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By HALL CAINE
CHAPTER I Continued
But for all that the little colony were
poor and wretched the hearts of the
shipwrecked company leapt up at sight
of them and in the joyful gabble of un
intelligible speech between them old
Adam found that he could understand
some of the words And when the isl
anders saw that in some sort Adam
understood them they singled him out
from the rest of his company falling
on his neck and kissing him after the
way of their nation and concluding
among themselves that he was one of
their own people who had gone away
in his youth and never been heard of
after And Adam though he looked
shy at their musty kisses was nothing
loth to allow that they might be Manx
men strayed and lost
For Adam and his followers two
things -came of this encounter and the
one was to forward and the other to
retard their journey The first was
that the islanders sold them twelve
ponies of the small breed that abound
in that latitude and gave them a guide
to lead them the nearest way to the
capital The ponies cost them forty
kroner or more than two pounds
apiece and the guide was to stand to
them In two kroner or two shillings
a -day This took half of all they had
In money and many were the heavy
groans of the men at parting with it
Sfs but Adam argued that their money
was of no other value there than as
a help out of their extremity and that
all the gold in the banks if he had it
would be less to him then than the lit
tle beast he was bestriding
The second of the two things that
followed on that meeting with the isl
anders was that just as they had start
ed afresh on their way now twelve in
all each man on his horse and a horse
in the shafts of the cart that held the
victuals a woman came running after
them with a child in her arms and be
sought them to take her with them
That anyone could wish to share their
outcast state was their first surprise
but the womans terrified looks her
tears and passionate pleadings seemed
to say that to be homeless and house
less on the face of that trackless land
was not so awful a fate but that other
miseries could conquer the fear of it
So failing to learn more of her condi
tion than that she was friendless and
alone Adam ordered that with her
child she should be lifted into the cart
that was driven ahead of them
But within an hour they were over
taken by a man who came galloping
after them and said the woman had
stolen the child that it was his child
and that he had come to carry it back
with him At that Adam called on the
woman to answer through the guide
and she said that the man was indeed
the childs father but that she was its
mother that he was a farmer and had
married her only that he might have a
son to leave his farm to that having
given him this child he had turned her
out of doors and that in love and
yearning for her little one from
whom she had been so cruelly parted
she had stolen into her old home
plucked up the babe and run away
with it Hearing this story which the
woman told through her tears Adam
answered the man that if the law of his
country allowed a father to deal so
with the mother of his child it was a
base and unnatural law and merited
the obedience of no man so he meant
to protect the woman against both it
and him and carry her along with
their company With that answer the
man turned tail but Adams victory
over him was dearly bought at the
cost of much vexation afterwards and
sore delay on the hard journey
And now it would be long to tell of
the trials of that passage over those
gaunt solitudes where there was no
fingerpost or mark of other human
travelers The men bore up bravely
loving most to comfort the woman and
do her any tender office or carry her
child before them on their saddles
And many a time at sight of the little
one and at hearing its simple prattle
in a tongue they did not understand
the poor fellows would burst into tears
as if remembering with a double pang
that they were exiles from that country
far away where other mothers held
their own children to their breasts
Two of them sickened of the cold and
had to be left behind at a farm where
the people were kind and gentle and
promised to nurse them until their
companions could return for them But
the heaviest blow to all that company
was the sickness and death of the child
Tenderly the rude sailor men nursed
V the little fellow one by one and when
nothing availed to keep his sweet face
among them they mourned his loss as
the worst disaster that had yet befal
len them The mother herself was dis
traught and in the madness of her
agony turned on Adam and reproached
him saying he had brought her child
