Newport weekly independent., 1901-05-02

are nOInlnS com pared WIIn the Opu- fence that you will yet own. If you love and trust the Lord, Paul looks you in the face and then waves his hand Coward Heaven full of palaces and thrones, saying: "All are yours!" So that what you fail to get in this present life you will get in the coming life. Go to work right away and re- build as well as you can, knowing that what the trowels of earthly industry fail to rear the scepters of heavenly reward will more than make up. Per sistence is the lesson of every ant hill. Waste not a moment in useless regrets or unhealthy repining. Men fret them- selves down, but no man ever yet fretted himself up. Make the obsta- cles in your way your coadjutors, as all those have who have accomplished anything worth accomplishment.
 Furthermore, go to the ant and learn the lesson of God-appointed or der. The being who taught the insect how to build was geometer as well as architect. The paths inside that little home radiate from the door with as complete arrangement as ever the boulevards of city radiated from triumphal arch or a lowered circle. And when they march they keep per feet order, moving in straight lines, turning out for nothing. If timber lie in the way, they climb over it. If there be house or barn in the way, they march through it. Order in archi tectural structu order in govern ment, order of movement, order of eX petition. So let us all observe this God-appointed rule and take satisfac- tion in the fact that things are not at loose ends in this world. If there is a Divine regulation in colony or re- public of insects, is there not a Divine regulation in the lives of immortal men and women? If God cares for the least of His creatures and shows them how to provide their meat in the summer and gather their food in the harvest, will He not be interested in matters of human livelihood and in the guidance of human affairs? l preach the doctrine of particular PrOvi- dence. "Are not two sparrows sold for farthing, and yet not one of them is forgotten before God? Are ye not of more value than many sparrows" Let there be order in our individual lives, order in the family, order in the church, order in the state. In all tho world there is no room for anarchy.
 But we live in times when there are so many clashings. ".4ore' seems ai-' 7'C s-+ f,t +js.- 1e. sal unrest. Large for tunes swallow up small fortunes. Civilized nations trying to gobble up barbaric nations. Upheaval of creeds and people who once believed every thing now believing nothing. TEc old book that Moses began and St. John ended bombarded from scientific ob- servatories and college. classrooms. Amid all this disturb bance and uncer- tainty that which many good people need is not stimulus, but a sedatiye, and in my text I finu it-Divine ob- servation and guidance of minutest affairs. And nothing is to God large or small-planet or ant hill-the God who easily made the worlds employ ing His infnity in the wondrous con- struction of spiders foot.
 But before we leave this subject let us thank God for those who are willing to endure the fatigues and self-sacrifices necessary to make rev. elation of the natural world, so reen- forcing the Scriptures. If the micro scope could speak, hat story it could tell of hardship and poverty and suffering and perseverance on the part of those who employed it for important discovery! It would tell of the ,linded eyes of M. Strauss, of the Hubers and of scores of those who, after inspecting the minute ob- jccts of Gods crea tion, staggered out from their cabinets with vision de- stroyed. This hour in many a pro- fessor's study the work of putting eyesight on the altar of science is go- ing on. And what greater loss can one suffer than the loss of eyesight unless it be loss of reason! While the telescope is reaching farther down, both are eXclaiming: "There is 8 God, and He is infinitely wise and in- finitely good! Worship Him and wor- ship Him forever!"
 And now bethinll myself of the fact that we are close to season of the year which will allow us to be more out of doors ana 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; go to the waters" Lis ten to the cantatas that drop from the gallery of the tree tops. Notice in the path where you walk the lessons of industry and Divine guidance. Make natural re- ligion commentary on revealed re- ligion. Put the glow or sunrise and