Christian herald and signs of our times . ht thiswas a slipshod universe I would go crazy. Godis not an anarchist. Law, order, symmetry,precision, a perfect square, a perfect rectangle, a perfect rhomboid, a perfect circle. The edgeof Gods robe of government never frays are no loose screws in the worlds ma-chinery. It did not just happen that Napoleonwas attacked with indigestion at Borodino sotbat he became incompetent for the day. Itdid not just happen that John Thomas, themissionary, on a heathen island, waiting for anoutfit and orders for another missionary tour,received that out
Christian herald and signs of our times . ht thiswas a slipshod universe I would go crazy. Godis not an anarchist. Law, order, symmetry,precision, a perfect square, a perfect rectangle, a perfect rhomboid, a perfect circle. The edgeof Gods robe of government never frays are no loose screws in the worlds ma-chinery. It did not just happen that Napoleonwas attacked with indigestion at Borodino sotbat he became incompetent for the day. Itdid not just happen that John Thomas, themissionary, on a heathen island, waiting for anoutfit and orders for another missionary tour,received that outfit and those orders in a boxthat floated ashore, while the ship and the crewthat carried the box were never heard of. Thebarking of F. W. Robertsons dog, he tells us,led to a line of events which brought him fromthe army into the Christian ministry, where heserved God with world-renowned usefulness. Itdid not merely happen so. I believe in a par-ticular providence. I believe Gods geometrymay be seen in all our life more beautifully than. The Pastors Study in the New Brooklyn Tabernacle in crystallography. Job was right. The crys-tal cannot equal it. Again I remark that religion is superior tothe crystal in transparency. We know not whenor by whom glass was first discovered. Beadsof it have been found in the tomb of AlexanderSeverus. Vases of it are brought up from theruins of Herculaneum. There were femaleadornments made out of it 3000 years ago—those adornments found now attached to themummies of Egypt. A great many commenta-tors believe that my text means glass. Whatwould we do without the crystal ? The crystalin the window to keep out the storm and let inthe day—the crystal over the watch defendingits delicate machinery, yet allowing us to seethe hour—the crystal of the telescope by whichthe astronomer brings distant worlds so nearhe can inspect them. Oh, the triumphs of thecrystals in the celebrated .windows of Rouenand Salisbury ! But there is nothing so trans-paren
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