Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-10

! going to southampton, and the other Is
coming to New York Provide weather
| that. while it is abaft for one ship, 1t Is
a head wind for the other. There Is a
| farm that is dried up for the lack OF ram,
and here is a pleasure party going out
for n field excursion. Provide weather
| that will suit the dry farm and the pleas
j ure excursion. No sirs, will not take
one dollar of stock in your weather COM
| Danv There is only one Being in the
I universe who knows enough to PROVIDE
the right kind of weather for this world.
.'Hath tho rain father?"
| NV text also suggests Gods minute
supervisaI Yon see the divine Sonship
! In every crop of rain. The jewels OF the
shower aye not flung away by 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 are all
the children of a king ''IIath the rain
fathcr?" Well, then, 1 say if God takes
notice OF every minute rain drop He Will
take notice of the most insignificant affair
of my Lie. 1t is the astronomical view
of things that bothers me.
We look up into 1hc night heavens and
we say, ''Worlds. s.orlds.' and how in
significant we feel! We stand at the foot
of Mount Washington or Mont Blame, and
we feel that we are only insects and
| then we say to ourselves, Though the
world is so large the sun is one million
four hundred thousand times larger. y
"Oh.' we say. sit is no use; ii God wheels
that great machinery through immensely
He vii not take the trouble to look down
at me-, Intidel conclusion. Saturn,
Mercury, and Jupiter are no more
rounded and weighed and swung by the
hand of God than are the globules on a
lilac bush the morning after shower.
God is no more in magnitudes than he
is in minutin. If He has scales to weigh
the mountains He has balances delicate
enough to weigh the intinitesimal. You
can no more see Him through the tele-
scope than you can see Him through the
microscopes; no more when you look up
than when you look down. Are not the
hairs of your head all numbered? And
if Himalaya has God, "Hath not the
rain a fathcr?"
l take this doctrine of particular
Providence, and thrust it into the very
midst of your everyday life. If God ia
theirs raindrop, is there anything so in
significant in your affairs that God will
not father that? When Druyse, the
gunsmith invented the needle gun, which
decided the battle of Sadowa, was it a
mere accident? When farmers boy
showed Butcher short cut by which he
could bring his army up soon enough to
! decide Waterloo for England, was it a
mere accident?
When Lord Byron took a piece OF
money and tossed it up TO decide whether
or not he should be aftianced to Miss
Millbanks, was it mere accident which
side of the money was up and which was
down? When the Christian army were
bcsieged at BeZers, and a drunken
drummer came in at midnight and rang
the alarm bell, not knowing what he was
doing, but waking up the host in time tc
fight their enemies that moment arriv
ing, was it an accident?
When, in one of the Irish wars, {
starving mother, flying with her starving
child, sank down and tainted on tho
rocks in the night and her hand fell on
pen so? God is either in the affairs O.
men. or our religion is worth nothing a
all, and you had better take it ava,
from us; and instead Of this Bible, which
teaches the doctrine, give US a sccula
book. and let us, as the famous Mr. Fox
the member of Parliament, in his las
hour, cried out. ''Read me the eight
book of Virgil
Oh, my friends. let us rouse up to a
appreciation of the fact that all the al
fairs OF our life are under Kings con
mand and under a Fathers watch. Alex
ander's war horse. Bucephalus, would a
low anybody to mount him when he wa
, embarrassed, but as soon as they put o
. that war horse Bucephalus the saddl
, and the trappings of the conquerer, h
would allow no one but Alexander t
| touch him. And if soulless hors
) could have so much pride in his owner
shall not we immortals eXult in the fac
that we are owned by a King? "Hat
the rain a father?"
> Again, my subject teaches me tha
: Gods dealings with us are inexplicabl,
t That was the original force of my tex
, The rain was a great mystery to tn
D ancients They could not understan
S how the water should get into til
0 cloud, and getting there, how it shoul
n be suspended, or falling. why it shout
come down i'll drops Modern scienc
d comes along and says there are two po
: tions of air OF different temperature, an
G they are charged with moisture. and til
u one portion OF air decreases in temper;
II ture so the water may no longer be hel
II in vaEor and it falls. And they tell
i that some Of the clouds that look to |
h only as large as mans hand, and to |
5. almost quiet in the heavens. are gre;
y. mountains of mist 1000 feet from base
d top, and that they rush miles minut
II But after all the brilliant experiment
g OF DR.. James Hutton and Saussure al
" other scientists. there is an infinite my
il terry about the rain. There is an occ;
of the unfathomable in every raindro
n. and God said to-day as he said in Il
to time of Job, elf you cannot nnderstas
G. one drop of rain, do not be surprised
III my dealings with you are ineNplicable
I, Why does that aged man, decrept, be
lie CARED, vicious, sick of the world, and u
20 world sick of him, live on. while here
IS. man in midlife, consecratcd to Go
OF hard working, useful in every respet
er who dies?
it Why does that old gossip, gaddi1
It, along the street about everybodys hu
90 ness but her own, have such good heat
no while the Christian mother, with to
er Of little ones about her whom she is pl
ed preparing for usefulness and +
ne Heaven-the mother who you thil