Telegram-herald., 1891-07-07

No, sra. vii. act take one dollar Of stock
ia your we2f llrF company There Is only
one Being IA the universe who knous
eaosgh 10 provide The rfghs kind II wealth
er for tina world. ~iiata tae rain . Ia
ther,''
con IS INFINITE rs rSFfyrrEsFNAfa
ny tsxI 4-so suggests uoos minute su-
psryisal foa see the divine Souship IN
every drop OF rain The jewels VI the
shower are Tot flung away By a spend
thrift who KNOWS not hox Tsay ne throws
or where they fall They are all shining
princes o. heaven They all have an eter-
nal lineage They are al the children Of .
king Hath the rain father" Well,
then. say II Col takes notice Of every
minute raindrop he will take notice Of the
most insiznificant affair OF my life. Ii Is
the astronomical view Of things that
bothers me.
We look up into the night heavens. and
we say, "Worldsl woridsg' and how insix-
nifeaas we feel We stand at the foot II
Mount Washington or Mont Blanc, and
We feel thai we are only insects. and then
We say TO ourselves, Though the world is
50 large. the sun Is one million four hun
dred thousand times larger" 'OhF' we
say, ''is Is no use. IL God " heels that great
machinery through immensely he will not
take the trouble " look down at me- In
Gdel conclusion. Saturn, Mercury and
Jupiter are no more rounded and weighed
and swung by the hand OF God than arc
the giobules on lilac bush the morning
AFTER shower.
God Ia no more In magnitudes than he 10
In minutie. If he has scales To weigh the
mountains, he has balances delicate enough
10 weigh the infnitesimal You can no
more sec him through the telescope than
You can sec him through the microscope. no
more when you look up than when you
look down. Arc not the hairs Of your
head all numberedi And il Himalaya has
a God, Hath not the rain n fathert" ]
take this doctrine OF particular Provi-
dence, and thrust it into the very midst
of your everyday life II God fathers Z
raindrop, is there anything so insignia
cant In your affairs that God will mol
father thatf
When Druyse. the gunsmith. inveutes
the needle gun, which decided the battle
OF Sadowa, was Il a mere accident? When
u farmers boy showed Butcher short cut
by which he could bring his army up soon
enough 10 decide Waterloo for England,
was 10 mere accident, When Lord Byran
took a piece OF money and tossed it mp to
decide whether or not he should be a1l-
anced 10 Miss Millbank, was 1t mere ac-
cident which side Of the money was up and
which was down, When the Christian
army was besieged at Beziers. aud .
drunken drummer came in at midnight
and rang the alarm bell, not knowing what
he was dcing. but waking up the host in
time 10 fight 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 a warm bottle
OF milk, did that just happen so' God is
either In the affairs of men or our religion
is worth nothing a5 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"
OH my friends, let us rouse up to an APP
precistion of the fact that all the affairs Of
our life are under kings command, and
under a fathers watch. Alexander's war
horse Bucephalus, would allow ANYBODY
but as soon as they put on that war horse
Bucephalus. the saddle and the trappin2s
of the couqueror he would allow no one
but Alexander to touch him. And II O
soulless horse could have SO much pride in
his owner, shall not we immortals exult in
the fact that we are owned by a kingi
Hath the rain n fatherf"
GODS WAYS Are PAST FINDING OUT.
Il - y
dealings with us are inexplicable. 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 fall
ing. why 1t should come down in drops.
Modern science comes along and says there
are two portions OF air of different tenn
peraturc. and they are charged with mois-
ture and the one portion OF air decreases
i'm temperature so the water NAV 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 n 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 q
minute.
But after all the brilliant experiments Of
DIR. 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 today as he said in the time Of Job.
IF you cannot understand one drop of
rain. do not be surprised il my dealings
with you are inexplicable." Why does that
aged man, decrepit. beggared, vicious, sick
Of tho world and the world sick Of him.
live on. while here IL a man in mid life.
consecrated to God, hard working, useful
in every respect, who dies' 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 hcaven--the mother who you think
could not be spared an hour from that
household-why does she lie down and
die with a cancer'
Why does that man, selfish To the core,
60 on adding fortune to fortune, consum-
ing everything on himself. continue to
prosper. while that man, who has been
giving ten per cent. Of all his income
10 God and the church. goes into bank
ruptcys Before we make stark foob Of
ourselves. let us stop pressing this ever
lasting why" Let us worship where ws
cannot understand. Let a man take that
one question. "whyv and follow il fss
enough. and push it, and he will land in
wretchedness and perdition. We want in
our theology fewer interrogation marks
snd more exclamation points Heaven Il
the place for explanation Earth IL the
place for trust. II you cannot understand
40 minute thing M a raindrop. how can
you expect to understand Gods desIiugsl
Hath the rain a fatherf"