The Progress., 1897-05-15

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God that is going to supply you. he is
your Father. You would have to make an
elaborate calculation before you could tell
me how many pounds Of food and how
many yards of clothing would be necessary
for you and your family. But God knows
without any calculation. You have plate
at his table, and you are going to tie wait
ed on, unless you act like q naughty child
and kick and scramble and pound sauctly
the plate and try to upset things.
God the All Wise Parent.
God has vast family and everything is
methodized, and you are going to be served
II you will only wait your turn. God has
already ordered all the suits of clothes you
will ever need down to the last suit In
which you will be laid out. God has al
ready ordered all the food you will ever
eat down to the last crumb that will be
put In your mouth in the dying sacrament.
It may not be just the kind of food or ap-
parel we would prefer. The sensible parent
depends on his own judgment as to what
ought to be the apparel and the food of
the minor in the family. The child would
say, "Give me sugars and CONNECTIONS.
"Oh, no." says the parent. "You must
have something palmer first" The child
would say, "Oh. give me these great
says the parent. ''That wouldn't be suit
able
Now, God is our Father and we are
minors, and he is going to clothe Us and
feed US, although he may not always yield
to our infantile wish for the sweets and
glitter. These ravens Of the text did not
bring polnegranates from the glittering
platter OF King Ahab. They brought
bread and meat. God had all the heavens
and the earth before him and under him,
and yet he sends this plain food because 1t
was best for Elijah to have it. oh, be
strong, my nearer, In the fact that the
same God Is going to supply you'll It Is
never "hard times with him. His ships
never break on the rocks. His banks new
or fail. He has the supply for you, and
he has the means for sending it. He has
not only the cargo. but the ship. II 1t were
necessary, he would swing out from the
heavens a flock of ravens reaching from
his gate to yours, until the food would be
flung down the sky from beak to beak and
from talon to talon.
Notice again in this story of the text
that the ravens did not allow Elijah to
hoard up surplus. They did not bring
enough on Monday to last all the week.
They did not bring enough one morning
to last until the next morning. They
came twice n day and brought just enough
for one time. You know MS well as that
the great fret OF the world Is that we want
surplus; we want the ravens to bring
enough for so years. You have moro con-
fidence in the Washington banks or Bank
Of England than you have in the royal
bank Of heaven. You say: "AN that Is
very poetic, but you may have the black
ravens. Give me the gold eagles. - We had
better be content with just enough. II in
the morning your family eats up all the
food there Is In the house, do not sit down
and cry and say, 81 don't know where
the next meal is to come FROM" About
or or o'clock In the morning just
look up and you will see two black spots
on the sky and you will hear the Tapping
Of wings, and instead Of Edgar A. Poe's
insane raven alighting on the chamber
door, "only this and nothing more" you
will find Elijah's two ravens, or two ra-
VEINS of the Lord, the one bringing bread
and the other bringing meat-plumed
butcher and baker.
Prayer That Brought Water.
God Is infinite in resource. When the
city of Rochelle was besieged and the in
habitants were dying Of the famine, the
tides washed up on the beach as never be-
f,vr, md eI,oIy aey,