Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-04-17
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would know it, He drove these stolen
sheep and oxen toward home, but stop
ped to report TO the prophet how he had
executed his mission, when in the dis
tance the sheep began 70 bleat and the
oxen to below. The secret was out, and
Samuel said TO the blushing and con-
fused Saul, "What meaneth the bleating
of the sheep that / hear and the below
ing of the cattle?" All, my hearer, you
cannot keep an iniquity still. At just
the wrong time the sheep will bleat
and the oxen will below Achan cannot
steal the Babylonish 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 %
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 anathema
Of outraged law hurled them into the
dungeon or hoisted them on the gallows.
Francis l, king of France, stood coun-
selling 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 Francis l, and not Ameril, was the
fool. Instead Of consulting as 10 the best
way Of getting into sin, you had better
consult as 10 whether you will be able
to get ont 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 ont
upon Whitefield as he rode along on
horseback, a sack Of money on the horse
money that he had raised for orphan
asylums-and the highwayman put his
hand on the gold, and Whitefield turned
TO him and said, "Touch that if you
dare; that belongs to the Lord Jesus
Christ. " And the ruffian skunk into the
forest. Consciencel Conscience The
rufian had a pistol, but Whitetield
shook at him the finger Of doom. Do not
think you can hide any great and pro-
tracted sin in your heart, my brother
In an unguarded moment twill slip OF
the lin, or some slight action may for
the moment 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 a ship on fire within Tor
davs hinders the flames from bursting
out by keeping down the matches yet at
last in the judgment that iniquliy VIII
blaze out before God and the universe
Links OF the Universe.
Learn also from this subject that there
is an inseparable connection between
all events, however remote. The uni
verse is only one thought Of God. Those
things which seemed fragmentary and
isolated ars only different parts OF that
great thought. How far apart seemed
these two eyents-Joseph sold TO the
Arabian merchants and his ruiership Of
Eeypt-yet you see in what a mysterious
way God connected the two into one
nlan, 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 sum-
mer air and the archangel on his throne.
God can trace a direct ancestral line
from the blue jay that this spring VIII
huild its nest in the tree behind the
house to some one Of the flock Of BIRDS
which. when Noah hoisted the ark
window. with whir and dash OF
bright wings. went out TO sing over
Mount Ararat. The tulips that bloom
in the garden this spring were nursed
by the snowflakes. The farthest star on
one side of the universe could not look
toward the farthest star on the other
side of the universe and say, You are
no relation 10 me, " for from that bright
orb a voice Of light would ring across
the heavens responding, "Yes, yes we
are sisters" " Nothing in Gods universe
swings at loose ends. Accidents are only
Gods way Of turning leaf in the book
of his eternal decrees From our cradle
70 our grave there is a path all marked
ont Each event in our life Is connected
with every other event in our life Our
losses may be the most direct road 70
our gain. Our defeat and our victory
are twin brothers.
The whole direction Of your life was
changed by something which ar the time
seemed TO you trifing, while some oc-
currence which seemed tremendous al
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 10 him as the fight Of shuttle.
The most terrific occurrence does not
make God tremble. The most rlum-
nbant achievement does not lift him IN
TO RAPTURE. That one great thought Oh
God goes out through the centuries ana
nations rise and fall, and eras pass, and
the world changes, but God stlll keeps
the undivided mastery, linking event 10
4 event and century 10 century. To God
thew are all one event, one history, one
e plan. one development, one system.
Great and marvellous are thy WORKS
: Lord God Almighty! Twas years ago II
; New Orleans at the exposition rooms
when telegram was sent to the presl
= dent of the United States, at Washing
+ ton. and we waited some 10 or 20 min
e utes. and then the presidents answel
came back, and then the presiding ON
u Ger waved his handkerchief, and the sig
!, nal was sent to Washington that w
d were ready to have the machinery OF TN
l exposition started. and the president pu
his finger on the electric button, and IN
. stantly the great Cosliss wheel began {
move, rumbling, rumbling, rolling, roll
ing. 1t was overwhelming, and 10, 100