Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 7, Petersburg, Pike County, 26 June 1896 — Page 6

THE PLATFORM. iPeoUuration of Principles of the Republican Party, 4AA>pt«d by tlw National Convention at tit. Lnab—l*rotectlon to American Induirln and Sound Money the Key No«oa fir. Loris, June 1ft.—Following is the tell text of the platform presented by the committee on resolutions and adopted by the Republican National conveaDoc la ration. “Tbs republicans of the United States, nsfanbltd by their representatires in national deaveation. appealing tor the popular and hUterleal Justification of their claim to the bitter ■Its of four years of democratic control, as 1 as the matchless achievements of 90 years reonbUcan rule, earnestly and confidently themselves to the awakeaefi latelse. experience and conscience of their a try men in the following declaration of fiwU and principles: -For the first time since the civil war the .iwirr*— people have now witnessed the dalamltous consequences of tall and unrestricted democratic control of the government. It has been a record of unparalleled incapacity, •dishonor and disaster. In the administrative management it has ruthlessly sacrificed indispensable revenue, eked out ordinary current vanning etpenses with borrowed money, up the public debt #iG2,000,«J0

■time of peace. rorceu an aabalance of trade, kept a perpetual hanging over the redemption fund. Canted American credit to alien syndicates d reversed all the measures and re‘Cownd ation prosperity. •aits of successful republican ruie. In the %road effect of lt« policy It has precipitated Klc, blighted industry and trade with proved depression, closed factories, reduced Work and wages, halted enterprise and crippled American production, while .stimulating foreign pioductlon for the American market, ■very consideration of -public safety and 'tedlvtdual interest demand that the govern•sent shall be rescued from the hands ♦f those who had shown themselves incapable •f conducting it without disaster at home and dUahonor abroad, and shall be restored to the party which jfor 30 Years administered it with Waequaled success and prosperity. And io this eonu rction We heartily Indorse the wisdom, the patriotism and the'success of the administrated of President Harrison - The Tariff. “We renew and emphasize our allegiance to She policy of protection as the bulwark of trieaa Industrial Independence, and the of American development and This true American policy taxes foreign products and encourages home industry; Jt pots the burden of 'revenue on foreign .pood*, it secures tbe American market for the American producer; it upholds the American I of wages for the American workingt; It puts the factory by the side of farm, and makes the farmer Jess dell on foreign demand and prices; it dlfi general thrift and founds the strength of •II on the strength of each In Its responsible Application it is just, fair and Impartial, equally opposed to foreign control and domestic Monopoly, if sectional discrimination and Individual favoritism. “We denounce the present democratic tariff At sectional, partisan and one-sided, and disastrous to the treasury and destructive of busloestt enterprise, and we demand such an pqultable tariff on foreigr imports which come fa to competition with American products as Will aot only furnish adequate revenue for the astewiry expense of the government, but will gyroCcet American labor from degradation and <the wage level of other lands We are not pledged to ahy particuia r schedule The ques*ttoa of rates Is a practical question, to 'Ac governed by the conditions of the Ine and bt production. The ruling and •acornprom.sing principle Is the proteetteoand development of American lajbor and ladustry. The country wants a right settlement.. and then it wants rest. “The republican party renews Us pledge for the protection of alt American Industries •gainst foreign competition, and declares its faith that this supremacy of the United States •mong the nations is the result of such a Cley Wc bellsve In liberal reciprocity and I retaliatilon, and demand the application of ffae golden rule of commerce to all future legislation affecting the tariff abd foreign trade, wl believe: the repeal of -the reciprocity arrangementsnegotiated by the last republican Administration was a national calamity and demand thriir renewal and extension on such •ertr.' as will equaltza our trade with ether nations and remove the restrictions that now •betruct thl sale of American products In the Cut of Europe, and secure new markets for products of our farms, forests and facAorte Reciprocity.

