Christian herald and signs of our times . besieged at Beziers,and a drunken drummer came in at mid-night and rang the alarm bell, notknowing what he was doing, but wakingup the host in time to fight their enemiesthat moment arriving, was it an acci-dent ? When, in one of the Irish wars,a starving mother, flying with her starv-ing child, sank down and fainted on therocks in the night and her hand fell on awarm bottle of milk, did that just happenso ? God is either in the affairs of men,or our religion is worth nothing at all,and you had better take it away from us,and instead of this Bible, whi
Christian herald and signs of our times . besieged at Beziers,and a drunken drummer came in at mid-night and rang the alarm bell, notknowing what he was doing, but wakingup the host in time to fight their enemiesthat moment arriving, was it an acci-dent ? When, in one of the Irish wars,a starving mother, flying with her starv-ing child, sank down and fainted on therocks in the night and her hand fell on awarm bottle of milk, did that just happenso ? God is either in the affairs of men,or our religion is worth nothing at all,and you had better take it away from us,and instead of this Bible, which teachesthe doctrine, give us a secular book, andlet us, as the famous Mr. Fox, the mem-ber of Parliament, in his last hour, cryout: Read me the eighth book of ! my friends, let us rouse up to anappreciation of the fact that all the affairsof our life are under a Kings command,and under a Fathers watch. Alexanderswar horse, Bucephalus, would allow any-body to mount him when he was unhar-nessed ; but as soon as they put on that. BLUCHERS GUIDE. war horse, Bucephalus, the saddle, andthe trappings of the conqueror, he wouldallow no one but Alexander to touch if a soulless horse could have somuch pride in his owner, shall not weimmortals exult in the fact that we areowned by a King? Hath the rain afather ? Again, my subject teaches me thatGods dealings with us are was the original force of my rain was a great mystery to theancients. They could not understandhow the water should get into the cloud,and getting there, how it should be sus-pended, or falling, why it should comedown in drops. Modern science comesalong and says there are two portions ofair of different temperature, and they arecharged with moisture, and the one por-tion of air decreases in temperature sothe water may no longer be held invapor, and it falls. And they tell usthat some of the clouds that look to beonly as large as a mans hand, and tobe almost quiet in the heaven
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