Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1897-03-12
Higher Help.
PREACHED IN THE E. CITY
BAPTIST CHURCH OF
CHRIST.
SUNDAY, MARCH I.
By the Pastor, Rev. Calvin S.
Blackwell.

Hence they were the most help
less of creatures. Tn y COM
planned of the creator. They
said, look at the OK with his
four legs, and two horns, and
strong body and, at man, with
his two |, gs and two arms, and
we have but two little legs for
support and protection ? Then
God made for each bird pair Of
wings and laid them down by
their sides, and babe them pick
them up and carry them. What?
add still other burdens to our
already helpless condition ? they
groaned. Most of them went
off and left the wings and died
in despair. But a few said
"Well, as our creator has made
these wings and bids us carry
them we will do it." AS soon
as they picked them up and
started to carry them they found
the supposed weights turned to
wings, with which to fly They
could fly faster than the man
could run, and over the head Of
a strong OK. So all of our help
came to us from God above. At
first they may seem weights, but
if We pick them up i'll faith
obediently, they will turn to
wings. "f1e watereth the hills
from His chambers" The high
dry hills find help in the higher
God sent, and rain laden clouds.
Amelia Barr beautifully says,
"rain is the most fascinating
phenomenon in the universe.
It is tlawed for us out of Polar
iceburgs, and sucked up by lotus
flowers in tropical forests. The
sea is ever laboring for the land;
the billow and the furrow have
a constant traficking through
the ministry of the cloud while
the sun increasingly turns water
into vapor, SO that it may be
light enough to be carried
through the air. From the Med
iterranean, DR.. HALEY calcul
ated, it brews during twelve
hours of a summers day, five
thousand two hundred and eigh-
ty millions OF tons; and DR.. Wat
son estimates that from an acre
of ordinary ground in the same
time, two thousand gallons are
taken. Vegetables constantly
discharge vapor, and every HUI
man being in hot weather con-
tributes daily nearly five pounds
"a quantity which if it were Wis
ible would cause us all to appear
in a little cloud.
Yet all this immense store of
Watery vapor would not benefit
the farmer unless God had made
provision for carrying it where
it was needed. So he has or
da:ned currents Of air, whose ex>
plicite business it is to take up
cargoes of vapor at the great
oceans tanks, and hasten this is
SO surely and constantly done
that no train, starting with its
load of passengers and freight
to given point, is more sure of
it's work and destination. Filled
far out on the ocean, by invisible
hands, the clouds catch the wind
and make for the shore, deliver
ing their precious freight over
cities, plains, and mountain
slopes If too much is given, it
is carried back to the sea, and
anon returns, with generous
obstinacy, on its gracious duty.
When the atmosphere is of
high temperature it will hold
great deal Of vapor; but colder
streams Of air continually invade
it, and the vapor thus condensed
by cold becomes a cloud. Every
one must have watched clouds
forming in this way in clear
sky, and felt something of the
alteration which a visible act OF
creation would evoke. Gener-
ally this miracle is worked from
two to three miles above the
farmers head; but the clouds do
not stay there; many things COM
bine to Win their watery treas
ures from them-chillier tracts
of sky-an atmosphere too full |
Of vapor to bear more accessions
or the persuasion of mountains
and woods; then the floating
clouds desdend as fog, or rain. |
hail, or snow.
And how wonderfully they
descend! Not, in torrents and
floods, sweeping all before them
but trickling through the air in
drops, and falling SO gently on
the earth that not blade of grass
or the petal of a flower is injured.
Slowly sailing over field after
field, leaving no part unwatered,
they come, as Gods blessings al
ways come, as if they love to be
compelled to bless. In tropical
lands, where the sun b1ews vapor
in enormous quantities, a shower
is more emphatic thing; but
such rains have local need and