Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-31

, kind God, "a loving Coda ranged
I'll these circumstances by which you
were made what you are.
Hugh Miller says: Il will be a
stone-mason;' Gcd says: 'You will
be u geologist." David goes out to
tend his fathers sheep; God calls 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 if We
WERE CONTENT
with the places God gave MS! God saw
your temperament, and all the circnm-
stances by which you were surroun led.
and | believe nine-tenths of you are in
the work you are best fitted foI.
| hear "a great racket in my watch,
and | find that the hands, and the
wheels, and the springs are getting
out of their places. | send ii down TO
the jewellers and say: Overhaul that
watch, and teach the wheels. and the
spring and the hands to mind their
w business"
You know Il man having a large es-
tate. He gathers his working hands
in the morning, and says to me-: You
go and trim that %vine;" TO another:
You go and weed those iowers;' TO
another: you plough that tough
glebe;" and each one goes to his par
ticular work. The owner OF the estate
points the man to what he knows he
can do the best, and so it is with the
Lord. He calls us up and points us TO
that field for which we are best fitted.
So that the lesson for to-day, coming
from this subject, is: ''Stay cheerfully
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 to be Il
mere matter of accident. You 60 out
to hunt for a house, and you happen to
pass ur a certain street, and happen to
| see a sign, and you select that house.
Was it ali happening SOP o. no! God
guided you in every step. He foresaw
the future. He knew all your circum-
Stances, and He selected Just that one
house as better for YOU than any one of
the ten thousand habitations in the
city. Our house, however humble the
roof and however lowly the portals, is
as near Gods heart as an
ALEXANDRA OR A KREMLIN.
Prove it you say: Proverbs iii, So;
He blesseth the habitation Of the
just"
/ remark further that God arranges
all our friendships. You were driven
to the wall. You found a man Just at
that crisis who sympathized with YOU
and helped you. You say: How
lucky / was!" There was no luck
about it. God sent that friend just as
certain as he sen the angel to strength
en- Christ. Your domestic friends,
your business friends, your Christian
friends, God sent them to bless you.
and if any Of them have proved trait
orous, it is only to bring out the value
of those who remain. If some die it is
only that they may stand at the out
post of heaven TO greet you at your
coming.
You always will have friends
warm-hearted friends, m~agnanimous
friends; and when sickness comes to
your dwelling, there will be watchers;
when trouble comes to your heart,
there will be sympathizers; when death
comes, there will be gentle fingers to
close the eyes and fold the hands, and
gentle lips to tell of a resurrection. q,
Urn .fa nnn,nnGcnI hu a hnI,r,nr1 &c
friends! Every man, if he has be-
haved himself well, is surrounded by
three circles Of friends-those of the
outer circle wishing him well: those in
the nokt circle willing to help him;
while close up to his heart are n few
who would die for him. God pity the
wretch who has not any friends! He
has not behaved well.
i remark again: That God puts
down the limit to our temporal prosperi-
ty. The world of finances seems TO have
no God in it. You cannot tell where a
man will land. The aflluent fall; the
poor rise. 1ne ingenious fail; the ig-
norant succeed. An enterprise open
ing grandly shuts in bankruptcy, while
out of the peat dug up in some New
England marsh the millionaire BULLS
his fortune. The poor man thinks that
it is chance that keeps him down; the
rich man thinks it is chance which
hoists him; and they are both wrong.
1t is so hard to realize that
o RULES
the money market, and has a hook in
the nose of the stock gambler. and that
all the commercial revolutions of the
world shall result in the very best for
Gods dear children. My brethren, do
not kick against the divine allotments.
God knows just how much money it is
best for you to lose. You never gain
unless it is best for you to gain. You
60 up when it is best for you to GO up,
and 90 down when it is best for you to
60 down. Prove it you say. will:
Romans viii, %: "All things work to-
gether for good to them that love
God" You 90 into a factory and you
see twenty or thirty wheels, and they
are going in different directions. This
hand is rolling off this way, and anoth-
er hand another way; one down and
another up. You say: What con-
fusion in a factory" O, no! all these
different hands are only different parts
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