TBS DALLKg. -
6SSGOK
FRIDAY,
JULY 31, 1891
LOCAL ABD PIBSOXAL.
He sat In hla door at noonday ;
He was lonely, glum and ud ;
. , Th fliea wvre buzzing about him,
Lt by a blne-wlnjred gad.
Mot customer darkened his portals ;
' - ' Not a sign of business was there;
- - Bnt the flies kept on buzzing
- About the old man's hair.
.V. At last. In misery, he shouted:
., .. "Great Scott, I'm covered with flies ! "
' And the zephyr that toyed with hla whiskers
asked:
"Why don't you advertiser'
. " " The thanks of this office is tendered to
Kv. W. H, Wilson for a box of delic
ious peach plums.
Mr. Frank Pike, of Wasco and Hon.
W. McP, Lewis and Mr. J. P. Abbott of
Wapinitia were in the city Friday.
. Mr. Frank Lee, editor of the Klickitat
-' Leader, was in the city Thursday bnt re
turned home this morning.
- .It was 102 degrees in the shade Thurs
day in Portland at 3 o'clock, the high
est temperature ever known in that city.
' : The wife of Mr, Nicholas Blasen, of
. .' Eight Mile, was buried Friday; at 2
'o'clock from the Protestant Episcopal
church.
MrE. 0. McCain, who has resided in
.this city and neighborhood for the past
" -year will leave in a few days to visit his
- rZ fthe at Stewart, Colorado.
... t Mr. Chas. Dehm who has charge of
'- the machinery at Fort Stephens, on the
government jetty works arrived from be
low on Thursday's train and will remain
v- . for , few days.
. ' J It is said that since the Kowena tree
tie was .burned, involving a loss to the
U. P company of $1800, sixty watch men
have ..been put on the road between
Troutdale and The Dalles.
It is reckoned .that the Falouse conn
. i j , try wUI,: this year, raise enough grain to
- fill fifteen thousand train loads of fifteen
cars .each. No wonder the farmers of
that neighborhood fear another blockade.
JJop Sing, a wall-eyed Uelestial, was
splitting wood, on Friday, in front .of
his den on First street. Hop evidently
. , was dreaming of some wall-eyed, pig'
' eori-toed beauty in the flowery kingdom
. for instead of splitting wood with the
axe he was using, he split his foot. Hop
hopped off with a hop and is now busily
engaged Jn nursing a' foot and cussing,
s; i4 choicest Mongolese, the cause of his
,,.woeav ...
- State lecturer Holder came into town
Thursday' and left Friday afternoon for
Dufur.j He informs us that he has just
. - ' had a letter' from Professor French of
- ' : the 8tate Agricultural College who
promises to hold a farmers' institute at
." " " Dufur. sometime during the month of
'October next. Four of the college pro-
--' - feseors . intend to be present and take
' - part in the proceedings, which, if they
are anything like those of one lately held
- ha Wasco, , will be both . pleasant and
. profitable to all who may be privileged
, .fctp attend. , . . ,
Mr. A. S. . Macaliater returned from
roruand' -fcriday last. Me informs us
" 'that the contract for finishing the City
. of The Dalles has been let to Paquet &
. Smith and that the boat will be finished
. . and the portage open and running, be
yond a reasonable doubt by the .first of
September. The lower boat will be
v . - first class in every respect, just a little
smaller" than the Regulator, but, Mr.
Paquet thinks, able to beat her in
' ' . race and this is saying a good deal as the
; v Regulator will certainly run like i
cared wolf.
A woman named Molly Gardner ar
" i r-' rived with her two children from Portland
this morning and at once applied po his
Honor Judge Thornbury for .food and
, transportation further east. ' She claims
; -; to be a resident of Indian Territory,
where her" husband deserted ber, after
-attempting to poison herself and. child
ren and actually poisoning her youngest
child. After her husband had deserted
'.r, .her to take upr with. another woman she
and her two children left their home for
Washington, D. C. where she claims to
have an aunt residing. By some means
. she was carried to Portland, Or.,' and
after she had made known her history to
- the authorities, there, being destitute,
they forwarded her on the - way to The
DailesUvThekind hearted judge, after
1 hearing her plaint made ample provision
for herbeing cared for, between here and
Pendleton. The woman speaks very
r-r poor English,' and appears to be other
wise mentally defective.
The fickle character of the goddess of
. . fortune is aptly illustrated by a story
that comes to us from Baker City con
cerning Dave Scholts,. an old time
freighter between here and Canyon CStv.
