Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-10-28

his treproot safe smut because oil "a new
roll of securities he put in there just
before locking up at night; if he be
sreculating in a falling market or a
rising market and things take for him
right turn he does not grow in grace
very much that week. Do Jou know
what made the great revival of 1857,
| when more people were converted
to God, probably, than in any
year since Christ was born? 1t
was the defalcation and bankruptcy
| that swept American prosperity so fat
that it could fall no fatter. / am
speaking of whole-souled men. Such
men are SO broken by calamity that
they are humbled and fly TO God for re-
lief. Men who have no spirit and
never expect anything are not much
affected by financial changes. They
are as apt to go into the kingdom under
one set of circumstances as another.
They are dead-beats wherever they are.
The only way to get rid of them is to
lend them dollar and you will never
see them again. l have tried that plan
and it works well. But am speaking
of the effect of misfortune on high
spirited men. Nothing but trial will
turn such men from earth TO heaven.
1t is only through clouds and dark
ness and whirlwind of disaster such
n man can see the finger of God.
!
Why did not Columbus sink when
in early manhood he was ahoat six
| Ia ii a.
sustain him till he could swim to land
but boats oar? wonder if his pres
ervation had anything TO do with
America. Had the storm that diverted
the Mayflower 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?
Nations also would do well to watch
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 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
summer 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 scarce, and
that he is pointing this nation to
something higher and better.
rejoice that there are many encour
aging signs for our nation, and one is
that this Presidential campaign has
less malignity and abuse than any
Presidential campaign since we have
been nation. Turn over to the pic.
torials and the columns of the political
sheets of the Presidential excitements
all the way back and see what con.
tumely Washington and Jefferson and
Madison and Monroe and jackson went
through. Now see the al
most entire absence of all that.
The political orators l notice this year
are apt to begin by eulogizlng the hon
esty and good intentions of the oppos.
ing candidate, and say that he is
better than his party. Instead oil
vitriol, camomile flowers. That we
seem to have escaped the degradation
of the usual quadrennial billingsgate
is an encouraging fact. Perhaps this
betterment may have somewhat re
suited from the sadness lowering over
the home of one of the candidates, a
sadness in which the whole nation
sympathizes. Perhaps we have beer
so absorbed in paying honors to Chris
topher Columbus that we have
forgotten to anthematize the
prominent men of the present
No man in this country is fully hon
ored until he is dead. Whatever bC
the reason, this nation has escapes
many of the horrors that ordinarily
accompany the Presidential contest
, But let us not pause too long in hilarity
about the present and forget the fac
that there are not only temporal posi-
OlllIltb ldT RTtdutE Indn IhOSc dLJdlueu
but higher moral and religious posi-
bilities. The God of our fathers is tn,
God of their children, and his finge
! points us to higher national caree
than nany have yet suspected. Fo
our churches, our schools, our colleges
our institutions of mercy, the best day
are yet to come.
5 My friends, do not know how w,
) are going to stand i'll mean the full
| thrush of that splendor. Last summe
t / saw Moscow, in some respects tn
t most splendid city under the sun. Tn
D Emperor afterward asked me il 1 hat
2 seen it, for Moscow is the pride o
S Russia. 1 told him yes, and that / ha,
r seen Moscow burn. will tell yo-
3 what l meant. After examining
1 900 brass canpons which wer
{ picked out of the snow after Ma
poleon retreated from Moscow, eacl
I cannon deep cut with the letter IN >