Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-07-22

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ten acres Of that city from the face OF
the earth. but Chicago would not have
been what 1t ID without that fire.
In speaking with a gentleman who
was familiar with the recent fire In
Jacksonville, Fla, l was ~deploring that
great loss to the place and the suffer
ings of the people. He said. Well,
after all, It's not Sc bad, for Jackson
vile needed a fire. There were i'm
proyements that should have been
made long ago that will come now.
And he spoke OF the changes that would
result from that fire. 1t was the sound
OF the ibugle calling an advance in
business; it was the call also to the
people to recognize Gods power. AS
they stood helpless before the sweeping
flames they saw mans helDlessness as
never before. Fires. foods, famine and
even wars are reminders of Gods power
and mans insigniicance. These are
the bugie calls which arouse nations
to day, as sickness does the individual.
The evils of sin are of Satan and self,
but the trouble of the correction is of
the Lord. In the next place we notice
that God sees mans necessities Il
provides for them.
Provision Made for Every Man.
Mans wants and tastes differed great
ly at different periods of time and yet
they were all provided for and more.
We can not conceive of an Advise and
Allpowerful God creating persons and
not providing a~bundantly for them.
In Eden the wants were few.
The necessities could not have been
many. That first pair wanted more
than had been ordered for them, and
the Lord did for them just as many
fond parents do now, INDUCED them
and mankind has ever since been paying
the forfeit because they did not
obey orders. And as men do in som
instances now they blamed each other.
Adam said 1t was Eve who gave him
the fruit. Eve said it was the serpent
that beguiled her, and indirectly they
all blamed the Lord with the whole
affair. Men SHINING to-day some times
ask, why does the Lord allow me to
be tempted? or to have the power to
sin? And yet did he not allow man
that power he could never be over all
other animals and powers OF the earth.
The Lord provided for man after he
| had disobeyed orders by the gift of his
Son Christ the Atonement.
As In Adam All Die.
So in Christ shall all be made alive.
Man is again restored and supplied and
given another chance. Placed again on
his feet, and those feet on the high
plane of individual responsibility. AND
made a co-worker together with God
as Paul expresses it. in working out
his W salvation with fear and with
trembling. And all down the ages man
has been supplied with everything
necessary for the discharge of his duty
and for this comfort, and that on sim
pie and easy terms, If he only obsy Or
ders.
There is a present provision for every
man. Man can not believe in God and
in His son without believing that Tie
provided for mans present wants as
well as the future. Never before was
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That he provides more ~abundantly
now than in any other age or time, for
when one believes in the final triumph
of the Gospel in any way he must be-
lieve that the world Is getting better.
1t is true these are the exceptions, those
who believe hat the world will get
worse and worse until Jesus comes
again in person to inaugurate a change.
In their case it would seem that the VIC
tory of the cross Is to be suspended ex-
cept in the individual cases that are
saved until the second advent. While
we have no wal with the good people
who thus believe, we prefer to believe
that Christis victory Is In progress now
and will be contaminated in his own
good time; and that this glorious
| triumph will be when all who believe
in him will obey orders.
In the next and last thought, Gods
orders are made known" A small part
of these orders are given in the ques-
ton asked by the text: Shall a trumpet
be blown in the city and the people not
be afraid? Shall there be evil in a city
and the Lord hath not done it,"
Nature's Laws.
These orders are taught in many
ways if man will receive them. The
author of the text gives some lessons
in natural objects. veses 3-5: Can two
walk? Will a lion roar? Can a bird
fall in a snare? 1t would not be in
harmony with natures laws for two to
walk together and without agreeing. 1t
is the law of nature in the lion that he
roar when he finds his prey in the for
est. And it is the rule of the trapper TO