Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-05-01

cockpit or the bear batting or the pigeon
shooting or the laeeration of fish that are
not used. Go TO tho ant, thou miscreant
and see how God lonors il.
Furthermore. go 10 the ant aud learn
the lesson OF God appointed order. The
being who taught the insect how to build
was geometer as Well as architect. The
paths inside thar little home radiate from
the door with as complete arrangement
as ever the boulevards of city radiared
from a tritmph3l arch or a lowered cir
Gle. And when they march they keep
perfect order, moving in straight lines,
turning out for nothing. II timber lie
in the way, they climb over it, IL there
be house or barn in the way, they march
through it. Order in architectural struc-
tire, order in government order of move
ment order of expedition. So let us all
observe this God appointed rule and take
satisfaction in the fact that things are
not a. loose ends in this world. Ii there
is Il divine regulation in a colony or re
public of insects, is there not divine
regulation in the lives Of immortal men
End women? III God cares for the least
of his creatures and shows them how u
provide their meat in the summer and
gather their food in the harvest, win ha
not be interested in matters Of human
livelihood and in the guidance of human
a9airs2 | preach the doctrine Of a par
ticuiar providence. Are not two spar
rows sold for a farthing. aud yet not one
of them is forgotten before God: Are
We not of more value than many spar
rows" Let there be order in our in
dividual lives, order in the family. order
in the church, order in the State. In all
he world there IS no room for anarchy.
al uftor street prayer meeting. New
York. young man rose and said: Il
have beer. an infidel fourteen years; /
had the prayers of pious mother, but /
spurned them. have not seen her for
fifteen years. / suppose she has given
me up as lost. | don't know where to
find her, but | would like to tell her what
the Lord has done for me in answer 60
her earnest prayers" Did it just happen
so that his mother was present andtcried
out, "Oh. my son, my sou" You know
of the glorious Christian work in Japan,
but do You know how it began? a New
Testament was dropped from an English
ship in the harbor of Tokyo. The little
book came into the hands of a prominent
Japanese, who read it and was brought
10 God aud Immediately began to com,
mend Christ 10 the people Did all that
merely happen so? Tell that to those
who do not believe there is God, bur
do not tell it to at least hundred of rs
who have had in our own lives prov.den-
tial rescues as easily proved t!at we
have ever lived at all.
All Under Gods Care.
But we live in times when there are 50
many clashings. There seems almost
universal unrest. Large fortunes swal
low up small fortunes. Civilized nations
trying to gobble up barbaric nations. Up
heaval of creeds and people who once be,
| lieyed everything now believing nothing
The old book that Moses began and st
! John ended bombarded from scientific
observatories and college classrooms
| Amid all this disturbance and uncer
tainty that which many good people need
! is not a stimulus, but a sedatiye, and in
my text / find it-divine observation anl
| guidance of minutest affairs. And moth
| ing is 10 God large or small--planet OF
ant hiil--the God who easily made the
worlds employing his infnity in the won
| drous construction of a spiders foot
| And now / bethink myself Of the fac
| that we are close to season of the yea
! which will allow us to be more out o.
| doors and TO confront the lessons of tn,
natural world. aud there are voices tina
seem to say, Go to the ant; 20 to tn
bird; 80 to the flowers: 90 TO the fields
go to the WATERS Listen to the canta
tas that drop from the gallery of the ire
| tops. Notice in the patti where you wal
the lessons of industry and divine guild
ance. Make natural religion common
! tary on revealed relighm. Put the GLOW
| Of sunrise and sunset into your spiritua
| experiences. Let every star speak Of tn
mornin- star of the Redeemer. and ever,
aromatic bloom make you think of hin
! who is the Rose of Sharon and the Lii,
of the Valley, and every overhanging elf
remind you of the Rock of Ages, an,
every morning suggest the "daysprin,
| from on high, which giyeth light to thos,
who are in darkness, and even the littl
/ hillock built by the roadside or in tn.
! fields reminds you of the wisdom Of imi
tating in temporal aud spiritual thing
The insectile fOretLought, which havin.
no guide, overseer or ruler. provideth he
| meat in the summer and gathereth he
| food in the harvest.