~We believe that protection and reciprocity •are twin measures of republican policy and go ••and in band Democratic rule has recklessly •truck down both, and both must be re-estab-lished. Prelection for what we produce: free* Admission (for the ’ necessaries of life Which we do not produce; reciprocal agree me:.: s of mutual interest, which gain open aaarkets for os in return for onr open markets do others. Protection builds up domestic ; Industry and trade, and seek res our ok^ market dor ourselves: reciprocity builds up foreign Wade and dads an outlet for our surplus. The Finances. . “The yepabltean party Is unreservedly for sound moody. “It causedi the enactment of the law providing for the resumption of specie payments tu 187* ••Since then every dollar has been as good an “We are unalterably opj«osed to every measare calculated to debase our currency or impair the credit of our country. **Wc are. therefore, opposed to the free coinage of silver, except by international agreement with the leading commercial nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote; and until such agreement can be Obtained the existing gold standard must be preserved i “All our sjliver and paper currency sm«t be •aaintaiued! at parity with gold, and we favor •It measures designed to maintain inviolably Che obligations of the United States and all esr money. Wither coin or paper, at the preheat •tan,lard— the standard of the most enlightened nations of the earth. M(sr and Wool **We condemn the present administration for •or keep! g faith with the sugar producers of •his country; the republican party favors such protection as will lead to the production on American soil of all sugar which the American people use, and for wbieh they pay to other •eeoatrie*. more than 91011.(40.009 annually. “To ail our prod acts, to ail of those of the mine •hd the held, as well as those of the shop and •he factory, to wool, the products of the great Indusuious sheep husbandry as well as the •wished woolens of the mill, we promise the reort ample protection." Merchant Marina "We favor restoring the early American jpolu-y of discriminating duties tor the upbuilding of our merchant marine and the protection of our shipping in the foreign carrying •Made, so that American shlpa—the product of American labor, emploved la American ship yank, nailing under the Stars and Stripes, and •tanned, officered and owned by Americans— may regain the carrying of our foreign comPensions. The veterans of the Union armies desem •ad should receive fair treatment and geuer«un recognition. Whenever practicable they •bouid be given the preference in the matter «f employment, and they are entitled to the •■am 1 n 1 nt of such laws as are heat calculated «e eecure the fnlAUment of the pledges made <•» them in the dark days of the country’s peril We denounce the praetioe In •he pension bureau, so recklessly and •njnsTlfr carried on by the present aciniagetratlon. of reducing pensions and arbitrarily •Topping names from the rolls, as daservtn* of U

rONlfD l«tltlOM Our tore lira policy should to* *t all times aim, vigorous and dlgnlfled. sad sU oar Interests la the western hemisphere carefully watched and guarded. The Hawaiian islandk » should be controlled by the United States, and no foreign power should be permitted to interfere with them; the Nicaragua canal should be built, owned and operated by the United States; and by the purchase of the Danish islands we should seen re a proper and much needed naval station in the West Indies. Armenian Massacres. The massacres in Armenia have aroused a deep sympathy and Just indignation of the American people, and we' believe that the United States should exercise all the influence it can properly exert to bring these atrocities to an end. In Turkey American residents have been exposed to the gravest dangers, and American property destroyed. There and everywhere Amei lean citizens and American property must be absolutely protected at all hazards and at auy cost. SC on roc Doctrine. Wa reassert the Monroe doctrine tn Its full extent, and we reaffirm the right of the United ■States to give the doctrine efleotby respond- 1 ing to the appeals of any American ! state for friendly intervention in case j of European encroachment. We have = not interfered, and shall not interfere, with , the existing possessions of any European I power in this hemisphere, but those posses- , sioas must not, on any pretext, be extended. ] We hopefully look forward to the eventual withdrawal of the European powers from this hemisphere, and to the ultimate union of all the English-speaking part of the continent by i the free consent of its inhabitants. Cuba. . From the hour of achieving their own ladepender.ee the people of the United States have regarded with sympathy the Struggles of other American peoples to free themselves from European domination. We watch with deep and abiding interest the heroic battle dt the Cuban patriots against cruelty and oppression, >.nd our best hopes go out for the full success of their determined contest for liberty. The government of Spain having lost control of Cuba and being unable to protect the property or lives of resident American citizens, or to comply with its treaty obligations, we believe that the government of the United States should actively use its influence and good offices to restore peace and give Independence ; to the island. The Navy. The peace and security of the republic and the maintenance of its rightful influence among the nations of the earth demand a naval ! power commensurate with its position and re- j spcmsibiluy. We therefore favor the con- ! tinued enlargement of the navy and/t com- ■ plete system of harbor and sea-coast Ue- , tenses. Foreign Immigration. For the protection of the equality of our I American citizenship, and of the wages of our j workingmen against the fatal competition of I low-priced labor, we demand that the immi- ] graiton laws be thoroughly enforc ed. and so i extended as to exclude from entrance to the j United States those who can neither read nor ! write. Civil Service.

