The morning times., 1896-06-22

you for eternityii and he viii do IL IN the
best way. Your little child says, Papa.
wish you wouid let me have that knife.
mo- you say lit is n sharp knife and
you will cut yourself" He says, II must
have it, ..But you cannot have it"
you reply. He gets angry and red in the
face, and says he will have it; but you
say he shall not have it. Are you not
kind IN keeping. it from him? So God
treats his children. 1 say, II wish.
heavenly Father, to get that God says.
..No, my chiid.'' / say, II must have it,
Is THERE NO RULE?
God says, You cannot have it, get
angry and say, II will have it, God
says, "You shall not have it, and do
not get it. Is He not kind and loving
and the best OF Fathers? Do you tell
me there is no rule and regulation in these
things? Tell that to the men who believe
in no God and no Bible. Tell it not
to me!
think the trouble is, that there is SO
large a difference between the Divine
and the human estimate as tc what is
enough. / have heard of people striving
for that which is enough, but / never
heard of any one who had enough. What
God calls enough for man, man calls too
little. What man calls enough, God says
is TOO MuCH. lie uiiiefeuCt UctWeeu ii
poor man and rich man is only the
difference in banks.
The rich man puts his money in some
Washington bank or some metropolitan
bank, or some other bank of that charac-
ter, while the poor man comes up and
makes his investments In the bank of Him
who runs all the quarries. all the Mines
all the gold, all the earth. all heaven.
Do you think a man can fail when he is
backed up like that?
You may have seen a map on which is
described, with red ink the travels of the
children OF the desert of Israel through the
desert to the Promised Land. You see how
they took this and that direction. crossed the
river and went through the sea.
MAP OF YOUR LIFE.
Do ybu know God has made a map Of
your life with paths leading up to this bit
terness and that success, through this river
and across that sea? but, blessed he God.
the path always came out at the Promised
Land. Mark that! Mark that!
remark again, that all those things that
seem to be but accidents in our life are under
the Divine supervision. We sometimes seem
to be going helmless and anchorless. You
saw. s.If had some other trade; II lad
not gone there this summer; If had lived
in some other house." You have no right
to say that.
Every tear you wept, every step you have
taken, every burden You have carried, Is
under Divine inspection, and that event
which startled your whole household with
horror God met with perfect placidity, be-
cause he knew it was for your good. 1t was
part of great plan projected long ago.
In eternity when you come to reckon up
your mercies, you will point to that az
Fiction as one of your greatest blessing
God has strange way with us. Joseph
found his way to the prime minister's
chair by being pushed into pit; and to
many a Christian down is up. The wheat
must be failed; the quarry must be blast
ed: the diamoul must be ground; the
Christian must bd AFFLICTED. and that single
event, which yU supposed stood entirely
alone, was a eonnecting link between
two great cta1nsp one chain reaching
through All eternity past and the other
chain reaching unrohlgh all eternity future
$50 small an event fastening two eternities
together.
WEIGHS THE MOUNTAINS.
Going up the White Mountains some years
ago thought of that passage in the Bible
that speaks of God as weighing mountains
in a balance. As L looked at those grest
mountains, / thought, Can Il be possible
that God can pt tf1ese g g:eat mountains in
scales? Il was mn idea too great for me
to grasp; but when 4 saw a blue-beu down
by the mules 100, nm my way up Mount
Washington ths11 : understood the kind
ness and Soodnesss OF GOD. It 10 not -