into this wilderness to kill it Adam
understood her misery too well to re
buke her ingratitude and the same
night that her babe was laid in his
rest with a cross of willow wood to
mark the place of it she disappeared
from their company and where she
went or what became of her no oner
knew for she was seen by them no
more
But next morning they were over
taken by a number of men riding hard
and one of them was the womans hus
band and another the High Sheriff of
the Quarter These two called on
Adam to deliver up the child and when
he told them that it was dead and the
mother gone the husband would have
fallen upon him with his knife but
for the Sheriff who keeping the peace
said that as accessory after fact of
theft Adam himself must go to prison
Now at this the crew of the ship
began to set up a woeful wail and to
double their fists and measure the
strength of nine sturdy British seamen
against that of ten lanky Icelanders
But Adam restrained them from vio
lence and indeed there was need for
Knone for the Sheriff was in no mood to
pflfrv hie nrlKnnni awarr Mm All
he did was to take out his papers antj
fill them up with the name and de
scription that Adam gave him and
A
ContlaaeiJ
Story
then hand them over to Adam himself
saying they were the warrant for his
imprisonment and that he was to go on
his way until he came to the next dis
trict where there was a house of de
tention which the guide would find for
him and there deliver up the docu
ments to the Sheriff in charge
With such instructions and never
doubting but that they -would be fol
lowed the good man and his people
wheeled about and returned as they
came
And being so easily rid of them the
sailors began to laugh at their simple
ness and with many satisfied grunts
to advise the speedy destruction of the
silly warrant that was the sole witness
against Adam But Adam himself said
no that he was touched by the sim
plicity of a people that could trust a
man to take himself to prison and he
would not wrong that confidence by
any cheating So he ordered the guide
to lead on where he had been directed
They reached the prison towards
nightfall and there old Adam bade a
touching farewell of his people urging
them not to wait for him but to push
on to Reykjavik where alone they could
find ships to take them home to Eng
land And some of the good fellows
wept at this parting though they all
thought it foolish but one old salt
named Chaise shed no tears and only
looked crazier than ever and chuckled
within himself from some dark cause
And indeed there was small reason
to weep because simple as the first
Sheriffs conduct had been that of the
secor3 Sheriff was yet simpler for
whpfc Adam presented himself as a
prisoner the Sheriff asked for his pa
pers and then diving into his pocket
to find them the good man found that
tbey were gone lost dropped by the
way or destroyed by accident and no
search sufficed to recover them So
failing of his warrant the Sheriff shook
his head at Adams story and declined
to imprison him and the prisoner had
no choice but to go free Thus Adam
returned to his company who heard
with laughter and delight of the close
of his adventure all save Chaise who
looked sheepish and edged away when
ever Adam glanced at him Thus end
ed in merriment an incident that
threatened many evil consequences
and was attended by two luckless mis
chances v
The first of these two was that by
going to the prison which lay three
Danish miles out of the direct track
to the capital Adam and his company
had missed young Oscar and Zoegas
men whom Michael Sunlocks had sent
out from Reykjavik in search of them
The second was that uieir guide had
disappeared and left them within an
hour of bringing them to the door of
the Sheriff His name was Jonas he
had been an idle and a selfish fellow
he had demanded his wages day by
day and seeing Aaam part from the
rest he had concluded that with the
purse bearer the purse of the company
had gone But he alone had known
the course and worthless as he had
been to them in other ways the men
began to rail at him when they found
that he had abandoned them and left
them to struggle on without help
The sweep their thief the was
trel the gomerstang they called
him with wilder names besides But
old Adam rebuked them and said
Gcod friends I would persuade my
self that urgent reasons alone can have
induced this poor man to leave us
Were we not ourselves constrained to
forsake two of our number several days
back though with the full design of
returning to them to aid them when1
it should lie in our power Thus I
cannot blame the Icelander without
more knowledge of his intent and so
