The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-07-16
haystack, on every farmhouse, Hath
the rain Il father"

| Inc ram Il lathcr?"
Ii we only knew what a vast enter
prise II IS to provide appropriate wealth
or Tor this world VIC should not be so
critical OF the Lord. Isaac Watts at ten
years OF age complained that he did not
IKE the hymns that were sung in the
English chapel. SWELL" said hls faith
er, Isaac, instead Of Jour complaining
about the hymns. so and make hymns
That are BETTER" And he did 90 and
make hymns that were better Now,
say To YOU ifyou do not like the " Gather.
get up weather company and have a
president. aud secretary, and Il trcasur-
er, and board of directors, and ten
million dollars Of stock, and then pro-
VIDE weather that will suit us all. There
Is man who has a weak head, and he
cannot stand the glare OF the sun. You
must have cloud always lowering over
him.
like the sunshine; l cannot live with
Out plenty OF sunlight, SO YOU :, us. al
ways nave enough light for me. Two
SHIPS meet in mid-Atlantic. The one is
gong TO Southampton and the other is
coming to New York. Provide weather
mat, while 1t is abalt for one ship, il is
not head wind for the other. There IS
iarm that is dried up for the lack of
ram, and there is pleasure party going
out Tor field excursion. Provide wealth.
cr that will suit the dry farm and the
pleasure excursion. NO, sirS, | will not
take one dollar of stock in your weather
company. There is only one Being in
Ihc universe who knows enough to
provide the right kind Of weather for this
world. ''IIath the rain a father"
GOD Is INFINITE IN INFINlTESIMA Is.
My text also suggests Gods minute
supcrvisal. You see the divine Sonsbjp
III every drop ofran. Tie Jew els Of the
shower are not flung away by a spend.
thrift who knows not how many he
| throws or where they fall. They are all
shining princes Of heaven. They all
have an eternal lineage. They arc all
thc.childrcn Of a king. ''IIath the rain a
iathcr:' Well then. say if God takes
notice of every minute raindrop he will
take notice OF the most insignificant affair
OF my life. 1t is the astronomical view
OF things that bothcrs me.
We look up into the night heavens.
and we say, "Worlds! worlds!n and how
insignificant VIC feel! We stand at the
loot of Mount Washington or Mont
Blanc, and we feel that we arc only in
sects, and then we say to ourselves,
'Though the world is SO large, the sun
IS one million four huudread thousand
times larger" "Oh!" we say, lit is no
use, it God wheels that great machinery
through immensely he will not take the
trouble to look down at me-" Iniidel
conclusion. Saturn, Mercury and Jupi-
ter are no more rounded and weighed
and swung by the hand Of God than arc
the globnles on a lilac bush the morning
after a shower.
| God Is no more in magnltudes than he
Is in minuur. If he has scales to weigh
The mountains, he has balances delicate
enough to weigh the infnitesimal. You
can no more see him through the tele-
scope than you can see him through the
microscope; no more when you look up
than when you look down. Are not
the hairs of your head all numbered:
And if llimalaya has God, Hath not
the rain a iathcr?" | take this doctrine
OF a particular Providence. and L thrust
IT INTO tho very midst of your everyday
life. If God fathers rain,irop. is there
| anything so insignificant in your affairs
that God will not father that:
When Druysc, the gunsmith, invented
| the needle gun, which decided the battle
OF Sadowa, was it mere accident?
When farmers boy showed Blucher a
short cut by which he could bring his
army up soon enough to decide Water
| loo for England. was 1T mere accident9
When Lord Byron took piece of money
and tossed ltup to decide whether or
not he should be atlianccd to Miss Mill
bank, was it mere accident which side
OF the money was up and which was
down? When the Christian army was
bcslegcd at Bezicrs, anda drunken drum
mer came III at midnight and rang the
alarm bell, not knowing what he was
doing. but waking up the host in time to
ilg:h their enemies that moment arriving.
was it an accident?
When in one of the Irish wars a starry
ing 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 so?
'Iod Is either IN the affairs Ofmcn or our
rellSl. Is worth nothing at all, and You
mana better take it away from us, and
instead OF this Bible, which teaches the
Goctrinc, gives us Il secular book, and
let us, as the famous Mr.. Fox, the mem
Der ol parliament, in his last hour, cry
out. "Read me the eighth book Of Nir-
Gil.
Oh! My friends, let us rouse up to an
appreciation Of the fact that all the aC-
lalS OF our lite are under kings COM
mand, and under fathers watch.
AlcNandcr's war horse. Buccphalus.
would allow any body to mount him when
he was embarrassed, but as soon as
| they put or that war horse Buc cphalus,
the saddle and the trappin@s Of the con-
qucrOr he would allow no one but Alex
andcr to touch lim. And if a soullcss
horse could have So much pride in his
owner, shall not we immortals cXult in
the fact that VIC are Owned by king?
"llalh the rain Il lather:N
| GODS WAYS ARE PAST FINDING OUT.
Again my subject teaches me that
Gods dealings with us are mex ,>licablc.
That WAS the original force of my text.
The rain was great mystery to the
ancents. They could not understand
how the water should get into the cloud,
and getting there, how 1t should be sus.