Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-07-16

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New Yosk Provide weather that, while
it is abaft for one ship, it is not head
wind for the other There is a farm that
is dried up for the lack of rain, and there
is a pleasure party going out for a field ex-
cursion 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 wealth
er for this world. Hath the rain a ia
therg"
GOD is INFINITE IN INFINITEsIyALs.
Ny text also suggests Gods minute SUI
pervisal. You see the divine Sonship in
every drop Of rain The jewels of the
shower are not flung away by a 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 a
king. Hath the rain father" Well
then, say if God takes notice of every
minute raindrop he will take notice of the
most Insignificant affair of my life. II is
the astronomical view of things that
| bothers me-
We look up into the night heavens, and
we say, "Worlds worldsr' and how insig-
nihcant we feel 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, Though the world is
so large, the sun is one million four hun
dred thousand times larger" "Ohw we
say lit is no use. il God wheels that great
machinery through immensely he viii not
take the trouble to look down at me-" In
fidel conclusion. Saturn, Mercury and
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 magnitudes than he is
In minuti,e If he has scales TO weigh the
mountains, be has balances delicate enough
to weigh the iniinitesimaL You can no
more see him through the telescope than
you can see him through the microscopes; no
more when you look up than when you
look down. Are not the hairs Of your
head all numbered? And If Himalaya has
God, Hath not the rain a fatherW
take this doctrine of particular Provi
dence, and thrust it into the very midst
of your everyday life II God fathers
raindrop. is there anything so insignia-
cant IN your affairs that God will not
father thati
When Druyse, the gunsmith, invented
the needle gun, which decided the battle
of Sadowa was II a mere accdentf When
farmers boy showed Blueher a short cut
by which he could bring his army up soon
enough To decide Waterloo for England.
was it mere accidents When Lord Byron
took piece Of money and tossed it up to
decide whether or not he should be afli.
anced to Miss Milhank, was it a mere nc.
a
which was DOWN When the Christian
army was beseged at Beziers, and
drunken drummer came in at midnight
and rang the alarm bell, not knowing what
he was doing, but waking up the host 10
time to fight their enemies that moment
arriving was it an accidenti
When In one OF the Irish wars starv-
ing mother, flying with her starving child, |
sank down aud tainted on the rocks In the |
night and her hand fell on a warm bottle |
of milk, did that just happen sog God is |
either in the affairs OF men or our religion |
is worth nothing ut all, and you had better
take it away from Us. aud 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 MS rouse up TO An an /
probation Of the fact that all the affairs Of
our life are under a kings command and /
under a fathers watch. Alexandcr's war
horse Bucephalus, would allow anybody
to mount him when he was embarrassed,
but as soon as they put on that war horse.
Bueephalus, the saddle and the trappings
Of the conqGeror lac would allow no one
but Alexander to touch him Aud If a
soulless horse could have so much pride IN
his owner. shall not we immortals exult IN
the fact that we are owned By a kings
Hath the rain a father'n
GODS WAYS ARE PAST FINDING OUT.
Again my subject teaches me that Gods
dealings with us are inexplicable. That
was tine original force Of my text. The
rain was great mystery 20 the ancients I
They could not understand how the water
should get into the cloud, and getting
there, how il should be suspended, or fall
ing, why it should come down in drops.
Modern science comes along ami says there
are two portions OF air OF different tenn.
perature. and they are charged with mois
ture, aud the one portion Of mir decreases
In temperature SO the water may no longer
be held ia @Gpor, and it falls Aud they
tell as 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
OF mist four Thousand feet from
base to top. and that they rush miles
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
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 if my dealings !
with You are iuexplicable" Wbydoes that
aged man. decrepit. beggared, vicious, sick \,
Of the world and the world sick Of him,
i've on. while here is man in mid life :
,onsecrated TO God. hard working. useful
N every respect, who diesf Why docs that l
I'D gossip, gadaing along the street about II
sverybody's business but her own. have |
such good health, while the Christian q
mother. with a flock OF little ones about e
ler whom she i preparing for usefulness
md for heayen-the mother who yon think 4
'ouid not be spared an hour from that 4
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