The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1900-09-21

| cles OF TRANSFORMATION enough chcleraic
rcrms q have left hv this time all the
I cities morning IN the cemeteries. |
thank all the doctors and Quarantincs, but
more than nj and FIRST Of All and last OF
| all and all the tlrNe | thank God In all
| the GOO years Of the worlds existence
| there has not one thing merely happened
SO" God is not an anarchist, but Ming
| a Father
When little T,d. the son Of rresiden.
| Lincoln. died. all America svmpathltcd
! with the sorrow IN the White House. lie
used 20 rush into the room where the
| Cabinet 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 pues-
tions No. God the Father and God the
Son aud God the Holy Ghost are in per
petual session IN reward To this world
and kindred worlds, Shall YOU, His chlld.
rush IN 20 crltlcise or arralgu or condemn
the divine government No. The cab.
met OF the eternal three can govern and
will govern in the wlsest and best way,
and there never Will hc a mistake and.
like razor skillfully swung. shall cut that
which ought 60 be avoided. Precision to
the very hairhreadth, Earthly time
pieces NAV 80 out OF order and strike
wrong saying Il is ! o'clock when u IL
or > when it is :. Gods clock Is always
when IL is - it strikes II. and the second
hand is as accurate as the minute hand
Further, my text tells US shat God
sometimes shaves nations I'm the same
day shall the Lord shave with razor
that is hired" With one sharp sweep
lie went across Judca and down went its
pride and its power. In 1861 God shaved
the American nation. We had allowed to
grow sabbath desrcration and oppression
and hlasphemv and fraud aud imnuritv
and all sorts of turpltudc. The South had
ITS sins and the North had It's sins and
the EnSt it's sins and the West It's sins
We had been warned again and again, and
we did not heed At length the sword OF
war cut from the St Lawrence TO the Gulf
and from Atlantic sea, GARD 60 Pacific sea
board The pride of the land, not the
towards. but the heroes. on both sides
went down And that which we took Tor
the sword of war was the Lord razor. In
1852 again il went across the land; IN
1858 again. in 1864 again. Then the sharp
instrument was incased and put away.
Never in the history of the ages was
any land more thoroughly shaved than
during those four Years of civil combat,
and my brethren, II we do not quit some
of our individual and national sins the
Lord will again take VA IN hand. lie has
other ragors within reach besides war.
Epldemics, droughts, dclugcs, plaques
grasshoppcr and loCust--or our overtowcr-
ing success may 80 far excite the jealousy
ot other lands that under some protcNt
| the great nations may combine 60 put us
down. Our nation, 40 easily approached
on north and south and from both oceans.
might have on hand at once more hostlli'
! tllitics than were ever arraycd against any
| one power. | hope no such combination
against us shall ever hc formed, but l
! want TO show that as Assyria was the
L Il Nl..a
| hired razor against babylon and the Huns
| the hired razor against the Goths there
/ are now many ragors that the Lord could
! hlrc VI because Of our national sins lie
| should undertake TO shave US In 1870
! Germany was the razor with which the
| Lord shaved France Japan was the ra.
2or with which lie shaved China, and
! American the razor with which lie shaved
| arrogant. oppressive and Blbe-hating
| SPAN But nations are TO repent IN n
! day. Nav speedy and worldwide coming
! To God hinder on both sides the sea all
national calamity But do not let us "a a
nation either b, uurghtcous law at Wash,
| lngtol or bad lives among ourselves defy
| the Almighty.
One would think that our national sym
! bol OF the eagle might sometimes suggest
! another eagle. that which ancient Rome
! carried In the talons of that eagle were
| clutchcd at one time Britain, France.
| Spain, Italy. Dalmatia, Rhnctia, Norlcum,
| Pannonia. Mocsia, Dacla, Thracc, Mace
donia. Greece, ASIA Minor, Syria, Phocni.
cia, Palestine. Egypt and all northern
Africa and all the islands of the MedItcr-
rlncan- indeed all the world that was
worth having; l2OOOO,OW OF people under
| the wings of that one eaglel Where ~
she now Ask GbbOn, the historian, in
his prose poem, the Decline and Fall of
| the Roman Empire" Ask her gigantic
ruins, bcmoaning their sadness through
the ages, the scrcech owl at windows out
! Of which worldwide conqucrcrs looked.
| Ask the day Of judgment, when her
| crowned debauChecs, tonmodun and Per
! tlnax and Caligula and Dloclctan, shall
answer for their infamy. AS man and as
nations let us repent and have our trust
| ln pardoning God rather than depend
! on former successes for immunity. Out
| of thirteen Of the greatest battlcs of the
world Napoleon had lost but one before
! Waterloo Pride and destruction often
rode IN the same saddle.
! But notice once more and more than
| all ia my text that God ~ 40 kind and
! loving that when II ~ necessary for Him
! to cut He has 60 90 to Others for the
| sharp edged weapon. In the same day
! shalt the Lord shave with a razor that ~
| hired " God ~ love. God ls pity. God
| il help. God ~ shelter God ~ rescue.
! There are no sharp edges about Him, no
| thrusting points. no Instruments oi laccrn-
! ton. n you want balm for wounds, He
| has that II YOU want divine salyc for
! cycaight. He has that. But II there IL
! sharp and cutting work 10 do which re-
qu,rcs a razor. that lIc hires. God has
| nothing about Him that hurts snve when
! dire necessity demands, and then lie has
/ 90 70 clear off 10 some one else 20 get the
instrument This divine clcmency VIII be
I no novelty ~ those who have pondered
! ,hr Calvarean massacre. ". ere God sub.
merged Himself IN human tears and crim'
| syupd Himself from punctnrcd arteries
! and let The Terrestrial and internal worlds
/ maui Him until the chandeliers ot the
/ sky had 30 be- turned out because the uni
vsrsc could not endure the outrage. Illus.
! irious for love He must have been 20 take
/ 40 that as our substitute, paying out pf
| lia own heart the price Of our admission
! ~ tho gates Of heaven.
KIM Henry H. Of England crowned his
son ~ king, and on the day of coronation
/ put on servants garb and waited, he.
] the king li the sons table, 10 the aston
/ iahmcIt Oi al The princes But wc know
/ oI a more WOndryus scene, the King Oi
| heaven and earth offering 10 put on you,
: Uis child. the crown ~ life and m the
/ form OF a servant waiting on you with
/ b,rmng Extoi that love. all painting, all
raulpturc, al music, al architecture, all
wor.hpi ~ Drcsdenian gallery let Ra.
/ phaal hold Him up ~ = child, and ~ Ant
/ wrrg cathedral lct Rubons hand Him
down from the cross a. a martyr and Han.
I del make all his OfatOriO yibratc around
/ .hlt one chOrl-"IIc was wounded for our
/ transzressions. bruised for our iniquities."
/ But not unl. an me red so--sa1 get home
/ and from tbe cOuuien1uces In all the gal
/ .ore. 81 thr -ansJmed shall be revealed
thr wonders of redemption shall either
man or scraph or arrhaugcl know the
ta.ght and depth and breadth Oi the love
o.. God.
s., or national capital p monument IN
uy.Y. oi him VhO did more than any one