The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-05-10


Tho rAths insids that little homo 'rsidi.'
ate from the door ith as aoomplote Ar
rangemont as ever tho bou leyard a of ga.
city raidiated from d triumphal aro n on
n flwoWorcd cirolo. And when thay
march they keop porfest orday. moving
in straight lines, turning .out FOR moth
ing IL a timber lio in tho way, thew
climb over it. If thbre bo house or barn
in.tho way, thoy march through.it. Or.
der in architectural structure, order
in government, order Of movement. or.
dor Of expedition. So lot US all observe
this God appointed rulo snd take satis..
faction ia tho fact that things are not st
loose ends ia this world. If there is q
divine regulation In a colony or republic
Of inacots, is there not q divine Irog gula.
tion'in tho lives Of immortal men and
women?
If God oaros for tho loast, Of his
creatures and shows thom how to pro.
vide thoir meat in tho summer and
gather their food in the harvest, will ho
not be interested in matters Of human
livelihood and in tho guidance of hu
man Affairs? preaoh tho doctrine Of a
particular providence. 'Aro not two
sparrows sold for fsrthipg, and yot
not ono of them is forgotten before
God? Arc yo not Of more valuo than
many sparrows?" Lot thore be order
in our individual lives, order in the
family, o1dar in tho church, order in
tho state. In all tho 9orld thoro is no
room for anarchy.
But wo live in times whom there arc
80 many olsshings. There seoms al.
most universal unrest. Largo fortunes
swallow up small fortuaos. Uivilize
nations trying to gobble UP barbaric
nations. Uphoaval, OF oroeds and people
who once believed everything now 30.
Loving nothing. Tho old book that
Mooses began and 81. j ohm ended BON.
barded from scientii, obsprvatorios
and college, olassrooms. Amid ali this
disturbance and uncertainty that which
many good people n cd is not stimulus,
bus sedativo, and in my tex, find
it.divine observation and guidance Of
minutest affairs. Aud nothing is to
God large orsmall -planot or ant hill
tho God who easily mado tho worlds
employing his in6nity in the wondrous
construction Of spiders foot.
Before wo leave this sutjoot lot us
thank God for those who were willing to
onduro tho fatiguos and solf sscc:Gses
necees.ry to mako revelation of tho
natural world, SO re. enforcing the
Scriptures. If tho microscope could
spoak, what story it could toll of
hardship and provorty and suffering
| and perseverance, on tho part cf those
who employed it for important dis.
coveryl 1t would tell Of tho blinded
eycs Of NJ. Strauss, Of the Habers and
OF SCORES Of those who, after inspecting
the minute objects of Gods creation.
staggered out from their cabinets with
| vision destroyed, This hour is many
professors study tho work Of putting
eyesight on the altar Of soicnoo is going
on. And what greater loss can ono
suffer than tho loss Of oyosight unless
| t be loss of reason? While tho tele.
scope is reaching farther up and the
miscroscopo is reaching farther down,
both are exolaiming: There is q God.
and he is infinitely wise and infinitely
good Worship and worship him for.
| eVerl"
had now bethnk myself Of tho fact
that we are close TO a season Of tho
year which will allow us to be more out
OF doors and to confront tho lessons of
tho natural world, and there are voices
that seoms to say. Go to tho ant; 20 to
tho bird, 60 to tho flowers; go to tho
folds; go to tho waters.' Liston to the
oantatas that drop from tkJ gallory of
he tree tops. No loo in tho path whore
you walk tho lessons Of in dustry and
divine guidance. Mako natural religion
a commentary onrovealed relision. Put
the glow of sunrise and sunset into
your spiritual experience. Let every
star speak Of tho morning star of the
Rodeemsr, and ovory arom tito bloom
make you think Of him who is tho r 81,
OF Sharon and tho Lily Of the Valley,
and every ovorhanging cliff romind you
Of tho Rock Of Ages, and every morn
ing suggets tho "daysrring from on
high, which givoth light to those who
are in dark aess, and oven tho little
hillook built By tho roadside or in tho
folds reminds you Of the wisdom of imi
tating in temporal and spiritual things
tho insectile forethought, (which hav.
ing no guido, ovorseer or ruler, pro-
videth her meat in the summer and
gasheroth her food in tho harvest"
John @. Calhoun's Wooing.
Though an ardent lover frotting at
timo's slow course uatil his wedding
day, John Q. Calhoun wrote but ono
letter to his sweetheart his protty
cousin, Florido Calhoun. All tho othor
communications, when the lovers were
separated, wore made through hor moth
or. But shortly before their marriage,
tho Groat Nullifier," wrote expressing
his anxiety for tho arrival of the hsppy