Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-07-07

weather to please all the farmers
Sometimes it is too hot, or il is to-
cold; it is too wet, or it it is too dry; ]
Is too early, or it is too late They for
get that the God who promised see'
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 on every barn
on every fence, on every haystack, or
every farmhouse, Hath the rain I
fatherr
If we only knew what a 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 ter
years of age, complained that he die
not like the hymns that were sung ir
the English chapel well, - said bis
father, Isaac, instead of your com
planning about the hymns 60 and make
hymns that are better" And he did
20 and make hymns that were better.
Now, say to you, If you do not like
the weather, get up a weather com
pany, and have president, and a sec
retary, and treasurer. and board OF
directors, and ten million dollars OF
stock, and then provide weather that
will suit all of us. There is a man who
has a weak head, and he cannot stand
the glare of the sun. You must have
a cloud always towering over him.
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 Tie 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 not a head wind for the other
There is a 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, / 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 weather for this world. Hath the
rain fatherT
GODS TENDER MERCIEs OVER ALL.
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
spendthrift who knows not how many
he throws or where they fall. They
are all shining princes Of heaven. They
all have an eternal lineage. They are
all the children of king. Hath the
rain n fatherp Well, then, say If
God takes notice of every minute rain
drop he will take notice of the most in
significant affair Of my life. 1t is the
view of things that both
ers me.
We look up into the night heavens
and we say, 'Worldsl worldsl" and
how insignificant we feel We stand at
the foot Of Mount Washington or Mont
Blanc. and we feel that we are only in
sects, and then we say to ourselves,
Though the world is so large the sun
Is one million four hundred thousand
times larger" "Ohr we say, 't is no
use; II God wheels that great machin.
cry through immensity he will not take
the trouble TO look down at mel' In
lldel conclusion. Saturn, Mercury and
Jupiter are no more rounded and
and swung by the hand of
God than are the globules ON lilac
bush the morning after a shower.
God Is no more in magnitudes than
he Is In minutbn. If he has scales to
weigh the mountains he has balances
delicate enough 20 weigh the inflnitesi
nal. You can no more see him through
tho telescope than you can SEQ him
through the microscope; no more when
you look up than when you look down,
Are not the hairs of your head all mum
beredl And II Himalaya has n God
Hath not the rain fatherr
take this doctrine OF a particular
Providence, and | thrust it into the
very midst Of your everyday life Il
God fathers a ralndrop, is there any
thing SO insignificant in your affair
that God will not father thatl Whet
Druyse, the gunsmith, invented th,
needle gun, which decided the battl,
OF Sadowa, was II n mere accident
When farmers boy showed Blucher ;
short cut boy which he could bring hi
army up soon enough 20 decide Water
loo for England, was il a mere accident
When Lord Byron took piece o
money and tossed 1t up 10 decid
whether OF not he should be ailianced I,
Miss Mlllbank, was il n mere accden
which side OF the money was up an'
which was downl When the Christian
army We're besiegod at Beziers, and
drunken drummer came In at midnigh
aud rang the alarm bell, not knowing
what he was doing, but waking up tn
host la time TO fight their enemies tina
moment arriving, was il an accidentl
NO ACcIpKNTs IN Tux pNlNR PLAN
When, in one Of the lrllh wars,
starving mother flying with her starS
ing child, sank down and tainted ON th
rocks IN the night and her hand tell O
a warm bottle oi milk, did that lu,
happen sol God Is either Ia the anaI
Of men, or our religion Is worth notl
ing az all, aud you had better take
away from usi and instead Of this b
bile. which teaches the doctrine, glv
ms a secular book, and let as, as IA
famous AIR. Fox, the member Of parli,
ment IN his last hour, cry out, "Rea
me the eighth book Of Virgil
Oh. my friends, lot us rouse np 10 a
appreciation of the fact that an the al
fairs of our life are under King