Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

my text | find it-divine observation ana
guidance of minutest affairs. And moth
ing is to God large or small-planet or
ant hill-the God who easily made the
worlds employing his infnity in the won
drous construction of a SPIDERS foot.
Before we leave this subject let us
thank God for those who were willing to |
endure the fatigues and self sacrifices nee |
essary to make revelation Of the natural !
world. so reinforcing the Scriptures. II
the microscope could speak, what a story |
It could tell of hardship and poverty and
suffering and perseverance on the part of
those who employed it for important dis
cOvery! II would tell OF the blinded eyes
Of NJ Strauss. of the Hubers and Of scores
of those who, after inspecting the minute
objects Of Gods creation, staggered out
from their cabinets with vision destroyed.
This hour in many a professors study the
work of putting eyesight on the altar of
science is going on. And what greater
loss can one suffer than the loss of eye
sight, unless il be loss of reason? While
the telescope is reaching farther up and
the microscope is reaching farther down,
both are exclaiming: "There is a God,
and he is infinitely wise and infinitely
good! Worship him and worship him
foreverP'
And now | bethink myself of the fact
| that we are close to q season of the year
/ which will allow us to be more out of
| doors and to confront the lessons of the
natural world, and there are voices that
seem to say, Go to the ant; go to the
bird; go to the flowers; go to the fields;
20 to the waters" Listen to the canta-
tas that drop from the gallery of the tree
tops. Notice in the path where you walk
the lessons of industry and divine guild
ance. Make natural religion a common
tary on revealed religion. Put the glow
of sunrise and sunset into your spiritual
experiences. Let every star speak of the
morning star of the Redeemer, and every
aromatic bloom make you think of him
who is the Rose of Sharon and the Lily
of the Valley. and every overhanging cliff
remind you of the Rock of Ages. and
every morning suggest the "dayspring
from on high, which giveth light to those
who are in darkness" and even the little
hillock built by the roadside or in the
fields reminds you of the wisdom Of imi
tating in temporal and spiritual thing:
the insectile forethought, (which having
, no guide. Overseer or ruler, prOvideth he
meat in the summer and gathereth he
, food in the harvest"
copyright, 1901, by Louis Klopsch, N. "
Use For Sewers.
| A City of Mexico correspondent of tn
| Boston Transcript writes: 1.-THE City o
$ Mexico is now in the hands of the con
t tractors who are putting in the new sys
5 TEN Of sewers, which precedes the pawn
j, of the streets with asphalt. When thes
e improvements are completed and the $40
o 100000 or more in gold now provided
+ expended in undermining this ancient car
D ital, here will be one of the most beaut
K full cities to visit in the world. for it wi
J. retain its unique features and lose mos
o of those now found so disagreeable b
d tourists.
v ''rhe following item from a local pi
10 per in the City of Mexico is a curiol
II illustration of the meeting Of old an
re new methods which one finds everywhel
IS and which, while impressing the Wis.,;
y so forcibly, are taken as matter
course by the inhabitants: Coaches a
not the only things that get into the "a
~ jas, as the sewer excavations are calle
If Scarcely day passes that the police re
n ords do not show the finding of one
No more bodies, the manner of their cOmi
n there frequently being a mystery.
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