Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-04-18

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 l hear and
the believing of the cattle?" Ali my
nearer, you can not keep an iniquity
still. At just the wrong time the sheep
will bleat and the oxen will below.
Achan can not steal the Bah ;lonish
garment without being stoned to death,
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
possession, some bloody knife that
whispered of the death, and the
public Indignation and the anathe-
ma OF outraged law hurled them into
the dungeon or hoisted them on the
| gallows. Francis l., king of France,
stood counseling with his officers how
he could take his army into Italy, when
Ameril, the fool of the court, leaped
out from a corner of the room and said:
You had better be consulting how you
will get your army back" and it was
! found that it was Francis l., and not
Ameril was the fool Instead of con.
sulting as to the best way of getting
into sin, you had better consult as to
whether you will be able to get out OF
it. If 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
Whitetield as he rode along upon horses
back, sack of money upon the
horse-money that he had raised
for orphan asylums, and the high
wayman put his hand upon the gold
and Whitefeld turned to him and said!
Touch that if you dare-that belongs
to the Lord Jesus Christ" And the
ruffian skunk into the forest. Con.
science! Conscience! The ruffian had
pistol, but Whitefield 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 UNI
guarded moment it will slip off the lip
or some slight action may for the mo-
ment 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 transgression burning
in your heart, as ship on fire within
for days binders the flames from burst. .
ing out by keeping down the matches,
yet at last, in the judgment that iniqu. /
ity will blaze out 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 seem fragmentary |
and isolated are only different parts OF ,
that great thought. How far apart
seemed these two events-JoSeph to the |
Arabian merchant and his rulership of
Egypt, yet you see in what a myster.
ious wa. God connects 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 undivided chain of events reaches !
from the Garden of Eden to the Cross |
OF Calvary, and thus up to the kingdom
of Heaven. There is a relation between |
the smallest insect that huns in the |
summer air and the archangel on his |
throne God can trace direct ances-
trail line from the blue jay that this
spring will build it's nest in the tree |
behind the house to some one of tho |
flock of birds which, when Noah hoist.
ed the ark's window, with a whirr and |
dash of bright wings went out to
sing over Mt. Ararat. The tulips that |
bloom in the garden this spring were
nursed by the snowfiakes. The furthest !
star on one side of the universe |
could not look toward the furthest |
side of the universe and say: You ara |
no relation to me-" for from that bright |
orb voice of light would ring across
the Heavens responding, Yes, yes, we
are sisters" Nothing in Gods uni.
verse swings at loose ends Accidents
are only Gods way of turning leaf in |
the book of His eternal DEGREES. 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 some
thing which at the time seemed TO
you trihing, while some occurrence
which seemed tremendous affected
you but little. Gods plans are mag.
nificent beyond comprehension. Ha
molds us, and turns and directs us, and
we know It not. Thousands of years
are to Him as the fight of shuttle |
The most terrific occurrence does not
make God tremble. The most triumph
ant achievement does not lift Him into
rapture. That one great thought OF
God goes out through the centuries |
and nations rise and fall, and cras pass,
and the world changes, but God still
keeps the undivided mastery, linking
event to event and century to century.
To God they are all one event, ons
history, one plan, one development, on'
system. Great and marvellous are thy
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