The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-05-03

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81 a surplus for your self defense when
your brain has halted. or your right hand
mas forgotten Its cunning. or your old age
needs manservant, or for the support oi
/ Others when YOU can no more be a bread.
winner for your household-that is right,
I that Is beautiful, that Is Christian, that is
| dyinely approved. That shows that Won
have taken So.omon's ant hill for an ob.
! lcct lesson. Going out oi this world with.
out leaving A dollar for those who remain
behind, u yoa have done your best, YOU
have right 90 put your head IN calm con.
ndencc on the pillow which Jeremiah
shook up IN the fOrty.ninth chapter OF his
prophecy, Leave thy fatherless children.
wil preserve them alive, and let thy
widows trust IN Me
But II, having the means. through mort.
cages or houses or hie insurance for pro.
Vldng Tor helpless widowhood and or
phauage, YOU make no provision for post
mortem need, how dare You 90 up and
take palace IN heaven aud let your wife
and children - To the poorhouse or into a
struggle for bread that makes hie a horror
and sometimes ends in suicide!
But my subject reaches higher than tenn.
poraltes foresight for the soul, provision
Tor eternal experiences, preparation for the
far beyond. Ant hills, speak out aud teach
us larger and mightler lesson of prepar.
lug food for the more important part OF
Us. DO YOU realize that a man may hc a
millionaire or multi-mlllonalrc for time
and a bankrupt for eternity, prince for
few years and paupcr forever The
ant would not bc satisfied with gathering
enough food for hall winter or quarter
ot winter. but how many of Us seem
content, though not having prepared for
the ten mllhonth part OF what wall be our
existence,
Put yourself in right relations TO the
Christ OF the ages, through Him seek par.
don for all YOU have ever done wrong and
strength for al, YOU will bc called to en-.
dure, and there will be no force IN life or
death or eternity TO dlscomit YOU. dc.
clare II! There is enough OF transforming
and STRENGTHENING power IN Christ Tor
both hcmspheres!
Furthermore, 80 10 the ant and con.
slider that It does not decline work because
II Is insignificant. The fragment of seed lt
hauls into It's hahitation may he 50 small
that the unalded eye cannot see It, but tho
insecule work goes on-the carpenter ant
at work above ground, the mason ant at
work under ground. Some of these Great.
ures mix the leaves of the fir and the cat
klns of the pine for the roof or wall of
their tiny abode. and others 20 out as
hunters looking for food, while Others in
domestic duties stay at home Twenty
specks of the food they are moving toward
their granary, put upon a balance, would
hardly make the scales quiver. All of the
work IA on a small scale. There is no use
IN our refusing n mission because IL is in.
significant Anything that God in His
providence puts before us to do is Impor-
tant.
The needle has its office as certainly as
the telescope and the spade az parlia-
mcntarlan scroll. You know what became
OF the man IN the parable of the talents.
who buried the one talent instead OF put.
ting II 10 practical and accumulativc use
His apology was OF no avail
Furthermore, 60 To the ant and consider
It's lndoiatigabeness. II by the accidental
stroke OF your foot or the removal of a
timber the cities OF the insectlc world
are destroyed instantly they go To rebuild.
ing. They do not sit around moping At
II again IN a second. Their fright lmme.
dlatcly gives way 60 their industry. And
II our schemes OF usefulness and our plans
OF work fail why SIT down m discourage.
menty AZ large ant hills as have ever been
constructed will bc constructed again Put
your trust IN God and do your duty. aud
your best days are yet to come. You have
never heard such songs as you will yet
near, nor have YOU ever lived IN such grand
abode as you viii yet occupy, and all the
worldly treasures you have lost are moth.
ing compared with the opulcnce that you
wa yet own. II you love and trust the
Lord, Paul looks YOU IN the face aud then
waves his hand toward "A heaven full of
palaces and thrones. crying, "Al are
yours So that what you fail TO get IN
this present life you will get IN the coming
litc. Go TO work right away aud rebuild
~ we'll "a YOU can, knowing that what the
trowcls OF earthly industry fail to rear the
sccpters Of heavenly reward will more than
make up.
When during the plague in London, at
the risk of his life and under the protest
OF his friends, Rev. Thomas Vincent spent
his time preaching the gospel TO the SUI
iercrs and s,506 people pcrishcd, seven
fatalities m the house where he lived, did
10 Just happen 40 that he came Lnrough un-
hurty Ina Fulton street prayer meeting,
New York. a young man rose and said Il
have been an lnlidel fourteen years. ] had
the prayers Of plOus mother, but |
spurncd them. ! have not seen her for
hitcCn years. | suppose she has gwen me
up as lost. ] don't know where 10 find
her, but ! would like 10 tell her what the
Lord has done for me ia answer 10 her
earnest prayers Did u just happen 30
that hls mother was present and cried out,
III my son, my son" You know Of the
glorious Christian work IN Japan, but do
you know how It began; A New Tcsta.
inent was dropped from an English ship
came into the hands Oi a prominent Jap.
anesc, who read IT and was brought to
God, and Immediately began 10 cOmmeIS
Christ 10 the people. Did all that merely
happen so: Tell that 60 those who do not
believe there - God but do not tell II
10 at least a hundred OF us who have had
IN our own lives proyIdcntlal rescucs as
easily proved as that we have ever lived
at all.
Bot we live in times where there are 40
many clasHIngs There seems almost uni
ycr8al unrest Large fortunes swallow up
small fortunes Clyinzcd nations trying 20
gJbbie up barbarlc nations. Jpheayal ot
cIccIs, and people who once believed
everything now believing nothing. The
old book that Moses began and 81. John
ended bomblTded from scientific obserya-
tories and college class rooms. Amid all
this disturbance and uncertainty that
winch many good people need u not
stimulus. but "A sedatiye, and IN my text j
find It-dIylnc observation and guidance
Oi ninntcst aHalrs And nothing %
cod large or small, planet or ant hll, the
God VINO easily made the worlds employ
iug Ills lnhnlty m the wOndrOus cOnstruc.
ton Of a SPIDERS foot
Before We leave tins ubJcct let Va thank
God Tor those who were willing 10 endure
the fatlgues and self sacrifices necessary
o. make revelation OF the natural WOrId,
80 reinforcing the Scriptures. ii the mi.
cf1scOpc could speak, what a story IT could
tell of hardship and poverty and suffering
and perseverance on the part OF those who
employed II for important discovery. u
would tell Of the blinded eyes Of NJ
Strauss. Of the Hubers aud Of scores OF
those who, after inspecting the minute OBJ
Jects Oi Gods creation, staggered out from
their cabinets with vision destroyed. THIS
hour in many a prDiessDr's study the work
oil putting eyesight or the altar Oi science
y going on. And what greater loss can
one suffer than the loss 81 eyesight unless