The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-07-23
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-nr n,xn OF PROVIDENCE.


ha,d of Providence In our successes,
seromplishments. our deliverances Is
=. y .,Y,',,nizrd by our quickened or CRATE
f.,.,,Ions. hut less easily and readily
-, 40 we acknowledge the same kind
10 hand in our mistakes. Yet In most
49,, latter. equal. II not exceed. the
4, the experiences OF the passing
0,r motives are so curiOusly mixed,
{s+..sl,bt Is so short. and our limitations
.,,ssarilv so many that we are
..,,tlv laundering. now turning In this
ij-sction when another would be the
-, take, now remaining In place
| ~ ,., ,urht 70 leave 1t and changing u
.,,,, we ought TO remain In IL, until.
!, Irav near the sunset, we are fain to
I sn ,ur lack Of judgment and wish In vain
| y,c bgl our lives to 1.-Two over again.
n, ,1e event It IL often quite plain to us
/, ,ru should have acted In another way,
re .pe clearly where we were wrong and
4, would have been the wiser course OF
mt NJ the time our eyes were hold
a,i ,,c nd not perceive the indications
- T.prcially when our mistakes affect
i,iyssof6thers as when parents 10y "a certain
I.iop modify or entirely change the cir
.,norps and future position of children,
| vh.u. at n turn In the road, our step
1, ., This side or that arrests our fortunes
1 Give. rs the downward push Instead OF
,,,va-l. we nrc apt 10 east the blame
I, M, IN our fatuity and 10 leave Provi-
cr .uitc outside the reckoning. And,
t., tbi- view, II Is not strange II we grow
|, al and morbid and eat our bread In
,ra.. and look with envlous wonder on
| Ic1nrade who has outstripped us in the
th.
however. we accept the sweet and com
L., doctrine that our whole lives, from
Ihrginning to the ending, arc under Gods
Iretyn control. that while wo are free 20
:, still. for reasons infinitely kind and
jrpa hing ~ eternity, the love that out
n dime aud sense permits our errors, we
escape the danger of compliant or
ID .bayrin. True, we did on some occn-
ii I on impulse and with childish pre-
"A anew. and again. on another, we suf-
| |, mcrctricious reasoning TO mislcad us,
nu tho while wa were Gods dear chill
and ne had not let us go, and there
so,re need In our nature which
he could not have supplied unless the
kipllne OF life had made us aware Of IL.
Srr ara characters which cannot be deyel-
IN except hy contact with pnin and disap-
ktment. There aro strong and noble
+. which arrive at their full estate only by
5tling against wind and tide. There
IcSceptional tcmpcraments which would
find God unless driven to his arms
rrss " sorrow and dcsolation of defeat.
IN il often happens that the last re-
n an apparent mistake IL happiness for
very persons who seemed most disas-
k.ly influenced by II at first. Wealth
and Injuries are abridged, but the sons
daughters. bravely facing poverty, are
rr equipped for the struggles before
IA than they would have been had the
seen altogether smooth. by certain
,.on. regretted and lamented In solitude
silence. we have closed, at ono or an
r period, door OF our lives which we
never open again. When We locked that
i W, lost the combination, and never In
ur Immortality can we discover the for
. secret.
\ vet. where for us thoro would have
! perhaps. Joy and ease, there has been
AL blessing and the ability TO bless, u
T Held ot influence. surer sense OF
~ and the going on to "A ilrmer and
,rvdntagn ground. In our mistakes,
ing finite and sinful, we are always
! ". them. let us not be utterly dis
J ici. since back OF them and back OF
the guiding hand OF One whose love
w.sd u never err.
1l,yo' ne smiling and the weeping,
B,yoni tho sowing and the reaNing,
aar lovsly hymn Duts itJ"- Aall be
Bat even mor,- eonsoia.Oly IL .ie re-
that beyond these varied expert
while we stay here, are Gods tender
over us. Gods purpose for our bene-
i)ls clear sight for our blurred vision
Gods nevcr-slumbering providential