Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-07-06

only one Being in the universe whc
knows enough to provide the right lzinC
of weather for this world Hath thu
rain a father
GODS TENDER MERCIEs OVER ALL.
Ny text also suggests Gods minut,
supervisal You see the divine SonshiJ
$ in every drop of rain The Jewels o
I the shower are not flung away by
= spendthrift who knows not how many
he throws or where they fall. They
| are all shining princes of heaven They
5 all have an eternal lineage They arr
all the children of a king. Hath the
rain father?" Well, then, l say i
God takes notice of every minute rain
drop he will take notice of the most in
} significant affair of my life 1t is the
astronomical view Of things that both
ers me.
We look up into the night heavens
and we say. Worlds! wOrIds!'' 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" OH we say, lit is no
use; if sod wheels that great machin-
cry through immensely he will not take
the trouble to look down at mel" In
fidel conclusion. Saturn, Mercury and
Jupiter are no more rounded and
weighed and swung by the hand of
God than are the gIo1ulcs on a lilac
bush the morning after Il shower.
God Is no more in nagnitudes than
he is in lninuti@. If he has scales to
weigh the mountains he has balances
delicate enough to weigh the infinitesi-
NAL. You can numOre see him through
! the telescope than you can see him
! through the microscope; no more when
you look up than when you look down.
Are not the hairs of your head all num-
bered? And if HimaIaya has God,
Hath not the rain father?"
take this doctrine of a particular
Providence, and I thrust it into the
very midst of your everyday life If
God fathers a raindrop, is there any
thing 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 a mere accident?
When Il farmers boy showed Butcher
| short cut by which he could bring his
army up soon enough to decide Water
| loo for England, was it, mere accident?
When Lord Byron took piece of
money and tossed it up to decide
whether or not he should be affianced to
Miss AIillbank, was it a mere accident
which side of the money was up and
which was down. When the Christian
army were 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 accident?
NO ACCIDENTS IN THE DIVINE PLAN.
When, in one OF the Irish wars, q
starving mother, flying with her starv-
ing 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 50? God is either in the affairs
of men, or our religion is worth moth
ing at all, and YOU had better take it
away from us; and instead Of this Bi-
us a secular book, and let us, as the
famous Mr.. Fox, the member of parlia-
ment, in his last hour cry out Read
me the eighth book Of Virgil "
Oh, my friends, let us rouse up to an
appreciation of the fact that all the af-
fairs Of our life are under a Kings
command and under a Fathers watch
Alexander's war horse, Bucephalus,
would allow anybody to mount him
when he was embarrassed, but as soon
as they put on that war horse Buceph- |
alus the saddle and the trappings of |
the conquerer, he would allow no one |
but Alexander to touch BIN. And if /
a sOulless horse could have so much |
pride in his owner, shall not we immor-
tails eyult in the fact that we are owned
by a King? Hath the rain a father?"
Again my subject teaches me that
Gods 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
or falling, why it should
come down in drops Modern science
comes along and says there are two
portions of air of different temperature,
and they are charged with moisture,
and the one portion Of air decreases in
so the water may 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 a mans hand.
and to be almost quiet in the heavens,
are great mountains of mist four thou
sand feet from base to top, and that
they rush miles a minute.
But after all the brilliant experiments
Of DR.. James Hutton and Saussure and
other scientists, there is an infinite mys-
terry 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 under
stand one drop of rain, do not be sur
0rised if my dealings with you are in
applicable" Why does that aged man,
lecrepit, beggared vicious, sick of the
world, and the world sick of him, live
On, while here is man in midlife, con
3ecrated to God, hard working, useful
n every respect, who dies? ;
Why does that old gossip gadding
dong the street about everybody's
business but her own, have such good s
health, while the Christian mother,
With a flock of little ones about her
whom she Is preparing for usefulness
md for heaven-the mother who you
link could not be spared an hour from |
hat househOld-why does she lie down 1
md die with Il cancer? Why does that
nan. selfish to the core, go on adding
ortune 10 fortune, consuming every
hing on himself, continue to prosper, \
while that man who has been giving ten {
Der cent. of all his income to God and
he church goes into bankruptcy? I
Before we make stark fools of our I
elves let US stop pressing this everlast- t
ng why" Let US worship where we c
annot understand. Let man take C
hat one question, ''Whyg and follow a
far enough, and push it, and he will il
and in wretchedness and perdition y
We want in ON, tbaO1Orr "