A few years ago Dave got caught, daring
the winter in this city in a heavy snow
storm which .held' bim here, hard and
fastunder heavy expense for feed foi
his teams for a period of two or three
months, and left him dead broke, so
that but for .the kindness of August
Buckler and two or three other gentle
men In this city, himself and horses
t would have starved. As it was, in a
, short time everything he had was sold
at a sheriff's sale and poor Dave betook
, himself, as a dernier wort to prospecting
in the Blue mountains! How well he
: has succeeded can be gathered from the
' fact that the erstwhile freighter and all-round
busted bankrupt sold half of one
of his mines the other day for the snug
little sum of half a million. :.
. , Last Thursday E. N. Chandler entered
the store of Leslie Butler with a face as
radiant as a full moon and announced
' his determination to renounce the super
intendency of the granger store, which
be has graced for the. few months the
.' store has been in operation. It was
quite avblow to Mr. Butler who has
learned to respect and esteem Mr.
- --Chandler very highly and he naturally
enquired the cause of this sudden de
termination. "Well, you see" said Mr.
Chandler, "away back in Michigan,
over : thirty-two years ago, a man beat
me out of a sum of money and I have
just got word that the whole amount
- has been expressed to my address." "I
- hope," said Mr. Butler, "you will con
clude to remain with us and invest the
money in some enterprise that will ben-
. efit the town." "You see," he con-j
tinned, "we need a portage railroad and
woolen mill and a scouring mill and
by the way, how much did you say
ti 3 ti : .1 i T-l : I-: ... .....
Wash., will hold a meeting at Wapi
nitia. in this county, on the first Sunday
hn August.
George Herbert, the host of the Mount
Hood hotel Hood River, was in the city
last Friday night.
Mr. J. A. Gulliford of Dufor, who has
been in the Pendleton conntry for three
or four days, passed through the city
Saturday on his war home.
The Spokane Review believes that the
time will come, and at no distant date,
when wheat will be carried to the sea
board for two dollars a ton.
We are pleased to see Mr. August
Buchler again on the street. His arm
is yet in a sling bnt he expects to be as
good as new in a couple of weeks.
Hon. W. McD. Lewis has named his
fine thoroughbred colt DesChutes. The
colt was sired by Tilden, dam Ruby, is
of a chestnut color and was foaled May
12th last.
Hon. W. McD. Lewis is going to ex
hibit at the district fair some hogs of the
razor back variety that have been
turned into thoroughbred Berkshires by
eating Wapinitia crickets.
The Portland Bridge Building
company have twenty-three men, all
from this city and neighborhood, em
ployed digging the ditch from the new
reservoir to the receiving basin at Mes-
plies.
We very much regret to learn that
Hon. E. L. Smith of Hood River has
had another attack of illness similar to
that of last year. He is at present in
Olvmpia but is expected home in a
couple of weeks.
Mr. C. W. Rice and family left last
Monday . for a month's summer out
ing. They intend to go by way of the
Barlow road and stop part of the time
near the base of Mount Hood and the
rest at the Wilhoit soda springs.
They have four assessors in Clatsop
county and here is the result, as summed
up by the Attorian :
The city , assessment roll will be com
pleted this week. The school assess
ment and the state assessment and the
county assessment and the street assess
ment and the road assessment and the
poli tax assessment is in present fash
ion, too.
Two carloads of supply pipe for the
water works have already arrived. The
contract for hauling has been let to W.
N. Wiley, who - sub-let it to William
Neabeck, who has already commenced
the work. The contractors have some
three months to finish the work so that
we may expect to have the new system
in operation by the month of November
at farthest.
Mrs. Jane Fenruson, a widow lady of
comfortable means, from the Willamette
valley, was in town Friday filing on
homestead claim which she has taken
up adjoining the claim of her son, Mr.
Vincent Tapp of Wapinitia. We under
stand there are still some good claims
remaining nntaken in that fine agricul
tural section, to which the settlers
would gladly welcome new comers.
Wesley Howard, a young man, well
known in the Tygh Ridge country, was
bitten, Saturday last, on the hand by
rattle snake. Dr. Vanderpool, of Dufur,
was promptly called in but by
the time the doctor got to his
patient it took three persons to hold
him in the bed. - The doctor administer
ed an antidote that put the young man
into a sleep that lasted all night and he
was able to be around yesterday.
It is rumored that Col. Houghton will
tender his resignation as colonel of the
Third regiment, to take effect Septem
ber 1st. This is, of course, a matter
which largely concerns the colonel and
the regiment, but we shall be sorry, in
deed, if the colonel's resignation should
result in the removal of headquarters
from this place, as, in the opinion of
some, is likely to be the case, and sor
rier still if - the city should lose that
which "has, for so long, been the pride
and . pleasure of the community the
regimental band. ; -
Advertised Letters.
The following is the list of letters re
maining in The Dalles postoffice uncalled
for Friday, July 24, 1891. Persons call
ing for these letters will please give the
date on which they were advertised:
Davis E L
Dodson Mrs T D
Elkins Jack
Davidson Mrs 'J W
Dunlap CA
Finlayson Mrs M
Hazell James
Lung Sing
McKinney George
Walsher Jim.
