Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-07-17

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This Book OF Job has been the subject Of
unboundtd theological wrangle. Men have
| made it the ring in which TO DISPLAY tbeis
ecclesiastical pugilsm. Some say that tho
Book Of Job is n true history others, that it
Is an allegory; Others, that it is an epic
poem; Others, that lt is drama Some saw
| that Job lived eighteen hundred years be-
| fore 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 sSme in blank in
| fidelity. Now. have no trouble with the
| Books OF Job OF Reveation-the two most
mysterious books in the Bible-because OF a
rule adopted some years ago.
wade down into a Scripture passage as
| long as can touch bottom. and when can.
| not then | wade out used TO wade in until
1t was over my head and then got drowned
l study passage of Scripture 80 long as it
is comfort and help to my soul, but when
1t ecomes perplexity and spiritual up
turning quit. In other words we ought 10
wade in up to our heart but never wade in
until it is over our head. No man should
ever expect to swim across this great ocean
| OF divine truth. | go down into that ocean
as | go down into the Atlantic Ocean at
East Hampton, Long Island, just far enough
| TO bathe then coGle out | never had any
idea that with my weak hand and foot |
| could strike my way clear over to Liverpool
| suppose you understand your family
genealogy. You know something about your
parents, your grandparents, your great
| grandparents. Perhaps you know where
they where born, or where they died Have
you ever studied the parentage Of the show
| er, Hath not the rain father" This QueS-
| tion is not asked by "A poetsster or a scien-
tist but by the head OF the universe. To hum
BILE and to save Job God asks him fourteen
questions: About the worlds architecture
hn,k h. -aF- ...N., - o
the tides, about the snow crystal about the
nghtnings and then He arraigns him with
the Interrogation Of the text, Hath theEain
q fathery'
With the scientific wonders Of the rain I
have nothing TO do. A minister gets through
with that kind Of sermons within the first
three years, and If ne has pety enough he
| gets through with it In the first three
months. A sermon has come TO me to mean
one word of four letters help You all
know that the rain is not an orphan. You
know 1t is not cast out Of the gates OF heaven
a founding. You would answer the ques
tion of my text in the affirmative.
Safely housed during the storm, you hear
the rain beating against the window pane
aud you find it searching all the crevices OF
the window sill. 1t first comes down in so-
tary drops, Dattering the dust, and then it
deuges the fields and angers the mountain
torrents, and makes the traveller impiore
shelter. You know that tho rain is not an
accident Of the worlds economy. You know
II was born OF thecloud You know it was
rocked in the cradle OF the wind You know
1t was sung to sleep by the storm. You know
that it isa flying evangel from heaven 10
earth. Eou know II is the gospel Of thu
weather. You know that God is It's father.
II this be true then how wicked is our
murmuring about climatic changes. The
first eleven Sabbaths after | entered the
ministry it stormed. Through the week il
was clear weather, but on the Sabhaths tho
old country meeting house looked like Nosh's
ark before it landed. A few drenched peo-
pie sat before drenched pastor but most Of
tho farmers stayed at home and thanked
tio that what was bad for the church was
good for the crops, | committed good deal
Of sin in those days IN denouncing tn,
weather Ministers Of the Gospel sometilna
fret about stormy Sabbaths or hot SabbathS
or inclement Sabbatns They forget the
fact that the same God who ordained the
sabbath and sent forth his ministers to an
nOunce salvation also ordained the weather
Hath the rain a fatherF'
Merchants, also, with their stores filled
with new goods, and their CLERKS hanging
idly around the counters commit the sam,
trangression. There have been seasons whet
the whole spring and fall trade has beer
ruined by protracted wet weather This
merchants then examined the weather
probabilities with more interest than thoy
read their Bibles. They watched for .
patch OF blue sky. They went complaining
to the store and came complaining home
again In all that season of wet feet and
dripping garments and impossible streets
they never once asked the question, Hath
the rain fatherp
So agrlculturists commit this sin. There
Is nothing more annoying than to have
planted corn rot in the ground because Of
: too much moisture, or nay all ready for the
NOW dashed of a shower, or wheat almost
! ready for the sickle spoiled with tbs rust
How hard it is to bear the agricultural dis
: appointments. God has infinite resources
, but do not think He has capacity to make
weather to please all the farmers. Some
times IL is too hot, or it is too cold; it is too
wet, or 1t is too dry; 1t is too carly, or it is
3 too late. They forget that the God who
promised seed time and harvest, summer and
winter, cold and heat, also ordained all eli
matte changes There is one question that
| ought TO be written on every barn, on every
fence, on every haystack, on every farm
, house Hath the rain father"
If you only knew what vast enterprise
1t is TO provide appropriate weather for this
, world we would not be 50 critical of the Lord.
r Isaac Watts at ten years Of age complained
q that he did not like the hymus that were
= sung in the English chapel. "Well, said his
i father. Isaac, instead of your complaining
0 about the hymns, go and make hymns that
n ore better" And he did go and make hymns
= that we're better. Now, say to you 1t you
do not like the weather get up q weather
: company and have president, and a secre-
4 tary, and treasurer, and board OF direc.
tors and ten million dollars OF stock, aud
then provide weather that will suit us all
II There is man who has a weak head, and he
: cannot stand the glare of the sun You must
6 have cloud always hovoring over him,
like the sunshins | cannot live without
5 plenty of sunlight 50 you must always have
n enough light for me- Two ships meet II
@ mid-Atlantic. The one is going to South
), ampton and tho other is coming to New
York Provide weather that, while it !
y abaft for one ship, it is not head wind To-
@ the other. There is "a farm that is dried VI
for the lack of rain, and there is a pleasur
marty going out for a field excursion Pre-
y yido weather that will suit the dry farm an
: tho pleasure excursion. No, sirs, will no
r.. take one dollar of stock in your weathe
company. There Is only one Being IN til
y universe who knows enough to provide tn
n right kind Of weather for this world hat
: the rain father"
4 NV text also suggests COTS minute super
" visal. You see tho divine Sonship in ever
< drop OF rain. Thg jewels OF the shower ar
IS not flung away by spendthritt who know
# not how many he throws or where they fal
They arc all shining princes of heave
! They all have eternal lineage. The
lc are oil the children Of king, Hath Il
- rain fathcrY' Well, then, l say II Go
!" takes notice of every minute randrop 7
s. viii takn motto, ot thN most insignifcal
II affair of my life. 1t IS the astronomic
=, view Of things that bothcr5 me.
>, We look up into the night heavens ar
1t we say, "Worlds! words"' and how insil
i niGcant we feel We stand at the foot
II Mount Washington or Mont Blanc and '
:. feel that VIC are only insects, and then '
IL say TO ourselves, Though ths world Is
II large, tho sun ie ono million four hundr'
10 thousand times largor.n "Oh!' we say,
an is no use, il God wheels that great machine
-, through immensely lie will not take t