let us push on still and trust in God
to deliver us as He surely will
And sure enough the next day after
they came upon a man who undertook
the place of the guide who had for
saken them He was a priest and a
very learned men but poor as the poor
est farmer He spoke in Latin and in
imjerfect Latin Adam made shift to
answer him His clothes were all but
worn to rags and he was shoeing his
horse in the little garth before his
door His house which stood alone
save for the wooden church beside it
looked on the outside like a line of
grass cones hardly higher to their
peaks than the head of a tall man
and in the inside it was low dark
noisome and noisy In one room to
which Chaise and the seamen were
taken three or four young children
were playing the old woman was spin
ning and a younger woman the
priests wife was washing clothes
This was the living room and sleeping
room the birth room and death room
of the whole family In another room
to which Adam was led by the priest
himself the floor was strewn with
saddles nails hammers horsehoes
whips and spades and the walls were
covered with bookshelves whereon
stood many precious old black letter
volumes This was the workshop and
study wherein the good priest spent
his long dark days of winter
And being once more fully equipped
for the journey Adam ordered that
they should lose no time in setting out
afresh with the priest on his own pony
in front of them Two days then
passed without misadventure of any
kind and in that time they had come
to a village at which they should have
forsaken the coast line and made for
the interior in order that they might
cross to Reykjavik by way of Thing
vellir and so cut off the peninsula
ending in the Smoky Point But a
heavy fall of snow coming down sud
denly they were compelled to seek
shelter at a farm the only one for
more than a hundred miles to east or
west of them There they rested while
the snowstorm lasted and it was the
same weary downfall that kept Greeba
to her house while Red Jason lay in
his brain fever in the cell in the High
Street and Michael Sunlocks was out
on the sea in search of themselves
And when the snow had ceased to
fall and the frost that followed had
hardened it and the country now
white instead of black was again fit
to travel upon it was found that the
priest was unwilling to start Then
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had been hi3 sole recreation and his JLilJLJlljaLlXJL O DJBillillAll
only bane that the most serious affairs
of night and day had always submit
ted to this great business that in the
interval of waiting for the passing of
the snow finding himself with a few
kroner at command he had begun on
his favorite occupation and that he
now was too deeply immersed therein
to be disturbed in less than a week
To be continued
SKUNK FARMS DO NOT Pfff
Official Itoport au the Subject to tha
Secretary of Agriculture
A newspaper story of the profits
made by raising skunks for their skins
Is giving officials of the agricultural
department no end of trouble It first
bobbed up about a year ago It set
forth that the agricultural depart
ment had been studying skunk cul
ture and had found that the beasts
were more profitable than a gold mine
As a result of the story the department
has received many letters of inquiry
T S Palmer assistant chief of the
biological survey wants to correct this
misapprehension In a report to Sec
retary Wilson he says Misled by the
statements about the rapid increase of
skunks and the high prices paid
their skins many persons seriously
considered starting skunk farms For
several years a list has been kept of
such farms located in various parts of
the country but so far as can be learn
ed most of them have been abandoned
Raising fur bearing animals for profit
is not a new idea The industry how
ever has apparently never advanced
beyond the experimental stage ex
cept in the case of the farms for rais
ing the Arctic or blue fox established
on certain islands of the coast of Axs
ka Minks and skunks breed rapidly
in captivity but the low price of skins
make the profits rather small Last
season the highest market price for
prime black skunk skins from the
northern states averaged about 145
each but white skins sold as low as
15 to 20 cents apiece Skins that have
much white or which are obtained
from the states usually bring
less than 1 each a price that leaves
little margin for profit after paying the
expense of raising the animal in cap
tivity New York Sun
Kivers Under the Ocean
A few montns ago H Benest an
English geographer published an in
teresting study of streams of fresh wa
ter flowing beneath the surface of the
sea Disasters to ocean telegraph