M. T. Nolan, P. M.
Gerkeri Albert
Heoring Will
Marshall H J
Srew WW
MABBIED
, The following appears in the last issue
of the La Grande Gazette :
Miss Minnie Bishop, of La Grande
and Simon Frazier, of The Dalles, were
united in the bonds of matrimony last
Saturday.
Mr. Frazier will be remembered as an
old-time employe'' at the Company's
shops. - The lady, we understand, came
to La Grand some time ago from the
east.
A gentleman from the Cascades, whom
the Chnonicxz reporter, met at the pic
nic yesterday, in answer to the inquiry,
How are the government works pro
gressing at the Locks?" said; "More
work has been done and more real prog
ress made during the past six months,
than ever took place in the same length
of time before. The masonry on the
south side of the lower gate is all fin
ished but the coping, and it is the finest
piece of work I ever saw." Further in
quiry elicited the following : At present
fifty stone cutters are employed, about
fifty laborers and twenty more who are
working in the quarry. Soon the water
will be low enough to allow the canal to
be pumped out and then the work will
begin on the north side of the gate.
After the gate is finished, work can go
on at any stage of water.
Mr. G. J. Farley, superintendent of
construction of the Cascades portage
railroad, came up Saturday night and
will return to the Cascades tonight. He
informs us that the eastern end of the
track is nearly finished and that the
whole track, with the exception of tres
tle work at the western terminus, will
be laid this week." Mr. Farley still in
sists that everything will be in readi
ness for business as soon as the rolling
stock can possibly get here.
If yon want the news of the town and
urrounding country, as soon as possible
after it has happened, subscribe for the
Cbboxiclx.
I ziiucr luuusnuvu, ui luiuiwt wuukj,
"geueral progre- s sei-uis to be " the oruer
of the day, permit me to ask if it would
not be subservient of the public good if
some of this ppirit of progress which has
recently been evinced in Portland, East
Portland and Albina would extend to
the Government works at the Cascades
and points above on the Columbia
River, and take supervision and control
of what has heretofore and is now, under
the direction of the Circumlocution office,
and governed by principles and methods
of "bow not to do it."
It certainly apjiears singular that a
work the non-completion of which is a
barrier in the way of our natural ad
vancementa work 1 hich has had the
open door of the United States Treasury
at its back for I am afraid to say how
long almost a generation at least is no
fnrther advanced than it now is, and
that the people have nothing of utility
to show for the millions which have gone
into the rapacious maw of this greedy
political hobby horse.
The application of the smallest amount
of business sagacity, it would seem,
would solve the problem of how to bring
the question of an open river to a suc
cessful solution.
It certainly does not appear from pres
ent indications that this generation will
see it accomplished under the present
method of working; and is is doubtful if
it ever would be done : if there be not an
entire .change in the system now em
ployed.
My idea 1b that the entire work, at tha
Cascades and above, can be accomplish
ed in from five to seven years, if common
sense business principles and practices
are applied to the enterprise.
The method I would suggest, and
which to me appears perfectly feasible
is this: Let the general, government
make a survey and estimate of the work
to be done, fixing and declaring the
amount of excavating and water-build
ing to be done, and stating in detail each
item of "labor and material to be employ
ed in the prosecution of the work. After
this has been definitely settled, let the
work be done by contract. Let bids
invited for the completion of so many
lineal feet of excavating, wall building.
or what not no award to be made for an
amount of work greater than a contrac
tor .can reasonably be expected toaccom
plish in a given time, say two years, and
each successful bidder to be placed under
good and sufficient bonds for the faith
ful performance of the amount of work
awarded him. By this means the wort;
will be divided op and many will have
a direct pecuniary interest in the com
pletion, whereas theonly object now ap
parent in the prosecution of the enter
prise is to kill time and squander the
public's money without rendering any
thing in the way of quick progress.
I make these hasty suggestions feeling
that something should be done to expe
dite matters in this direction, either by
the means named or otherwise, if a bet
ter plan should present. Patience in
connection with the work on the Uppe:
Columbia has long since ceased to be
virtue, and it is high time that the
rights of the people should receive some
of the' attention that they have
reason to expect from their legislators.
It may yet be that a long suffering peo
ple may call some one to account for ne
glect, willful or otherwise, of what they
were profuse in their . promises to do
when asking the support of the "dear
people," whose wishes and interests
they now presume to ignore.
