The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-10-26

fell on top Of these so as to make o roof
over him?
A missionary in Jamaica lost his way,
and in the night was wandering about
and FREELY flashed and revealed
precipice over which in moment more
he would have been dashed. f. w. Rob
ertson, the great preacher, of Brighton,
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 COM
munication with Robertson. That &C
quaintanceship 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
fiuence Of which for gospelization will re-
sound for all time and all eternity.
Why did not Columbus sink hen In
early manhood he was afoat six miles
from the beach with nothing to sustain
him till he could swim to land but
boats oarP wonder II his preservation
had anything to do with America Had
the storm that diverted the Mayfower
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 GodP
St. Felix escaped martyrdom by
crawling through a 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 SOP" 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 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, Eyes, 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 persecu-
ton or trial or a disappointment how
ever excruciating at the time that God
did not mako turn out for my good.
NY one wish Is to follow the divine
leading. want to watch the finger OF
| God.
Nations also would do we'll TO watch
for the finger OF God. What does the
cholera scare in America mean? Some
say it means that the plague will sweeI
our land next summer. do not believe
word Of II. There will be no cholers
here next summer. Four or five sum
mers ago there were those who said II
would surely be here the following
summer because it was on the way. Bu
1t did not come. The sanitary precau
tions established here will make mex
summer unusually healthful Cholert
never starts from where It stopped th'
season before, but always starts in th'
filth of Asia, and IL 1t starts next sum
mer, it will start there again-it vii
not start from New York quarantine
But II is evident to me that the finge
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 tha
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 ol
how easy the plague could have leape'
the barriers lifted against 1t 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 oil, thanks
God Out Of that solemnity we ough
TO pass up TO something better tina
! anything that has ever yet character
lied us as nation. We ought to qui
I our national sins, our Sabbath breal
D ing, and our drunkenness, and our In
4 purities, and our corruptions OF all sort
I as n people. Tho tendency Is In sell
j graduation at our prosperity to forge
r the mercy Of God that has kept us fror
, being blotted out for our crimes, an
that still multiplies our temporal pro-
perities Forward and upwardl Sc
= you not the finger OF God in this PR
n tecting mercy?
o / rejoice that there are many Ell
o couraging signs for our nation, and on
e is that this presidential campaign ha
l. less malignity and abuse than an
n presidential campaign since we hay
/. been nation. Turn over TO the pi
T torials, and the columns Of the politics
4 sheets Of the presidential excitement
u all the way back and see what col
d tumely Washington and jefferson an
n Madison and Monroe and jackson wer
n through. Now see tho almost entii
j absence of all that. The political or
O tors notice this year are apt TO beg
d by eulogizing the honesty and good II
h tentions Of the opposing candidate, ar
say that he is better than his part
Il Instead Of vitriol, chamomile flower
z That we seem to have escaped Il
l. degradation Of the usual quadrenni
u billingsgate is an encouraging fac
IT Perhaps this betterment may ha'
IS somewhat resulted from the sadne
Is lowering over the home Of one Of Il
b candidates, a sadness in which Il
Q whole nation sympathizeS Perhaps v
y have been SO absorbed In paying homo
% to Christopher Columbus that we ha'
o forgotten TO anathematize the prom