Milford chronicle., 1901-05-03

Of the natural world, are we not ready |
to believe that the God who turns the |
wheel of the solar system and the vaster
wheel of the universe regulates the bee
hive and the ant hill and that all the af-
fairs of our mortal lives are under divine
management? 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: mo. Providence is my very
next door neighbor."
He who became Sir Thomas Gresham
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 a boy to the spot where the
babe lay and his life was saved? Not so,
thought Sir Thomas Gresham, who, hav-
ing arrived at great wealth and power,
chose a grasshOpper for his crest and had
the figure of a grasshopper impressed on
the wall of the Royal Exchange and had
at the top a weather vane in the figure Of
q grasshOpper. The Waldensian Chris
tians in the seventeenth century were ex-
PEELED from the valleys, and on their way
800 of them were starving to death. Did
it 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 hunger
was satisfied and the 800 lives were saw
ed? Did ii just happen so? Near Port
Royal, Jamaica, is a tomb with this in
scriptiOn: Here lieth the body of Louis
Caldy, Esq, a native of Montpelier, in
France, which country he left on account
Of the revOcatiOns. He was swallowed
up by the earthquake which occurred at
this place in 1862, but, by the great prov
idence of God, was by a second SHOCK
flung into the sea, where he continued
swimming till rescued by a boat and LIVED
40 years afterward." Was the release o.
I that man from the jaws of the earth
| quake ''just happen so?" When during
the plague in London, at the risk of hi
life and under the protest of his friends
Rev. Thomas Vincent spent his tim
| preaching the gospel to the sufferers ant
6S, 500 people persisted, seven fatalities il
the house where he lived, did it just hap
pen so that he came through unhurt2
In Fulton street prayer meeting, New
York, a young man rose and said: s.
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prayers Of a pious mother, but I spurne
them. / have not seen her for 10 years
l suppose she has given me up as lost.
don't know where to find her, but
would like to tell her what the Lord ha
done for me in answer to her earnes
prayers" Did it just happen so that hi
mother was present and cried out, "Ol
my son, my sonp You know of tn
glorious Christian work in Japan, but d
you know how it began? A New Test
ment was dropped from an English shi
in the harbor of Tokyo. The little boo
came into the hands Of prominent Jal
? anese, who read it and was brought
? God and Immediately began to CONNER
Christ to the people. Did all that mere
P happen so? Tell that to those who {
! not believe there is God, but do not t.
I it to at least a hundred Of us who ha'
0 had in our own lives providential rescu
J as easily proved as that we have ever Ii
e ed at all.
n All Under Gods Care.
n But we live in times when there are
= many clashings. There seems almC
: universal unrest. Large fortunes swi
e low up small fortunes. Civilized natiO
e trying to gobble up barbaric nations.
r heaval of creeds and people who once
/ lieved everything now believing nothiI
= The old book that Moses began and
Il John ended bombarded from scienti
observatories and college classroom
Amid all this disturbance and unc
er tainty that which many good people nc
IS Is not 0 stimulus. but a sedative, and