Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-10-29

not discount, and tho business friends
to whom he goes for accommodation
are in the same predicament, and he
bears up and struggles on, until, after
awhile, crash goes the whole concern.
He stands wondering and saying: II do
not see the meaning of all this, have
done the best / could. God knows i
would pay my debts IL could, but here
/ am hedged 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 we'll as most
useful study is to watch the pointing
of the finger OF God In the seven
teenth century South Carolina was
yielding resin end turpentine and tar
rs 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 it grew so rapidly that
South Carolina was led to make rice
Ter 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 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
was to sail some one spilled on him q
kettle of water and he was so scalded
he could not go. Hewas 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
karranging the life of John Fletcher?
| Was it merely accidental that Richard
Rodda, a 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 roof over him?
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? 1 wonder if his preserva-
ton had anything to do with America.
Had the storm that diverted the May
flower from the mouth o. the Hudson
for which it was sailing, and sent it
ashore at Cape Cod, no Divine super
visal? 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 prosecutors
saw the hole in the wall, but the spi-
ders' 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 q Fulton
street prayer meeting and asked for
prayers that he might find his parents.
His mother was in the room and recog-
nized her long lost son. Do you say
these things ''only happened So" Tell
that to those who do not believe in God
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 our land
next summer. l do not believe word
of it There will be no cholera here
next summer. Four or five summers
ago there were those who said it would
surely be here the following summer
because it was on the way. But it did
not come. The sanitary precautions
established here will make next sum-
mer 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 sum-
mer, 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 in this cholera scare,
and that He is pointing this nation to
something higher and better. 1t has
been demonstrated as never before that
we are in the hands of God. He al
lowed the plague to come to our very
gates and then halted it Out of that
solemnity we ought to pass up to some
thing better than anything that has
ever yet characterized us as a nation.
We ought to quit our national sins, our
Sabbath breaking, and our drunken
ness, and our impurities, and our cor
ruptions of all sorts as people.
Trejoice that there are many encour-
aging signs for our nation, and one Is
that this presidential campaign has less
malignity and abuse than any presi-
dental campaign since we have been
nation. Turn over to the pictorials,
and the columns of the political sheets
of the presidential excitements all the
way back and see what contumely
Washington and jefferson and Madi-
son and Monroe and jackson went