The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-04-17

out exposure. Saul was sent to destroy
the Canaanites, their sheep and their
oxen; but when he got down there
among the pastures he saw some fire
sheep and oxen too fat to kill, so he
thought he would steal them. Nobody
would know 1t. He drove these stolen
sheep and oxen toward home, but
stopped to-report to the prophet how he
had executed his mission, when in the
distance the sheep began to bleat and
the oxen to below. The secret was out,
and Samuel said to the blushing and
confused Saul: what meaneth the
bleating Of the sheep that / hear and
the believing of the cattle?" All! my
hearer, you cannot keep an iniquity
still. At just the wrong time the sheep
Will bleat and the oxen will below.
Achan cannot steal the Babylonish
garment without being stoned to dearh,
nor Arnold betray his country without
having his neck stretched. Look over
the police arrests. These thieves, these
burglars, these counterfeiters these
highwaymen, these assassins, they all
thought they could bury their iniquity
so deep down, it would never come to
resurrection; but there was some shoe
that answered to the print in the soil.
some false keys found in their posses
sion some bloody knife that whispered
of the death, and the public Indignation
and the anathema of outraged law
hurled them into the dungeon or hoisted
them on the gallows. Francis l.. king
of France. stood counseling with his Of
ficers how he would take his army into
Italy, when Ameril, the fool OF the
court, leaped out from corner of the
room and said: "You had better be Con-
sulting how you will get your army
back" and it was found that Francis l..
and not Ameril. was the fool. Instead
of consulting as to the best way of get
ting into sin. you had better consult as
to whether you will be able to set out Of
It, II the world does not expose you.
you will tell it yourself There is an
awful power in an aroused conscience.
A highwayman plunged out upon
Whitefield as he rode along On horse
back, a sack of money on the horse
money that he had raised for orphan
asylums, and the highwayman put his
hand on the gold and Whitcfeld turned
to him and said: Touch that If you
dare-that belongs to the Lord Jesus
Christ" And the rufIian SUNK into the
forest. Conscience! Conscience! The
huflan had a pistol but Whiteneld
shook at him the finger Of doom. DO
not think you can hide any great and
protracted sin in your heart, MY
brother. In an unguardcd moment it
will slip off the lip, or some slight
action may for the moment set ajar this
door that you wanted to keep closed.
But suppose that in this life you hide
it, and you get along with this trans
erosion burning in your heart. as
ship on fire within for days hinders the
flames from bursting out by keeping
down the matches, yet at last in the
Judgment that iniquity will blaze cut
before God and the universe.
Learn also from this subject that
there is an inseparable connection be-
tween all events however remote. The
universe is only one thought of God.
Those things which seemed fragment
tary and isolated are only different
parts of that great thought. How far
apart seemed these two events-Joseph
sold to the Arabian merchants and his
rulership of Egypt, yet you see in what
a mysterious way God connected the
two into one plan. So the events are
linked together. You who are aged
men look back and group together a
thousand things in your life that once
seemed isolated. One chain of undi-
vided events reaches from the Garden
of Eden to the Cross of Calvary, and
thus up to the Kingdom of Heaven
There is q relation between the smallest
insect that huns in the summer air and
the archangel on his throne. God can
trace a direct ancestral line from the
blue-jay that this spring will build its
nest in the tree behind the house to
some of the flocks OF birds which, when
Noah hoisted the arll's window, with
whirr and dash of bright wings went
out to sing over Mount Ararat. The
tulips that bloom in the garden this
spring were pursed by the snow-fakes.
The furthest star on one side Of the uni
verse could not look toward the furthest
star on the other side of the universe
and say: you are no relation to me-"
for from the bright orD the voice of light
would ring across tle heavens respond
ing, Yes, yes, we are sisters" Nothing
in Gods universe swings at loose ends.
Accidents are only Gods way Of turn
ing leaf in the book of his eternal de-
crees. From our cradle to our grave
there is a path all marked out. Each
event in our life is connected with every
other event in our life. Our losses may
be the most direct road to our gain.
Our defeat and our victory are twin
brothers. The whole direction of your
life was changed by something which at
the time seemed to you trifling, while
some occurrence which seemed tremen-
dous affected you but little. Gods
plans ale magnificent beyond all COM
prehension. He molds us, and turns
and directs us, and we know 1t not.
Thousands of years are to him as the
flight of a shuttle. The most terrific
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