The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-10-01

'thresher can not DO the work, and there
came steam plows steam harrows, steam
threshers, and the work Is accomplished.
The forests Of the earth fail TO afford
sufficient fuol, and 80 the coal mines
surrender sufficiency. The cotton
crops wore luxuriant, but OF compare
lively little value, for they could not be
managed, and so, at just the right time,
Hargreaves came with his invention Of
the spinning-jsnny, Lnd Arkwright with
his roller, and Whitney with his cotton
gin. The world, after pottering along
with tallow candles and whale oil, was cry
Ing for better light and more Of 1t; and
the bills OF Pennsylvania poured out
rivers OF oil, and kerosene illuminated
the nations. But the oil wells began to
fail and then the electric light comes
forth to turn night into day. So all
events are woven together, and the
world Is magniacehtly governed because
IT is diyinely governed. We criticise
things and think the divine machinery
is going wrong and put our fingers amid
the wheels only to get them crushed.
But, I say, hands on Things are COM
ing outgloriously. Cornelius may be in
Cesarca, and Peter In Joppa, but their
dreams meet 1t Is one hand that is
managing the world, and that is Gods
hand, and one mind that IS planning all
things for good, and that Is Gods mind;
and one heart that Is filed with love
and pardon, and sympathy, and that is
Gods heart. Have faith In Him. Fret
about nothing. Things are not at loose
ends. There are no accidents. All will
come out right in your history and In
the world. AS you are waking from
one dream upstairs, an explanatory
dream will be knocking at the gate
downstairs. '1 itr f-f
Standing here in Joppa, remember
thatwhere we this morning disembarked,
the prophet Jonah embarked. For the
first time in my life fully understand
that story. God told Jonah to 90 TO
Nineveh, but the prophet declined that
call and came here TO Joppa. / was for
weeks, while In the Holy Land, con-
sulting with tourist companies, as to
how could take Nineyeh in my jour
ney. They did not encourage the
undertaking. II is most tedious ride
to Nineveh and desert Now see an
additional reason why Jonah did not
want to 20 to Ninevoh. lie not only re-
volted because Of the disAgreeable mes
sage he was called to deliver at Nine
veh, but because IL was long way and
tough, and banditintested, SO he came
here to Joppa and took ship. But, alas,
for the disastrous voyagel He paid his
full fare for the whole voyage, but the
ship company did not fill their part OF
the contract To this day they have not
paid back that passage money. Why
people should doubt the story Of Jonah
and the whale Is more OF Q mystery
than the Bible event itself. l do not
need the fact that Pliny, the historian,
records that the skeleton Of whale forty
feet long and with hide foot and half
thick was brought from Jopra to Rome.
The event recorded in the book OF Jonah
has occurred . thousand times. The
Lord always has whale outside the
harbor for man who starts In the
wrong direction. Recreant Jonahl lido
not wonder that even the whale was
sick OF him. This prophet was put in
the Bible, not as an example, but as o
warning because the world not only
needs lighthouses, but buoys, TO show
whore the rocks are. The Bible story Of
him ends by showing the prophet in
ft OF sulks. He was mad because Nine
yah was not destroyed, and then he
went out to pout and sat under big
leaf, using 1t for shade from the trop-
ical sun, and when worm disturbed
that leaf, and II withered, and tho sun
smote Jonah, he fewInto great rage, and
said: at Is better for me 10 die than 10
live" A prophet in rage because he had
lost his umbrollal Beware OF petulance!
But standing here on the housetop at
Joppa, look of upon the sands near
the beach, and almost expected TO find
them crimsoned and incarnadined. But
no. the rains long ago washed away the
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