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ing, remained unhur., though heavy

and on either sidc 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,
and FREELY flashed and revealed a
precipice over which in a moment more
he would have been dashed. f. w. Rob
ertson. the great preacher, of Brighton,
England, had his life-wCrk 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 COM
munication with Robertson. That ac-
workmanship kept him from joining
the dragons, and going to India and
spending his life in military service,
and reserved him for the pulpit, the in
fuence of which for gospelization will re-
sound for all time and all eternity.
Why did not Columbus sink hen in
early manhood he was afloat 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 Mayhower
from the mouth of the Hudson for
which it was sailing, and sent it ashore
at Cape Cod, no divine supervisal? Does
anarchy rule this world or God?
st. Felix escaped martyrdom by
crawling through hole in the wall
across which the spiders Immediately
afterward wove web. His persecu-
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 years find his way
home Nearly grown, he went into a
Fulton street prayer meeting and asked
for prayers that he might find his par
ents. His mother was in the room and
rose and recognized her long lost son.
Do you say that these things ''only
happened 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 expe-
rience: "All the events of my life seem
to have been divinely connected. Do
you suppose it is so in all lives?' He
answered, YES, but most people do not
notice the divine leadings." l stand
here this morning to say from my own
experience that the safest thing in all
the world to do is to trust the Lord.
never had misfortune or a persecu-
ton or trial or disappointment how
ever excruciating at the time that God
did not make turn out for my good
Ny one wish is to follow the divine
leading. / want to watch the finger o.
God.
Nations also would do we'll to watcf
for the finger of God. What does thu
cholera scare in America mean? Som'
say it means that the plague will SWEEP
our land next summer do not believ'
a word of it. There will be no choler'
here next summer. Four or five sum
mers ago there were those who said i
would surely be here the following
summer because it was on the way. Blu
it did not come The sanitary precau
tions established here will make mex
summer unusually healthfuL Choler;
tnever starts from where itstopped tn
season before, but always starts in tn
filth of Asia, and if it starts next sum
mer, it will start there again-it viii
not start from New York quarantine
But it is evident to me that the tinge
of God is in this cholera scare, an,
that He is pointing this nation to some
thing higher and better. 1t ha
been demonstrated as never before tina
we are in the hands of God He al
lowed the plague to come to our yer.
gates and then halted it. The quaran
tine was right and necessary, but o.
how easy the plague could have leape,
the barriers lifted against it. Thank
to the president of the United States
and thanks to the health officers, an
thanks to the Thirteenth regiment, an
thanks to all who stood between thi
evil and our national health, but NOR
than all. and higher than all, thanks t
God! Out of that solemnity we ough
to pass up to something better tina
anything that has ever yet character
lied us as a nation. We ought to qui
: otr national sins, our Sabbath breal
ing, and our drunkenness, and our in
purities, and our corruptions of all sort
as people. The tendency is in sell
graduation at our prosperity to forge
: the mercy of God that has kept us froi
being blotted out for our crimes, an
that still multiplies our temporal pro
perities. Forward and upward! Sc
you not the finger of God in this pre-
tecting mercy?
, | rejoice that there are many Ell
, couraging signs for our nation, and on
, is that this presidential campaign ha
less malignity and abuse than an
/ presidential campaign since we hay
been a nation. Turn over to the pi
: torials, and the columns of the polite;
{ sheets of the presidential excitement
/ all the way back and see what col
tumely Washington and jefferson an
through Now see the almost entii
| absence of all that. The political or;
, tors | notice this year are apt to begi
| by eulogizing the honesty and good il
, tentions of the opposing candidate, an
say that be is better than his part,
t | Instead of vitriol, chamomile flower
Z That we seem to have escaped Il
degradation of the usual quadrenni
S billingsgate is an encouraging fac
r Perhaps this betterment may ha'
S somewhat resulted from the sadne
5 lowering over the home of one of Il
d candidates, sadness in which Il
> whole nation sympathizes. Perhaps v
have been ! absorbed in paying homo