News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-07-09

knows enough to provide the right kin,
of weather for this world Hath tn
rain a father?"
GODS TENDER MERGERS OVER ALL
My text also suggests Gods minut
supervisal. You see the divine Sonshi1
in every drop of rain The Jewels O
the shower are not flung away by
spendthrift who knows not how man.
he throws or where they fall. The,
are all shining princes of heaven. The!
all have an eternal lineage. They arr
all the children of a king. Hath TIL,
rain father2" Well, then, l say i
God takes notice of every minute rain
drop he will take notice of the most in
significant affair of my life. 1t is the
astronomical view of things that both
ers me.
We look up into the night heavens
and we say, Worlds! worlds!" anc
how insignificant we feel! We stand a.
the foot of Mount Washington or Mon
Blanc, and we feel that we are only in
sects, and then we say to ourselves
Though the world is SO large the SUI
is one million four hundred thousand
times larger" "Oh!" we say, lit is ne
use; if God wheels that great machin
cry through immensely he will not take
the trouble to look down at mer' In
fidel conclusion. Saturn, Mercury anC
Jupiter are no more rounded, anC
weighed and swung by the hand Of
God than are the globules on lilac
bush the morning after a shower.
God is no more in magnitudes than
he is in minutiB. If he has scales tc
weigh the mountains he has balances
delicate enough to weigh the infinitesi-
NAL You can nomOre see him through
the telescope 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 num-
bered? And if Himalaya has a God,
Hath not the rain q father?"
l take this doctrine of q particular
Providence, and l thrust it into the
very midst of your everyday life. If
God fathers a raindrop, is there any
thing so insignificant 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 Water
loo 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 affianced to
Miss Millbank, was it a mere accident
which side of the money was up and
which was down? When the Christian
army were besieged at Beziers, 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 to fight their enemies that
moment arriving, was it an accident2
NO ACCIDENTS IN THE DIVINE PLAN.
When, in one of the Irish wars, q
starving mother, flying with her starv
ing child, sank down and tainted on the
rocks in the night and her hand fell ON
Il warm bottle of milk, did that just
happen so? God is either in the affairs
of men, or our religion is worth moth
ing at all, and you had better take it
away from us; and instead of this BIZ
BILE, which teaches the doctrine, give
US a secular book, and let US, as the
famous Mr.. Fox, the member of parlia-
ment, in his last hour, cry out, Read
mo tho aiobti, hook of VIRGIL -
Oh, my friends, let us rouse up to an
of the fact that all the af-
fairs of our life are under a Kings
and under Fathers watch.
war horse, Bucephalus,
would allow anybody to mount him
when he was embarrassed, but as soon
as they put on that war horse Buceph-
llus the saddle and the trappings of
5he conquerer, he would allow no one
but Alexander to touch him. And if a
1 soulless horse could have so much
pride in his owner, shall not we immor-
tails exult in the fact that we are owned
by King2 Hath the rain fatherp
Again, my subject teaches me that
Gods dealings with us are inexplicable
That was the original force of my text
The rain was a great mystery to the
ancients. They could not understand
and getting there, how it should be
or falling, why it should
come down in drops. Modern science
comes 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
SO the water may no longer
be held in vapor and it falls And they
tell us that some of the clouds that look
to be only as large as a mans hand,
and to be almost quiet in the heavens,
are great mountains of mist four thou
sand feet from base to top, and that
they rush miles minute.
But after all the brilliant experiments
of DR.. James Hutton and Saussure and
other scientists, there is an infinite mys-
terry about the rain. There is an ocean
of the unfathomable in every raindrop,
and God says today as he said in the
time of Job, IF you cannot under
stand one drop of rain, do not be sur
prised if my dealings with you are in
Why does that aged man,
decrepit, beggared, vicious, sick of the
world, and the world sick of him, live
on, while here is a man in midlife, CON
to God, hard working, useful
in every respect, who dies2
Why does that old gossip, gadding
along the street about everybody's
business but her own, have such good
health, while the Christian mother,
with a flock of little ones about her
whom she is preparing for usefulness
and for heaven-the mother who you
think could not be spared an hour from
that household-why does she lie down
and die with a cancer? Why does that
man, selfish to the core, go on adding
fortune to fortune, consuming every
thing on himself, continue to prosper,
while that man who has been giving ten |
per cent. of all his income to God and |
the church goes into bankruptcy?
Before we make stark fools of our
selves let us stop pressing this everlast-
ing "why." Let US worship where we
cannot understand. Let q man take |
that one question, 'FWhy2" and follow
it far enough, and push it, and he will |
land in wretchedness and perdition.
We want in our theology fewer inter
rogation marks and more exclamation
points. Heaven is the place for expla
nation. Earth is the place for trust.
If you cannot understand so minute a
thing as a raindrop, how can you ex-
pect to understand Gods dealings?
Hath the rain a father?"
JUDGE NOT BY FEEBLE SENSE