The weekly intelligencer., 1900-09-22

| am very apologetic for those men
who have great faults. while at the
same time they have msgnihcent vir-
tues.
Again. when I read in my text that
the Lord shavss with the hired razor
of Assyria the land Of Judea, 7 think
myself Of the precision OF Gods provi-
dence. razor swung the tenth part
of an inoh out OF the right line
means either failure or lAceration. but
Gods dealings never alip. and they do
not miss by the thoussndth part Of an
inch the right direction. People talk
as though things In this world were
at loose ends. Cholera sweeps across
Marseilles and Madrid and Palermo,
and we watch Anxiously. win the
epidemic sweep Europe and AmericA2
People say; THAT will entirely de-
pend on whether the incubation IL
a successful experiment; that will de-
pend entirely on quarantine regulA-
tions. that win depend on the early
or late appearance Of frost. That ep-
idemic Il pitched into the world, and
it goes laundering across. the con-
tinents. and IT is all guesswork and
an appalling perhaps." l think, per-
haPs, that God had something TO do
with II. and that His mercy may have
In some way protected Us; that He
may have done ss much ioE Us as the
quarantine and the health officers. II
was right and 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
tieles Of transportation enough ehol-
eraic germs TO have left by this time
all the cities mourning IN the Gene
teries. thank all the doctors and
quarantines. but more than all, and
first Of all, and last OF all. and all
the time, thank God. In all the 5000
years Of the worlds existence there
has not one thing merely happened
So" God is not an anarchist, but
q king, a father. - fr-e%
When little Tad, the son Of Presi.
dent Lincoln, died. all America SYM
pathixed with the sorrow In the white
house. He used 70 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 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 OF arraign or con-
denim the Divine sovernnenty Ne;
the cabinet OF the Eternal Three can
govern and will govern In the wisest
and best way, and there never will be
4 mistake, and, like razor skillfully
swung. shall cut that which ought
TO be cut and avoid that which ought
20 be avoided. Precision TO the very
hairbreadth. Earthly timepieces may
get out Of order and strike wrong.
saying II 10 one o'clock when II Is two,
or two when II Is three. Gods clock
IL always right, and when 1t Is one
II strikes one. and when II Is 10 Il
strikes i2. and the second hand IA as
accurate as the minute hand.
Further, my text tells us that Goo
sometimes shaves nations. an the
same day shall the Lord shave with
a razor that IL hired" With one shart
sweep He went across Judea, and
down went its pride and its power
In 1861 God shaved the American ma
, ton. We had allowed to grow, Sab
hath desecration and oppression snt
blasphemy and fraud and fmpurit,
and all sorts Of turpltude. The south
had It's sins, and the north lis sins
and the east it's sins, and the west III
sins. We had been warned again AMI
again, and we did not heed. Al length
the sword OF war cut from the ST
Lawrence TO the gulf and from At
a ,lantic seabord to Pacific seaboard
: The pride of the land, not the COW
ards, but the heroes, on both side
went down. And that which we tool
for the sword of war was the Lord
razor. In 1862 again II went acros
the land; in 1868 again; in 1864 again
4 Then the sharp, instrument was in
a cased and put away.
Never in the history of the ages wa
e any land more thoroughly shaved thai
: during those four years of civil com
r bat, and, my brethren, II we do no
' quit some Of our individual and ma
: tional sins the Lord will again TAX
I US in hand. He has other razors with
n In reach besides war = epidemics
a droughts. deluges, plaques = grass
q hopper and locust--or our ovsrtower
I ing success may SO far excite the jeal
. ousy Of other lands that under som
Q pretext the great nations may CON
! blne to put Us down. Our nation, .
d easily approached on north and sout
p and from both oceans. might have o
I hand at once more hostilities tina
o were ever arrayed against any on
e power. hope no such combinatio
r against US will ever be formed. but
Il want TO show that, as Assyria was III
i hired razor against Babylon, and th
r Huns the hired razor against tn
e Goths. there are now many razor
= that the Lord could hire II, because Q
" our national sins, lie should under
r take to shave US. In 1870 German
n was the razor with which the Lor
e shaved France. Japan was the razc
o with which He shaved China. an
o America tbs razor with which II
n shaved arrogant, oppressive and Bibl'
n hating Spain. But nations are to =,
; pent in a day. May . speedy an
a worldwide coming to God hinder 0
e both sides the sea all national calan
, ity. But do not let US a. natio
q either by unrighteous law at Wasl
D ington or bad liyes' among .oursely'
: defy the Almighty. ll
One would think that our nAtlonl
y symbol Of the eagle might sometime
II suggest another eagle--that which q
o e.snt Rome carried. In theeialons {
that eagle were ciutehed AZ one tin
t Britain, France, Spain, Italy, Dalmi
g tia. Rhaetia, Noricum, Pannonia. Mo
4 sia, Dacis. Thrace, Macedonia, 0reec
. Asia Minor, Syria, Phoenieia, Pale
i tine. Egypt and ali northern AiFiG
4 and all the islands Of the Mediterr
d neap--indeed, all the world that W,
e worth having, = hundred and tweni
., millions OF people under the wings
:, that one eagle, Where Is abe now
u AK Gibbon, ths historian, 10 his pro-
y poem. "The Decline and Fall Of u