Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-06

Ministers Of the gospel sometimes fret
about stormy Sabbaths, or hot SabbathS, or
inciemcnt SabbathS. They forget the fact
that the same God. who ordained the Sab
bath and sent forth his ministers to an
nounce salvation, also ordained the weather.
"Hath the rain father?'
Merchants, also, with their stores filed
with new goods, and their clerks hanging
idly around the counters, commit the same
transgTession. There have been seasons
when the whole spring and fall trade has
been ruined BY protracted wet weather
The merchants then examined the
weather probabilities" with more interest
than they read their Bibles. they watched
for patch OF blue sky They went com
planning 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 Ques-
ton: Hath the rain i father,'
So agriculturistS commit this sin. There
is nothing more annoying than to have
planted corn rot in the ground because of
too mu n moisture, or hay all ready for the
NOW dashed Of Il shower, or wheat almost
ready for the sickle spoiled with the 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 it IS too hot or il is too cold; 1t is too
wet, or it is TOO dry; it is too early,
OR IT Is TOO LATE.
They forget that the God who promised
seed time and harvest, summer and winter
cold and heat, also ordained all the climatic
changes. There is one question that ought
to be written on every barn, on every fence,
on every haystack, on every farmhouse
Hath the rain father2'
II we only knew what vast enterprise it
is 70 provide appropriate weather for this
world, we would not be so critical of the
Lord Isaac Watts, at ten years of age,
complained that he did not like the hymns
that were sung in the English Chapel
Well" said his father, Isaac, instead of
YOUR complaining about the hymns, go and
make hymns that are better" And he did
30 and make hymns that were better. Now,
! say TO YOU. if you do not like the weather
yet up weather company, and have pres
ident and q secretary and q treasurer and a
board of directors and ten million dollars OF
stock. and then provide weather that Will
suit all of US. There is man who has
weak head. aud he cannot stand the glare of
the sun. You must have cloud always
lowering over him like the sunshine; /
cannot live without plenty of sunlight, oyou
must always have enough light for me. Two
ships meet in mid-Atlantic. The one is going
10 Southampton, and the other IS coming
10 New York. Provide weather, that whlie
II is abaft for one ship 1t is not head wind
4Ni ti4G OtLtG- JlOEc Is iuElii tlistt ID VI ASu
up for the lack of rain, and here is pleas
ure 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 i'll your
weather company. There IS only one being
IN the universe who knows enough to pro-
vide the right kind of weather for this
world. Hath the rain father!n
My text also suggests Gods minute SUI
perVlsaL You see the Divine Sonship in
every drop Of rain. The jewels of the shower
are not hung 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 Al eternal lineage.
They are all the children of a King. Hath
the ram father!" Well, then, say If
God takes notice of every minute Taindrop,
He viii take notice of the most insignificant
affair OF my life. It is the astronomical
view OF things that bothers me We look