The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-09-13
GODS RULE SUPREME
Rev. Or. Talmage on the Great
Power Of the Lord.
A story With a Warnins-mak'ng
Puhue Profession 81 Our Faith.
Christ m Buslnsss-infu-
enoe o. the Gospel

tura The apparent triviollues OF hfe
into events Of The mlghtiest importance
and highest beneAcence. The text is
Kings xxi. "a. "And O certain man
drew bow at a venture and smote the
king Of Israel between The Joints Of the
harness"
enoo held IN nay hand httle Bible
that bod been carried by soldier all
through the civil war. Ii had been
Given 70 hin when be was Young
recruit he always kept Il In bis
breast pocket. Just over his heart In
one Of the great battles O Confederate
bullet plowed its way through three
feurths Of that book and knocked the
maa senscless. but that Bible stopped
the bullet on It's journey And said
tie old soldier. God saved my life By
that book on account OF my mothers
prayers" 10 ] believe thatl Most
certainly. Paul tells Us in the cpistle
to the rpheslans that tho shield OF
faith is able 70 qucnch oll the fiery
aars Of the wicked. SO In times OF oat-
lie COD can direct the course OF ovory
bullet and every missile he can pro-
feet his children Ia times Of Danger as
well rs save then fgsm destruction
after they have become helpless.
During the late civil war the two
armies were being concentrated near
Hawks Nest Bluf In West Virginia.
One day an Ohio regiment was seen
10 emerge from the wOods Some
sharpshooters were watching 1t, among
whom was william Phillips, afterward
General Philips. No sooner did the
Union soldiers appear than young Phil
lips borrowed a long range ride and
took steady aim NJ the colonel riding
AT the head Of his troops, but the
sbarpshooter's rife was aimed just
little too high, and, Instead Of crushing
into the brain. the bullet took or one
Of the Blumes Of the colonels hat.
Thirteen years after the war was END
ed General Phillips was visiting the
White House az Washington. In the
presence Of Rutherford d. Hayes he
was telling Of this incident Presi-
Gent Hayes remarked; Yes. l remem-
Der that shot. l was that Ohio colonel
YOU shot at" God had bigger worn
for Rutherford b. Hayes than 70 LEI
him be slain in sklrmish he wanted
him 10 live to become the chief eXecu-
tive Of our nation. God never lets
man die before his LIES work Is I'm
lsssd. He can protect his children In
times Of danger as well as rescue them
after they have been overthrewn by
misfortune and become helpless.
But. though God can protect man
when he wishes, he can also destroy
man when he wills. he can direct
the stone from tho sling Of David to
the forehead Of Goliath and cause him
10 die. lie can foretell the death Of
Iezebel by tho walls Of Jezreel, and, no
matter what the recreant queen may
90 or where she may 90, she cannot
escape. And God could also foretell
tho fato Of King Ahab. When Elijah
pointed the finger Of condemnation at
the murderer Of Nab0th and said. IN
the place wher0 dogs licked the blood
Of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood.
evon thine" he was the messenger Of
God foretelling how Ahab was TO die.
And when three years later King Ahab
was In battle aud an unknown soldier
put an arrow to his bow and pulled
It up to the tip and let It fly God di-
rected the course Of that arrow, and
Il smote the king IN the joints Of his
arnor, and he died, and thus was the
prophecy fulfilled.
Now, the whole point Of my sermon
Is this-the soldier who shot that ar
row did not know where it was going,
but God directed its course. And 10
day want you 20 be very careful
about the random arrows you let fly.
II Is never safe FOR man 20 shoot
of gun unless be knows where he Is
shooting or else he might hurt some
body. There are other injuries, too,
that we may do a Needless word or
an inconsistent act may do another
an irreparablo injury. We may have
Ia H.rrf IN "
inadvertently, we may cause a wound
that VIII never heal. and a certain
man drew a bow at venture and
smote the king Of Israel between the
Joints Of bis harness"
II this fact be true, then. my broth
or, want you to be very careful how
you deal with your fellow men IN ref-
erence to your public profession Of
faith in Jesus Christ. | start on the
premise that you are a Christian. You
may be a very poor Christian; grant
that. You may be leaving undone
those things which You ought 10 do
and may be doing those things which
you ought not 20 do. But II should
ask you today what is your hope OF
Immortality you would emphatically
answer. my only hope Of hereafter
Is my firm belief IN the pardoning and
saving power OF the atoning blood OF
Jesus Christ"
You are Ike St Veronica as de
serlbed BY the legend Of Old. Accord
ing TO tradition, ST. Veronica was +
e ID. N...rs ".
sus was being led forth 10 his cruel
hx,on. staggering under tie weight Of
his cross. the blood and the persplra
ton were rolling from HIS face and
body. Christ was lettering along from
weakness. Taking pity on him. 81
Veronica took her head cloth 20 wip'
his face and cleanse his brow. Wher
Jesus gave Veronica back her clotl
tho Ifnan r1oufc of foo hnH N.ar