Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-02

am absolutely sure, to wit, namely, that is so to say. that the welfare of the melons and the squashes and the cucumbers and the corn in my gar denS was NOT the sole nor the con- trolling intention of Nature in con cocting her weather. There are hills beyond Pentland and friths beyond
 Forths" There are several other things in the great universal plan be- side my melons, etc.
 Likewise, now that the pendulum has swung to the opposite extreme and we are sweltering under tropical heat, my potato tops are dropping and va rious other crops are showing that they feel it unpleasantly. But again, the weather wasn't ordered solely nor even chiefly for the benefit of my potatoes, etc. What the motive Of the intention or the plan behind it may , be, l don't know any more than the poor potatoes do.
 But l do know that we aren't the only toads in the puddle, and that the world isn't being run for our special benefit,
 There is just as much sense, and no more, in complaining about the weather and undertaking to tell the Lord when it should rain or when it shouldn't as there would be in criti- cizing the law of gravitation and tell ing Him when He should suspend it and when He should let it operate Or as there would be for the fly, rid ing up on the rim of the great Corliss wheel, to complain because it revolved toe slow or too fast for his f1y-ideas. | The speed of the wheel is governed by 1 the engineer, standing back with his nd AxytS comfort or wishes are a small part of his consideration. So the various rev. olutions of what we call Nature are governed by some Master Engineer, 1 standing far removed from us in the shadows of His own transcendent majesty and wisdom, and ruling His l engine for purposes and towards ends | of His own,-purposes and ends too | Infinitely vast and complicated for our finite minds to understand or even 1 suspect
 1 In every n1an-made watch there is at least one little screy. so small that i our clumsy fingers couldn't pick it up, so small that our. farmers eyes could hardly see it without glasses, and vet the accurate running Of the
 watch depends upon it's being just in the right place and set down at just i the right tension
 1 The universe is a much more com 1 plicated machine than any watch and | it has in it parts so small that not l even the most powerful microscope 1 can reveal them to sight Yet every one of them is essential to the orderly running of the universe. It is, or il
 wouldn't be there.
 For common senses sake, why can't
 We admit that the Power which created
 and which overrules the whole thing is
 a better judge of what is good for the whole thing than we are? And ad- | hitting that for common mOdesty's sake why can't we stop snivelling aud | snarling when some movement of tbs machinery inconvenienceS or daDla ges us? Do we really want to take the position that our comfort or our wei
 fare is or should beE1he chief solici-
 tude of the universS management?
 Bless you, don't know why %h.
 weather has been such as seriously tC damage my vine and corn crops. Any
 more than why it has been such as tt
 give me the very best onions l evel had or ever saw. But of one thing
 feel sure. and that is that a good dea Il bigger interests than my vines anC
 my oniQQs are involved. They aren'
 the soleFoutcores of the infinite plan
 which was evolved in the dim back,
 yard and Fabysm of a past eternity ant
 destined for all the amending ages O a coming eternity.