Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-02-08

eye OF asking the Oihcer question.
Leave being granted. the servant said,
DO you not think that God governed
the world very we'll before you came
into it," mo doubt of it,, was the re-
ply. and do you not think he will
govern it quite as we'll when you are
gone out of it?" Certainly" Then
pray. sir, excuse me-but do you not
think you may trust him to govern 1t
as long as you live in it?" The remark
was so sensible that sleeplessness de-
parted and tranquility came.
A particular Providence is as certain
as a general Providence. 1t did not
just happen so that Brunei noticed
ship-wOrm boring into the wood, so
suggesting to the engineer the tunnel
ing OF the Thames. 1t did not just
happen SO that spiders web strung
from tree to tree suggested the sus-
pension bridge to its first originator.
Nothing just happened so in your life
or mine. 1t is not an autOcrat at
the head Of the universe but a Father.
Leave thy low vaulted past,
Let each new temple, nobler than the
last,
/ Shut thee from heaven with dome
more vast
Till thou at length art free.
Leaving thine Outgrown shell by life's
An Unlimited supply.
Do any of us fully realize the fact
that God gives us three things in I'M
limited supply, although no formula
of prayer that | ever heard recognizes
them-w water, air and sunlight? Water
by the riverful Water by the lakeful
Water by the Oceanful. Some for ablu-
ton, some for shaking the thirst, some
for baptistry, some for fountains and
aquariums. | never appreciated what
a wonderful thing water is until last
summer l stood by the fountains be-
fore and around the emperOr's palace
at Peterhof. Russia. l had been fami-
liar with this wonderful element Of
nature from childhood. having been
born on the banks of the beautiful
Raritan, and as a barefOoted boy dab
bleo in the brook near my father
house. But | never realized until last
summer what water could do in play,
or in strange caprice, or Identification,
or when climbing the ladder of the
light, or when a skillful workman took
hold of it to toss it, or whirl it. or
shape it into crowns. or hoist it into
columns. or spring ii into arches, or
lift it into stars or turn it into cres-
cents. or build it into temples. You
forget you ever saw the less glorious
waters at Chatsworth, England or
Versailles, France, as you stand in the
balcony of the palace overlooking the
Finland gulf, bewildered and trans
ported as you look at the one display
called the Golden Stairway fountain
The water rolls down over a steps one
foot high and 20 feet long. All Of these
"a steps are covered with sheets OF
FURNISHED gold Silver step of the
water on stairs of gold, What a glee
of liquids, Rolling, dashing. fOaming
enrapturing splendors, Chorus OF
foods, Poetry of waters DoXology
of torrents But that which most i'm
abundance of water, the fact that there
are so many waters that the cont
nents can afford to throw them away
into the sea, Hudsons and Ohios. Ore
CONS and AmaZOns. Rhines and Dan
ubes and Volgas, and so abundant
that the earth can afford to have its
oceans evaporate into the heavens
A ..
cifics How rich the earth is with wat
ers. Best beverage of all the nations
for after the richest banquet with thu
richest beverages. every one wants a
least a sip of it-water, cool water, Coz
descended water
With still more abundance is the ali
distributed An earth full of it. !.
sky full OF it. SWiftest and stronges
eagle cannot fly SO high as not tC
have it in the nostril or under wing
And what afIluence of sunlight, NJ
one but the infinite God could dispens,
so much of it, The golden candlesticl
set on the blue mantel of the heavens
So great that the Almighty is com
pared to it, the psalmist crying out
The Lord God is a sun" cit is higl
time that we recognize in our liturgiei
and in our formulas of prayer tn
most abundant blessings OF thu
universe which come to all.
Trust Thoroughly i'm God
Now. is it not time that We all be
gan more thoroughly to trust tn
Lord? We trust him with our souls
why not trust him with our bodies
, We trust him with our spiritual inter
i, ests. why not trust him with our TEN
poral interests? We believe what il
, said to us by an ordinarily honest man
, | could not anger you so much o
, make your cheeks so burn with indig
, nation as TO doubt your truthfulness
, and how do you suppose the Lord o
heaven and earth feels when yol
doubt him, as he declares in the text
, Say We to the righteous that it shall
be we'll with him. Such a promise al
that ought to calm your pulses and IT.
, radate your countenance and halo al
, the future with rapture; for, after all
it makes but little difference what be