.United effort among the people of
Eastern Oregon and Washington and
those resident upon the Columbia river
in Western Oregon and Washington can
bring to bear a remedy for the evil com
plained of, by the selection of represen
tatives to our National legislative bodies
who are known to be. good men and
true, and who are pledged to make
specialty of effort for the completion of
the work upon our great water way
Then and only then can we look tor any
thing substantial in the way of perma
nent improvement; then dalliance will
give way to energetic labor, driven with
a purpose and in from five to seven
yeart at the utmost, the Columbia will
be open to commerce, from its mouth
into the British possessions where the
Canadian Pacific crosses Arrow lake,
a distance of 800 miles ; thus opening to
the outside world a region of unsurpas
sed richness, at present almost unknown
except to the venturesome prospector or
trapper, and affording an uninterrupted
channel of transportation to a people
who are now denied that boon, and to
the countless prospective thousands
who will inhabit that otherwise favored
region. Dionus Vindice bouus
Ban Foln.
Last Thursday Mr. H. A. Ritchie
showed us a bunch of grass which is
commonly known by the name of San
foin. it was a specimen of some which
he bad raised on his place about 11 miles
southeast of town. He has been experi
menting with ban roin for three years.
He first obtained some of the seed from
the government experiment station, at
Berkeley, California. - Judging from the
specimen before us it is a very valuable
grass and should be raised extensively
in Sherman county, especially by those
who have stock to feed.
San Foin does not require any mois
ture. . It thrives best on dry, sandy,
gravelly soil. This is a grand feature
connected with it.. Many people are
under the impression that moisture is
necessary for its growth but fhat is a
mistake, We would urge the farmers
and stockmen to try it. Mr. Ritchie is
one of the few who have tested it and
he is very much pleased with the results
so far. Others should supplement his
efforts in such a direction, as it is a mat
ter that should be of special interest to
the people of this county. -
San Foin makes excellent feed for cat
tle, sheep and horses. .It remains green
Doth winter and summer. Une seed of
San Foin will produce from 70 to 100
stems. The bunch which Mr. Ritchie
showed us was nearly two feet long and
consisted of over 70 of these stems
which were covered with good green
feed. Stock will readily eat San Foin
and in that fact lies its chief value.
Some Dersons rjlace the need cm thn nr.
face of the ground and think it Will
grow better in that way, while others
put in the seed with a press drill and
consider it necessary to press the seed
deep into the ground. Some . prefer to
mulch the ground when sowing the seed
and others are of opinion that mulching
is not necessary. The only plan is for
all who are interested to experiment and
make the results known.
The Dalles Times-Mountaineer says:
"We can see no reason why pianos are
prohibited in saloons. Tbey produce
classical music". Great Scott! If it is
music that is eround out of the regula
tion saloon piano, what could the sounds
that are often brought forth from the
hand organ, bag-pipe, Chinese flute and
devil's fiddler be called?" Oregonian.
DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON THE
COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE RAIN.
Tba WoBdarfdl Imagery of tha Book of
Job How the Study of It Baa Made
' Weak Men Into Infidels Never Wade
Into a Mystery Over Yovr Bead.
Brooklyn, Ju'r. .Dr. Talmage's ser
mon today is on a kind of gospel in which
few people believe. The weather is a com
mon object of complaint and fault finding,
but Dr. Talmage finds a goapel in it, which j
today he proclaims from the text. "Hath
the rain a father?" Job xxxviii, 28.
This Book of Job has been the subject of j
unbounded theological wrangle. Men have ,
made it the ring in which to display their J
ecclesiastical pugilism. Some say that the
Boole or Job Is a true history; others, that
it is an allegory; others, that it is an epio
poem; others, that it is a drama. Some
Bay that Job lived eighteen hundred years
before Cbrhtt, others say that he never
lived at alL Some say that the author of
this book was Job; others, David; others,
Solomon. The discussion has landed some
in blank infidelity. Now, I have no trouble
with the Books of Job or Revelation the
two most mysterious books in the Bible
because of a rule I adopted some years ago.
I wade down into a Scripture passage as
long as I can touch bottom, and when 1
cannot then I wade out. I used to wade in
until it was over my head and then I got
drowned. I study a passage of Scripture
so long as it is a comfort and help to my
soul, but when it becomes a perplexity and
.- spiritual upturning I quit. In other
words, we ought to wade in up to our
heart, but never wade in until it is over
our head. No man should ever expect to
swim across this great ocean of divine
truth. I go down into that ocean as I go
down into the Atlantic ocean at East
Hampton, Long Island, just far enough to
bathe; then I come out. I never had any
idea that with my weak hand and foot 1
could strike my way clear over to Liver
pool. GOD'S MYSTERIOUS GOVERXM KNT.
I suppose you understand your family
genealogy. Yon know something about
your parents, your grandparents,, your
great grandparents. Perhaps you know
where they were born, or where they died. ;
Have you ever studied the parentage of
the shower, "Hath not the rain a father?" j
This question is not asked by a poetaster;
or a scientist, bnt by the head of the uni- i
verse. To humble and to save Job God i
auks him fourteen questions: About the j
world's architecture, about the refraction !
of the sun's rays, about the tides, about the
snow crystal, about the lightnings, and
then he arraigns him with the interroga- I
tion of the text, "Hath the rain a father?"