cables first called attention to this sub
ject On several occasions about 1895
a new and well made cable between
Cape Verde and Brazil broke Sound
ings wero made to discover whether
these b eakings were due to the state
of the sea bottom and it was found
that the place n question was near the
submarine mouth of a subterraneaa
river the alluvial material transport
ed by this fresh water stream encoun
tered the cable and finally succeeded
in breaking it The fact is that a river
that flows into the lagoons of Yof on
the coast of Senegal is finally lost in
the sand It undoubtedly has taken
its invisible course to the sea -and it
is this river that has been discovered
in the deep hollow of more than 1300
meters 4270 feet that is traversed by
the Brazilian cable Also while the
cable was being repaired at a point
Iwenty four kilometers fifteen miles
from the shore the repair shop was
surrounded one day by orange skins
calabashes and bits of cloth which
could not have come from the mouth
of the Senegal river 140 kilometers
ninety miles distant
Surgery by Telephone
Surgery performed by directions giv
en over the telephone is the latest in
novation at the Hahnemann hospital
A physician who is connected with its
surgical staff was called up by tele
phone the other day by a nurse at the
childrens hospital in Germantown
with which institution the physician
is also connected and was told that his
services were immediately required for
a child who had dislocated its shoul
der Bring the child right up to the
telephone said the surgeon All
right I have the child in my arms
the nurse replied Now then said
the physician place the childs elbow
against its side and move its hand and
forearm outward His direction
were here interrupted by a sharp click
that sounded through the telephone
as the dislocated member snapped back
into place There you are nicely
done wasnt it said the surgeon to
the nurse She replied that the opera
tion had been most successful and the
physician returned to his clinic-
Philadelphia Record
Trees Planted by Bluejays
An old time Arizona wpodchoppei
says the blue jays have planted thou
sands of the trees now growing all
over Arizona He says these birds
have a habit of burying small seed in
the ground with their beaks and that
they frequent pinon trees and bury
large numbers of the small pine nuts
in the ground many of which sprout
and grow He was walking through
the pines with an eastern gentleman a
short time ago when one of these birds
flew from a tree to the ground stuck
his bill in the earth and quickly flew
away When told what had happened
the eastern man was skeptical but the
two went to the spot and with a knife
blade dug out a sound pine nut from a
depth of about an inch and a half
Thus it will be seen that nature has
plans of her own for forest perpetua
tion Indianapolis News
Puck Miss Beansby Perhaps you
havent read all of Omar Khayyam
Mrs Porkchop Perhaps not Has h
written anything recently
Some girls have expensive habits
Velvet riding gowns for instance
SEEKERS FOR WISDOM THE
SUBJECT LAST SUNDAY
Go to the Ant Thon Sluggard Consider
Her Ways and Bo Wise Having No
Gnide Overseer or Kulcr Sao Provid
eth Her Meet Pro v 0 0 8
Copyright 1901 by Louis Klopsch N T
Washington April 28 In this dis
course Dr Talmage draws his Illustra
tions from a realm seldom utilized for
moral and religious purposes text
Proverbs vi 6 8 Go to the ant thou
sluggard consider her ways and be
wise which having no guide overseer
or ruler provideth her meat in the
summer and gathereth her food in the
harvest
The most of Solomons writings have
perished They have gone out of exist
ence as thoroughly as the 20 books of
Pliny and most of the books of Aes
chylus and Euripides and Varro and
Quintilian Solomons Song and Ec
clesiastes and Proverbs preserved by
inspiration are a small part of his
voluminous productions He was a
great scientist One verse in the Bible
suggests that he was a botanist a zoo
logist an ornithologist an ichthyolo
gist and knew all about reptilia I
Kings iv 33 He spake of trees from
the cedar tree that is In Lebanon even
unto the hyssop that springeth out of
the wall he spake also of beasts and
of fowl and of creeping things and of
fishes Besides all these scientific
works he composed 3000 proverbs
and 1005 songs
Although Solomon lived long before
the microscope was constructed he
was also an insectologist and watched
and described the spider build its sus
pension bridge of silk from tree to
tree calling it the spiders web and
he notices its skillful foothold in
climbing the smooth wall of the throne
room in Jerusalem saying The spi
der taketh hold with her hands and