The civil-service 1»* *a« placed on toe ■ statute by the republican party, which has al- ' ways sustained it, and we renew our repeated declaration that U shall be thoroughly and honestly enforced and extended whenever practicable. Free Bpllot. We demand that every citizen of the Unite* States shall be allowed to cast one free ano unrestricted ballot, and that such ballot shal be counted and returned as cast. Ly itching*. We proclaim our unqualified condemnation of the uncivilized and barbarous practice, well known as lynching or killing of human beings suspected or charged with crime, without pro- ! cess of law. National Arbitration. We favor the creation of a national board of arbitration to settle and adjust differences which .may arise between employers and employed engaged in interstate commerce- » Homesteads. We believe in an immediate return to the free homestead policy of the republican party and urge the passage by congress of the satisfactory free homestead measure which has already passed the house sad is now pending in the senate. Territories We favor the admission of the remaining territories at the earliest^ practicable date, having due regard for the interests of • the peo- I pi” of the territories and of the United States, j All the federal officers appointed for the terri* S lories should be selected from bona fide rest- ] dents thereof, and the right of self-government should be accorded as far as practicable. Alaska. We believe the citizens of Alaska should ' have representation in the congress cf the j United States, to the end that needful legisla- j Uon may be intelligently enacted. Temperance. We' sympathize with all wise and legitimate j efforts to lessen and prevent the evils of la* temperance and promote morality. Kighta of Women. The republican party is mindful of the right* and interests of women. Protection Of Amer- j lean industries includes equal opportunities, equal pay for equal work, and protection to the home. We favor the admission of women to wider spheres of usefulness, and welcome their co-operation in rescuing the country from democratic and populistic mismanagement ; and misrule. Such are the principles and policies of the republican party. By these principles we will abide, and these policies we will put. into execution. We ask for them the considerate . Judgment of toe American people. Confident alike in the history of our great party and la the justice of our cauae. we present our plat* form and our candidates in the full assurance ; that the election will bring victory to the republican party and prosperity to the people of j the United States. NATIONAL COMMITTEE.

Tl>* New National Committee of the K* publican forty. St. Louis. JujnelS.—Following is the new Republican national committee aa annoutfbed in the national convention: Alabama -Watt. Youngblood. Arkansas—l*iweii Clay ton. California-J. p- spreeklei. Colorado—Dkinot elect, i on Weticut - Samuel Fessenden Delaware--Jame» H Wilson. Flonda--John G. Long. Georgla~J W. Lyons. ,. Idaho--Did not elect, f U Utiols—T N Jamicape. Indiana—W. T. Durbia. lowa—W. B. Cumomuta Kansas -Cyrus Leiand. Jr. * Kentucky-J. W. Yerkee. I. nisisna—A. T. Wimberly. Jlasuc Joseph Manley. Maryland George L Wellington. Massachusetts—George H- Lyaia « Michigan--George L. Malta Minnesota— I. K. Hubbard. Mississippi -J- HUL Missouri—R. C Kerens Montana-Charles R l^onard. Nebraska—John M. Thurston. .. . Nevada—Did not elect. New Hampshire- Person C Cheney. New Jersey—Garrett C. Hobart. N«w York-K- s. Qtbba North Carolina 'James E. Boydk < North Dakota-W. N Robinsoi. t Ohio Charles L. Kurt* " Oregon George A. Steele. P-nnsylvanta M. S. Quay. Rhode Island - Gen C. K. Bray ton. South Carolina—E. A Webster. South Dakota A. B. Kiurbige. Tennessee elects after oooveatlon adJonnMk Texas John Grant. Ctah-O. J. Saulsbury. Vermont-George T. Child*. Virginia—George K. Bowdin. Washington—P. < C. Sullivan. Wes* Virginia—& N. Scott. Wisconsin—Henry C. Payne. Wyoming—Willis Vanderventer. District of Columbia—Deadlock. ArUona-Postponed until territorial < New Mexico—Elects after convention. Oklahoma—Henry E A^ Indian Territory—Leo. ifeaiLalSM

