Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-10-24


ard some of the Madagascar Tice w4s
s0Wn there and grew Sc rsp&y taat
South Carolina was led u maze rice her
chef production. Can you n9g SEE TO
finger II God IN thal iacltenls Rev.
John Fletcher. Of England. many WI
know, was one " the useful ministers
Of the Gospel " 10 ever preached Be
fore conversion ne joined army and
lad bought his ticket CO. ~ ship f1r
South America The mJrnms lie vas
u sail some one spilled on hin a kettle
OF water, and he was 20 scaldeG he could
not 20. he was ve-y much aisappollI-
ed, bat the ship be was gong 70 sail ca
went our and Was never heard If again.
" no can doubt that (to3 was arranging
the life u John Fletcher; Was is
merely accidental that Richard Rodda.
a Cornish miner. who was OF his knees
praying. remained unhIrT though heavy
stones fell before him and behind him.
and on either side OF him. and another
fen on top Of these 80 As 10 make roof
over himl
A missionary in Jamaica lost his way,
and Ia the night was wandering about,
when a tiretiy flashed and revealed a
precipice over which in moment more
he would have been dashed. +. ".
Robertson. the great preacher of Brigh-
ton, England, had his l.fe work decided
by the barking of bis dog. A neighbOr
whose daughter was Ill was disturbed
by the barking Of that dog one night.
Thus 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 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 afoat six miles
from the beach with nothing 10 sustain
him till he could swim = land but d
boats oar? | wonder if ms preservation
had anything 10 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 supervisalf 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
woye 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
ne went into Fulton street prayer
meeting and asked for prayers that he
might find his parents. His mother was
in the room and rose and recognized ler
long lost son. Do you say that these
things ''only happened SOP Tell that 10
those who do not believe in a God, and
have no faith In the Bible. Do not tell
it to me. said TO an aged minister Of
much experiences: ''All the events of my
life seem TO have been divinely con-
nected. Do You suppose 1t is so in all
livesT He answered, Eyes, 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 10 trust tie
Lord. | never had misfortune or a
persecution or trial or disappoint-
ment, however excruciatilg at the time.
that God did not make turn out for my
good. Ny one wish is TO follow tho
divine leading. want 10 watch tie
finger Of God.
NATIONAL APPLICATION.
Nations also would Go well 10 waic 4
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. Tour or five sum
Inors ago there were those who said i,
would surely be here the following sum-
mer because it was on the way. But it
did not come. The sanitary precautions
established here viii make next summer
unusually healtnful. Cholera never
starts from where 1t stopped the season
before. but always starts "A the filth Of
Asa. and IL Ii starts next summer II
will start there Rgsin-It will not starr
from New York quarantine. But il IS
evident 10 me that the finger OF God is H.
this cholera scare. and that he is roint-
ing this nation To something higher and
better. II has been demonstrated 3 never
before that we are Ia the hands OF God.
lie allowed the plague 10 come 20 our
very gates. and then hated 1t. The
quarantine was right and necessary. bu.
Oh. how easily the plague could have
lesped the barriers li'ad against III
Thanks TO the presid rt Of the United
| States, and thanks 10 tue health officers,
and thanks to the Thirteenth regiment,
and thanks to ali who stood between TINS
| evil and our national health. but more
| than al and higher than all thanks Ia
| God, Out Of that solsmnity We ought
to pass up 70 something better than any
/ thing that has ever vet characterized us
as a nation. We ought to quit our ma
| tional sins, our Sabbath breaking, and
our drunkenness, and oar impurities, and
/ our corruptions Of xli sorts 81 people
/ The tendency is Ia self graduation at our
/ prosperity to forget the mercy of God
F that has kept Us from being blOtted out
/ for our crimes. and that stiil multiple
our temporal properties. Forward and
upward See yoT not the finger Of God
( IN this protecting meTcy2
I | rejoice that there are many encour
aging signs for our nation. and one is
F that this presidential campaign has less
I mahgbity and abuse than any presiden-
tai campaign since we have been a ma
+ ton. Turn over 20 the pictorials and
I the columns If the political sheets a
T the presidential excitemeuts all the was
I hack and SEE what contumely Washing