The Progress., 1896-12-25

/ 0p lie ate raw corn out of the fie
: ne lriea llsh on the banks of the G.
D hesaret. He was howled at bv or;
b people in the tonsbs. He was splash
; OF the surf of the sea. A pilgrim wi,
out any pillow. 4 sick man withc
10 anu medlcament. 1 mourner with
~ sympathetic bosom in which he cou
Sc pour MS tears. Disguise complete.
10 hho" tnat occasionally his divine 70
IS atty flashed out, as when in tho stor
;" Oh dalllee, as in the red wine at II
wedding banquet as when he freed II
J. shackled demoniac of Gadara as who
n he turned a whole school of fs
ID INTO the net of the discourage
. Doalmen, as when he throbbed life int
y the shrlveled arm of the paralytic. hu
) lor the most part he was in Disguise
l. NO one saw the kings jewels in hi
sandal. No ore saw the rova
iooe IN his plain coat No one
Knew that that shelterless Christ
owned all the mansions in which
the hlerarchs of heaven had their bah.
ltatlon. None knew that that HIM.
sered Christ owned all the olive
groves. and all the harvests which
SHOOK their gold on the hills of Pal
eSune. No one knew that he who said
l thirst poured the Euphrates ont
OF his own chalice. No one knew that
the ocean lay in the palm of his hand
IKE deWdrop in the vase of a lily
! NO one knew that the stars and
moons, and suns, and galaxies and
consultations that marched on age
after age, were, as compared with his
lifetime, the sparkle of FREELY on .
summer night. No one knew that the
sun IN mld-heaven was only the sbad-
ow OF his throne. No one knew that
MS crown of universal dominion wac
covered up with bunch of thorns
,omnlpotence shnathed in human
body Omniscience hidden in a hu-
man eye. Infinite love beating in a
human heart. Everlasting harmonies
into human voice. Royalty
en- mssque. Grandeurs of heaven in
earthly disguise
Ny subject also impresses me with e,
now precise and accurate and particu-
ar are Gods providences. Just at the =.
moment that woman entered the city,
ne child died. Just as it was prophe- J.
sled, SO it turned out, so it always i.
urns out. The event occurs, the death
axes place, the nation is born, the
lespotlsm is overthrow at the ap- ..
olnted time. God drives the universe =
With a stiff rein. Events do not just =
appen so. Things do not go Slip y
nod In all the book of Gods provi- y
ences there is not one eff" Gods
royldences are never caught in disha-
lille TO God there are no surprises,
o dlsappOintments and no accidents. y
he most insignificant event flung out =
the ages is the connecting link be- ..
Veen two great chains-the cham of
ernlty past and the chain of eternity -,
come. / am no fatalist, but I should y,
completely wretched if l did not y,
eel that all the affairs of my life are
Gods hand, and all that pertains to ..
e and mine, just as certainly as all :. -.
e affairs of this woman of the text, w
this child of the text, as this ="
ng of the text, were in Gods ~
Ind. You may ask me hundred u,
!estlons | cannot answer, but 1 shall :.
It'll the day of my death believe that -.
am under the unerring care Of God; u.
ID the heavens may fall, and the -,
orld may burn, and the Judgment =.
ay thunder, and eternal ages may .1
IL, but not a hair shall fall from a,
head, not a shadow shall drop on 6e
path, not a sorrow shall transfix -,
heart without being divinely ar 10
lged- arranged by a loving, sympa- do
etc Father. He bottles our tears. he os
ches our sorrows, and to the orphan %
Will be Father, and to the widow Or
Will be a husband, and to the out CO
1T he will be home, and to the
st miserable wretch that this day du
wis up out of the ditch of his abom- tr,
ltion crying for mercy, he will be
all-pardoning God. The rocks shall
n gray with age, and the forests
I'll be unmOOred in the last hurri- 90,
le, and the sun shall shut its fiery be
lid, and the stars shall drop like nd
sted figs, and the continents shall ho
down like anchors in the deep, and oh
ocean shall heave it's last groan olf
lash itself with expiring agony, WI
the world shall wrap itself in a M
lding sheet of flame and leap on thf
funeral pyre of the judgment day; foe
Gods love shall not die. 1t will old
die Its suns after all other lights the
e gone out 1t will be a billowy be,
after the last ocean has wept it. ris
away. 1t will warm itself by the he,
OF a consuming world. It will chi
while the archangels trumpet is mo
ling forth and the air is filled with nef
crash of broken sepulchres and the I'd
OF the wings of the rising dead CIV