The Banner-Democrat., 1892-12-17

N on the ship for South America. II
l. morning he was to sail some OF
IT spilled on him kettle of water, and
n was so scalded he could not go. h
was very much disappointed. but ii
u ship he was going to sail on went o,
u and was never heard of again. VIII
:, can doubt that God was arranging th
t life of John Fletcher? Was It merel
e accidental that Richard Rodda,
Q Cornish miner. who was on his knee
! praying, remained unhurt, thouQ
|, heavy stones fell before him and b<
! hind him and on either side of him, an
: another fell on the top of these, SO a
to make roof over him?
A missionary in Jamaica LOST hi
way, and in the night was wander
ing about when a freely hashe,
and revealed precipice owe
which in momeutmore he would hav
been dashed. +, w. Robertson, tn
great preacher Of Brighton, England
had his hfe-work decided by the bark
ing OF his dog. A neighbor. who's,
daughter was ill, was disturbed by thu
barking of that dog one night. Thi,
brought the neighbor into communica
tion with Robertson. That acquaint
anceship kept him from joining the
dragons and going to India, and
spending his life in military service,
and reserved him for q pulpit, the in.
huence of which for gospelization will
resound for time and all eternity.
Why did not Columbus sink when in
early manhood he was afioat six miles
from the beach, with nothing to sus-
tain him till he could swim to land but
q boats oar? wonder if his preserva-
ton had anything TO do with America?
Had the storm that diverted the May
flower from the mouth Of the Hudson
for which it was sailing, and sent it
ashore at Cape Cod, no Divine SUPER
visal? Does anarchy rule this world,
or God?
st. Felix escaped martyrdom by
crawling through q hole in the wall
across which the spiders immediately
afterward wove q web. His persecn-
tors saw the hole in the wall, but the
spiders web put them off the track. A
boy was lost by his drunken father and
could not for yesrs find his way home.
Nearly grown he went into a Fulton
street prayer-meeting and asked for
prayers that he might find his pareu
His mother was in the room, and rose
and recognized her long-lost SON. Do
You say that these things "only kap-
pened So" Tell that to those who
do not believe in God and have
no faith in the Bible. Do not tell it to
me. said to an aged minister of much
experience "All the events of my life
seem to have been divinely connected.
Do You suppose it is SO in all livcs?- He
.'Yes, but most people do
not notice the Divine leadlngs." stand
here this morning to say from my own
experience that the safest thing in all |
the new world to do is to trust to the |
Lord. never had a misfortune or a
persecution or trial or disappoint- |
ment however excruciating at the time /
God did not make Curn out for NV
good. Ny one wish is to follow the
Divine leading. / want to watch the
finger of God.
My friends, do not know how we
ire going to stand It'll mean the full
nrllsh OF that splendor Last summer
saw Moscow, in some respects the
most splendid city under the sun. The
emperor afterward asked me if l had
een it, for Moscow is the pride of Rus
ia. told him yes, and that had seen
doscow burn. will tell you what I
meant After examining nine hundred
'rass caDnons which were picked out
Il the snow after Napoleon retreated
rom Moscow, each cannon deep cut
With letter IN" ascended tower of
ONE two hundred and fifty feet, just
before sunset, and on each platform
here were bells, large and small, and
climbed up among the bells, and then
reached the top, all the bells un-
erneath me began to ring, and they
7ere joined by the bells Of fourteen |
undred towers and domes and turrets. ,
ONE of the bells sent out faint tinkle !
sound, a sweet Naturalization that
semed to bubble in the air. and others
numbered forth boom after boom, boom ,
tier boom, until it seemed to shake i
ne earth and fill the heavens-sounds
weird, sosweet. SO awful, SO grand, so
1arming, SO tremendous, so soft, SO 3
piping, SO reverberating-and they
'emed to wreathe and whirl and rise i
nd sink burst and roll and mount and q
e. When Napolean saw Moscow burn
could not have been more brilliant
ian when saw all the one thousand !,
ur hundred turrets afame with the i
inset, roots of gold, and walls of
alachite, and architecture of all col .;
S, mingling the brown OF autumnal
rests, and the blue of summer
'avenS and the confagration of
orning skies, and the green of rich
eadows, and the foam of tossing =
as The mingling of so many Z
lors with SO many sounds was m
enhancement almost too much m
: human nerves or human eyes or hu- VI
IN cars. expect to see nothing to m
ual it until you and see Heaven. In
It that will surpass it and make the m
emory of what saw that July even tf
Z in Moscow almost tame and in r.
I'D. All Heaven aglow and all m
'aven airing, not in the sunset, but in 81
2 sunrise. Voices of our own kim &c
ID mingiing with the doxologies fr
empires Organs of eternal wor- pr
p responding to the trumpets nj
1t have wakened the dead. en-