TALMAGE’S SERMON. Divine Beneficence That Watcheth Bven a Sparrow. God's Protuctlnc Car* for the Humblest of HU Creatures—Ho Knoweth What U llest for Man and None Need Hope for More. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage delivered the following- discourse before his Wash- i ing-ton congregation, taking for his j test: Are not two sparrows sold lor a farthing’ \ and one of them shall net fall on the ground without your Father. Matthew x., 28. You see the Bible will not be limited j in the choice of symbols. There is hardly a beast, or bird, or insect, j which has not been called to illustrate j some Divine truth—the os’s patience, j the ant's industry, the spider's skill, ] the hind's surefootedness; the eagle's 1 speed, the dove’s gentleness, and even i the sparrow’s meauness and insignifi-; canoe. In oriental countries none but j the poorest people buy the sparrow j and eat it—so very littfcs meat is there j on the bones, and so very poor is it, I what there is of it. The comfortable 1 population would not think of touch- j ing it any more than you would think ' of eating a bat or lamprey. Now, says : Jesus, if God takes such good care of j a poor bird that is not Worth a cent,: will He not care for vou. an iinmor- 1 tal? » We associate God with revolutions. We can see a Divine purpose in the j discovery of America, in the invention \ of the art of printing, in the exposure ; of the Gunpowder nlot. in the eontriv- ! auce of the needle-gun, in the ruin of an Austrian or Napoleonic despotism; | but how hard it is to see God iu the ; minute personal affairs of our lives! j We think of God as making sa reeord of the starry host, but eau not realize ;

the Bible truth that lie knows how j many hairs are on our head. ' It seems ] a grand thing that Go<| provided food ‘ for hundreds of Israelites id the des-! ert; but we can not appreciate the j truth that, when a sparrow is hungry, j God stoops down and opens its mouth and puts the seed in. We are struck with the idea that God fills the universe with His presence, but can not understand how lie encamps in the crystal palace of a dewdrop, or finds room to stand between the alabaster pillars of the pond lily. We can see God in the clouds. Can we see God in these flowers at our feet? "We are apt to place God on some great stage—or try to do it—expecting Him there to act out^His stupendous projects; but we forget that the life of a Cromwell, an Alexander, or a Washington, or an archangel, is not more under divine inspection than your life or mine. Pompey thought there must be a mist over the eyes of God because he so much favored Cwsar. But there is no such mist. He sees everything. We say God's path is in the great..waters. True enough; but no more certainly thhn He is in the water in the glass on the table. We say God guides the stars in their courses. Magnificent truth! but no more certain truth than that He decides which road or street j you shall take in coming to church. Understand that God does not sit upon an indifferent or unsympathetic throne, but that He sits down beside you to-day, and stands beside me today, and no affair of our lives is so insignificant but that it is of importance to God. In the first place. God chooses our occupation for us. I am amazed to see how many people there are dissatisfied with the work they have to do. I think three-fourths wish they were in some other occupation, and they spend a great deal of time regretting that they got in the wrong trade or profession. I want to tell you that God put into operation all the influences which led you to that particular choice. Many of you are not in the business that you expected to be in. You started for the ministry and learned merchandise; you started for the 'law ami you are a physician: you preferred agriculture and you became a mechanic. You thought one way: God thought another. But you ought not to sit down and mourn over the past. You are to remember that God arranged all these circumstances by which you were made what you are. Hugh Miller says; **I will be a

