The Newtown bee., 1895-05-17

tepLnS 0VeTWne1m you With the GnOuEnGl ,f Him whose ways are past finding out There is nothing else in all the universe that so gives to you the likeness of Him whose word made the heavens and whose right Christian sentiment to think of God as loving Father, as One who more cares for us than an earthly par ent does for his child, as One who soothes the tear-wet pillow with gentle hand and with the kiss of loving forgiveness banishes the sin of disobedience into the past; but it is well, too, once in while to think of the sovereignty of God, of His infinite power in all it's bare boldness and to say 50 God, Thou art all-Wise and powerful. I am but worm; my thoughts are low and mean. I am only the clay and Thou art the potter; use and mould me as Thou seest good.''
 For final word let me say 1 think of God as God of mysterious providences, and I find this thought of mystery in the sea. There is an ancient tradition
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 that Aristotle committed suicide because he could not comprehend the cause of the tides. The story is not well-authen- ticated, and it may be dismissed as 8 myth; but it's existence is enough to show that in all ages the sea has been looked upon as hiding mystery. Where are the many brave and fair whom thou hast taken, o robber sea. Speak, if thou know'st their burial place. Is it con- tlnual dirge that thou art beating for the host of unreturning voyagers with thy surge upon the unfeeling rocks? What is the meaning of this E'aint I hear ? what of thy musical moan?
 "what are the wild waves sayiny2
 Sister, the whole day long?
 That ever amid our playing
 hear their low, lone song?"
 They are saying for us one word, "Mystery, mystery, mystery" This strange life of mine of which see only so small part, say, was the cradle it's beginning, is the grave it's ending? This life, so feverish, so restless, so per turbed, chasing after shadows, pursuing phantoms, what is it's real aim and quest This life that to some men seems blessed hundred years before they are born, which for some opens with beam of gladness, spreads into noontide glory of joyousness and declines in a blaze of rich honors and great rewards; this life which for others seems embittered and cursed a hundred years before they are born, which opens amid squalor and pollution, spreads into the dimness of harder and harder misfortune and declines in the darkness of utter despair-what is the meaning of it all? What is it saying Mother, wringing your hands by the open grave of your little one, looking uI into the heavens for sympathy and find ask me why your fervept prayer was not answered as you wished it and why you are left thus disconsolate? Father, who through these long years have been fol. lowing your wayward son with unremit' ting prayer, praying that his heart might be turned back to his home, that you might welcome him with forgivine kiss, why does it sometimes seem that you have no Father in Heaven? Why are so many dear hopes blasted?
 WHY IS so MUCH OF LIFE
 complete failure? Why does not Goo set things right? Why does He seem un. moved by our tears? I stand with the He. brew Psalmist on the shore of the sea listen to the noise of it's breakers as say: 70 sea, cannot comprehend what thy wild waves say; and neither can understand God. Thy judgments, o God are a great deep"
 Gods judgments, my friends, are { great deep; that is, the execution of Hi plans will ever be like the great deep sometimes enveloped in fog, sometimes covered with cloud, always speaking ol mystery. Such is the execution of Hi plan; but His plan is founded in right eousness, know; justice will ever be tht foundation of His throne. I see the eff | feet and cannot understand it, but tht | cause, know, is true; I see the second and cannot understand it, but the first though above my thought, is not above my trust.
 There are two texts in the Book o1 | Revelation which, at first sight, seen wholly contradictory and unexplainable | One of them is, "Before the throne there was sea of glass like unto crystal" tht other is, "There shall be no more sea- Read with the poor help of cold liberalism they are thoroughly incongruous and can not be explained; but, set aglow with the poetic fervor in the heat of which they were written, their meaning is luminous and grand. By-and- by, when the new heavens and the new earth are come when the former things are passed away as to loftier heights of revelation we rise there shall be no more fog of uncertainty, no more mist of anxiety, no more mystery about Gods way of dealing us but, with feet pressing the shore of the sea of glass like unto crystal that is before the throne, with firmness born of conviction we shall say:
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 before me; from henceforth there shall be no more sea-
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