The Canton times., 1900-09-28

II those I-told- -you-so's got their
desert they would long ago have been
pitched over the battlements. The
mote inE their neighbors eyes, SO
small tnat II takes a microscope to
I find it, gives them more trouble than
the beam which obscures their own
| optics. With air sometimes super
cilious and sometimes pharasaical and
always blasphemous they take the
razor Of Divine Judgment and sharp
en- it on the hone of their own hard
| hearts and then go to work on men
sprawled out at full length under dis
aster, cutting mercilessly. They be-
gin by soft expressions of sympathy
and pity and half praise and lather
the victim all over before they put on
the sharp edge.
Again, when 1 read in my text that
The Lord shaves with the hired razor
of Assyria the land of Judea, 1 think
myself of the precision of Gods provi-
dence. A razor swung the tenth part
| of an inch out of the right line
means either failure or laceration. but
Gods dealings never slip, and they do
not miss by the thousandth part of an
inch the right direetion. People talk
as though things in this world were
at loose ends. Cholera sweeps across
Marseilles and Madrid and Palermo,
and we watch anxiously. Will the
epidemic sweep Europe and America?
People say: That will entirely de-
pend on whether the incubation is
successful experiment; that will de-
pend entirely on quarantine regula-
tions; that will depend on the early
or late appearance of frost. That ep-
idemic is pitched into the world, and
it goes blundering across the con-
tinents, and it is all guesswork and
an appalling perhaps" 1 think, per-
haps, that God had something to do
with it, and that His mercy may have
in some way protected us; that He
may have done as much for us as the
quarantine and the health officers. 1t
was right and a necessity that all
caution should be used, but there have
come enough macaroni from Italy,
and enough grapes from the south
of France, and enough rags from tat
| terdemalions, and hidden in these ar
ticles Of transportation enough chol-
eraic germs 10 nave ielt py this time
all the cltles mourning IN tne ceme-
terles' l thank all the doctors ana
quarantines, but more than all, and
first of all, and last of all, and all
the tlme,:i tnank uoo' IN an the o'ooo
wears of the worlds existence there
mas not one thng mercy happened
So. God is not an anarcmst' put
KING, 1ather.
When little Tad, the son of Presi-
dent Lincoln, died. all America SYM
pathized with the sorrow in the white
house. lie used to rush INTO the room
where the caoinet was IN session and
while the most eminent men OF the
land were discussing the questions OF
| national existence. But the child had
no care about those questions. Now,
God the Father and God the Son and
God the Holy Ghost are in perpetual
session in regard to this world and
kindred worlds. Shall you, His child,
rush in to criticise or arralgn or con-
denim the Divine government? No;
the cabinet of the Eternal Three can
govern and will govern in the wisest
and best way, and there never will be
mistake, and. like razor skillfully
swung, shall cut that which ought
to be cut and avoid that which ought
to be avoided. Precision to the very
hairbreadth. Earthly timepieces may
get out of order and strike wrong,
saying it is one o'clock when it is two,
or two when it is three. Gods clock