Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-06

ND into the night-heavens, and we say:
"Worlds. worldsl" and how insignificant
we feel, We stand at the foot OF Mount
Washington or Mount Blanc ana we feel
thatswe are only Insects, and then ve say 10
ourselves: Though the world is so large,
the sun is one million four hundred thou
sand times larger" "OhH' We say, '.it IS
no use: If God wheels that great machinery
through immensely. He Will not take the
trouble 10 look down al me-
INFipEL CONCLUSION.
Saturn, Mercury and Jupiter are TO more
rounded, and weighed, and swung by the
hand of God than are the globules on lilac
bush the morning after 4 shower. Goo is
no more in magnitudes than he is in min
utis= If he has scales to weigh the mount
aims. he has balances delicate enough to
weigh the infnitesimal. You can no more
see him through the telescope than you can
see him through the microscope; no more
when sou look up than when You look down.
Are not the hairs of your head all num-
bered2 And if Himalaya has God, hath
not the rain father2H ] take this doctrine
Of a particular Providence. and | thrust it
into the very midst of your everyday life.
If God fathers a rain-drop. IS there any
thing so insignificant in your affairs that
God Will not father thatl When DrLySe,
the gunsmith, invented the needle-gun,
which decided the battle of Sadowa, was II
] II
showed Butcher . short cut by which he
could bring his army up soon enough to
| decide Waterloo for England, was it mere
accideutl When Lord Byron took piece of
money and tossed IT up to decide whether or
not he should be attianceG TO Miss Millbank,
vas it mere accident which side of the
money was up and which was down! When
| the Christian army was besicged at Beziers,
| and drunken drummer came in a. mid
night and rang the alarm bell, not knowing
| what he was doing, but waking up the host
| in time to fight their enemies that moment
| arriving,
WAS IT AN ACCIDENT
When, in enc of the Irish wars, a starving
| mother, flying with her starving child, sank
| down and tainted on the rocks in the night
| and her hand fell on a warm bottle OF milk,
| did that Just happen 500 God IS either IN
| the affairs Of men, or our religion IS worth
nothing at all, and you had better take II
away from US, and instead OF this Bible,
which teaches the doctrine, give US Secu-
| lar book, and let US, as the famous Mr..
| Fox. the member of parliament, i'll his last
| hour, cry out Read me the eighth book of
| Nirgiln O!nv friends let US rouse up to
! an appreciation of the fact that all the al
| fairs of our life are Under j Kings com
mand and under Fathers watch. Alex
| ander's war horse, Bucephalus, would al
| low Anybody TO mount him when he was
| Embarrassed; but rs soon as they put on
| that war horse, BUcephaluS, the saddle and
| the trappings of the conquerer, he would
| allow no one but Alexander 10 touch him.
| And if a soulless horse could have so much
| pride IN his owner, shall not we lmInOrta!S
| eNult in the fact that We are owned By
| King' Hath the rain father"
Again, my subject teaches me that God
| dealings with US are ineXplicable. That
was the original force of my text. The rain
was great mystery to the ancients. They
! could not understand how the water should
| get into the cloud, and getting there. how it
Should be suspended, or falling, why il
should come down in drops.
MODERN SCIENCE
Genes along and says there are two portions
of air of different temperature, and they are
charged with moisture, and the one portion
of air decreases in temperature so the water
may no longer oe held in vapor and il falls.
And they tell us that some Of the clouds
that look to be only as large rs mans
hand, and to be almost quiet IL the heavens,
are great mountains Of mist 1900 feet from
base to top. and that they rush miles & min
ute. But after all the brilliant experiments
of DR.. James Hutton, and Saussure, and
other scientists, there is an infinite my stery
about the rain. There is al ocean Of the
unfathomable in every rain-drop, and God
says to-day DIS he said in the time Of Job:
If YOU cannot understand ore
drop of rain, do not be sur
priSed il my dealings with you are IN
applicable" Why does that aged man,
decrepit, beggared, vicious, sick of the
world, and the world sick of linn, live on,
while here is man in nid-life, consecrated
to God, Woodworking. useful In every re
spect. who dies? Why does that old gossip.
oadding along the street about everybody's
business but her own, have such good
health, while the Christian mother, with I
flock OF little ones about her whom she Is
preparing for usefulness and for heaven
the mother who you think could no, be
spare. an hour from that household-why
does she lie down and die with 4 cancer?
Why does that man, selfish 10 the core, 90
on 4
ADDING FORTUNE To FORTUNE,
consuming everything on himself, continIt
10 prosper, while that man who has beeh
giving 10 per cent of all his income to God
and the church, goes INTO Bankruptcy Be
fore we make stark fools of ourselves, let
us stop pressing this everlasting why" Let
us worship where we cannot understand.
Let a man take that one question, ''why2n
and follow it far enough, and push it, and
he VIII lana in wretChedness and perdition.
We want in our theology fewer interroga-
ton marks and more exclamation points.
Heaven is the place for explanation. Earth
is the place for trust. II you cannot under
stand so minute thing as Il rain-drop, how
can you expect to understand Gods deal
ingS? Hath the rain father?''
Again, my text makes me think that the