The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-07-15


cannot stand the glare of the sun. You
must have cloud always hoverlng over
him.
I like the sunshine: cannot live With
out plenty of sunlight, so you gus. al
ways have enough light for me. Two
ships meet in mid-Atlantic. The one is
gong to Southampton and the other is
coming to New York. Provide weather
that, while 1t is abaft for one ship, 1t is
not head wind for the other. There is
a 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 unverse who knows enough to
provide the right kind of weather for this
world. Hath the rain father"
GOD is INFINITE IN NINFlNITEsIMALs
NY text also suggests Gods minute
supervisal. You see the divine Sonshil
in every drop ofraln. The jewels OF the
shower are 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 king. Hath the rain a
father?'' Well then. say if God takes
notice Of every minute raindrop ne 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! worldsw and how
insignificant we feel! We stand at the
foot of Mount Washington or Mont
Blanc, aud 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, lit is nc
use. il God wheels that great machinery
through immensity he will not take the
trouble to look down at me-" Intidel
conclusion. Saturn. Mercury and Jupi.
ter 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 magnltudes than he
is in minutie. Ifhe has scales to weigh
the mountains, he has balances delicate
enough to weigh the in6nitesimal. You
can no more see him through the tele.
scope than you can see him through the
microscope; no more when you look ur
than when you look dowD. Are moi
the hairs of your head all numbered:
And if Himalaya has God, Hath no,
the rain father:" I take this doctrine
of a particular Providence, and l thrust
it 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 6
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 OF
not he should be afianced 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 Beziers, and a drunken drum
mer came in at midnight and rang the
alarm bell, not knowing what be was
doing, but waking up the host in time tt
fg.h 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 II
the night and her hand fell on war.r
bottle Of milk, did that just happen so:
God is either II the affairs ofmen or oul
religion is worth nothing at all, and yor
hand better take it vay from US, and
instead of this Bible, which teaches the
doctrine, gives US a secular book, anc
let US, as the famous Mr.. Fox, the mem
Der of parliament, in his last hour, CT!
out. ''Read me the eighth book Of Eir'
gill"
Oh! my friends, let US rouse up to ar
appreciation of the fact that all the al:
fairs of our lite are under a kings com
manJ, and under a fathers watch.
Alexander's war horse, Bucephalus
would allow anybody TO mount him wher
he was embarrassed, but as soon as
they put on that war horse BucephaluS
the saddle and the trappings Of the con
oueror 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 a king:
''Ha,h the rain a father"
GODS WAYS ARE PAST FINDING OUT
Again my subject teaches me that
Gods dealings with US are mex plicab!e
That was the original force Of my text
The rain was a great mystery to the
ancients. They could not understand
how the water should get into the cloud
acd 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
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 mans hand, and tc
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 Saussure, and
other scientists, there is an infinite
mystery about the rain. There is an
ocean ofthe unfathon,able in every rain.
drop, and God says today as be said in
the time Of Job, IF you cannot under
stand one drop frain, do no be sup.
prised if my dealings with you are mex
plicable." Why does that aged man,
decrepit, beggared, vicious, sick Of the
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