The Penn's Grove record., 1897-05-14

milk. Goo hau III tne heavens and the
earth before Him n under Him, and Vet
Tor Elijah to have 1t. Oh, be strong nv
hearer, In the fact that the same God q o.,
ing 10 supply you. II Is never Hharj tinssD
with Him. His ships mover break on tba
rocks, His banks never fall. He bas the
supply for you, and He has the means for
sending it. He has not only the cargo. but
the ship. lit were necessary, He would
ravens reaching from His gate to yours nm.
hi the food would be flung down the skv
| from bedk to benk and from talon Ia taIon
Notice again In this story Of the text that
| the ravens did not allow Elijah "a hoard nm
a surplus. They did not bring enough on
| Monday to last oil the week. They aid not
| bring enough ond morning to last until tina
next morning. They came twice a day and
brought just enough for one time. You
known as we'll as l that the great fret of TIC
world Is that we want O surplus. wa want
the ravens to bring enough for ATTY wears.
You have moro confidence In the WASH
| Inpton banks or Bank Of England Thar Won
have In the Royal Bank OF Heaven. You
say: can that IS very poetic, but you ma
| eagles" We had better bs content With
Just enough. II In the morning your FAM
ily eat 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 5, or 6, or = O'Clock In the morning
Just look up, and you will see two black
spots on the sky, md you will hear the fap-
ping Of wing, and instead Of Edgar A. Poe's
fnsane Raven aliaht on tho chamber door,
"only this and nothing more" you wifi
find Elijah's two ravens, or two ravens Of
the Lord, the n bringing bread and thd
other bringing ~meat--plumed butcher and
baker.
God is infinite In resource. When the CITY
Of Rochelle was besieged and the inhabi-
tants We're dying Of the famine, the tides
washed up On the beach ds never before,
and as never sInce, enough shellish to feed
the whole city. God is good. There Is no
mistake about that. History tells us that
Id 1855 In England there was d great
drought The crops failed, but Id Essex.
on the rocks, In d place where they had
neither sown nor cultured, a great crop ot
peas grew until they filed 100 measures,
and there were b~lossoming vines enough,
promising as much more.
But why go SO farf / can give you q
family incident. Some generations back
there was o grent drought In Connecticut.
New England: The water disappeared from
the hills, and the FARMERS living Oh the hills
drove their cattle down toward the valleys
and had them supplied OF the wells and
fountains Of the ~neighbors. But these after
I Nv HI bNkghAA v AAtAg th1lA tkO III khuOI 6tiu
to Mr.. Birdseye, Of whom l shall speak:
".You must not send your ..iocks and herds
down here any More. Our wells ore giving
OUT Mr.. Birdseye, the old Christian man,
gathered bis family at the altar, and with
his family he gathered the slaves Of the
bousehold-for bondage was then in yogue
In Connecticut-and on their knees before
God they cried for water, aud the family
story Is that there was Weeping and great
sobbing at that dltnr that the family might
not perish for lack OF winter; and that the
herds dnd flocks might not perish.
The family rose from the altar. Mr..
Birdseye, the old man; took his staff and
walked out over the hills, and i'd d place
where he had seen scores Of times, without
noticing anything particular, he saw the
ground was very dark, and be took his
staff aud turned up the ground, the water
started, and he beekened to his servants,
and they came and Brought pals and
buckets until all the family and oil the
flocks and the herds were cared for, and
then they made troughs reaching from
that place down to the house and barn,
and tho water flowed, and 1t Is q living
fountain to-day.
Now / cali that old grandfather Elijah,
and l cali that brook that began to roll
then and Ii rolling still the brook Cherlth,
and the lesson to me and to all who hear ID
Is, when you are In great stress Of circum-
stances, pray and dig, dig and pray, and
pray and dig. How does that passage got
1.-THE mountains shall depart and the hills
be removed, but My loving kindness shall
not fail" If your merchandise, If your
mechanism, II your ~husbandry fail, look out
for ravens, II you have In your despond-
ency put God on trial and condemned
Him as guilty Of cruelty. | move to-day for
q new trial. II the biography Of your life
Is ever written. ! viii tell You what the
FIRST chapter dnt< middle chapter and
the last chapter viii Be about II 1t Is writ
ten accurately. The first chapter about
mercy, the middle chapter about mercy,
the last chapter about mercy. The mercy
that lowered over your cradle. The mercy
that will hover over your grave. Inc mercy
that will cover all between.
Again, this story OF the text impresses me
that relief carie. 10 this prophet with the
most Unexpected II with seemingly I'M
possible conveyance. II 1t had been q
, robin redbreast, or d musical meadow lark,
or a meek turtledove, or d sublime alba-
l tross that had brought the food to Elijah,
it would not have been so surprising. But
no. 1t was a bird SO fierce and inauspicate
that We nave fashioned one of our most
. ~forcoful and repulsive words out ofit-
l ravenous. That bird has a passion for
: picking out the eyes Of men and OF ami
; mails. 1t loves to maui the sick and the
. dying. 1t swallows with vulturous guzzle
everything ii can nut its beak on, and yet
all the food Elaiah gets for six months or
I a wear ia rom ravens So your supply Ia
i from an pnexneeted source.
|, You tbint anrna rreat-hearted. generous
man viii come along and give you his name
j, on the hack Of vour note. or he will go Sc
i curity for Won in some great enterprise.
, No he viii Not God vii. open the heart OF
/ some sbvioat toward YOU. Your relief viii
) some fron, the most unexpected quarter.
The pr0vidanca witch seemed ominous
viii ba 10 vov more Than that which seemed
, ansnjcions n viii NOT be a chafinch with
Srsast ond wtrg dashed with white and
browr ad chastnnt' II will be- a black
, ra NV "no ene
i'een - :, ,nrr do.
Children OF GOD, get, up GUY u you nony
r spondency. The bord never MI ,o,,r fret
ravens as he has to-day. fling YOU nrde,
/ and worry to the winds. Somes ,nan -, iittIe
the vexations OF life you ieei ino a: snme
/ girl OF four years, who said ao,,Id Ga 10
4 childish vexation, "oh, Wish ! rS,,! M
heaven and see God and PICK nowersi ,,as
/, will let You go when the right timo M,
to pick flowers. Until then, Wna,eVe. yoJ ~
, want pray for. / suppose EIHan padS IN
: pretty much all the time. IreM hasore
, work behind him, tremendous WosK pS aIors
, him. God has spared no ravens ioT nnt h
or for OpOnla who are pr1yeribSS. L Pue y