St. Landry democrat., 1891-07-25
LITTLE DROPS OF WATER
THEY ALL SPRING FROM THE
GREAT FOUNTAIN HEAD
thrilling Sermon at the brooklyn
Tabernacle sundRy-"Esas the RaiE
E.ther7,s Was DR.. Ea!muge's


true history; others, that 1t Is an alie-
CORY: others. that it is an epic poem;
others that it is drama. Some say
that Job lived eighteen hundred years
before Christ: others say that he never
lived at all Some say that the author
of this book was Job: others, David;
Others, Solomon. The discussion has
landed some in blank intidellty Now,
7 have no trouble with the Books OF
Job or Revelation.
You all know that the rain is not an
orphan. You know it is not cast out
of the gates of heaven toundiinS'
You would answer the question OF my
text in the affirmative.
If this be true, then, how wicked Is
our murmuring about climatic changes.
The first eleven Sabbaths after l en-
tered the ministry it stormed. Through
the week it was clear weather, but on
the Sabbaths the old country meeting
house looked like Noah's Ark before 1t
landed.
Merchants, also, with their stores
filled with new goods, and their clerks
hanging idly around the counters, com
NIT the same transgression. There
have been seasons when the whole
spring and fall trade has been ruined
by protracted wet weather
So agriculturists commit this sin.
There is nothing more annoying than
to have planted corn rot in the ground
because of too much moisture, or hay
all ready for the NOW dashed OF a
shower. or wheat almost ready tor the
sickle spoiled with the rust How hard
it is to bear the agricultural
disappointments. God has in
finite resources, but | do not think
he has capacity to make weather
to please all the farmers. Sometimes
| it IS too hot, Or it is too cold; it is too
wet, or it is too dry; it is too early or
1t S too late. My text also suggests
Gods minute supervisal. You see the
divine Sonship in every drop of rain.
The Jewels of the shower are not flung
away by a spendtllrift who knows not
| how many he throws or where they
fall They are all shining princes of
heaven. They all have an eternal lin
cage They are all the children Of a
King. Hath the rain a father"
If God fathers rain-drcp, 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
a farmers boy showed Butcher a short
cut by which he could bring his army
up soon enough to decide Waterloo for
ENGLAND. was it mere accident?
When Lord Byron took a piece of
money and tossed it up to de-
eide whether or not he should be
aflanced to Miss Millbank, was it a
mere accident which side of the money
was ND and which was down? When
the Christian army were bcsieged at
Refers. and 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 AZ
/ irving, was it an accident? When.
in one of the Irish wars
starving mother, flying with he1
starving child, sank down and tainted
J on the rocks in the night and her hand
fell on warm bottle of milk, did tina,
lust happen so? God is either in The
affairs of men, or our religion is worth
nothing at all and you had better take
s II away from us, and instead Of this
. Bible, which teaches the doctrine, give
us secular book, and let us, as the
< ment, in his last hour, cry out: ''Reao
q me the eighth book of Virgil O. my
friends. let US rouse up to an apprecia
. ton Of the fact that all the affairs
!! of our life are under Kings command
q and under Fathers watch. Alexan
der's war horse, BucephalIs, would al
low anybody to mount him when he
q was embarrassed: but as soon as they
| x1o,4 1,nI INC rC
, saddle and the trappings of the con
queror, he would allow no one but
Alexander to touch him. And if soul
less horse could have SO much pride il
e his owner, shall not we immortals exul1
), in the fact that we are owned by /;
King?
Again, my subject teaches me tina
Il Gods dealings with us are inexpiica
= BILE. That was the original force o
my text The rain was great mys
terry to the ancients. They could not un
: derstand how the water should gc
: into the cloud, and getting there, how
it should be suspended, or falling, VIII,
. it should come down in drops Modern
science comes along and says there ar
4 two portions of air of different temper
3 allure, and they are charged witt
!
n cir decreases in temperature SO Thu
" water may no longer be held II
j vapor, and it falls. And they tell IL
that some of the clouds that look to b
only as large as mans hand, and to b
II almost quiet in the heavens, are grea
y mountains of mist four thousand fee
from base to top, and that they rus
,. miles a minute But after all tn
It brilliant experiments of DR.. jaime
"a Hutton and, Salssure, and othe
:. scientists, there is an infinite mystei.
F" about the rain. There is an ocean c
d the objectionable in every rain-drol
ir and God says to-day as he said in tn
!, time of Job: eff you can not under
Il stand one drop of rain, do not be SUI
d prised if my dealings with you are il
3 explicable."
Again, my text makes me think tina
- the rain of tears is of divine origin
r, Great clouds of trouble sometimes hove
e. over us. They are black, and they al
gorged, and they are thunderous. The
= are more portentous than Salvador {
Claude ever painted -clouds of povert,
or persecution, or bereavement The
n hover over us, and they get darker an
;, blacker. and after while tear start
" and we think by an extra pressure {
10 the eyelid to stop it. Others folloT
re and AFTER while There is asnower {
- fearful emotion. Yea, there is a raj
of tears ssHath that rain a father?''
- 60" you say, "a tear is nothing but
at drop Of limpid fluid secreted by tt
I'D lachrymal gland-it is only sign {
weak eyes" Great mistake. 1t Is or
~ of the Lords richest benedictions
er the world. There are people in Blacl
,e wells Island insane asylum, and ;
Utica, and at all the asylums Of til
n land, who were dernented by the ia
IT, that they could not cry at the rigl
=, time. Said maniac in one of our pn
lie institutions, under Gosp
OF sermon that started the tear