Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-09-22

thittiN ~ fAi Nttfhfh iteBefB. Aly tIOd is z
father, here and now, and father will
! give his child what he asks for if it is best
/ for him to have it. Prayabout everything
| that concerns you, secularities as well IA
| spiritualities. Take to God all your an
| noyanccs and perplexities. The crooked
/ shall be made straight.
! Some people talk as though God control
| lei rhings in general but not in particn-
lar; that he started everything under Ger.
tain laws and then let it take care of it
self, an engineer might start his loco,
motive on an iron railrcad track and then
| Jump OF. What would happen to such a
locomotive ia what would long ago have
| happened to our world if God had started
it and Gfterward allowed it to look out for
itself There Is no such thing AZ general
providence. It is Il particular providence
God has no general care for Il forest. It is
q Gaze Of every 'ell 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 is n
calc Of every individual Of that race and
Of every item Of individual history. /
preach him, Gcti in inGnitesimals, an
Everyday God, a God responsive and one
rcath Of earnest prayer though that
breath should not be strong enough to
mike a candle Cie,ler, win absorb more of
1le divine attention than if the archangel
tanding at the foot of the throne should
Aap both wings,
con LOVES THIS NATION
1t is remarkable how many crooked
things Hre in the providence of God being
made straight. About thirty years AGO
orr national affairs were as crooked rs de
PRAYED American politics and bad men
and Satan could make them. From the
top of Maine to the foot Of Florida the ma.
ton was red with wrath. 1t was wrangle
and fight all the way through, and one of
the mildest things that the north and
south promised each other was assassina-
ton During this summer have Travelled
through New York and Ohio and Illinois
and Indiana and Minnesota and Kansas
and Nebraska and Missouri and Texas
and Louisiana and Georgia and North
and South Carolina and Virginia and
Pennsylvania, and | have shaken hands
with tens of thousands Of people, and
talked with men of all sections and dc
;rees, and have to tell you it is all peace,
md in all the states OF the Union you could
not now marshal a military company of
me hundred soldiers TO fight against the
United States government, unless you got
your men ont of the penitentiary. Did the
oTupt and gangrened political parties do
his work Of rcctlication and qualifications
Not 1t was by divine interpretation that
hecrooked has been made straight
On the Cd Of December, 1851, Louis Ma
)olcon Ronaparte rode down the Champs
.llysec Of Paris and under the hoofs of his
horse republic was trampled MS the
rider went to take n throne. 1t was the
outrage Of the century. For nineteen
ears the wrong triumphed. The VII of
ne man who wanted to remain cmpcror
ept down a nation who wanted a rennb.
ic. But September, 1870. arrived, AMI Sc.
Ian unrOllcd its crimson scroll The en-.
lcror surrcndcrs with $1,000 troops. 40
icld guns, G,000 horses and 10000 muslicts.
From that day the ballot box was up and
he throne was down. Free institutions
nnvc been substituted for an infamous mon
Irchy. Thank GoG The crooked has been
made straight.
But why go so far to find fulfillment of
my text? In all Our lives there arc crooked |
,hings that need TO be made straight, and |
ach nearer or reader will enumcrate for |
ainlself or herself With one it is dilap |
dated physical .health, and you are say
ing, "Why cannot be In good health when |
| have such opportunities an such respon |
abiltes?" Alas for the SEX headaches |
and the rheumatic joints, anL the neura!gic |
thrusts, and the lame foOti But you will |
be well soon. Life at the longest is an ab |
brcviatcd durancc There is Il black doc |
tor that will cure you. Some people call |
him Death.
No disease was ever able TO stand before
his touch. Use ali the means afforded for
physical recuperation, but if they fail the
hour of release is not far away. There need |
be no incuablcs. There is 10 sorrow that
heaven cannot cure Those who in this
world have always been well will not ret
The best part of heaven. They will not
have the advantage of contrast They
we're well before they left this world and |
why should they be SO graduated at Icing
we'll in the next worldY But to those who
On earth were hindered or broken down in
health what n contrast rs they step into
hat domain where there has never been
IN aching brow, or lame foot or inaamed
or disordercd nervel For forty
years there may have been stopping in
.hc back, or twisted muscle, or curved
spine, or crooked limb, bat the promise
mas been fulfilled, "fhe crooked shall be
made straight"
THE UNHAPPiLY MARRIED
In many domestic life are difficulties to
le removed. There are thousands of
matches that were not made in heaven.
Some of the lovcliest women have been
United to some of the meanest, men aud
,omc Of the grandest men to tho most
worthless women. There may be no sufli-
lent cause of divorcemcnt, but there has
never been any accord. For them the we'd
ling march ought never to have been
,laycd. The twain divergent In sentiment,
he north pole and the south pole might
ust rs well have been married, A twist of
,ettles would haye been moro appropriate
han garland of orange blossoms The
mistake was made to please
parents, or for the acquisition of estate, or
'or frightening of social position, or from
thorough thoughtlessness, ! call the at
.ention of such to the rapid dissolution of
families.
This thought, which is a sadness to a
happy marital state, might 20 consolatorY
20 those unequally yoked. A very short
path is the path of life The rolling years
will give quick emancipation Everybody,
'or 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 crowdng
past, and the last OF the procession, so far
rs you are concerned, will soon have gone
BY Remember that some of the best men
and women who ever lived have had the
same lifetime Of misfortune, They bore
mp under il and so can you. The expira
ion of the life of one of you will, after
rhiln rn1-1nun tho nlI liinn Lot the one