Is in kings palaces But he is espe
cially interested in the ant and recom
mends its habits as worthy of study
and imitation saying Go to the ant
thou sluggard consider her ways and
be wise which having no guide over
seer or ruler provideth her meat in
the summer and gathereth her food in
the harvest
Not Altogether Commendable
But Solomon would not commend all
the habits of the ant for some of them
are as bad as some of the habits of the
human race Some of these small crea
tures are desperadoes and murderers
Now and then they marshal themselves
into hosts and march in straight line
and come upon an encampment of their
own race and destroy its occupants ex
cept the young whom they carry into
captivity and if the army come back
without any such captives they are not
permitted to enter but are sent forth
to make more successful conquest Sol
omon gives no commendation to such
sanguinary behavior among insects
any more than he would have com
mended sanguinary behavior among
men These little creatures have some
times wrought fearful damage and
they have undermined a town in New
Granada which in time may drop into
the abyss they have dug for it
But what are the habits which Solo
mon would enjoin when he says Con
sider her ways and be wise First of
all providence forethought anticipa
tion of coming necessities I am sorry
to say these qualities are not charac
teristic of all the ants These crea
tures of God are divided into graniv
orous and carnivorous The latter are
not frugal but the former are frugal
While the air is warm and moving
about is not hindered by ice or snow
bank they import their cargoes of food
They bring in their caravan of provi
sions they haul in their long train of
wheat or corn or oats The farmers
are not more busy in July and August
in reaping their harvest than are the
ants busy in July and August reaping
their harvest They stack them away
they pile them up They question when
they have enough They aggregate a
sufficient amount to last them until the
next warm season When winter opens
they are ready Blow ye wintry blasts
Hang your icicles from the tree
branches Imbed all the highways un
der snowdrifts Enough for all the
denizens of the hills Hunger shut out
and plenty sits within God who feed
eth every living thing has blessed the
ant hill
Wrecked by Extravagance
There are women who at the first
increase of their husbands resources
wreck all on an extravagant wardrobe
There are men who at the prospect of
larger prosperity build houses they
will never be able to pay for There
are people with 4000 a year income
who have not one dollar laid up for a
rainy day It is a ghastly dishonesty
practiced on the next generation Such
men deserve bankruptcy and impover
ishment In almost every mans life
there comes a winter of cold misfor
tune Prepare for it while you may
Whose thermometer has not sometimes
stood below zero What ship has
never been caught in a storm What
regiment at the front never got into a
battle Have at least as much fore
sight as the insectile world Examine
the pantries of the ant hills in this
April weather and you will find that
last summers supply is not yet ex
hausted Examine them next Julyand
you will find them being replenished
Go to the ant thou sluggard consider
her ways and be wise which having
no guide overseer or ruler provideth
her meat in the summer and gathereth
her food in the harvest
This is no argument for miserliness
Avarice and penuriousness destroy a
man about as soon as any of the other
vices We have heard of those who
entered their iron money vauH for
business purposes and the door acci
dentally shut and they were suffocated
their corpse not discovered until the
next day But every day and all up
and down the streets of our cities there
are men body mind and soul forever
fast In their own money vaults Ac
cumulation of bonds mortgages and
government securities and town lots
and big farms just for the pleasure of
accumulation Is desplcablebut the put
ting aside of a surplus for your self
defense when your brain has halted
or your right hand has forgotten its
cunning or your old age needs a man
servant or for the support of others
when you can no more be a breadwin
ner for your household that is right
that is beautiful that is Christian
that Is divinely approved That shows
that you have taken Solomons ant hill
for an object lesson
Does Sat Decline Work
Furthermore go to the ant and con
sider that it does not decline work
because it is insignificant The frag
ment of seed it hauls into its habita
tion may be so small that the unaided
eye cannot see it but the insectile
work goes on the carpenter ant at