stonemason. God s-ays: “lou will be a geologist’’ David goes out to attend his father's sheep; God called him to govern a uation. Saul goes opt to hut his father's asses, and before he gets back finds the crown of regal dominion, llow^much happier would it be if we were content with the places God gave usl God saw vour temperament and all the circumstances by which you were surrounded. and I believe nine-tenths of you are in the work you are best fitted for. 1 hear a great racket in my watch, and I find that the hands and the wheels and the springs are getting out of their places. I sent it dow to the jewelers and say: “Overhaul that watch, amd teach the wheels, and the spring, and the hands to mind their own business." You know a man having a large estate. He gathers his working hands in the morning, and says to one: “You go and trim that vine," to another: “ You go aud weed those flowers;" to another: “You plow that tough glebe;” and each oue goes to his particular work. The owner of the estate points the man to what he knows he ean do best, and so it is with the Lord. I remark further that God has arranged the place for our dwelling. What particular ci ty or town, street or house you shall live in seems to be a mere matter of accident. You go out to hunt for a house, and yon happen to pass up a certain street,and happen to see a sign, and you select that house. Waadt all-happening so? Oh, no! God guideth yon in every step. He'foresaw the future. He knew all vour circumstances, and he se lected jost that one house as better for you than any of the 10,000 habitations In the city. Oar house, however humble the roof and however lowly the portals, as as near God's heart as sn alhambra or a kremlin. Prole it, you say. Proverbs, iik,

3X “He blesseth the habitation off the just.** I remark farther that God arranges all oar friendships. Yoa were driven to the walL You found a man Just at that crisis who sympathized with you and helped yon. Yon say: “How lucky I was!” There was no luck aboiifc it, God sent that friend just as certainly as He sent the angel to strengthen Christ. Your domestic friends, your business friends, your Christian friends, God sent them to bless yon, and if any of them have proved traiterous, it is only to bring ou|t the value of those who remain. If feome die, it is only that they stand at the outposts of Heaven to greet you at your coming. You always will have friends, warmhearted friends, magnanimous friends; and when sickness comes to -your dwelling, there will be watchers; jivheu trouble comes to your heart there will be sympathizers; when death comes, there will be gentle fingers to close the eyes and fold the hands, and gjentle lips to tell of a resurrection. Oh. we are compassed by a body-guard of friends! Every man, if he has behaved himself welt, is surrounded by three circles of friends—those uif the outer circle wishing him well; thbse in the next circle willing to help j him; while close up to his heart are a few who would die for him. God pity the wretch who has, not any friends. I remark again that God puts down the limit to our temporal prosperity. The world of fiance seems to have no

God ia it. You can not tell where a mau will land. The affluent fall; the poor rise. The ingenious fail; tlje ignorant succeed. An enterprise opening grandly shuts in bankruptcy, (while out of the peat dug up from some New Euglaud marsh the millionaire (budds his fortune. The poor man thlpks it is chance that keeps him down; the rich man thinks it is chauce which hoists him; and they are both wrong. It is hard to realize that God rulfcs the money market, and has a hook In the nose of the stock gambler, and! that all the commercial revolutu ns <Sf the world shall result in the very best for God‘s dear children. My brethreu, do not kick against the Divine allotments. God knows just how much money it is best for you. to lose. You never gain unless it ijs best for you to gain. You go up when it is best for you to go up, and, go down when it Is best for you to go (down. Prove it, you say. I will. Rom., viii., 28: “All things work together for good to them that love God.” Y’ou gjb into a factory and see 20 or 30 wheels, and they are going in different directions. This band is rolling off this wajr, and another band another way; one down and another up. You say, “Whjit confusion in a factory!” Oh.no! all! these different bands are only different parts of the machinery. So I go into your life and sec strange things. l|ere is one providence pulling you ohe way and another in another way. Rut these are different parts of one machinery by which He will advance your everlasting and present well-being. Now you know that a second I mortgage, and a third and fourth mort

