But till you have learnt the lessons which these
visitations are meant to teach you, there is no use thanking Him for
taking them away. And therefore I beseech you solemnly, each and
all, before you leave this church, now to pray to God to show you
what lesson He means to teach you by this past awful visitation, and
also by sparing you and me who are here present, not merely from
cholera and fever, but from a thousand mishaps and evils, which we
have deserved, and from which only His goodness has kept us. Oh may
God stir up your hearts to ask advice of Him this day! and may He in
His great mercy so teach us all His will on this day of joy, that we
may not need to have it taught us hereafter on some day of sorrow.
XVII--THE COVENANT
The Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his own
possession. For I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is
above all gods. Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he in heaven
and earth, and in the sea, and in all deep places.--PSALM cxxxv. 4,
5, 6.
Were you ever puzzled to find out why the Psalms are read every
Sunday in Church, more read, indeed, than any other part of the
Bible? If any of you say, No, I shall not think you the wiser. It
is very easy not to be puzzled with a deep matter, if one never
thinks about it at all.
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