiction rs one OF your greatest blessings.
God has a strange way with us. Joseph
found his way to the prime minister's
chair by being pushed into pit; and TO
many a Christian down is up, The wheat
must be failed; the quarry must be
blasted; the diamond must be
ground; the Christian must be afflicted; and
that single event, which YOU supposed
stood entirely alone, WAS connecting
link between two great chains, one chain
reaching through all eternity past, and the
other chain reaching through all eternity
future, SO small au event fastening two
| eternities together.
A missionary, coming from India TO the
United States, stopped AZ St Helena while
the vessel was taking water, He had his
little child with him. They walked along
by an emhankment, and a rock nj that
moment became lJoSened, and falling in
stantly, killed the child. Was il IN acci-
dent? Was it a surprise 80 God? Had He
allowed His servant, after life of conse-
Grafton, to come Ia such trialS Not snch
is my God There are no accidents IN the
divine mind, though they may seem 80 Ia
us. God is good, and by every single in
cident OF our life, whether it be adverse or
otherwise, before earth and heaven, God
will demonstrate His mercy.
hear man say: That idea bclittlcs
God. You bring Him down 10 such little
things" q! have more thorough aP-
probation of God in little things than |
have in great things. The mother does not
wait until the child has mashed il foot or
broken its arm before she administers SYM
pathv. The child comes in with the least
bruisr, and the mother kisses II. God docs
not wait Tor some tremendous crisis IN our
life but comes down Ia us in our most IN
significant trials, and throws over us the
arms of His mercy.
Going up the White Mountains some
years ago, thought of that passage in the
Bible that speaks of God rs
WEIGHING MOUNTAINS IN 4 BALANCE.
As looked at those great mountains,
thought can it be possible that God can
put these great mountains III scales 10
was an idea too great for me la grasp; but
when saw a hluc-bcll down by the mules
foot, on my way up Mount Washington,
then understood the kindness and good
ness of God Ii is not 50 much OF tod IN
great things can understand, but of God
in little THU.
There is u man who says: THAT doe
trine cannot be true, because things do 20
so very wrong" | reply il Is no incon.
sistcncy on the part of God but a Lack oi
understanding on our part. hear that
men are making very fine shawls in some
factory. 20 in on the first floor and see
only the raw materials, and ! ask: Are
these the shawls | have heard about
mo" SAYS the manufacturer; go up To
the next floor" and 30 mp, and there |
begin 10 see the design. But the man says:
DO not stop here: 90 up Ia the top floor
of the factory, and you will see the idea
fully carried out" ! do 50, and having
come to the top, see the complete
pattern of an exquisite shawl. 10
in our life, standing down on low level
nf Christian experience, we do not under
stand Gods dealings. He trlio us tn go
up higher and higher until we begin io
understand the divine meaning with respect
to us and We advance until we stand at
the very gate of heaven, and there see
Gods idea all wrought out-a perfect idea
of mercy. of love, of kindness. And we
say: "Just and true are all thy ways. IL
is all right at the bottom. Remember
there is no Inconsistency on the part oi
God, but it is only our mental and spirit
ual incapacity.
SOME OF YoU HAVE BEEN DISAPPOINTED
this summer-yacatiOns are apt tn be dIs-
appointments. hut whatever have been
your perplcxitics and worrimcnts, know
that MANS heart dcviscth his way, but
the Lord dirccteth his steps Ask these
aged men in this church if il is not so. ii
has been 10 in my own life. One summer
/ started for the Adirondacks, hut my plans
were 30 changed that landed in Liverpool
studied law and got into the ministry.
resolved TO 90 as n missionary to China,
and stayed in the United States. ]
thought would like 10 be in the East,
and went TO the West; all the circum-
stances of life, all my work, different from
that which ! expected. "A mans heart
deyiscth his way, hut the Lord directeth
his steps"
so. nv dear friends, this day take home
this subject. BE content with such things
as Won have. From every grass blade
under your feet learn the lesson Of divine
care. and never let the smallest bird fit
across your path without thinking Of the
truth that Five sparrows are sold for two
farthings, and not one Of them il forgotten
before God" Blessed be His glorious name
forever Amen.