The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-02-22
O. a providential care. How does that

On periious deeps, but cannot be lost,
Though satan enrages the wind and the TIDE
The Promise assures US, the Lord will provide.
But while you get this pointed lesson
Of providential care from the shelied
creatures of the deep, notice In their
construction that God helps them to
help themselves. This house Of stone
in which they live is not dropped on
them and Ia not built around them.
The material for It exudes from their
own bodies and Is adorned with O
colored fluid from the pores OF their
own neck. 1t Is most interesting
thing TO see these crustacean animals
fashion their own homes out Of carbon
ate of lime and membrane. And all OF
this is mighty lesson to those who are
waiting for Others. to build their for
tunes, when they ought to go to work
and, like the mollusl1s, build their own
fortunes out Of their own brain, out OF
their own sweat, out Of their own In
dustries Not a mollusk on all the
beaches of all the seas would have
house Of she'll, II it had not itself built
one Do not wait for others to shelter
you or prosper you. All the crus.ac-
eous creatures Of the earth, from every
fake of their covering and from every
ridge Of their tiny castles on Atlantic
and Pacific and Mediterranean coasts,
say: Help yourself, while God helps
you to help yourself" Those people
who are waiting for their father or
rich old uncle to die and leave them
fortune are as silly as a mollusk would
be to wait for some other mollusk to
drop on It a shell of equipment 1t
would kill the mollnsk, as, In most
cases, it destroys q man. Not one per-
son out of hundred ever was strong
enough to stand a large estate by in
heritance dropped on him in a chunk.
Have great expectations from only two
persons-God and yourself. Let the ony-
cha Of my text become your preceptor
But the more examine the shells, the
more am impressed that God is God
of emotion. Many scoff at emotion,
and seem to think that God Is God OF
cold geometry and iron laws and
eternal apathy and enthroned stoicism
Mol Mol The shells with overpower'
ing emphasis deny it While law and
order reign in the universe, you have
but to see the lavishness Of color on the
crustacea, all shades Of crimson from
faintest blush to blood Of battlefield,
all shades of blue, all shades Of green,
all shades of all colors from deepest
black to whitest light, just called out
on the shells with no more order than
q mother premeditates or calculates
how many kisses and hugs she shall
give her babe waking up in the morn
ing sunlight Yes. My God is an emo
tional God, and He says: 1--WE must
have colors and let the sun paint all Of
them on the scroll of that shell, and we
must have music, and here is a carol
for the robin, and psalm for man,
a doxology for the seraphim and q
resurrection call for the archangel
Aye, He showed Himself God Of sublime
emotion when He flung himself on thii
world in the personality of Christ q
save it. without regard to the tears il
would take, or the blood 1t would ex
haust, or the agonies it would crush
out When see the Louyres and the
Luxembourgs and the Vaticans of di
vine painting strewn along the S,OOI
miles of coast, and hear, In a forest
on a summer morning, musical acade'
mics and Handers societies of full or
chestras, say God is God Of emotion
and II He observes mathematics, 1t |:
mathematics set TO music, and His fig
ures are written, not in white chalk OF
blaclsboards, but written by fngen o.
sunlight on walls Of jasmin and trum
pet-creeper.
In my study OF the conchology Of thu
Bible this onycha of the text also i'm
presses me with the fact that religion
is perfume What else could God hav'
meant when'he said to Moses: TAX,
unto thee sweet spices, stacte anC
onycha?" Moses took that shell Of tn,
onycha, put IL over the fire, and as |
crumbled into ashes, 1t exhsled an odo
that hung in every curtain and flleC
che ancient tabernacle, and its swee
smoke escaped from the sacred pre-
cincts and saturated the outside air
Perfumel That is what religion is
\ But instead of that, some make II
malodor. They serve God in a rougl
and acerb way. They box their child
ears because he does not properly keel
Sunday, instead of making Sunday 81
attractive the child could not help bu
keep it They make him learn b.
heart difficult chapter in the book o
Exodus, with all the hard names, be
cause he has been naughty. How many
disagreeable good people there are. NJ
one doubts their piety, and they will
reach heaven, but they will have TO gel
fixed up before they go there or they
will make trouble by calling out TO us
Keep off that grassl" what do yor
mean by plucking that Aower9' ''Shov
your ticketsl" 0hl how many Christian
people need to obey my text and take
into their worship and their behavior
and their associations and presbyteries
and general assemblies and conferences
more onycha have sometimes gons
in very gala of spirit into the presenc,
of some disagreeable Christians, and in
FIVE minutes felt wretched, and at some
other time have gone depressed intc
the company Of suave and genial souls
and in few moments felt exhilerant
What was the difference2 II was tho
difference in what they burnt on theil
censers The one burnt onycha; tn,
other burnt asafptida- tla
In this genealogical study of tn,
Bible, I also notice that the molluskl