With the scientific wonden of the rain I
have nothing to do. A minister gets
through with that kind of sermons within
the first three years, and if he haa piety
enough be get through with it in the first
three months. A sermon has come to me
to mean one wrd of four letters, "heln!"
You all know tOat the rain is not an or- ' Modern science comes along and says there
phan. You know it is not cast out of the j are two portions of air of different tem
gates of heaven a foundling. You would perature, and they are charged with mois
answer the question of my text in the af- j ture, and the one portion of air decreases
Urinative. I in temperature so the water may no longer
Safely housed duringthe storm, you hear ' be held in vapor, and it falls. And they
the rain beating against he window pane, j tell us that some of the clouds that look
and you find it searching all the crevices-: to be only as large as a man's hand, and to
of the window silL It first comes down in i be almost quiet in the heavens, are great
solitary drops, pattering the dust, and then
it deluges the fields and angers the moun
tain torrents, and makes J.he traveler im
plore Bhelter. You know that the rain is
not an accident of the world's economy.
You know it was born of the cloud. You
know it was rocked in the cradle of the
wind. You know it was sung to sleep by
the storm. You know that it a flying evan
gel from heaven to earth. You know it is
the gospel of the weather. You know that
God is its father.
If this be true, then how wicked is onr
murmuring about climatic change. The
first eleven Sabbaths after I entered the
ministry it stormed. Through the week
it was clear Weather, but on the Sabbaths
the old country meeting house looked
like Noah's ark before it landed. A few
drenched people sat before a drenched pas
tor; but most of the farmers stayed at
home and thanked God that what was bad
for the church was good for the crops. I
committed a good deal of sin in those days
in denouncing the weather. Ministers of
the Gospel sometimes fret about stormy
Sabbaths, or hot Sabbaths, or inclement
Sabbaths. They forget the fact that the
same God who ordained the Sabbath and
sent forth his ministers to announce sal
vation also ordained the weather. "Hath
the rain a father?" .
INCESSANT COMPLAINTS OF THE WEATHER.
Merchants, also, with their stores filled
with new goods, and their clerks hanging
idly around the counters, commit the same
transgression. There have been seasons
when the whole spring and fall trade has
been ruined by protracted wet weather.
Tkak tnanAho nf-ss than Awamfnaul tka
"weather probabilities" with more interest I
. , ... . , , , i
uiwi uici rew uiuica. iucj v, am.ucu
for a patch of blue sky. They went com-
plaining to the store and came complain
ing home again. In all that season of wet
feet and dripping garments and Impassa
ble streets they never once asked the ques
tion, "Hath the rain a father?"
So agriculturists commit this sin. There
i nothing more annoying than to have
planted oorn rot In the ground because of
too much moisture, or hay all ready for the
mow dashed of a shower, or wheat al
most ready for the sickle spoiled with the
rust. How hard it la to bear the agricul
tural disappointments. God has infinite
resources, but I do not think hehascapao-
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lty to make weather to
please all the ,
farmers. Sometimes it is
too hot, or it is
too cold; It is too wet, or it is too dry; it is
too early, or It is too late. They forget
that the God who promised seed time and
harvest, summer and winter, cold and
beat, also ordained all the climatic changes.
There is one question that ought to be
written on every barn, on every fence, on
every haystack, on every rarmhouse.
"Hath the rain a fatherr'
If we only knew what a vast enterprise
it is to provide appropriate weather for
this world we would not be so critical of
the Lord. Isaac Watts at ten years of age
complained that he did not like the hymns ,
L. . . 1 . U T71. 1 : .. L. I. 1
auug; ui un jLOjgiiBU cuauu.
Well," said his father, "Isaac, instead of
your complaining about the hymns, go and
maxe nymns tnat are rjetter. Ana ne aia
go and make hymns that were
anrl mM hvmna T.httr. sm hAtji '
Now, I say to you if yon do not like the
weather get np a weather company and
have a president, and a secretary, and a
treasurer, and a board of directors, and ten
million dollars of stock, and then provide
weather that will suit us all. There is a
man who has a weak head, and he cannot
stand the glare of the sun. You must have
a cloud always hovering over him.
I like the sunshine; I cannot live without
plenty of sunlight, so yon must always
have enough light for me. Two ships
meet In mid-Atlantic. The one is going to
Southampton and the other u coming to
New York. Provide weather that, while
it is abaft for one ship, it is Dot a head
wind for the other. There is a farm that
is dried np for the lack of rain, and there
is a pleasure party going ont for a field ex
cursion. Provide weather that will unit
the dry farm and the jilevtsure excursion.