gage, are often worth nothing.! It is the first mortgage that is a good in vestment. I have to 'tell yoh that ever}* Christian man has a firstjj mortgage on every trial, and on ev<|ry disaster, and it must make a payrtent of eternal advantage to his soul. How many worriruents it would take! out of vour heart if you believed that fully. You buy goods and hope the price will go up, but you are in a fi*ei and a frown for fear the price will goj down. You do not buy the goods using your best discretion in the matter, and then say: “O, Lord, I have dobe the best I_ could; 1 commit this] whole transaction into Thy hands!" That is what religion is good for or it Is good for nothing. I There are two things, says ian old proverb, you ought not to frets about: First, things that you can held; and, second, things which you can n^t help. If you can help them, why do you not apply the'eemedy? If you can not help them, you might as well surrender first as last. My dear brethren, do not sit any longer moping about your ledger. Do not sit looking so de^poudiug upon your stock <of unsalable goods. Do you think that God is goiug to allow you, a Christian man, to do business alone? God is the controlling partner in every firm; and, although }*our debtors may ajbscond, although your securities may jfail, although your store may burn, Gfod will, out of an infinity of results, ehbose for you the very best results. j Do not have any idea that you can overstep the limit'that God:haslaid down for your prosperity. You will never get one inch beyond it. God has decided how much prosperity you can stand honorably, and employ usefully, and control righteously^aud at the end of the year you will have so many dollars and cents, just so much wardrobe, just so much furniture, just so many bonds and mortgages, afncl nothing more. I will gi|ve youf $100 for every penny you get beyond that. God has looked over your life, ifie knows what is best for you, and Iltf is goiug to bless you in time, and bless you for eternity;, and He will do it inphe best way. Vour little ehihl says: “Papa 1 wish you would let me have that knife." “No," you say. “it is a sharp knife, and you grill cut yourself." [ He says: “I must have it" “Hut youf can not have it," yon reply. He gfts angry and red in the face, add say# he will hare it; bnt you say he shall not ha re it Are you* not kind in keeping it from him? So God treats Ilia children. “I say: “I wish. Heavenly FatheiK to get that" God says: “No, ioy chif<»” 1 say: “I must hare it" God sa rs: "You can not have it” I £et angry and say: “I will have it” jGod sa rs: "You shall not have it;” and I do lot get it Is He not kind and loving, a ad the best of fathers? Do not tell ne there is no rule and regulation in fin sse things? Tell that to the men who believes tn no God and no Bible. Tei*c it not to me? A man of large business conclude* to go out of his store, i*aringflL^hof iis investments, in the busiu^^nfed he

says to his sons: “Now, I am going to ! leave this business in your hands. ' Perhaps I may come back in a little j while.and*perhaps not. While I am gone ! you will please to look after affairs.” i After awhile the father comes back and finds everything'at loose ends, and the whole business seems to be going wrong. He says: “I am going to take possession of this business—you know I never fully surrendered it; and henceforth consider yourselves subordinates.” Is he not right in doing it? Ha saves the business. The Lord seems to let us go in life, guided by our own skill, and we make miserable work of . it. God comes down to our shop, or our store says: “Things are going wrong, I come to take charge. I am Master, and I know what is best, and I proclaim my authority.” We are merely subordinates. It is like a boy at school with a long sum^he can not do. He has been working at it for-'hours, making figures here and rubbing out figures there, and it is all mixed up; and the teacher, looking over the boy's shoulder, knows that he can not get out of it, and, cleaning the slate, says: “Begin again.” Just so God does to us. Our affairs get into an inextricable entanglement, and OfHe rubs every- i thing out and savs: “Begin again!” Is i

