The Iola register., 1891-07-10

take 81 OF stock in your weather com
pany. There is only one Being in the
universe who knows enough to ..rovide
the right kind of weather for this
world. Hath tht rain father ?"
Ny text also suggests Gods minute
supervision. You see the Divine Son
ship in every drop of rain. The jewels
of the shower are not flung away by a
;spendthrift who knows not how many
he throws or where they fall. They
are all shining princes of heaven. They
all hayean eternal lineage. They are
all the children of a king. Hath the
rain a father?"
! Well. then, l say il God takes notice
OF every minute raindror. He will take
notice OF the most Insignificant affair OF
my life. It is the astronomical view OF
things that bothers me. We look up
into the night heavens and we say:
Worlds. woridsin and how insignifi-
cant we feel! We stand at the foot of
Mount Washington or Mount Blanc, and
we feel that we are only insects. and
| then we say to ourselves: Though
the world is so large. the sun is 400
600 times larger" 90" we say. 'it is
of no use. if God wheels that great ma
chinery through immensity, He will
not take the trouble to look down on me. ''
! Infidel conclusion. Saturn. Mar-
cur; and Jupiter are no more rounded
and 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 magnitude than he is in
minuti;e. If He has scales to weigh the
mountains. He has balances delicate
enough to weigh the iufinitasimal. 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 num-
| bered? And if Himalaya has a God.
hath not the rain a father" | take
this doctrine of particular provi-
Idelce, and ! thrust it into the very
midst Of your every day life. If God
| fathers rain drop, is there anything
| so insignificant In your affairs that God
would not father that? When Druyse,
the gunsmith, invented the needle gun,
which decided the battle OF Sadowa,
was it mere accident? When farm
er's boy showed Butcher a 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 piece of money and
tossed it up to decide whether or not ne
should be atfianced to Miss Millbank.
was it mere accident which side of the
money was up and which was down?
When the Christian army was be
sieged at Beziers, and drunken drum
mer came in at midnight and rang the
alarm bell, not knowing what he was
',oing. but waking up the host in time
to fight their enemies that moment ar
irving, was it an accident? When, in
one of the Irish wars, starving mother
flying with her starving child. sank
down and tainted on the rocks in the
night. and her hand fell on a warm bot
tie of milk, did that in t happen SO?
God is either in the affairs of men or
our religion is worth nothing at all, and
you had better take it away from us,
and instead of this Bible which teaches
the doctrine, give us secular book. and
let us, as the famous Mr.. Fox. the men,
Der of parliament, in his last hour cry
out: Read me the eighth book of Vir-
gil" o, my friends, let us rouse up to
an appreciation of the fact that all the
affairs of our life are under a Kings
command and under Fathers watch.
Alexander's war horse, Bucephalus.
would allow anybody to mount
him when he was embarrassed: but as
soon as they put on that war horse, Bu-
cephaluS, the saddle and the trappings
of the cOnqueror, he would allow no one
! but Alexander to touch him. And If a
soulless horse could have so much pride
in his owner, shall not we immortals ex-
in 10 lot l,,-o
King? Hath the rain father"
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 an
clients. They could not understand
! how the water should get into the
cloud, and getting there, how it should
be suspended, or falling, why it should
| 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 temperature so the water may no
longer be held in vapor. and it falls.
Again. my text makes me think that
| the rain Of tears is of divine origin.
Great clouds of trouble sometimes hover
over US. They are black. and they are
gorged. and they are thunderous They
are more portentious than Salvator or
Claude ever palnted-clouds of poverty
or persecution. or bereavement. They
! hover over us, and they get darker and
| blacker, and after awhile a tear starts,
and We think by an extra pressure OF
the evelid to stop it. Others follow.
and after awhile there is shower of tear
full emotion. Yes, there is rain of tears
Hath that rain father?"
10" you say, "a tear is nothing but
drop OF limpid fluid secreted by the
lachrymal glands only sign of weak
eyes" Great mistake. 1t is one OF the
Lords richest benedictions to the world
There are people in Blackwell's island
insane asylum. and at Utica, and at all
the asylums of this land who were de-
mented from the fact that they could
not cry at the right time Said a ma
MAC IN one of our public Institutions
under gospel sermon that started the
tears: DO you see that tear? That is
the first have wept for twelve years
I think it will help my brain" There
are great many in the grave who
could not stand any longer the glacier
OF trouble. If that glacier had only
melted into weeping they would have
endured it There have been times in
your life when you would have given
the world, if you possessed il, for
one tear. You could shrek, you could
/ blaspheme. but you could not cry
Have you never seen man holding the
/ hand OF dead wife, who had been all the
world 10 him? The temples livid with
excitement, the eye dry and frantic, no
moisture on the upper or lower lid.
You saw there were bolts Of ange- in
/ the cloud, but no rain. To your chris