No. sirs. I will not bike one unllxr of stock
in your weather conimiiy There is ouly
one Being in the universe who knows
enough to provide the risht. kind of weath
er for this world Ikitti the nun a fa
ther?"
OOD IS IS FIN I TB IN IXTlNlTtslMAIA
My text also suggest)) God's iniiiiitesu
pervlKal. You see the divine Sonsliip in
every drop of rain The )hw.1s of the
shower are not dun; away bv a .fienl
thrift who known uot how many he t brows
or where they fall.. They ure all shining
princes of heaven. Tiit-v all have a-i eter
nnl lineage. They aro .ill the clilll--ii of a
king. "Hath the rain a father?" Well,
then, 1 say if Got I taken notice of every
minute raindrop ho will tnke notice of the
most Insignificant aff.ur of my life It is
the astronomical view of things tb.it
bothers me.
We look up into thn oisrht hetvens, and
we say, Worlds! worlds! nd how insig
nificant we feel! We stand at the foot of
Mount Washington or Mont Ulsnc, and
we feel that we are only insects, and then
we say o ourselves, "Though the world is
so large, the sun is one million four hnn-
take the trouble to look down at me." In
fidel conclusion. Saturn, Mercury and
Jupiter are no more rounded and weighed
and swung by the hand of God than are
the globules on a lilao bosh the morning
after a shower.
God is no more in magnitudes than he Is
in minutiae. If he has scales to weigh the
mountains, he has balances delicate enough
to weign tne lnnnitesimaL You can no
more see him through the telescope than
you can see him through the microscope; no
more when yon look up than when you
look down. Are not the hairs of your
head all numbered? And if Himalaya has
a God, "Hath not the rain a father?" I
take this doctrine of a particular Provi
dence, and I thrust it into the very midst
of your everyday life. If God fathers a
raindrop, is there anything so Insignifi
cant In your affairs that God will not
father that?
When Ornvse. the gunsmith. Invented
! the needle gun, which decided the
battle
of Sadowa, was it a mere accident?
When
I a farmer's boy showed Blucher a short cut
by which he could bring his army np soon
t enough to decide Waterloo for England,
j was it a mere accident? When Lord Byron
' took a piece of money and tossed it np to
decide whether or not he should be am
anced to Miss Millbank, was it a mere ac
cident which side of the money was up and
which was down? When the Christian
army was besieged at Beziers, and a
drunken drummer came in at midnight
and rang the alarm bell, not knowing what
he was doing, but waking up the host in
time to fight their enemies that mom.ent
arriving, was it an accident?
When in one of the Irish wars a starv
ing mother, flying with her starving child,
sank down and fainted on the rocks In the
night and her hand fell on a warm bottle
of milk, did that just happen so? 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 thm
j Bible, which teaches the doctrine, give us
a secular book, and let us, as the famons
Mr. Fox, the member of parliament, in his
last honr, cry out. "Read me the eighth
book of Virgil."
Oht my friends, let us rouse up to an ap
preciation of the fact that all the affairs of
our life are under a king's command, and
! under a father s watch. Alexander's war
norse, ttucepnaius. would allow anybody
to mount him when he was unharnessed,
but as soon as they put on that war horse,
Bucephalus, the saddle and the trappings
of the conqueror be would allow no one
but Alexander to touch him. And if a
soulless horse could have so much pride in
his owner, shall not we Immortals exult in
the fact that we are owned by a king?
"Hath the rain a father?"
GOD'S WATS ABB FAST FINDING OUT.
Again my subject teaches me that God's
dealings with us are inexplicable. That
the original force of my text. The
rain was a great mystery to the ancients.
They could not understand how the water
should get . into the cloud, and getting
there, how it should be suspended, or fall-
1 ine, why it should come down in drops.
mountains of mist four thousaud feet from
base to top, and that they rush miles a
! minute.
Bnt after all the brilliant experiments of
Dr. James Hutton, and Sanssure, and other
scientists, there is an infinite mystery
about the rain. There is an ocean of the
unfathomable in every raindrop, and God
says today as he said in the time of Job,
"If yon cannot understand one 'drop of
rain, do not be surprised if my dealings
with you are inexplicable." Why does that
aged man. decrepit, beggared, vicious, sick
of tho world and the world sick of him,
live on, while here is a man in mid life,
consecrated to God, hard working, useful
i " everJ respect, who dies? Why does that
! old Bossip, gadding along the street about
everybody's business bat her own, have
such good health, while the Christian !
mother, with a flock of little ones about j
ber whom she is preparing for usefulness '
and for heaven the mother who you think 1
could not be spared an hour from that !
household why does she lie down and:
die with a cancer? " I
. Why does that man, selfish to the core, '
go on adding fortune to fortune, consum- j
ing everything on himself, continue to I
prosper, while that man, who has been i
giving ten per cent, of all his income '
to God and the church, goes into bank- j
ruptcyr oeiore we maxe starx ioois oi
ourselves, let us stop pressing this ever
lasting "why." Let us worship where we
cannot understand.
