The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-22

There is no such thing as gen
eral providence. Il is a particular provi
dence. God has no general care for forest
IL Is a care Of every cell Of every leaf and
root ia that forest God has no genera
care of the ocean. Ii is care Of every drol
Of water in the liquid magnitude. God has
no general care of the human race. IL is g
care of every individual of that race and OF
every item of individual history. | preach
him, a God in infinitesimals, an everyday
God, a God responsive, and one breath 81
earnest prayer, though that breath should
not be strong enough to make candle
flicker will absorb more of the divine atten-
tion than if the archangel standing at the
foot of the throne should flap both wings.
1t is remarkable how many crooked things
are in the providence of God being made
straight. About thirty years ago our ma
tional affairs were as crooked as depraved
American politics and bad men and Satan
could make them. From the top of Maine
to the foot OF Florida the nation was red
with wrath. IL was wrangle and fight all
the way through, and one of the Inildest
things the north and south promised each
other was assassination. During tins sum-
mer ! have Travelled through New York,
and Ohio. and Illinois. and Indiana.
and Minnesota. aud Kansas, and Ne
braska, and Missouri, and Texas,
and louisiana, and Georgia, and
North and South Carolina, and Vir-
ginia, ard Pennsylvania, and have shaken
hands with tens of thousands OF people,
and talked with men of all sections and de-
grees, and have TO tell you it is all peace,
and in all the states of the union you could
not now marshal military company of one
| hundred soldiers to fight against the United
| States government, unless you got your
men out of the penitentiary. Did the cor
rupt and gangrened political parties do this
work of rectitication and pacificationl mol
IL hxr 4 ..rs., s..e1 -
| crooked has been made straight
On the I'd of December, 1851, Louis Ma
| poleon Bonaparts rode down the Champs
Elysee of Paris, and under the hoofs of his
horse republic was trampled as the rider
went to take throne. 1t was the outrage
| of the century. For nineteen long years
| the wrong triumphed. The will of one man
who wanled to remain emperor kept down
a nation who wanted republic But Sep
TENDER, 1870, arrived, and Sedan unrolled
its crimson scroll The emperor surrenders
with $4,000 troops. 419 field guns 6, 600
horses, and $4,000 muskets. From that day
the ballot-box was up and the throne was
down Free institutions have been substi-
tuted for an infamous monarchy. Thank
Godl The crooked has been made straight.
But why go so far to find fulfilment of
my text. In all our lives there are crooked
things that need to be made straight, and
each hearer or reader will enumerate for
-
himself or herself. With one il is dilapi-
dated physical health and you are saying
why cannot | be in good health when /
have such opportunities and such RESPONSE
bilities Alas for the sick headaches and
the rheumatic joints, and the neuralgia
thrusts, and the lame foot But
you will be well soon Life ct
the longest is an abbreviated
durance. There is black doctor that will
cure you. Some people call him death. No
disease was able to stand before his touch
Use all the means afforded for physical re-
cuperation. but if they fail the hour of re-
lease is not far away. There need be no
incurables. There is no sorrow that heaven
cannot cure. Those who, in this world,
have always been well will not get the best
part Of heaven. They will not have the
advantage of contrast. They were well be-
fore they left this world and why should
they be so graduated at being well in the
next world. But to those who on earth
were hindered or broken down in health
what contrast as they step into that
domain where there has never been an
aching brow, or lame foot, or infiamed
muscle, or disordered nervel For forty
years there may have been stopping in
the back or twisted muscle, or q curved
spine or a crooked limb, but the promise
has been fulfilled, "The crooked shall be
made straight"
In many domestic life are difficulties to
be removed. There are thousands of
matches that were not made in heaven
Some of the loveliest women have been
united to some of the meanest men and
some OF the grandest men to the most
worthless women. There may be no suffi-
Gent cause of enforcement, but there has
never been any accord. For them the we'd
ding march ought never to have been
played. The TWAIN divergent in sentiment,
Nlea aarkh Ala Il .
just as we'll have been married. A twist
of nettles would have been more ap-
propriate than garland of orange bios
SONS. The unutterable mistake was made
to please parents, or for the acquisition of
estate, or for the Tightening OF social posi-
ton, or thorough thoughtlessness. l call
the attention OF such to the rapid dissolu-
| ton OF families. This thought, which is a
| sadness to a happy marital 81 ate, might be
| consolatory to those unequally yoked. A
very short path is the path of life. The
rolling years will give quick emancipation,
| Everybody, for discipline, must have
some kind of trouble, and that
is your trouble. Put in a song now
| and then to cheer your spirit. Make
| the best of things. Find in God that
peace which no one else can bestow.
The days and months and years are crowd.
| ing past and the last of the procession so
| far as you are concerned will soon have
gone by. Remember that some Of the best
man and women who ever lived have had
the same lifetime misfortune. They bore
| up under it and so can you. The expiration
of the life OF one of you will, after a while
remove the affiiction. Let the one that
remains make no hypocritical mourning at
the obsequies or the one that goes or initiate
those whom we have all noticed who fought
like cats and dogs all their married state
| and then could not get organs to
sound dirges doleful enough. or fur
| nlshing stores to prepare weeds
| black enough, or tombstone cutters to
| chisel epitaphs eulogistic enough. 1t is a
matter of congratulation that the unhappi-
| est conjugal relation will terminate. The
| crooked shall be made straight. In the ages
| of the world when people lived five or six
| or eight or nine hundred years, such con-
ISOLATION for any kind of trouble would have
been inapt. 1t would have brought no re-
| lief to some of those old patriarchs to say
you will have only seven hu ndred wears
| more Of this" But life has been abbreviated
by the cutting-o of century after century
| until we can console people, whether their
tronble be financial or social or domestic
by saying it will not be long before the
| crooked shall be made straight
But TO those who were once happily
united on earth, but are now separated, the
same thought comes, in good cheer. Not
| long separated Tradition says that two
bells were nodded and sent from Spain for
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