The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-12-18

He fshed with the fishermen. He smote
with his own hammer in the carpenters
shop. SIe ate raw corn out of the field.
He fried fish on the banks of the Gen
nesareA. He was howled at by crazy
people 10 the tombs. He was splashed
% the aArf of the sea. A pilgrim with
out AK; pillow. A sick man without
ard pisI.cament. A mourner with no
sympEtb 3tic bosom in which he could
pour a.s tears. Disguise complete.
Rnow that occasionally his divine roy
atty flashed out, as when in the storm
on Galilee, as in the red wine at the
wedding banquet, as when he freed the
shackled demoniac of Gadara, as when
he turned a whole school of fish
into the net of the discouraged
boatmen, as when he throbbed life into
the shriveled arm of the paralytic; but
/ for the most part he was in disguise.
No one saw the kings jewels in his
/ sandal. No one saw the royal
robe in his plain coat. No one
! knew that that shelterless Christ
owned all the mansions in which
the hierarchs of heaven had their hab-
itation. None knew that that hun
gered Christ owned all the olive
groves, and all the harvests which
| shook their gold on the hills of Pal
estine. No one knew that he who said
81 thirst" poured the Euphrates out
of his own chalice No one knew that
the ocean lay in the palm of his hand
like a 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 a
summer night. No one knew that the
sun in mid-heaven was only the shad-
ow of his throne. No one knew that
his crown of universal dominion was
covered up with a bunch of thorns.
Omnipotence sheathed in a human
body. Omniscience hidden in a hui
man eye. Infinite love beating in a
human heart. Everlasting harmonies
subdued into a human voice. Royalty
en- masque. Grandeurs Of heaven in
earthly disguise.
My subject also impresses me with
/ how precise and accurate and particu-
lar are Gods providences. Just at the
moment that woman entered the city,
the child died. Just as it was prophe-
sled, so it turned out, so it always
turns out. The event occurs, the death
takes place, the nation is born, the
despotism is overthrow at the ap-
pointed time. God drives the universe
with a stiff rein. Events do not just
happen so. Things do not go slip
shod. In all the book of Gods provi-
dences there is not one IF" Gods
providences are never caught in disha-
billie. To God there are no surprises,
no disappointments and no accidents.
The most insignificant event flung out
in the ages is the connecting link be-
tween two great chains-the chain OF
eternity past and the chain OF eternity
to come. l am no fatalist, but should
be completely wretched If / did not
feel that all the affairs of my life are
in Gods hand, and all that pertains to
me and mine, just as certainly as all
the affairs Of this woman of the text,
as this child of the text, as this
king of the text, were in Gods
hand. You may ask me q hundred
questions l cannot answer, but l shall
until the day of my death believe that
l am under the unerring care OF God;
and the heavens may fall, and the
world may burn, and the judgment
may thunder, and eternal ages may
roll, but not hair shall fall from
my head, not a shadow shall drop on
my path, not a sorrow shall transfx
my heart without being divinely ar
ranged-arranged by loving, sympa-
thetic Father. He bottles our tears, he
catches our sorrows, and TO the orphan
he will be a Father, and to the widow
he will be husband, and to the out
cast he will be a home, and to the
most miserable wretch that this day
crawls up out of the ditch of his abom-
nation crying for mercy, he will be
an all-pardoning God. The rocks shall
turn gray with age, and the forests
shall be unmoored in the last hurri-
cane, and the sun shall shut its fiery
eyelid, and the stars shall drop like
blasted figs, and the continents shall
go down like anchors in the deep, and
the ocean shall heave its last groan
and lash itself with expiring agony,
and the world shall wrap itself in a
winding sheet of flame and leap on
the funeral pyre of the judgment day;
but Gods love shall not die. 1t will
kindle it's suns after all other lights
have gone out. 1t will be billowy
sea after the last ocean has wept it.
self away 1t will warm itself by the
fire of a consuming world. 1t wiz
sing while the archangels trumpet is
pealing forth and the air is filled with;
the crash of broken sepulchres and the
rush of the wings of the rising dead
Oh. may God comfort all this people
with this Christian sentiment.
seven Wise Mems Sayings.
Tho sayings of the Seven Wise Men