Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-09-22

door meeting was being held in that
state. Many thousands had assembled
in the open air, and heavy storm clouds
began to gather. There was no shelter
70 which the multitudes could retreat.
The rain had already reached the adj
Joining fields when John Easter cried
ont. Brethren, be still while | call
upon God to stay the storm till the
GOSPEL is preached to this multitude.
Then he knelt and prayed that the
audience might be spared from the
rain and that after they had gone to
their homes there might come refresh
ing showers Behold the clouds parted
as thew came near and passed to either
side of the crowd and then closed
/ again. leaving the place dry where the
| audience had assembled, and the next |
day the postponed showers came upon
the ground that had been the day be-
fore omitted
Do you say it only happened so? l
cannot see what you keep your Bibles
for. and the God you worship is not
nv God Your God is an autocrat, and
he is so far off and SO far up that the
world cannot touch him, and his throne
is an eternal iceberg. My God Is
father. here and now, and father will
olive his child what he asks for if it is
best for him to have it. Pray about
everything that concerns you, seculari-
ties as well as spiritualities. Take to
God all your annoyances and perplexl-
ties The crooked shall be made
straight. Some people talk as though
God controlled things in general but
not in particular; that he started every
thing under certain laws and then let
IL take care of itself, as an engineer
might start his locomotive on an iron
railroad track and then jump off. What
would happen to such a locomotive Is
what would long ago have happened to
orr world if God had started it and
} aftervard allowed it to look out for
itself.
There is no such thing as a general
} providence. It is a particular provi-
dence. God has no general care Tor a
forest 1t is g. care OF every cell OF
every leaf and root in that forest. Goa
has no general care of the ocean. 1t is
: a care of every drop of water in the
/ LIQUID magnitude God has no general
l care for the human race. 1t is care
/ of every Individual of that race, and or
: every item of individual history. L
S breach him. God in infinitesimals, an
;. every day God, a God responsive, and
s one breath of earnest prayer, though
t that breath should not be strong enough
8 to make a candle flicker, will absorb
n more of the divine attention than II the
Il archangel standing at the foot OF the
p throne should flap both wings.
e GODS CARE OF THE UNITED STATES.
Is Tt is remarkable how many crook
e ed things are in the providence OF
e God being made straight About thirty
IS wears ago our national affairs were as
d crooked as depraved American politics
q and bad men and Satan could make
Y them. From the top of Maine to the
al foot of Florida the nation was red with
wrath. 1t was wrangle and light al
lie the way through, and one of the mild
IL est things that the north and south
IS promised each other was assassination
III During this summer L have Travelled
le through New York and Ohio anC
ID Illinois and Indiana and Minnesota
e and Kansas and Nebraska and Mis-
Oh souri, and Texas and Louisiana ant
Id Georgia and North and South Caro-
lie lima and Virginia and Pennsylva
TO MIA. and I have shaken hands wit
In tens of thousands of people and talke
De with men of all sections and degrees
: and [ have to tell you it Is all peace
&c and in all the states of the Union 20
C. coT1ld not now marshal q military con
p, Danv of one hundred soldiers to figt
e. against the United States governmer
III unless you got your men out of tn
al penitentiary Did the corrupt an
ry gangrened political parties do this wor
of rectifcation and pacilcationa NJ
is Tt was by divine interposition that I'll
it. crooked has been made straight.
of On the I'd of December, 1851, Lou
it NAPOLEON Bonaparte rode down IL
" Champs Elysee of Paris, and und
On the hoofs of his horse a republic WI
is trampled as the rider went to take
d. throne. 1t was the outrage of the cen
or, ury. For nineteen long years Il
1T. wrong triumphed. The will OF OF
we man who wanted to remain emper
rs. kept down a nation who wanted j
for public. But September, 1870 arrive
.is- and Sedan unrolled its crimson scro
ere The emperor surrenders with SO, 0
his troops, 419 field guns, 5000 horses al
all go 600 muskets. From that day t
ballot box was up and the throne W
-ou down. Free institutions have be
IAN substituted for an infamous monarch
ov- Thank Godi The crooked has be
md made straight.
self But why go so far to find fulfillme
vas of my text2 In all our lives there
ock crooked things that need to be ma
md straight, and each nearer or reader v
the enumerate for himself or herself. w
> at one it is dilapidated physical health, a
dY YOU are saying, ''Why cannot [ be
do good health when [ have such oppor
81 mites and such responsibilities A
get for the sick headaches, and the rh
be matte Joints, and the neuralgia thrus
nv. and the lame footl But you will be W
ALL soon. Life at the longest is an apN
two waited durance. There is q BLACK q
the tor that will cure you. Some PEG
the call him death.
was No disease was ever able to stand
the fore his touch Use all the means
nap forded for physical recuperation, bu
ONE thew fail the hour of release is not
nan. away. There need be no incurab
Call There is no sorrow that heaven can
will cure. Those who in this world h
Mise, always been well will not get the
hit" part of heaven. They will not h
TER. the advantage of contrast They "
nnlv well before they left this world,
do. why should they be so graduated
on being well in the next world? But
die those who on earth were hindered
tho broken down in health what a {
was trast as they step into that don
GRO where there has never been an acf
,ioht brow, or lame foot, or infiamed mus
9th or disordered nerve! For forty y
civ there may have beef STOPPING In
! the back, or twisted muscle, or cul
that spine, or crooked limb, but the pr
49, Use has been fulfilled, s'The croo
-;,nos shall be made straight"
tbris- MATCHES NOT MADE IN HEAVEN