Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-10-27

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y, The wall. bur the spiders web put ehtih
he track. A boy WIS lost by he
runken fafher and could not TOR years
fnd his way hJnie. Nearly s'o". - III
/ i,to = Fnltca street prayer meeting anu
- for ,,r.ve-s that he might ind ~
,,r..,ts His mother was in the room ana
rn.e and Recognized her long lost son. 10
xo, .av that these things "only happened
so,n Tell that 10 those who do not believe
ia God ana have no faith in the Bible
DO not tell it to me.
I said 10 an aged minister OF much eN-
rsriance. ..All the events Of my life seem
-, have been divinely connected. DO you
=, ,nnose ii is 80 in all lives 2" lie an
.,rered. ..Yes. but must people do not notice
The divine headings" ! stand here tnls
morning to say from my own experience
tsat the safest thing in all the world 70 40
Il 70 trust the Lord. | never had mis-
fortune. or a persecution, or n trial, or as
commitment. however excruciating at the
t;n,e that God did not make turn out Tor
NV good Nv one wish is to follow the
rivine leading. | want to watch the finger
Of God.
THE CHOLERA SCARE.
Nations also would do well TO watch for
the finger of God What does the cholera
scare i'm America meant Some say II
means that the plague will sweep our land
nex., summer do not believe a word oil
il There will be no cholera here next
summer. Four or five summers ago there
were those who said it would surely be
here the following summer because it was
ON the way. But it did not come. The
sanitary precautions established here VIII
make next summer unusually healthfnL
Cholera never starts from where II stopped
the season before, but always starts IN the
| filth of Asia, and If it starts next summer,
il will start there again-it will not start
from New York quarantine. But II lsevi-
dent to me that the finger Of God u In TINS
cholera scare, and that he is pointing this
nation to something higher and better. IL
has been demonstrated as never before that
we are in the hands of God. He allowed
the plague TO come TO our very gates and
then halted it.
The quarantine was right and necessary,
but, oh, how easily the plague could have
leaped the barriers lifted against II!
Thanks to the president Of the United
States. and thanks TO the health officers,
and thanks to the Thirteenth regiment,
and thanks to all who stood between this
evil and our national health, but more
than all, and higher than all, thanks TO
/ God! Out OF that solemnity we ought TO
pass up to something better than anything
that has ever yet characterized us as ma
ton. We ought to quit our national sins,
our Sabbath breaking, and our drunken.
ness, and our impurities, and our corrup-
lions OF all sorts as people. The tendency
is in self graduation at our prosperity to
forget the mercy of God that has kept us
from being blotted out for our crimes, and
that still mnltiplies our temporal prosper
tiles. Forward and upward See you not
the finger of God in this protecting mercy'
| rejoice that there are many encour-
aging signs for our nation, and one Is that
this presidential campaign has less ma
| lightly and abuse than any presidential
| campaign since we have been nation.
| Turn over to the pictorials and the col
umns of the political sheets OF the presi-
dental excitements all the way back, and
see what contumely Washington and JEFF
ferson and Madison and Monroe and Jack
son went through. Now see the almost
entire absence OF all that. The political
orators notice this year are apt TO begin
by eulogizing the honesty and good inten-
tions of the opposing candidate, and say
that he is better than his party. Instead
Of vitriol, camomile flowers. That we seem
to have escaped the degradation OF the
usual quadrennial billingsgate is an en-.
couraging fact.
Perhaps this betterment may have some
what resulted from the sadness lowering
over the home Of one Of the candidates.
sadness In which the whole nat 'on ~vmpa-
thizes Perhaps we have been . all. A.. BED
in paying honors to Christopher Columbus
that we have forgotten TO anathematize
the prominent men Of the present. No
man i'll this country is fully honored until
| he is dead Whatever be the reason, this
nation has escaped many Of the horrors
that ordinarily accompany the presidential
contest. But let us not pause too long in
\ hilarity about the present and forget the
| fact that there are not only temporal pos
sibilities far greater than those attained,
but higher moral and religious possible
ties The God of our fathers is the God OF
their children, and his finger points us u
/ a higher national career than many have
/ yet suspected. For our churches, our
schools, our colleges, our institutions Of
mercy. the best days are yet to come.
But notice that this finger of God almost
always and in almost everything points
! forward and not backward. All the way
through the Bible, the lamb and pigeon on
the altar, the pillar of fire poised above the
wilderness peace offering, sin offering
trespass offering, fingers of Joseph and
Isaac and Joshua and David and Isaiah
and Micah and Ezekiel, all together made
the one finger Of God pointing to the
human, tie divine, the gracious, the glori
Gus, the omnipotent, the gentle, the par
doning ami suffering and atoning Christ
And now the same finger of God is point.
ing the world upward to the same Redeemer
and forward to the time Of his universal
domination. My hearers, get out of the
habit of looking back and looking down
and look up and look forward. 1t is useful
once in awhile to look back, but you had
better, for the most part of your time, stoI
"Reminiscences and begin anticipation. We
have none of us hardly begun yet.
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