The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-07-25

sonthAapean and 5he<stAeA ,sssot1iins ros
/, New York Provide weather that, while
BIT isssabaft Ter enc si1iPit is not a head.
wind for the other. There is u farm that
is dried up for the lack of rain, and there
is alplessure party going 4out for field ex5,
cursion. Provide weather that win 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 wealth
er for this world Hath the rain fa-i
thers" .+....g-
GOD rs INFINITE IN INFINITEslMAI.s. sii
i My text also. suggests Gods minute su
pervisal. You see the divine Sonship in
every drop of rain. 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 eter-
nal lineage They are all the children of
king. 81" Hath the, rain a fatherY Well,
/ then, l. say if God takes notice of every
minute raindrop he viii take notice of the
most Insignificant affair of my life. II is
thels astronomical view of things chat
bothers me. j. st.ie -@... ~ %
|, We look up into the night, heavens, and
! we say, Worldsi worldsr' and how insg
uificant we feeli 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, '9Ehough the world is
so large, the sun is one million four hun
dred thousand times larger" ..Ohpy we
| say, ''it is no use, if God wheels that great
machinery through immensity he will not
take the trouble to look down at me-" In
| fdel conclusion. Saturn, Mercury aud
Jupiter are no more rounded and weighed
and swung by the hand of God than are
the globules on lilac bush the morning
after a shower.
| God is no more in mRgnitudes than he is
! in minutiB. Ii he has scales to weigh the
mountains, he has balances delicate enough
to weigh the infinitesimal. You can no
more see him rhrough the telescope than
! you can see him through the microscope; no
more when You look mp than when you
] look down. : Are not the hairs of your
head all numberedf And if Himalaya has
a God, Hath not the rain a fatherf"
! take this doctrine of particular Provi-
dence, and / thrust it into the very midst
/ Fof your everyday life If God fathers a
srafndrop, Is. there anything 50 insiRnifi-
cant IN your affairs that God will not
j father thati -
When Druyse, the gunsmith, invented
the needle gun, which decided the battle
of Safiowa, was it a mere accident? When
| farmers boy showed Blucher short cut
\ by which he could bring his army mp soon
enough to decide Waterloo for England,
i was itsa,mere aecideats,. When Lord Byron
took apiece of money and tossed it up to
decide whether or not he should be aft
anced to Miss Millbank, was it a. mere ac-
cident which side of the money was up and
| which was downf When the. Christian
armye-was besieged at Beziers, and a
drunken drummer came in at midnight
and rang the alarm bell, not knowing what
he was doing, but waking up the host in
/ time to fight their enemies that moment
arriving, was it an accidentf
l. -When-in one of the Irish wars a 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 sof 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
i 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 ouJ Read me the eighth
book of Virgil"
Ohl my friends, let us rouse up to an ap-
spreciation of the fact that all the affairs OF
1 our life are under a kings, command, and
under a. fathers watch. Alexander's wal
horse. Bucephalus, would allow anybody
: to mount him when he was Embarrassed
L but as soon as they put on that war horse
Bucephalus, the saddle and the trappings
of the conQueror he would allow no one
but, Alexander to touch him. And If q
soulless horse could haveso much pride in
his ownerS shall not we immortals exuIt in
the fact that we are owned by a kingi
Hath the rain asfather?"
GODS WAYS ARE PAST FINDING OUT.
Again my subject teaches me that Gods
dealings with us are zinexplicable. 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 it should be suspended, or fall
ing, why it should come down in drops
Modern science comes along and says err
are two portions of air of different tenn
peratnre. and-they are charged with mois
ture, and the one portion of air decreases
in temperature soathe water lnayTno Longer
be held in vapor, and it falls. SAnd they
tell us that some of the clouds that looh
to be only as large as a mans hand, and Il
3 be almost, quiet in the heavens, are grea
3 mountains of mist four thousand feet from
) base to top, and that they rush miles
81 minute! { 80 - = sE-Nf
. But after all the brilliant experiments o
3 DR.. James Hutton, and Saussure and othe
t scientistss there is an infinite myster.
! about the rain. There is an ocean of tn
unfathomable in every raindrop, and Goo
says today as he said in the time of job
t "If you cannot understand one drop O
rain, do not be surprised if my dealing g
= with you are inexplicable." Why does tina
aged man, decrepit. beggared, vicious, sicl
9 of tho world and the world sick of him
e live on, while here is a man in mid life
f consecrated to God, hard working, usefu
e in every respect, who dies? Why does tina
l. old gossip, gadding along the street abou
e everybody's business but her own, hav
/ such good health, while the Christia
q mother. with flock of little ones abou
, her whom she is preparing for usefulnes
q and forheaven-the mother who you thin
Is could not be spared an hour from tha
Is household-why does she lie down an
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