The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-20


revealed in the lung of an insect than
in the brain of an angel. His glory is
manifested in the atoms of a molecule
as truly as in the worlds upon worlds
that sweep through the Unreasonable
fields of boundless space
This earth with all its dust and tears,
Is no less Gods than yonder spheres;
And rain drops weak and grains of sand,
Are stamped by His immediate hand
There are helpful lessons suggested
by these facts. The first is a lesson of
comfort. These truths of Gods created
world assure US that Gods providential
care is over every life and every part
Of life. Our times are in His hand.
Some wise people ridicule the idea that
God thinks of and cares for each indi-
vidual soul. They are willing to ac-
knowledge that He cares for the great
universe that He overrules the desti-
MES of nations, but they say it de-
grades our conception of God to teach
that He will condescend to listen to
the prayer of a little child Emerson
gives expression to this when he says:
1T is very we'll for God to swing a star
into space and order the goings of great
systems and even to minister to the
lives of great men. but when it come.
to meddling with the little affairs of the
daily life of a thousand million of men,
women and children, pshaw! He's above
all that
The facts we have considered, this
brief survey of Gods attention to the
infinite details of creation, is the best
answer to all such teaching. Accord
ing to some it would not be respectable
or dignified for God to attend to such
minute things. But have we not seen
that Gods greatness and glory are man.
ifested in a wondrous manner in the at
tention He has given to the micro
scopic objects of creation The bee that
constructs its honey cell with such
mathematical precision and with such
delicate instruments extracts the nectar
from the flowers Of the field and stores
1t away for future use; the little bird
whose vocal organs are so marvelous.y
attuned; the flower so exquisitely paint
ed and so richly freighted with invisib e
casks of fragrance that like incense fills
the morning air with sweetness. are all
the handiwork of the Almighty. He
who cares for these will not forget or
forsake His own child made in His own
image. If the modest little daisy, fresh
and sweet with the morning dew can
look up and say Hes my God and I'm
His flower" how much more may you
look up and say abba Father" ssCon-
slider the lilies of the field" said Jesus.
If God clothes them with such beauty
will He neglect you? Therefore cast
your care upon Him for He careth for
you.
If survey of the starry universe
suggests the thought that Gods King
dom is too vast to encourage the faith
that we are personally known and
cared for by Him, the study of His
minute creations assures us there is
nothing too small for his watchful
experimenting care. If science makes
faith in God difficult, science also offers
TO faith the most assuring help 1t
shows that while Gods power rolls mil
lions of worlds through measures
space, He at the same time paints the
wing of an insect with matches beauty
and feeds the ravens when they cry.
Listen to this magnificent presenta-
ton of God given by the Psalmist: HE
telleth the number of the stars, He
healeth the broken in heart, and bind
eth up their wounds" He whose provi-
dence IS comprehensive enough to
superintend the entire universe, will
also bend to meet the necessities of the
humblest and neediest in His realm.
While his omniscient eye numbers the
innumerable stars, His gentle touch
heals the broken heart. While His fiat
holds the listening planets to their
spheres, His tender hand binds up our
bleeding wounds" Therefore cast your
care upon Him for He careth for you
The Bible all through teaches that
God thinks of and cares for each indi-
vidual soul. God is mighty and He
despiseth not any, The Everlasting
God, the Creator of the ends of the
earth, shall feed his flock like a. shep-
herd and shall gather the lambs with
His arms and carry them in His bo-
SON." The homeless, outcast woman
from her desert solitude and loneliness.
cried to God for help. He came to her
relief, and all down the centuries her
beautiful testimony has come, '"Thou
God seest me-" poor helpless outcast
woman. AS you listen you hear men
all through the ages witnessing to the
personal love and care of God Il am
poor and needy yet the Lord thinketh
ON me-" Il was brought low and he
helped me-
1t is the very genius of the New Tes-
lament to encourage men in the faith
that God exercises a personal iunterest
in every human life. Jesus tasted
death for every man" The Holy Spirit
speaks to and pleads with each soul
separately. L have a message from
God to thee" Are not two sparrows
sold for a. farthing, yet not one of them
is forgotten before God. If God
clothes the grass of the field how much
more will He clothe you. Even the
hairs of your head are numbered
The shepherd goes out after the one
lost sheep. The father waits to well
come home the one wandering prodigal.
There is joy in heaven over one sinner
that repenteth. Take heed that We de-
spise not one of these little ones. All
this interest and love and care fer the
individual is in perfect harmony with
the method of God in creation. He
whose thought goes to the outmost
bounds of creation, He who giveth the
stars their name, will not fail to write
your name in the Book of Life. God
is as personal in grace as He is in ma
ture. He so loved the world that He
gave His son to die for it, is one truth.
He loved me and gave Himself for
Me-" is another truth. I grasp both
truths with grateful joy. The grace
that is universal is also personal.
Learn another lesson. If God is SO
careful of little things, if He does the
smallest work as well and as thor
Oughly as the larger. if He takes as