. mn fW
one oneation. "Whvr" and follow It far
enough, and push it, and he will land in
... .v. ....!:..... nrn . n . i
onr theoloirv fewer interrogation marks
more exclamation points. Heaven is
the place for explanation. Earth is-he
, s . . T .
place for trust. If you cannot understand
so minute a thing as a raindrop, how can '
you expect to understand God's dealings? j
"Hath the rain a father?" j
Again, my text makes me think that the
rain of tears is of divine origin. Great j
clouds of trouble sometimes hover over us.
They are black, and they are gorged, and
they are thunderous. They are more por
tentous than Salvator or Claude ever
painted clouds of poverty, or persecution,
or bereavement. They hover over us, and
the get darker and blacker, and after
awhile a tear starts, and we think by an
extra pressure of the eyelid to stop lt.i.to mirth and merriment, which bars a
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Others follow, and after awhile there is
shower of tearful emotion. Yea, there is a
rain of tears. "Hath that rain a father?"
GOD SEES OUB TEARS.
"Oh," yon say, "a tear is nothing but a
drop of limpid fluid secreted by the lach
rymal gland it is only a sign of weak
eyes." Great mistake. It is one of the
Lord's richest benedictions to the world.
There are people in Black well's Island in
sane asylum, an$ at Utica, and at all the
asylums of this land, who were demented
by the fact that they could not cry at the
right time. Said a maniac in one of our
public institutions, under a Gospel sermon
tnat started the tears: "Do von see that
"
mt that ia t.ha first I hum want for
wi. .Mr. t think It will hln mv
brain."
There are a great many in the grave who
could not stand any longer under the
glacier of trouble. If that glacier had only
; melted into weeping they could have en-
dared it. There have been times tn your
i life when yon would have given the world,
I If you had possessed it, for one tear. You
' could shriek, you could blaspheme, but you
could not cry. Have yon never seen a man
; holding the band of a dead wife, who had
i been all the world to him? The temples
livid, with excitement, the eye dry and
frantic, no moisture on the upper or lower
: lid. Yon saw there were bolts of anger in
the cloud, but no rain. To your Christian
comfort, he said, "Don't talk to me about
God; there is no God, or if there is I hate
him; don't talk to me about God; would
he have left me and these motherless chil
dren?" But a few hours or days after, com
ing across some lead pencil that she owned
in life, or some letters which she wrote
when be was away from home, with an
outcry that appals, there bursts the foun
tain of tears, and as the sunlight of God's
consolation strikes that fountain of tears,
you find ont that it is a tender hearted,
merciful, pitiful and all compassionate
God who was the father of that rain. "Oh,"
you say, "it is absurd to think that God
ia going to watch over tears." No, my
friends. There are three or four kinds of
them that God counts, bottles and eter
nizes. First, there are all parental tears,
and there are more of these than of any
other kind, because the most of the race die
In infancy, and that keeps parents mourn
ing all around the world. They never get
over it. They may live to shout and sing
afterward, but there is always a corridor
In the soul that ia silent, though it once re
sounded. My parents never mentioned the death
of a child who died fifty years before with
out a tremor in the voice and a sigh, oh,
how deep fetched! It was better she should
die. It was a mercy she should die. She
wonld have been a lifelong invalid. But
you cannot argue away a parent's grief.
How sjften you hear the rcoan, "Oh, my
with a new toy. But where is the man
that has come to thirty or forty or fifty
yean of age, who can think of the old
people without having all the fountains of
his soul stirred up? You may have had to
take care of her a good many years, but
you never can forget how she used to
care of yon.
There have been many sea captains eon-
verted in our church, and the peculiarity
of them was . that tbey were nearly all
prayed asnore by their mothers, though
the mothers went into the dost soon after
they went to sea. Have you never heard
an old man In delirium of some sickness
call for his mother? The fact is we get
so used to calling for ber the first ten years
of our life we never get over it, and when
she goes away from us it makes deep sor
row. You sometimes, perhaps, in days of
trouble and darkness, when the world
would say, "You ought to be able to take
care of yourself" you wake up from your
dreamsflndingyourself saying, "Oh.moth
erl mother!" Have these tears no divine
origin? Why, take all the warm hearts
that ever beat in all lands, and in all ages,
and put them together and their united
throb would be weak compared with the
throb of God's eternal sympathy. Yes,
God also is father of all that rain of re
pentance. Did you ever see a rain of repentance? Do
you know what it is that makes a man re
pent? I see people going around trying to
repent. They cannot repent. Do you
know no man can repent until God helps
him to repent? How do I know? By this
passage, "Him hath God exalted to be a
prince and a Saviour to give repentance."
