The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-06

They are all shining princes of heaven.
They all have an eternal lineage. They
are all the children of a King. Hath the
rain a father" Well, then, l say II God
takes notice Of every minute raindrop, he
will take notice of the most Insignificant
affair of nv life. 1t is the Astronomical
view Of things that bothers me. We look
up into the night heavens, and We say
"Worldsl worlds!n and how Insignificant
we feel We stand at the foot of Mount
Washington or Mont Blanc, and we feel
that we are only insects, and then we say
to ourselves Though the world is
so large, the sun is one million four
hundred thousand times larger" "O.' we
say, sit is no use, if God wheels that great
machinery through immensely, he will not
take the trouble to look down at me-" In
fdel conclusion. Saturn. Mercury, and
Jupiter are no more rounded, and weighed
and swung by the hand of God than are the
globules on a hlec-bush the morning after a
shower. God is no more in magnitudes than
he is in minutie. If be has scales to weigh
the mountains, he has balances delicate
enough to weigh the inhnitesimaL You
can no more see Him through the telescope
shan you can see Him through the micro
scope: no more when you look up than when
you look down. Are not the hairs of YOUR
head all numbered and if Himaaya
has God, hath not the rain a
father ~ ! take this doctrine OF par
ticular Providence, and thrust 1t into the
very midst of your everyday life. II GOD
fathers a raindrop, is there anything SO
insignificant in your affairs that God VIII
not father that When Druyse, the gun
smith, invented the needle gun, which de-
cided the battle of SadOwa, was 1t mere
accident? When a farmers boy shoWed
Butcher a short cut by which be could bring
his army up soon enough to decide Waterloo
for England, was II "A mere accldentt when
Lord Byron took a piece Of money and
tossed il I'D to decide whether or not he
should be affianced to Miss Milbank, was 1t
a mere accident which side of the money
was up and which was down2 When the
Christian army was besieged at Beziers and
q drunken drummer came in at midnight
and rang the alarm bell. not
knowing what he was doing, but aking up
the host in time to fight their enemies that
moment arriving, was 1t an accident!
When, in one of the Irish wars, a starving
mother, flying with her starving child, sank
dawn and tainted on the rocks in the night
and her hand fell on warm bottle OF milk,
did that just happen so3 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 a secular
book, and let US, as the famous Mr.. Fox.
the member of parliament, in his
last hour, cry out: Read me
the eighth book of Virgil"
o! my friends, let us rouse up to an appre-
citation of the fact that all the affairs Of our
life are under the Kings command, and
under Fathers watch. Alexander's war
horse, Bucephalus, would allow anybody to
cunt him when he was Embarrassed, but
as soon as they put on that war horse, Blu
lfYa ha a IF
the conqueror, he would allow no one but
Alexander to touch him. And If a soullees
horse could have so much pride in his
owner, shall not we immortals exult in the
fact that we are owned by a King! Hath
the rain a father"
Again, my subject teaches me that Gods
dealings with us are inexplioable. 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, and getting there, how
It should be suspended, 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
30 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 expert
ments Of Dr.. James Hutton, and Saussure,
and other scientists, there is an infinite
mystery about the rain. There is an ocean
of the unfathomable in every raindrop, and
God says to-day as he said in the time OF
Job: IF you cannot understand one drop
of rain, do not be surprised if my dealings
with you are inexplcable." 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 mid life, con
secrated to God, hard working, useful in
every respect, who diess 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 q cancerl Why does that man, selfish
to the core, go on adding fortune to for
tune, consuming everything on himself,
continue to prosper, while the man who
has been giving 10 per cent Of all his in
come TO God and the church, goes into
bankruptcy Before we make stark fools
of ourselves, let Us stop pressing this ever
lasting why" Let US worship where we
cannot understand. Let mau take that
one question "WhyP' and follow it far
enough, and push it, and he will land in
wretchedness and perdItion. We want in
our theology fewer Interrogation marks
and more exclamation points. Heaven is
the place for explanations. Earth is the
place for trust. II you cannot understand
30 minute a thing as rain-drop, how can
you expect to understand Gods dealings.
Hath the rain fathers"
Again, my text makes me think the rain
of tears Is Of divine origin. Great clouds of
trouble sometimes hover over US.
They are black, aud they are gorged,
and they are thunderous. They are
more portentous than Salvador or Claude
ever painted-clOuds of poverty, or persecu.
ton, or bereavement. They hover over US
and they get darker and blacker. and after
awhile tear starts. and we think by ar
extra pressure Of the eyelid to st D it.
Others follow, and after awhile there is a
shower of fearful emotion. Yea, there is a
rain of tears. Hath that rain fatherm
go you say, q tear is nothing bat a droI
of limpid fluid secreted by the lachryma
gland-it is only a sign of weak eyes.
Great mistake. It is one of the Lords rich,
est benedictions to the world There are
people in Blackwelrs Island insane ASYLUM.
and at Utica, and at all the asylums Of this
land who were demented by the fact that
they could not cry at the right time Said
a maniac 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. l think
it will help my brain" There are a great
many in the grave who could not stand any
longer under the glacier of trouble. II that
glacier had only melted into weeping,
they could have endured it. There
have been times in your life