work above ground the ma
son ant at work under ground
Some of these creatures mix
the leaves of the fir and the cat
kins of the pine for the roof or wall
of their tiny abode and others go out
as hunters looking for food while
others in domestic duties stay at
home Twenty specks of the food they
are moving toward their granary put
upon a balance would hardly make
the scales quiver All of it work on
a small scale There is no use in our
refusing a mission because it is insig
nificant Anything that God in his
providence puts before us to do is
important The needle has its office
as certainly as the telescope and the
spade as a parliamentarian scroll You
know what became of the man in the
parable of the talents who buried the
one talent instead of putting it to prac
tical and accumulative use His apol
ogy was of no avail
There is no need of our wasting time
and energy in longing for some other
sphere There are plenty of people to
do the big and resounding work of the
church and the world No lack of
brigadier generals or master builders
or engineers for bridging Niagaras or
tunneling Rocky mountains For every
big enterprise of the world a dozen
candidates What we want is private
soldiers in the common ranks masons
not ashamed to wield a trowel candi
dates for ordinary work to be done in
ordinary ways in ordinary places
Right where we are there is something
that God would have us do Let us
do it though it may seem to be as
unimportant as the rolling of a grain
of corn into an ant hill
Furthermore go to the ant and con
sider its indefatigableness If by the
accidental stroke of your foot or the
removal of a timber the cities of the
insectile world are destroyed instantly
they go to rebuilding They do not sit
around moping At it again in a sec
ond Their fright immediately gives
way to their industry And if our
schemes of usefulness and our plans
of work fail why sit down in discour
agement As large ant hills as have
ever been constructed will be con
structed again Put your trust in God
and do your duty and your best days
are yet to come You have never heard
such songs as you will yet hear nor
have you ever lived in such grand
abode as you will yet occupy and all
the worldly treasures you have lost
are nothing compared with the opu
lence that you will yet own If you
love and trust the Lord Paul looks
you in the face and then waves his
hand toward a heaven full of palaces
and thrones saying All are yours
So that what you fail to get in this
present life you will get in the coming
life Go to work right away and re
build as well as you can knowing
that what the trowels of earthly in
dustry fail to rear the scepters of
heavenly reward will more than make
up Persistence is the lesson of every
ant hill Waste not a moment in use
less regrets or unhealthy repining
Imparts Useful Lessons
Furthermore go to the ant and con
sider that if God honors an insect by
making it our instructor in important
lessons we ought not to abuse the
lover orders of creation It has been
found by scientists that insects trans
fixed in the case of a museum have
been alive and in torture for years
How much the insect and the fowl and
the brute may be rightly called to suf
fer for the advancement of human
knowledge and the betterment of the
condition of the human race I do not
now stop to discuss but he who use
lessly harms any of Gods living crea
tion insults the Creator Alas for the
horrors of vivisection I have no con
fidence in the morality of a man or
woman who would harm a horse or
dog or a cat or a pigeon Such men
and women under affront if they
dared would take the life of a human
being You cannot make me believe
that God looks down indifferently upon
the galled neck of the ox or the cruel
Jy curbed bit of the horse or the un
sheltered cattle in the snowstorm or
the cockpit or the bear baiting or
the pigeon shooting or the laceration
of fish that are not used Go to the
ant thou miscreant and see how God
honors it In the great college of the
universe it has been appointed your
professor All over the land and all
over the world there are over driven
horses that ought to be unharnessed
caged birds that ought to be put on
their wings in the free air of heave
droves of cattle agonized of fairs
the freight trains where
to be watered an
broiled alive tl
out of the Jk
apostles
first ci
nam
ha
wrought for the relief of the bruto cre
ation and his name wa3 Henry Bergb
In my text the ant Is not Impaled Is
not dead but alive and In the witrm
fields providing her meat in tho sum
mer and gathering her food in tto har
vest
Furthermore go to the ant and
learn the lesson of God appointed or
der The being who taught the insect
