Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-31
VYEh-hULlNu FnUYlULNUT.
The Cheap Sparrow the Object of Gods
Tender Care.
Mans Heart Deviseth His Way but the
Lord Directeth.
Gods Providence Seen in the Small Things
of Life.
Mans Occupation and Habitation Chosen
by a Higher Power.
What are Supposed to Calamities Result
in Good.
All Things for the Benefit of Those Who
Love the Lord.
The Doctrine of Resignation Forcibly In
culcated.
All Things for the Benefit of Those Who
Love the Lord.
The Doctrine of Resignation Forcibly In
culcated.

? THE HAMpToNs," LorG ISLAND,
Sunday July 18: The Rev. I. De-
Witt Talmage. ID. D.. is continuing his
series of ermon on "Voices of Gar
dens and Fields" His subject to-day
was
1.-THE CHEAT SPARROW"
and the text, Luke xii '. g.: '.Are not
five sparrows sold for two farthirgs,
and not one Of them is forgotten be-
fore Gode" Follow is the discourse in
full:
You see the Bible will not be limited
in the choice of symbols. There is
hardly n beast, or bird, or insect,
which has not beer called to illustrate
some divine truth-the ox's patience,
the ants industry, tho spiders skill.
the kinds sure-footedness, the eagles
speed, the doves gentleness, and even
She sparrow's meanness and insignii-
canoe. In Oriental countries none but
the poorest people buy the sparrow
and eat it-so very little meat is there
ON the bones, and so very poor is it,
what there is Of it. The comfortable
population would not think of touch
ing it any more than you would think
Of eating a bat or a lamprel. Now,
says Jesus, if God takes such good
care of a poor bird that is not worth a
cent. will he not take care of YOU, an
immortale
We associate God with revolutions.
W. can see q divine purpose in the dis
covery of America, in the invention of
the art of printing. in the exposure of
the gunpowder plot, in the continuance
OF the needle-gun, in the ruin of an
Austrian or Napolconic despotism; but
how hard it is to see God in the mi
nuts personal affairs of our lives! We
Think of God as making a record of
thc starry host, but cannot reHize the
BIBL 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
sleeps down and opens its mouth and
puts the seed in. We are struck with
the idea that God fills the universe with
His presence; but cannot understand
how He encamps in the crystal palace
of = dew-drop, or finds room to stand,
without being crowded, between the
alabaster pillars of a pond lily. We
can sec God in the clouds. Can we see
God in, these flowers ut our feet? We
are apt to place God on some great
stage-or try to do it-expecting Him
there TO act out His stupendous pro-
jeots; but we forget that the life of a
Cromwell, an Alexander, or a Wash
ingtOn, or m archangel, is not more
under divine inspection than your life
or mine. Pompey thought there must
be a mist over the eyes Of God because
He so much favored Cesar. 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.
MAGNIFICENT 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 indiffer-
ent or unsympathe.ic throne, but that
He sits down beside you to-day, and
stands beside me to-day, and no affair
OF II lives is so insignificant but that
it is of Importance to God.
In the first place: God chooses for
vs. our occupation. l am amazed to see
how many people there are dissatisfied
with the work they have to do. l
think three-fourths wish they were in
some other occupation, and they spend
q great deal of time in regretting that
they got in the wrong trade or profess
sion. l want to tell you that God put
hato operation all the influences which
led you to that particular 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 a
physician; you preferred agriculture
ard you became y mechanic. You
thought one way; God thought an
other. But you ought no. to sit down
and mourn over the past. You are to