The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-07-04

Aoovo this oublness IN your nandA.
Perhaps may come back in little
while, andperhaps not While am gone
you will please to look after affairs."
After awhile the father comes back
and finds everything at loose ends. and
the whole business seems to be going
wrong. He says: II am going to take
possession of this business-you know
Inever fully surrendered IL; and hence
forth consider. yourselves subordi.
uates,." Is he not right In doing It? He
saves the business. The Lord seems TO
let us go In life, guided by our
own skill, and we make misera-
BILE work OF It. God comes
down TO our shop or our
store says: Things are going wrong,
l come to take charge. am Master,
and know what Is best, and I pro,
claim my authority" We are merely
subordinates. 1t Is like boy at school
with long sum he can not do. He
has been working at 1t for hours,
making figures here and rubbing out
figures there, and it Is all mixed up,
and the teacher, looking over the boys
shoulder, knows that he can not get
out OF 1t, and, cleaning the slate, saysi
Begin again" just so God does to
us. Our affairs get into an inextricar
BILE ENHANCEMENT, and He rubs every
thing out and says: Begin again!" Il
He not wise and loving in so doing?
1 think the trouble is that there 10
so large a difference between the Di-
vine and the human estimate as to
what Is enough. have heard Of peo-
pie 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.
The difference between a poor man
and rich man is only the difference
in banks. The rich man puts his
money In the Washington bank, or the
Central bank, or the Metropolitan
bank, or some other bank of that char
acter, 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 q
man can fail when he is backed up like
that?
I 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 helm
less and anchorless. You say: IF
had some other trade; If l had not
gone there this summer; IL 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, because He knew IL 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 affiiction as one
of your greatest blessings.
Going up the White mountains soma
years ago, l thought Of that passage In
the Bible that speaks of God as weigh.
ing mountains in the balance. AS I
looked at those great mountains I
thought: Can 1t be possible that God
can put these great mountains in
scales? 1t was an idea too great for
me to grasp; but when saw blue
bell down by the mules foot, on my
way up Mount Washington, then un-
derstood the kindness and goodness Of
God. 1t is not so much of God In great
things can understand, but of God in
little things.
There is a man who says: "That
doctrine can not be true, because
things do go so very wrong" reply
it Is no inconsistency on the part Of
God, but a lack of understanding on our
part. hear that men are making very
fine shawls in some factory. go in on
the first floor, and see only the raw ma
terials, and ask: ''Are these the shawls
have heard about?" NO." says the
manufacturer; ''go up to the next
floor;" and go up, and there begin
to see the design. But the man says,
do not stop here; go up to the top
floor of the factory, and you will SEQ
the idea fully carried out" do so,
and, having come to the top, SEQ
quisite shawl. So in our life, stand
ing down on a low level Of Chris
tian experience, we do not under.
stand Gods dealings. He tells us to
go up higher and higher, until we be-
gin to understand the Divine meaning
with respect to us, and we advance un-
til we stand at the very gate Of
Heaven, and there see Gods idea all
wrought out-a perfect idea of mercy,
of love, of kindness. And we say,
Just and true are all Thy ways" It
Is all right at the top. Remember,
there is no Inconsistency on the part
of God, but it is only our mental and
spiritual incapacity.
Some of you may be disappointed
this summer-vacations are apt to DO
sappointments-but whatever your
perplexities and worriments. know
that mans heart deviseth his way;
that the Lord directeth his steps"
Ask these aged men in this church
il it is not so. 1t has heen SO in my
own life. One summer 1 started for
the Adirondacks, but my plans were so
changed that landed in Liverpool. I
studied law and got into the minis
try. / resolved to Qo as n missionary