lie not wise and loving in so doing-? I think the trouble is that there is so ufcpge a difference between the Divine and the human estimate as to what is enough. I have heard of people striving- for that which is enough, but I never heard of any one who had enough. What God calls enough for man, man calls too little. What mjfu calls enough, God says is too muijii. The difference between a poor n&n and a rich man is only the difference in banks. The rich man puts his money in the/Washington bank, or the Central bank, or thb Metropolitan bank, or some other bank of that character, while the poo£“°*man comes up and makes his investments in the bank - of him who runs all the quarries, all the mines/ all the gold, all the earth, all Heaven. Do you think a man can fail when he is backed up like that? 1 remark again, that all those things that seem to be but accidents in our life are under the Divine supervision. We sometimes seem to be going helmless and anchorless. Yon say: “If 1 had some other trade; if I had not | gone there this summer; if I had lived ' in some other house.” You have no j right to say that. Every tear yon j wept, every step you have-taken, every j burden you have carried, is under Divine inspection, and that event : which startled your whole household with horror God met with perfect placidity, because He knew it was for | your good. It was part of a great plan projected long ago. In eternity, when you come to reckon up your mercies, you will point to that affliction as one of your greatest blessings. Going up the White mountains some years ago, I thought; of that passage in the Bible that speaks of God as weighing mountains' in the balance. As I looked at thpse great mountains I thought: Can it' be possible that God can put these great mountains in scales? It was an idea too great for me to grasp; hut when I saw a blue bell down by the mule's foot, on my way up Mount Washington, then I understood the kindness and goodness of God. It is not so qmch of God in great things I can understand, but of God in little things. There is a man who says: “That doctrine can not be true, because things do go so very wrong.” I reply it is no inconsistency on the part of God, but a lack of understanding on our part. I he|fr that men are making very tine shawl! in some factory/ I go in on

the hrst floor, and see only the raw materials. and I ask: 7Are these the shawls I have heard about?” '“No,” says the manufacturer; “go up to the next floor;” and I go up, and there 1 begin to see the design. But the man says: “Do not stop here; go up to the top floor of the factory, and you will see the idea fully carried out.” I do so, and, having come to the top, see the complete pattern of an exquisite shawl. $0 in our life, standing down on a low level of Christian experience; we do not understand God's dealings. He tells us tc go up higher and higher, until we be- I gin to understand the Divine meaning with "respect to us, and we advance un-. til we stand at the very gate oi Heaven, and there see God's idea all wrought out—a perfect idea of mercy, of love, of kindness. And we say: “Just and true are all Thy ways."* It is aril right at the top. Remember, there is po inconsistency on the part of God, but it is only our mental and spiritual incapacity. 7 Some of you may be disappointed I this1 suinmer-rxacatious are apt to b« | disappointments—but whatever youi | perplexities and worriments. know j that “Man's heart deviseth his way: that the Lord directeth his st$ps.r Ask these aged men in thistdiurck if it is not so. It has been so in my own life. Cine summer I started foi the Adiromlecks, but my plans were sc changed that I landed in Liverpool. L studied law and 1 got into the ministry. 1 resolved to go as a -missionary to China, and 1 stayed in the United States. I thought I would like to be in the east, and I went to the west; all the circumstances of life, all my work, different from that which I expected. “A man's heart deviseth his way. bat the Lord directeth hia stepf.' So, my dear friends, this day take home this subject. Be content with such things as you have. From every grass bladie under your feet learn the lesson of Divine care, and never let the smallest bird flit across yonr path without thinking of the truth, that two sparrows are sold for a farthing, and one of them shall not faU on the ground without your Father. Blessed be His glorious name forever Amen. “I hats done nothing bat blush all day,* complained the rose, “and still that idiot ot a poet goes ou talking of the modest v olet 1 as if there were not others.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. 71 i I; Vt:

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