The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-07-02
again. Is He not wise and. 81 wing wing

I think tue trouble is, that there is
I SO large Il difference between the di-
| vine and the human estimate as to
| what is enough. have heard Of peo-s
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 W hat man
calls enough God says is too much.
The difference between a poor man
and q rich man is only the sdiffere nee
in ba nks. The ricli' man puts his
money in the Washing bank or the.
| Central bark or the Metropolitan
bank. Or some other bank of that
character, while the poor. man comes
| up and makes his investments in the.
bank Of Him who runs alllthe quar-
Ties, all the mines,, all the gold, all
the earth, all heaven. Do you think
a man can fail when he is backed up
t like that?
YOU may have seen a map on Which.
is described, with red ink. the travels
of the children Of Israel through the
| desert to the promised land You see
how they took this and that direc-{
/ ton. crossed the river and II went
| through the sea. Do you know God has
made q map Of your life, with paths
leading up to this bitterness and that
success: through this river and across
that sea? But, blessed be God, the
pat Il always comes out at the promised.
land. Mark that! Mark that! 5:4 8s@
L remark again, that all those things
| that seem to be but accidents in our.
life are under the divine supervision.
We sometimes seeal to be going helm
less and anchorless. You say, eff j
had some other trade;fif | had not
gone there this summer; if l 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 I'M
der divine inspection, and that event
which startled your whole household
| with horror God met with perfect
| placidity, because He knew it was for
your good It was part of a great
plan projected long ago. In eternity
/ when you come to reckon up your
mercies, you will point to that Attic
tion as one Of your greatest blessings.
God has strange way with us.
Joseph found his way to the prime
minister's chair by being pushed into
a pit; and to many a Christian down
is up. The wheat must be failed; the
quarry must be blasted; the diamond
must be ground; the Christian must
be afflicted; and that single event,
! which you supposed stood entirely
alone, was connecting link between
| two great chains. one chain reaching
through all eternity past and the other.
reaching through all eternity future
so small an event fastening two eterni-
| ties together.
A missionary. coming from India to
the United States, stopped at st.
I Helena while the vessel was taking
water. He had his little child with
| him. They walked along by an en-
bankment, and rock at that moment
became loosened, and falling insta ntly
killed the child. Was it an accident?
Was it a surprise to God? Had He.
allowed his servant. after a life of
conservation, to come to such trial?
Not such is my God. There are no
accidents in the divine mind, though
they may seem so to us. God is good,
and by every single incident of our
life, whether it be adverse or other
wise, before earth and heaven, God
i will demonstrate His mercy.
II. hear a man say, .'That idea be-
i Titles God. You bring him down TO-
such little things Oh, I have more
thorough appreciation of God in little
things than l have in great things!
The mother does not wait until the
child has crushed it's foot OF broken
it's arm before she administers sym
pathy. The child comes in with the
first bruise, and the mother kisses it.
God does not wait for some tremend-
GUS crisis in our life. but comes down
to us in our most insignificant trials
and throws over us the arms of His
mercy. @
Going up the White mountains some
/ years ago. | thought of that passage
in the Bible that speaks of God as
1 weighing mountains in a balance. AS
/ | looked at those great mountains,
thought, can it be possible that God
can sput. these great mountains in
sclles? 1t was an idea too great for
\ me to grasp; but when | saw a blue
bell down by the mules foot, on my
way up Mount Washingto then / I'M
derstood the kindness and goodness
i of God. 1t is not so much Of God in
great things I can understand. but zof
God in little things.
1 There is a man who So VS., ssThat doe
trine cannot be true, because things
do go so very wrong" I replygitz is
no Inconsistency on the part of God,
but a lack of understanding on our
part. l hear that NJ Ell are making
very fine shawls in some factory I
! go in on the first floor, and see only
i the raw materials. and I ask. ..s4Are
4 these the shawls have heard about ~
Z. NO. says the manufacturers: .:go up
3 to the next fioor;;'' and go up, and
there I begin to see the design But
1 the man says. do not stop here; go
up to the top floor Of the factory and
you will see the idea fully carried
\ out. ] do so, and, having come to
the top. see the complete pattern ofEal1
exquisite shawl. So in our life. stand
Il ing down below on "a low level OF
Y Christian experience we do not IN
derstand Gods dealings. He tells us
to go up higher and higher. until we
begin to understand the Divine mean
ing with respect to us, and we adj
. vance until we stand at the very gate
4 of heaven. and there see Gods idea
all wrought out-a perfect idea OF
! mercy, Of love, Of kindness. And we
Z, say, j ust and true are all Thy ways.
1t is all right at the top. Remember
. there is no inconsistency on the par