The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-07-31

cold; IL is too wet, or IL is too dry; IL ~
too early, or IL is too late. They for
get that the God who promised seed
time and harvest, summer and winter,
cold and heat. also ordained all the cli-
matte changes There is one question
that ought 20 be written on every barn,
on every fence, on every hsy-stack, on
every farmhouse: Hath the rain a
father2"
II we only knew what a vast enter
prise il is 20 provide appropriate wealth
er for this world we would not be so
| critical of the Lord. Isaac Watts, at
ten years of age complained that he did
not like the hymns that were sung in
the English chapel Well" said his
| father, Isaac, instead of your COM
planning about the hymns, go and make
| hymns that are better" And he did go
and make hymns that were better.
Now, say 10 you. IL you do not like
the weather, get up weather company
and have a president and a secretary
and a treasurer and board of directors
and $40, 600, 600 of stock, and then pro-
vide weather that will suit all of us.
| There is a man who has a weak head,
and he can not stand the glare of the
sun. You must always have cloud
lowering over him. like the sunshine;
/ can not live without plenty of sun
light SO you must always have enough
light for me.
Two ships meet in midatlantic The
one is going 70 Southampton and
the other is coming 10 New York.
| Provide weather that, while il is abaft
for one ship, is not a head wind for the
other. There is a farm that is dried up
for lack of rain. and here is a pleasure
party going out for a field excursion.
Provide weather 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 the universe who
knows enough 20 provide the right kind
Of weather for this world. Hath the
rain father"
My text also suggests Gods minute
supervisal. You see the Divine Son
ship in every drop of rain. The Jewels
OF the shower are not flung away by
| spendthrift 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 king. Hath the
rain father" Well, then, / sayif God
takes notice of every minute raindrop,
He will take notice of the most insight
ficant affair of my life. II is the most
astronomical view of things that
bothers me. We look up into the night
heavens, and we say: Worlds. worlds
and how insignificant we feel! We
stand at the foot of Mt Washington or
Mt Blanc, and we feel that we are
only insects, and then we say TO our
selves: Though the world is so large,
the sun is l 400, 900 times larger" "Om
we say, 1T is no use, if God wheels
that great machinery through immen-
sity, He will not take the trouble TO
look down at me-" Infidel 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 a shower. God is no more in mag
nitudes than he Is in minutia. II He
has scales to weigh the mountains lie
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 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 father"
! take this doctrine of particular
Providence, and thrust il into the very
midst of your every day life. II God
fathers rain-drop, is there anything 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 II 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 il a mere acct
dent? When Lord Byron took a piece
of money and tossed II up to decide
whether or not he should be affianced
to Miss Millbank, was IL a mere acct
de mt which side of the money was up
and which was down? When the Chris
tian army was besieged at Beziers and
drunken drummer came in at mid
night and rang the alarm bell, not
knowing what he was doing, but wax
ing up the host in time to fight their
enemies that moment arriving, was II
an accident? When, in one of the Irish
wars, n starving mother, flying with
her starving child. sank down and faint
ed on the rocks in the night and her
hand fell on bottle of milk, did that
just happen so?
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