Marshall County independent., 1901-05-03

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? I
preach the doctrine of a particular
| providence. 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 spar
rows?" Let there be order in our in
| dividual lives, order in the family, Or
der in the church, order in the state.
| Gods Care of Small Things.
After what LinnaeuS and Pierre
Huber have told us concerning these
| living mites of the natural world, are
we not ready TO believe that the God
who turns the wheel of the solar sys-
tenn and the vaster wheel Of
the universe regulates the beehive and
| the ant hill and that all the affairs OF
our mortal lives are under divine man
| agement? When some one asked a
hermit on the top of a mountain in
Italy if he did not feel it dangerous
to live so many miles from human
habitation, he replied: NO. Provi-
dence is my very next door neighbor."
He who became Sir Thomas Gres-
ham and built the Royal Exchange in
London when an infant was abandoned
by his mother in the fields. Did it
just happen so that the chirping of a
grasshopper brought boy to the spot
where the babe lay and his life was
saved? Not so, thought Sir Thomas
Gresham, who, having arrived at great
wealth and power, chose a grasshop-
per for his crest and had
the figure of grasshopper i'm
pressed on the wall of the Royal
Exchange and had at the top a weather
vane in the figure of a grasshopper.
The Waldensian Christians in the sew
enteenth century were expelled from
the valleys, and on their way 500 of
them were starving to death. Did 1t
just happen so that one night the deep
snow suddenly thawed and showed a
large amount of wheat which had been
covered by the untimely snow and was
suddenly uncovered so that the hun
ger was satisfied and the 500 lives were
saved? Did it just happen so? Near
Port Royal, Jamaica, is a tomb with
this inscription: Here lieth the body
Of Louis Caldy, Esq, native of Mont
pellier, in France, which country he
left on account of the revocations. He
was swallowed up by the earthquake,
which occurred at this place in 1892,
but, by the great providence of God,
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sea, where he continued swimming till
rescued by boat and lived forty years
afterward." Was the release of that
man from the jaws of the earthquake
'just happen so?" 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 'suf-
ferers and 6S, $50 people perished, seven
fatalities in the house where he lived,
did it just happen so that he came
through unhurt?
All Under Gods Care.
We live in times when there are so
many clashings. There seems almost
universal unrest. Large fortunes swal-
low up small fortunes. Civilized ma
tions trying to gobble up barbaric ma
tions. Upheaval of creeds and people
who once believed everything now be-
lieving nothing The Old book that
Moses began and ST. John ended bonn
barded from scientific observatories
and college claSsrOomS. Amid all this
disturbance and uncertainty that
which many good people need is not
stimulus, but sedative, and in my text
1 find it-divine observation and guild
ance of minutest affairs. And nothing
is to God large or small-planet or ant
hill-the God who easily made the
worlds employing his infnity in the
wondrous construction of a spiders
foot
Before we leave this subject let us
thank God for those who were willing
to endure the fatigues and self-sacri-
fees necessary to make revelation of
the natural world, so reinforcing the
Scriptures. If the microscope could
speak, what a story it could tell Of
hardship and poverty and suffering and
perseverance on the part of those who
employed it for important discovery!
1t would tell of the blinded eyes of NJ
Strauss, of the Hubers and of scores
of those who, after inspecting the
minute objects of Gods creation, stag
gered out from their cabirnts with
vision destroyed. This hour In many
professors strdy the work of put
ting eyesight on the altar of science
is going on. And what greater loss
can one suffer than the loss of eye
sight. unless it be loss of reason?
While the telescope is reaching farther
up and the microscope is reaching far
ther down, both are eXclaiming:
There is God, and he is infinitely
wise and infinitely good! Worship
him and worship him forever.'