Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-19

sum tAANh nt AAiAhNh QNa ht Has NNNn
working At II for hours, making figures
here and rubbing out ngures there, and
Il is all mixed up; aud the teacher, look
ing over the boys shoulder, knows that
he cannot ret out OF Il, and cleaning the
slate saws; Begin again. just so
God does to us. Our affairs get intp an
iuextricahle ENHANCEMENT, aud He rubs
every thing outand says, "Begin again \"
Is He not wise and loving 10 so doing?
l think the trouble Is, that there Is so
large difference between the divine and
human estimate as to what is enough.
have heard OF people striving for that
which is enough, but | never heard OF
any one who had enough What God
calls enough for man, mau calls too little.
What man calls enough, God says Is too
much. The difference between a poor
man and rich man is only the difference
In banks. The rich man pats his money
In the Nassau bank, or the Park bank, or
Fulton bank, or some other hank Of that
character, while the poor man comes up
and makes his investment In the bank OF
Him who runs all the quarries, all the
mines, all the gold, all the earth, all
heaven. Do you think a man can fail
when he Is backed up like that?
| want to bring this truth close up TO
the heart OF those people In this audi
ence who have to calculate rigid economy,
who are perplexed how they will make
the old garment hold ont little longer,
with whom the great question is not
which Is the best inves ment or the most
lucrative security, but how shall
make the two ends meet. To such peo-
pie bring the coincidence Of this Chris
tian truth.
You may haze seen a map on which IL
described, with red ink, the travels OF
the children Of Israel through the desert
To the Promised Land. You see how
they took this and that direction, crossed
the river aud went through the sea. Do
you know God has made map OF your
life with paths leading up TO this bitter
ness and that success, through this river
and across that scar But, blessed be
God, the path always comes out at the
Promised Land Mark that mark that
| remark again that all those things
that seem TO be but accidents in our lie
are under the divine supervision. We
sometimes seem to be going helml1 IS
and anchorless. You say "If had
some other trade; II had not gone there
this summer; II had lived in some other
house" You have no right to say that.
hNNiN wal lpu NNHNttNNiI NNtU lOu nave
taken, every burden you have carried, Is
under divine inspection, and that event
which startled your whole household with
horror God met with perfect placidity,
because he knew 1t was for your good.
II was
PART on A GREAT PLAN
projected long ago. In eternity when
you.come TO reckon up your mercles, you
| will point to that great atllction as one OF
your greatest blessings. God has strange
way with us. Joseph found his way to
the prime minister's char by being
pushed into pitt and to many Chris.
tian down is up. The wheat must he
fialledi the quarry must be blasted;
tue diamond must be ground; the
| Christian must be afflicted; and
that single event, which you supposed
stood entirely alone, wasa connecting link
between two great chains, one chain reach
ing through all eternity past and the other
chain reaching through all eternltyfuture,
so small an event fastening two eternlties
together.
missionary coming from India to the
United States stopped at St. Helena while
the vessel was taking water. He had his
little child with him. They walked along
by an embankment, and rock at thai
moment became loosened, and falling, In
stautly killed the child Was II an acct
dent9 Was 1t q surprise TO God? HaC
He allowed His servant, after life o
conservation, to come to such trial
Not such is my God. There are no arci
dents in the divine mind, though they
may seem so to us. God Is good, and bl
every single incident of our life, whether
1t be adverse or otherwise, before esrtl
and heaven,
GOD WILL DEMONSTRATE HIS MERCY.
hear man say: "That idea belittles
God. You bring Him down 10 such littl,
, things" OF have a more thorough ap
, probation OF God In little things than
have in great things. The mother does
not walt until the child has mashed its
, foot or broken it's arm before she admin
listers sympathy. The child comes In with
the least bruise, aud the mother kisses IT,
: God does not wait for some tremendous
, crisis in our life, but comes down to us In
our most insignificant trials, and throws
over us the arms OF His mercy.
Going up the White mountains some
years ago, Thought ofIthst passage In the
, Bible that speaks OF God as weighing
mountains In balance. AS | looked al
those great mountains, thought can II
Uo posolDic tuul you eau put lntsc RItul
mountains in scalesH II was an idea toe
great for me to grasp but when saw O
blue-bell down by the mules foot, on my
way up Mount Washington, then under.
stood the kindness and goodness OF God
1t is not so much OF God In great things
can understand, but of God in little
things.
There Is man who says; "That doc
trine cannot be true, because things dc
not go 50 very wrong" | reply 1t is no
Inconsistency on the part Of God, but q
lack of understanding on our part. hear
that men are making very fine shawls In
some factory. go in on the first floor
and see only the raw materlsls,an ask
care these the shawls | have heard
about?" "No," says the manufacturer,
ego up to the next floor" 90 up, and
there begin to see the design. But the man
says; "Do not stop here; go up 10 the
top floor Of the factory, and you will see
the idea fully carried out" do so, and
having come to the top, see the complete