Oh, it is a tremendous honr when one
wakes up and says: "I am a bad man. I
have not sinned against the laws of the
land, but I have wasted my life; ' God
asked me for my services and I haven't
given those services. Oh, my sins; God
forgive me." When that tear starts It
thrills all heaven. An angel cannot keep
his eye off it, and the church of God assem
bles around, and there is a commingling of
tears, and God is the Father of that rain,
the Lord, long suffering, merciful and gra
cious. THE CRT OF A MOTHER'S HEART.
In a religious assemblage a man arose
and said: "I have been a very wicked man;
I broke my mother's heart. I became an
infidel, but I have seen my evil way,
and I have surrendered my heart to
God, but it is a grief that I never can
get over that my parents should never
have heard of my salvation; I don't know
whether they are living or dead." While
yet he was standing in the audience a
voice from the gallery said, "Oh, my son,
my son!" He looked up and he recognized
her. It was his old mother. She had been
praying for him a great many years, and
when at the foot of the cross the prodigal
son and the praying mother embraced each
other, there was a rain, a tremendous rain,
Of tears, and God was the Father of those
tears. Oh, that God wonld break us down
with a sense of our sin, and then lift as
with an appreciation of his mercy. Tears
over our wasted life. Tears over a grieved
spirit. Tears over an injured father. Oh,
that God would move upon this audience
with a great wave of religious emotionl
The king of Carthage was dethroned.
His people rebelled against him. He was
driven into banishment. His wife and
children were outrageously abused. Years
went by, and the king of Carthage made
many friends. He gathered np a great
army. He marched again toward Car
thage. Reaching the gates of Carthage
tne oest men or the place came out bare-
lootea ana oareneadea, ana with ropes
arouna their necas, crying for mercy.
They said, "We abused you and we abused
your family, but we cry for mercy." The
king of Carthage looked down upon the
people from his chariot 'and said: "I came
to bless, I didn't come to destroy. You
arove me out, out this day l pronounce
pardon for all the people. Open the gates
and let the army come in." The king
marched in and took the throne, and the
people all shouted, "Long live the king!"
My friends, you have driven the Lord
Jesus Christ, the King of the church,
away from your heart; you have been mal
treating him all these years; bnt he comes
back today. He stands in front of the gates
Of your soul. If you will only pray for his
pardon be will meet you with bis gracious
spirit and be will say: "Thy sins and thine
iniquities I will remember no more. Open
wide the gate; I will take the throne. My
peace I give unto yoa." And then, all
through this audience, from the young and
from the old, there will be a rain of tears,
and God will be the father of that rain!
A Literary Cnrloalty.
A Veritable literary curiosity is the lnvi-
! tation to the annual dinner of the Fort
' nightly Shakespeare club in New York. It
I reads this way:
woa lnenu8
sweet
friends (Julius
! ffnanll H.ia tint .TntiA 1 Hmra
IV), (but
I there are sweet roses
in the summer air
! (Love's Labor Lost), (which) sweetly reo-
ommends itself unto our gentle senses
(Macbeth).
"We hold a feast (Midsummer Night).
It will be pastime passing excellent (Tam
ing of the Shrew). The beauty of the king
dom will be there (Henry VIII). Please
grace us with your company (Macbeth).
You shall be welcome (Pericles). '
"Excuses shall not be admitted (Henry
TV), and so fail not our feast (Macbeth).
"That you do love me I am nothing Jeal
ous (Julius Caesar), and so, I pray you,
come, sit down and do your best (Winter's
Tale).
"We know each, other well (Tro litis and
Cressida). Let's take the instant by the
f oreward top (All's Well), frame our minds
thousand harms and lengthens life (Tam
ing of the Shrew). (We'll e'en) be red with
mirth (Winter's Tale), and fleet the time as
carelessly as they did in the golden time
(As You Like It).
"But wherefore waste I time to counsel
thee (Two Gentlemen). Brief let me be
(Hamlet). If 'twere done, when tis dona
it were well it were none quickly (Mao-
oetb)L
"Write It straight (As Von Ukelt), a
rare letter (Twelfth Night) (aye), a fine
volley of works and quickly shot off (Cym
belinel "(Say) It is near dinner time (Two Gen
tlemen), I am as constant as the northern
star (Midsummer Night) and will be there
(Two Gentlemen).
"I'll. drink the words you send and
thank yon for your pains (Cymbeline).
"When all is done (Macbeth) (each guest
shall say) night hath been too brief (Troll-
us and Cressida). I am yours forever (Win
ters Tale). Adieu till we meet (Cymbeline).
"AjiNA Randall Diebx,
"President of the Fortnightly Shakespeare.
"Yet here's a postscript (Twelfth Night).
Open thy purse that the money (for the
dinner) may be at once delivered (Two Gen
tlemen). Defer no time; delays have dan
gerous ends (Henry VI). A. B. D. " .
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