Arizona republican., 1892-11-20

and some of the Madagascar rice was sown these and grew so rapidly that South Carolina was led to make rice her chief production. Can you not see the finger of God in that incident? Rev. John Fletcher, of England, many will know, was one of the useful ministers of the Gospel who ever preached. Be- fore conversion he joined the army and had bought his ticket on the ship for South America. The morning he was to sail some one spilled on him kettle of water, and he was so scalded he could not go. He was very much disappoint- ed, but the ship he was going to sail on went out and was never heard of again. Who can doubt that God was arranging the life of John Fletcher? Was it merely accidental that Richard Rodda, Cornish miner, who was on his knees | praying, remained unhurt, though heavy stones fell before him and behind him, and on either side of him, and another fell on top of these so as to make roof over him?
 A missionary in Jamaica lost his way, and in the night was wandering about, when firehy flashed and revealed a precipice over which in moment more he would have been dashed. F. w. Robertson, the great preacher of Brigh- ton, England, had his life work decided by the barking of his dog. A neighbor whose daughter was i'll was disturbed by the barking of that dog one night. This brought the neighbor into commu- nication with Robertson. That acquaint- anceship kept him from joining the dragons and going to India and spend- ing his life in military service, and re- served him for a pulpit the influence of which for Gospelization will resound for all time and all eternity.
 Why did not Columbus sink when in early manhood he was ahoat six miles from the beach with nothing to sustain him till he could swim to land but a boats oar? wonder if his preservation had anything to do with America? Had | the storm that diverted the Mayflower | from the mouth of the Hudson for which it was sailing and sent it ashore at Cape | Cod no divine supervisal? Does an archy rule this world, or God?
 St. Felix escaped martyrdom by crawl ing through hole in the wall across which the spiders immediately afterward wove web His prosecutors 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 years find his way home. Nearly grown ] ha int tn val utr yae meeting and asked for prayers that he might find his parents. His mother was in the room and rose and recognized Ter long lost son. Do you say that these things "only happened soy' Tell that to those who do not believe in God, and have no faith in the Bible. Do not tell it to me. l said to an aged minister of much experience: "All the events of my life seem to have been divinely con. nected. Do you suppose it is so in all livesY He answered, "Yes, but most people do not notice the divine leadings.' stand here this morning to say from my own experience that the safest thing in all the world to do is to trust tle Lord. Inever had misfortune or a persecution or trial or a disappoint- ment, however excruciatilg at the time. that God did not make turn out for my good. My one wish is to follow ths divine leading. want to watch the finger of God.
 A NATIONAL APPLICATION.
 Nations also would do well to watch for the finger of God. What does the cholera scare in America mean? Some say it means that the plague will sweep our land next summer. do not believe a word of it. There will be no cholera here next summer. Four or five sum. mers ago there were those who said it would surely be here the following sum- mer because it was on the way. But it did not come. The sanitary precautions established here will make next summer unusually healthful Cholera never starts from where it stopped the season before, but always starts in the filth of Asia, and if it starts next summer it will start there again-it will not start from New York quarantine. But it IS evident to me that the finger of God is iE this cholera scare, and that he is point ing this nation to something higher and better. It 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 itl 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 any thing that has ever yet characterized us as a nation. We ought to quit our ma tional sins, our Sabbath breaking, and our drunkenness, and our impurities, and our corruptions 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 plotted out for our crimes, and that still multiplies our temporal prosperities. Forward and
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