The Monitor-register., 1896-04-17

tb qise y oniy one thought Of God. Tbosa
;nlhEs which seemed fragmentarr NOS lose
isoiatea are only different narts - alu
great thought. How far anart oos uia.
49, 'wo events-Joseph sold to tba
H Ea merchants and his rulersb;n 'n os
mssp.Iyet you see in what a myster;ors
Ivy uou connected the two into ono
pv- 90 the events are linked together
LOU VINO are aged men look hack ana
group together a thousand tb;ncs ~
your lie that once seemed isolated o.
~ cham of events reaches from
ehe garden of Eden to the cross %
paivary' n thus up to the kingdom Of
neiven. There is a relation hetvyaon ~
smallest insect that huns in the s,m
c. "ii INC the archangel on his throne.
Gou can trace a direct ancestral line
iroln the blue jay that this snrino will
pulld its nest in the tree beb;nd +ha
ous TO some me of the flock of birds
@nich, when Noah hoisted the ark's
WINDOW, with a whir and dash of
prisht wings, went out to sing over
Mount Ararat. The tulips that bloom
~ the garden this spring were nursed
ny the snowf1akes. The farthest star on
enc side of the universe could NOT 3ook
toward the farthest star on the other
side OF the universe and say, ssYou are
no relation to me, for from that bright
ORD a voice of light would ring across
the heavens responding, eyes, YES. we
are SISTERS. Nothing in Gods universe
swings at loose ends. Accidents are only
GODS way OF turning a leaf in the book
OF his eternal DEGREES. From our cradle
to u grave there is a path all marked
u 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 u victory
are twin brothers.
The whole direction of your life was
changed by something which at the time
seemed to you trifiing, while some &C.
currence which seemed tremendous af-
fected you but little. Gods plans are
magnificent beyond all comprehension.
He molds us and turns and directs us,
and we know it not. Thousands of years
are to him rs the flight of a shuttle.
b most terrific occurrence does not
make God tremble. The most trium-
plant achievement does not lift him in
to rapture. That one great thought of
Co goes out through the centuries, and
nations rise and fall, and eras 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 IL event, one history, one
plan, one development, one system.
Great and marvellous are thy works,
Lord God Almighty! Twas years ago in
New Orleans at the exposition rooms,
| when a telegram was sent to the presi-
dent of the United States, at Washing
ton, and we waited some Is Dr. 20 min
| utes, and then the presidents answer
came back, and then the presiding Off
Ger waved his handkerchief, and the sig
/ nal was sent to Washington that we
were ready to have the machinery of the
exposition started, and the president put
| his finger on the electric button, and in
| stantly the great Corliss wheel began to
move, rumblipg, rumbling, rolling, roll
ing. 1t was overwhelming, and Is, 900
| people clapped and shouted. Just one
finger at Washington started hat vast
machinery, hundreds and hundreds of
miles away, and | thought then, as ]
think now, that men sometimes touch
influences that respond In the far dis
lance, 40 years from now, 90 years
from now, 1000 years from now, 1 ,000,-
900 years from now-one touch sound
ing through the ages.
Provision For the Future.
We also learn from this story the pro-
priety of laying up for the future. Dur
ing the seven years of plenty Joseph
prepared for the famine, and when it
came he had q crowded storehouse. The
life of most men in a worldly respect is
divided into years of plenty and famine.
1t is seldom that any man passes
through life without at least seven years
of plenty. During those seven years
your business bears a rich harvest. You
scarcely know where all the money
comes from, it comes so fast. Every
bargain you make seems to turn into
gold. You contract few bad debts. You
are astonished with large dividends.
You invest more and more capital, You
wonder how men can be content with
a small business, gathering in only a
few hundred dollars while you reap
your thousands. Those are the seven
years Of plenty. Now Joseph has time
to prepare for the threatened famine, for
to almost every man there do come sew
en- years of famine. You will be sick,
you will be unfortunate, you will be
~defrauded, there will be hard times,
you will be disappointed, and if you
have no s~torehouse upon which to fall
back you may be famine struck. We
have no admiration for this denying
oneself all personal comfort and lux.
ury for the mere pleasure of boarding
up, this grasping, grasping for the mere
pleasure of seeing how large a pile you
can get, this always being poor because
as soon as a dollar comes in it is sent
out to see if it "a find another dollar,
SO that it can carry it home ON its back,
We have a contemptfor all those things,
but there is an intelligent and noble
minded forecast which we love to see
in men who have families and kindred
depending upon them for the blessings
of education and home. God sends us to
the insects for a lesson, which, while
they do not stint themselves in the
present, do not forget their duty to fore
cast the future. go to the ant, thou
sluggard. Consider her ways, and be
wise, which, having no guide, oyerseer
or ruler, provideth her meat in the sum-
mer and gathereth her food in the har-
vest"
Now, there are two ways Of laying up
money. One of these is to put it in stock
and deposit it in bank and invest it on
bond and mortgage. The other way to
lay up money is giving it away. He is
the safest who makes both of these in
vestments. There are in this house men
who if they lose every dollar they have
in the world would be ~millionaires for
eternity. They made the spiritual in
vestment. But the man who devotes
none of his gains to the cause of Christ
and looks only for his own comfort and
luxury is not safe, I care not how the
money is invested. He acts as the rose
THE ONWARD nARCH
M T.