The Red Cloud chief., 1892-11-04

INV hhS oobn Will
not discount, and the business friends
to whom he goes for accommodation
are In the same predicament, and he
bears mp and struggles on, until, after
awhile, crash goes the whole concern.
He stands wondering and saying: ~ do
not see the meaning of all this, I have
done the best I could. God knows I
would pay my debts IL l could, but here
am hcdged in and stopped" What
should that man do in that case? Go to
the Scriptures and read the promise
about all things working together for
good and kindred passages? That Is
well. But he needs to do something
beside reading the Scriptures. He
needs to look for the finger Of God that
is pointing toward better treasures,
that is pointing toward eternal release,
that is urging him to higher realms.
A most interesting, as well as n most
useful study Is to watch the pointing
of the finger of God. In the seven.
teenth century South Carolina was
yielding resin and turpentine and tar
as her chief productions. But Thomas
Smith noticed that the ground near his
house was very much like the places in
Madagascar where he had raised rice,
and some Of the Madagascar rice was
sown there and 1t grew so rapidly that
South Carolina was led to make rice
her chief production. Can you % see
the finger Of God in that incident? Rev.
John Fletcher, of England, many will
know, was one of the most useful min
listers of the gospel who ever preached.
Before conversion he joined the army
and had bought his ticket on the ship
for South America. The morning he
a to sail some n spilled o n him q
kettle Of water and he was so scalded
he could not 60. He was very much dis
appointed, 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 1t merely accidental that Richard
Rodda, q Cornish miner, who was on
his knees praying, remained unhurt
though stones fell before him and be-
hind him and on either side Of him and
another fell on the top OF these so as to
make a roof over him?
Why did not Columbus sink when In
early manhood he vas afioat six miles
from the beach with nothing to sustain
| him till he could swim to land but q
boats oar? I wonder IL 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 1t was sailing, and sent II
ashore mt Cape Cod, no Divine super
visalp Does anarchy rule this world,
| or God?
st. Felix escaped martyrdom by
crawling through n hole in the wall
across which the spiders immediately
afterward wove a web. His prosecutors
saw the hole in the wall, but the spi.
ders' web put them of the track. A
boy was lost by his drunken father, and
could not for years find his way home.
Nearly grown he vent into a Fulton
street prayer meeting and asked fol
prayers that he might find his parents.
His mother was in the o and recog'
nized her long lost son. Do you say
these things "only happened So" Tell
that to those who do not believe In Goo
and have no faith in the Bible.
Nations also would do well to watch
for the finger of God. What does the
cholera scare in America mean? Some
say that the plague will sweep Il lane
next summer. l do not believe a wore
of it. There will be no cholera her,
next summer. Four or five summer
ago there were those who said II would
surely be here the following summer
because It was on the way. But II die
not come. The sanitary p%recaution'
established here will make next sum
mer unusually healthful. Choler;
never starts from where 1t stopped thu
season before, but always starts in tn
filth of Asia, and IL it starts next sum
mer, it will start there again-it viii
not start from New York quarantine
But IL is evident to me that TIN
finger of God is in this cholera scare
and that He is pointing this nation u
something higher and better. 1t haa
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 II. Out of tina
solemnity we ought to pass up to some
thing better than anything hat ha
ever yet characterized us as n nation
We ought to quit u national sins, on
Sabbath breaking, and our drunken
ness. and our impurities, and our cor
ruptions of all sorts as a people.
rejoice that there are many cncour
aging signs for our nation, and n
that this presidential campaign has les
malignity and abuse than any pres
dental campaign since we have been
nation. Turn over to the pictorials
and the columns Of the political sheet
Of the presidential excitements all tn
way back and see what contumel,
Washington and Jefferson and Madi
son and Monroe and Jackson wen
through. Now see the almost entir
absence of I'LL that The politicu
orators l notice this year are apt to be
gin by eulogizing the honesty and goo
intentions OF the opposing candidate
and say that he is better than his party
Instead Of vitriol, camomile flower.
That we seem to have escaped tn
degradation of the usual quadrennia
billingsgate is an encouraging fac
perhans his betterment NAV hav