Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-19
Hard to See God in the Minute Per-
sonal Affairs Of Life--k Divine
Limit to Temporal Prosperity.
Nine-Tenths Of Msnkind in the Work
They are Fitted For = All Our
Friendships Arranged for Us.
"Are Not Five sparrows Sold for Two Far
thlngs, and Not one OF Them Is For
gotten OF God9"
VOICES or GARDENS AND FIELDS.

day, July is.-The Rev. T. Dewitt Tai
mage, ID, is continuing his series OF
sermons on "Voices OF Gardens and
Fields" His subject to-day was; ''rhe
Cheap Sparrow" and the text, Luke xii,
G.: care not FIVE sparrows sold for
two farthings, and not one Of them is for
gotten OF God?n Following is the
discourse In full:
You see the bible will not be limited in
the choice OF symbols. There is hardly
beast, or bird, or insect, which has not
been called to illustrate some divine
truth-the ox's patience, the ants indus
try, the SPIDERS skill, the kinds sure
footedness, the eagles speed, the doveis
gentleness, and even the sparrow's mean
ness and insignihcance In oriental
countries none but the poorest people
buy the spa. row and eat it--so very little
meat is there on the bones, and so very
poor is 1t what there is Of 1t. The COM
Portable population would not think of
touching it any more than you would
! think OF eating bat or a lamprel. Now,
says Jesus, If God takes such good care
of poor bird that Is not worth a cent.
won't he care for you, au immortal2
| We associate God with revolutions. We
can see divine purpose in the discovery
OF America, in the invention of the art of
printing, in the exposure OF the Gun
! powder plot, in the continuance of the
needle-gun, in the ruin of an Austrian or
| Napoleonic despotism; but how hard IL is
to see God in the minute personal affairs
Of our livesl We think of God as making
a record Of the starry host, but cannot
realize the bible truth that he knows how
many hairs are on our head. 1t seems a
grand thing that God provided food for
hundreds of thousands of Israelites in
| the desert; but we cannot appreciate the
truth that, when a sparrow is hungry,
God stoops down and opens its mouth
and puts the seed in. We are struck with
the idea that Gods fills the universe with
his presence, but cannot understand how
| he encamps in the crystal pal.
ace of a dew-drop, or finds room
to stand, without being crowded,
between the alabaster pillows of the pond
! lily. We can see God in the clouds. Can
we see God in these flowers at our feetp
We are apt TO place God on some great
stage--or to try TO do it--expecting Him
there to act out His stupendous projects;
but we forget that the life of a Cromwell,
an Alexander, or a Washington, or an
II
spection than your life or mine. Pompey
thought there must be mist over the
eyes Of God because He so much favored
Caesar. But there is no such mist. He
sees everything. We say Gods path is
| in the great waters. True enough! but
no more certainly than He is in the water
in the glass on the table. We say God
guides the stars In their courses. Mag
nihcent truth! but no more certain truth
than that He decides which road or street
| you shall take in coming to church.
| Understand that God does not sit upon
an Indifferent or unsympathetic throne,
| but that He sits down beside you to-day
and stands beside me to-day, and no
affair of our lives is so insignificant but
that it is
or IMPORTANCE TO GOD.
In the first place, God chooses for us
our occupation. en- amazed o see how
many people there are dissatisfied with
the work they have to do. thinksthree-
fourths wish they were in some other oc-
cupation, and they spend great deal of
time in regretting that they got in the
wrong trade or profession | want TO
tell you that God put into operation all
the influences which led you to that par
ticular choice Many Of you are not in
the business that you expected TO be in.
You started for the ministry and learned
merchandise; you started for the law and
you are physician; you preferred agri-
culture and you became a mechanic You
thought one way; God thought another.
But you ought not to sit down and mourn
over the past. Youare to remember that
Coda beneflcent God, kind God, a
loving God-arranged all these circum-
stances by which you were made what
you are.
Hugh Miller says al will be stone
masonn God says "You will be a
geologist." David goes out to tend his
fathers sheep; God cslls him to govern a
nation. Saul goes out to hunt his fathers
asses, and before he gets back finds the
crown of mighty dominion. How much
happier would we be II we were content
with the places God gave us, God saw
your temperament and all the circum-
stances by which you were surrounded,
and believe nine-tenths Of you are In the
work you are
BEST FITTED FOR.
hear great racket in my watch, and
| find that the hands and the wheels and
the springs are getting out OF their places,
l send 1t down to the jewelers. and say:
"Overhaul that watch and teach the
wheels and the spring and the hands TO
mind their own business"
You know man having large estate.
He gathers his working hands In the
morning and says to one: "You go and
turn that vine;" to another "you go and
weed those howers;" to another; "you
plough that tough glebe;" and each one
goes to his particular work. The owner
OF the estate points the man to what he
knows he can do best; and so II is with
the Lord. He calls us up and points us
TO that field for which we are best lifted.
So that the lesson for to-day, coming
from this subject, Is; "Stay cheertully
where God puts you"
remark further That God has ar
ranged the place OF our dwelling. What
particular city or town, street or house
you shall live in seems 70 be a mere mat
ter OF accident. You 60 out TO hunt for
house and you happen to pass up CERTAIN
street, and happen TO see slsn, and you
select that house Was IL all happening