The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-07-10

10 Dear the agricultural OlsappOlnt
ments God has infinite resources, bu
do not think he has capacity to max,
weather to please all the farmers
Sometimes II Is too hot, or It Is tot
cold; 1t Is too wet, or 1t 1t Is too dry; 4
Is too early, or 1t Is too late. They for
get that the God who promised seet
time and harvest, summer and winter
cold and heat, also ordained all the eli
matte changes. There Is one question
that ought to be written OH every barn
on every fence, on every haystack, or
every farmhouse, Hath the rain q
fatherT
If we only knew what vast enter
prise it is to provide appropriate weather
for this world we would not be so crit.
ical 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 CON-
planning about the hymns 60 and make
hymns that are better" And he did
60 and make hymns that were better.
Now. | say to you, If you do not like
the weather, get up weather COM
pany. and have president, and Sec
rotary, and a treasurer and board of
directors, and ten million dollars of
stock, and then provide weather that
will suit all of us, There is man who
has a weak head. and he cannot stand
the glare of the sun. You must have
a cloud always lowering over him.
l like sunshine; cannot live with
out plenty of sunlight, so you must al.
ways have enough light for me. Two
ships meet in mid-Atlantic. The one is
going to Southampton, and the other
is coming to New York. Provide
weather that, while it is abaft for one
ship, it is nota head wind for the other.
There is farm that is dried up for the
lack of rain, and here is pleasure
party going out for a field excursion.
Provide weather that will suit the dry
farm and the pleasure excursion. No,
sirs, I 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
n weather for this world. Hath the
rain y fatherl"
GoD'S TENDER MERCIEs OVER ALL.
Ny text also suggests Gods minute
You see the divine Sonship
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
al have an eternal lineage. They are
ali the children of king. Hath the
:ain a father" Well, then, l say if
God takes notice of every minute rain
lrop he will take notice of the most in
significant affair of my life. 1t is the
view of things that both
srs me.
We look up into the night heavens
Ind we say, "Worldsl worlds!" and
low insignificant we feel! We stand at
loot OF Mount Washington or Mont
5Ssnc, and we feel that we are only in
ects, and then we say to ourselves,
Though the world is so large the sun
3 one million four hundred thousand
INES larger" OH we say, lit is no
lse; if God wheels that great machin-
ry through immensely he will not take
he trouble to look down at mel" In
del conclusion. Saturn, Mercury and |
jupiter are no more rounded and
7eighed and swung by the hand of
rod than are the globules on lilac
ush the morning after shower.
God is no more in magnitudes than
Q is in lninuti8. If he has scales to
7eigh the mountains he has balances
elicate enough to weigh the infinitesi-
lal. You can no more see him through
le telescope than you can see him
trough the microscope; no more when
on look up than when you look down.
re not the hairs of your head all num-
ered' And if Himalaya has God,
Hath not the rain father9"
/ take this doctrine of a particular
rovidence, and l thrust it into the
cry midst of your everyday life If
cd fathers raindrop, is there any
ling SO insignificant in your affairs
lat God will not father that2 When
ruyse, the gunsmith, invented the
eedle gun, which decided the battle
Sadowa, was it a mere accident2 ,
'hen farmers boy showed Butcher a
lort cut by which he could bring his
my up soon enough to decide Water {
70 for England, was tia mere accident? s
When Lord Byron took a piece of {
oney and tossed it up to decide l
neither or not he should be affianced to +,
ISIS Millbank, was it a mere accident ,
hich side of the money was up and {
hich was down9 When the Christian |
my were besieged at Beziers, and a |
'unken drummer came in at midnight
I'D rang the alarm bell, not knowing
hat he was doing, but waking up the
ost in time to fight their enemies that
oment arriving, was it an accident?
ACCIDENTS IN THE DIVINE PLAN.
When, in one of the Irish wars, a Q