Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-03


tive is what would long ago have happened
TO our world If God had started it and after
ward allowed it TO look out for itself.
There Is no such thing as a general provi-
dence. It Il q particular providence. God
has No general care for forest. 1t is care
OF every cell OF every leaf and root IN that
forest. God has no general care OF the ocean.
It is care OF every drop OF water IN the
liquid magnitude. God has no general care
for the human race. It IL care Of every in
dividual Of that race, and OF every item OF
individual history. preach Him, God In
infinitesimals an every day God, God re-
sponsive, and one breath OF earnest prayer,
though that breath should not be strong
enough to make candle flicker, will absorb
more Of the divine attention thar il the arch
angel standing at the foot of the throne
should flsp both wings.
1t is remarkable how many crooked things
vre 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, It was wrangle and fight all
the way through, and one Of the mildest
things that tho North and South promised
each other was assassination. During thi~
summer I have travelled through New Yo~
and Ohio and Illinois and Indiana and Mi
nesota and Kansas and Nebraska and
souri, and Texas and Louisiana and Geo
and Pennsylvania, and have shaken hands
with tens of thousands Of people and talked
with men Of all sections and degrees, and ]
have to tell you it is all peace, and in all the
States of the Union you could not now mar.
shall military company of one hundred sol
diers to fight against the United States Gov
eminent unless you got your men out of the
penitentiary. Did the corrupt and gangrened
political parties do this work of rectification
and pacifcation? No! It was by divine in
terpOSition that the crooked has been made
straight.
On the I'd of December, 1851, Louis Ma
poleon Bonaparte rode down the Champs
Elysee of Paris, and under the hoofs of his
horse republic was trampled as the rider
went to take a throne It was the outrage
Of the century. For nineteen long years the
wrong triumphed. The will of one man
who wanted to remain Emperor kept down
nation who wanted a republic. But Sep
TENDER, 1870, arrived, and Sedan unro1led its
crimson scroll. The Emperor surrenders
with $1,000 troops 40 field guns. 5000
horses and 60, 900 muskets. From that day
the ballot box was up and the throne was
down. Free institutions have been substl-
tuted for an Infamous monarchy. IhaDk
God! The crooked has been made straight.
But why go so far to find fulhllment or my
text2 In all our lives there are crooked
things that need to be made straight, and
each nearer or reader will enumerate for
himself or herself. With oneit is dilapidated
physical health, and you are saying, why
cannot be in good health when have such
OPPORTUNITIES and such responsibilities" Alas
for the sick headaches, and the rheumatic
Joints and the neuralgia thrusts, and the
lame foot! But you will be we'll soon. Life
at the longest is an abbreviated durance.
There is black doctor that Will cure you.
Some people call him death.
No disease was ever able to stand before
his touch. Use all the means afforded for
physical recuperatton, but If they fail the
hour of release is not tar away. There need
be no incurables There is no sorrow that
world have always been we'll 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 we'll in the next
world? But those who on earth were hlndered
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 nerve! For
forty years there may have been stopping
in the back or a twisted muscle or curved
spine, or a crooked limb, but the promise has
been fulfilled, 1.-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 W omen have been uni
ted to some of the meanest men. and some
of the grandest men to the most worthless
women. There may be no sufficient cause
of enforcement, but there has never been
any accord. For them the wedding march
ought never to have been played. The twain
divergent in sentiment, the north pole and
the south pole might just as we'll have been
married. A twist Of nettles would have been
more appropriate than garland OF orange
blossoms. The unutterable mistake was
made to please parents or for the acquisition
Of estate. or for heightening or social posi-
ton, or from thorough thoughtlessness l
cali the attention Of such to the rapid DISCO
luton Of families.
This thought, which is a sadness to happy
marital state, might he consolation to those
unequally yoked. A very short path is the
path Of life. The rolling years will give
quick emancipation. Everybody for Disc
pine 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
tF1elgs. Find in God that peace which no
one else can bestow The days and months
and years are crowding past, and the last of
the procession so far as you are concerned
will soon have gone by. Remember that some
of the best men and women who have 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 viii after
a while remove the affection. Let the one
that remains make no hypocritical mourning
at the obsequies of the one that goes, or 1ml-
tate those whom we have all noticed who
fought like cats and dogs all their married
state and then could not get enough organs
to sound dirges dOleful enough, or furnish
inc stores to prepare weeds black enough, or
tombstone cutters to chisel epitaphs euiogls-
tic enough.
tits a matter of congratulation that the
unhappiest coniugal relation will terminate.
The crooked shall be made straight. In the
q ores of the world when people lived five or