how to build was geometer as well as
architect The paths inside that lit
tle home radiate from the door with
as complete arrangement as ever tho
boulevards of a city radiated Irom a
triumphal arch or a flowered circle
And when they march they keop per
fect order moving in straight lines1
turning out for nothing If a timber
He In the way they climb over it If
there be a house or barn in the way
they march through It Order in ar
chitectural structure order in gov
ernment order of movement order of
expedition So let us all observe this
God appointed rule and take satis
faction In the fact that things are
not at loose ends in this world If
there is a divine regulation in a colony
or republic of insects is there not a
divine regulation in the lives of Im
mortal men and women If God cares
for the least of his creatures and shows
them how to provide their meat in the
summer and gather their food in tho
harvest will he not be Interested in
matters of human livelihood and in
the guidance of human affairs I
preach the doctrine of a particular
providence Are not two sparrows
sold for a farthing and yet not one
of them is forgotten before God Are
ye not of more value than many spar
rows Let there be order In our in
dividual lives order in the family or
der in the church order in the state
Gods Care of Small Things
After what Linnaeus and Pierre
Huber have told us concerning these
living mites of the nutural world are
we not ready to believe that the God
who turns the wheel of the solar sys
tem and the vaster wheel of
the universe regulates the beehive and
the ant hill and that all the affairs of
our mortal lives are under divine man
agement When some one asked a
hermit on the top of a mountain in
Italy if he did not feel it dangerous
to live so many miles from human
habitation he replied No Provi
dence is my very next door neighbor
He who Taecame Sir Thomas Gres
ham and built the Royal Exchange in
London when an Infant was abandoned
by his mother in the fields Did it
just happen so that the chirping of a
grasshopper brought a boy to the spot
where the babe lay and his life was
saved Not so thought Sir Thomas
Gresham who having arrived at great
wealth and power chose a grasshop
per for his crest and had
the figure of a grasshopper im
pressed on the wall of the Royal
Exchange and had at the top a weather
vane in the figure of a grasshopper
The Waldensian Christians in the sev
enteenth century were expelled from
the valleys and on their way 800 of
them were starving to death Did it
just happen so that one night the deep
snow suddenly thawed and showed a
large amount of wheat which had been
covered by the untimely snow and was
suddenly uncovered so that the hun
ger was satisfied and the 800 lives were
saved Did it just happen so Near
Port Royal Jamaica is a tomb with
this inscription Here lieth the body
of Louis Caldy Esq a native of Mont
pellier in France which country he
left on account of the revocations He
was swallowed up by the earthquake
which occurred at this place in 1692
but by the great providence of God
was by a second shock flung into the
sea where he continued swimming till
rescued by a boat and lived forty years
afterward Was the release of that
man from the jaws of the earthquake
a just happen so When during the
plague in London at the risk of his
life and under the protest of his
friends Rev Thomas Vincent spent his
time preaching the gospel to the suf
ferers and 68596 people perished seven
fatalities in the house where he lived
did it just happen so that he came
through unhurt
All Under Gods Care
We live in times when there are so
many clashings There seems almost
universal unrest Large fortunes swdl
low up small fortunes Civilized na
tions trying to gobble up barbaric na
tions Upheaval of creeds and people
who once believed everything now be
lieving nothing The old book that
Moses began and St John ended bom
barded from scientific observatories
and college classrooms Amid all this
disturbance and uncertainty that
which many good people need is not a
stimulus but a sedative and in my text
I find it divine observation and guid
ance of minutest affairs And nothing
Is to God large or small planet or ant
hill the God who easily made the
worlds employing his infinity in the
wondrous construction of a spiders
foot
Before we leave this subject let
thank God for those who were willl
to endure the fatigues and self sz
fices necessary to make revelat
the natural world so re enforcj
Scriptures If the microscor
speak what a story it coi
hardship and poverty and
perseverance on the
employed it for ii
It would tell of
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