The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-07-14

million dollars of stock. aud then pro-
vide weather that will suit us all. There
is man who has weak head, and he
cannot stand the glare of the sun. You
must have cloud always lowering over
him.
like the sunshine; cannot live With
out plenty Of sunlight, so you rust al
ways have enough light for me. Two
ships meeti in mid-Atlantic. The one is
going to Southampton and the other is
coming to New York. Provide weather
that, while 1t is abaft for one ship, it is
not head wind for the other. There IS
farm that is dried up for the lack of
rain, and there is pleasure party going
out for field excursion. Provide wealth
er 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 to
provide The right kind of weather for this
world. "Hath the rain a father?"
GOD IS INFINITE IN INFINITEsIMAL Is.
My text also suggests Gods minute
supervisal. You see the divine Sonship
in every drop ofrain. The jewels of the
oiO"Sl atO hoG away Wy u oDCilN-
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 king. ''IIath the rain a
notice of every minute raindrop he will
take notice ofthe most insignificant affair
of my life. 1t is the 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 Mount Washington or Mont
Blanc, and we feel that we are only in
sects, and then we say to ourselves,
Though the world is so large, the sun
Is one million four hundread thousand
times larger" "Oh!" we say, ut is no
use, ii God wheels that great machinery
through immensity he will not take the
trouble to look down at me-" Infidel
conclusion. Saturn, Mercury and Jupi-
ter are no more rounded and weighed
and swung by the hand of God than are
the globules on lilac bush the morning
after shower.
God is no more in magnltudes than he
is in minutiG. Ifhe has scales to weigh
the mountains, he has balances delicate
enough to weigh the inGnitesimal. You
can no more see him through the tele-
scope than you can sec him through the
microscope; no more when you look up
than when you look dowp. Are not
the hairs of your head all numbered?
And if Himalaya has God, Hath not
the rain father?" l take this doctrine
of a particular Providence, and 1 thrust
IL into the very midst of your everyday
life. If God fathers raindrop, 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 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 accident?
When Lord Byron took piece of money
and tossed ltup to decide whether or
not he should be aflianced to Miss Mill
bank, was it mere accident which side
OF the money was up and which was
down? When the Christian army was
besleged at Bezlers, and drunken drum
mer came in at midnight and rang the
alarm bell, not knowing what he was
doing, but waking up the host in time to
| figth their enemies that moment arriving,
was it an accident?
When in one of the Irish wars starv-
ing mother, flying with her starving child
sank down and tainted on the rocks IN
the night and her hand fell on warm
bottle of milk, did that just happen so?
God ls either In the affairs ofmen or our
religisn Is worth nothing at all, and you
hand better take it a way from us, and
instead of this Bible, which teaches the
doctrine, gives us secular book, and
let us, as the famous Mr.. Fox, tho men,
Der of parliament, in his last hour, cry
out. "Read me the eighth book of Vir-
gill"
Oh! my friends, let us rouse up to an
appreciation Of the fact that all the af-
fairs OF our lite are under kings COM
mand, and under Il fathers watch.
Alexander's war horse, Bucephalus.
would allow any body to mount him when
he was embarrassed, but as soon as
they put on that war horse Buc ephalus,
the saddle and the trappings of the con-
queror he would allow no one but Alex
ander to touch him. And If soulless
horse could have so much pride in his
owner, shall not we immortals exult in
the fact that we are owned by king?
"Hath the rain fnther?"
GODS WAYS ARE PAST FINDING OUT.
Again my subject teaches me that
Gods dealings with us are mex ,olicable.
That was the original force of my text.
The rain was great mystery to the
ancients. They could not understand
how the water should get into the cloud,
and getting there, how 1t should be sus.
pended, 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 temperature
80 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 mans hand, and to
be almost quiet in the heavens, are great
mountains of mist four thousand feet
from base to top, and that they rush
miles minute.
But after all the brilliant experiments
of DR.. James Hutton, and Saussl,re, and
other scientists, there is an infinite
mystery about the rain. There Is an
ocean ofthe unfathomable in every rain
drop. and God says today as he said in
the time of Job, "If you cannot under
stand one drop of rain, do no be sup