The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1888-09-05

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Judgment that iniquity will blaze out boz
fore the throne Of God and the universe.
Furthermore, learn from this subject the
inseparable connection between all
events, however remote. Lord Hastings
WIS bcheaded one year after he had
caused the death Of the Qleen's children,
in the very month, the very day, the very
hour and the very moment. There is WON
derful precision in the Divine Judgments.
Those things that seem fragmentary and
isolated are only different parts Of that
one great thought. How far apart
seemed the two events-Joseph sold
to the Arabian merchants and the ruler
ship of Egypt Yet you see in what mystic
rious way God connected tho two in one
plan. So all events are linked together.
You who are aged can look back and group
together a thousand things in your life
that once seemed isolated. One undivided
chain OF events reached from the Garden
of Eden to the cross of Calvary, and thus
up to Heaven. There is relation between
the smallest insect that huns in the sum-
mer air and the archangcl on his throne.
God can trace . direct ancestral line
from che blue jay that last spring built
his nest Ia tree behind the house to some
one Of thXt flock Of birds which, when
Noah hoisted the Ark's window, with
whirl and dash of bright wings went out
to sing over Mount Ararat The tulips
that bloomed this summer in the flower
bed were nursed Of last winters snow
fakes. The furthest star on one side the
universe could not look to the furthest
star on the other side and say: "You
are no relation to me-" for from that
bright orb voice oflight would ring across
the heavens responding: "Yes, yes, we
are sisters" Sir Sidney Smith in prison
was playing lawn-tennis in tho yard and
the ball flew over the wall. Another ball
containing letters was thrown back, and
so communication was opened with the
outside world, and Sidney Smith escaped
in time to defeat Bonaparte's Egyptian ex
petition.
What small accident connected with
what vast result! Sir Robert Peel, from
pattern he drew on the back of pewter
dinner plate, gotsugges of that which
led to the important invention by which
calico is printed Nothing in Gods u,,i-
verse swings at loose ends. Accidents arc
only Gods way of turning leaf in the
book Of His eternal DEGREES. From our
cradle to our grave there is path all
marked out. Each event in our life is con-
nected with every other event in our life.
Our loss may be the most direct road to
our gain. Our defeats and victories are
twin brothers. The whole direction Of
your life was changed by something which
at the time seemed to you trifle, while
some occurrence which seemed tremend-
GUS affected you but little.
The Rev. DR.. Kennedy, Of Basking
Ridge, N. j., went into his pulpit one Sab
| bath, and by a strange freak of memory
forgot his subject and forgot his text, and
in great embarrassment rose before his
audience and announced the circumstance
and declared himself entirely unable to
preach; then launched forth in a few
earnest words of entreaty and warning
which resulted in the outbreaking of the
mightiest revival of religion ever known
in that State-a revival Of relig-
ion that resulted in churches still standing
and in the conversion of large number
of men who entered the Gospel ministry
who have brought their thousands into
the Kingdom of God. Gods plans are
magnificent beyond all comprehension. He
molds us, turns and directs us, and we
know it not. Thousands of years are to
him but as the flight of shuttle. The
most terrific occurrence does not make
God trembe, and the most triumphant
achievement does not lift Him into
rapture.
That one great thought of God goes on
through the centuries, and nations rise
and fall, and eras pass, and the world
itself changes, but God still keeps the I'm.
: divided mastery, linking event to event
and century to century. To God they are
all one event, one history, one plan, one
development, one system. Great and mar
velous are Thy works, Lord God Al
mighty!
, Furthermore: We learn from this story
the propriety Of laying up for the future.
} During seven years of plenty Joseph pre-
pared for the famine, and when it came
t he had crowded store-house. The life
of most men in worldly respect is di-
, vided into years of plenty and famine
t 1t is seldom that any man passes
: through life without at least seven
e years of plenty. During these seven
g prosperous years your business bears a
!, rich harvest. You hardly know where all
t the money comes from, it comes so fast.
t Every bargain you make seems to turn
t into gold. You contract few bad debts.
: You are astounded with large dividends.
/ You invest more and more capital. You
K wonder how men can be content with
. small business, gathering in only a
: hundred dollars where you reap your
Y thousands.
n These are the seven years Of plenty
|. Now, Joseph, is the time to prepare fol-
d famine, for to almost every man there dc
S come seven years of famine. You will be
@ sick; you will be unfortunatc; you will be
C Disappointed you will be old, and if you
d have no store-house upon which to fall
d back you may be famine-struck. We have
G no admiration for this denying ones sell
e of all present comfort and luxury
X for the mere pleasure of hoard
e ing up, this grasping for the mere pleas
|, ure of seeing how large pile you can get
e this always being poor and cramped, be
e cause as soon as dollar comes in it il
& sent out to see if it can't find another dol
:. lar to carry home on its back; but there il
5 an intelligent and noble minded forecas
o which we love to see in men who hav
1t families and kindred dependent upon then
ID for the blessings of education and home.
,e God sends US to the insects for lesson
X which, while they do not stint themselve