Notes of " sermon preached io Holy Trinity Cathedral on Sunday, October:
ing the Annual Harvest 1g) by the Rev, A. J. man's body is subject seem just as indifferent to just as careless of approval or blame as any other of natare''s laws, A man is of a" certain stature, he may want to be taller or be may want to be shorter, but the law of nature cannot be broken. It stands ferent to the wishes of the man, Which of yon by taking thought can add one comit unto his stature?"
1 do set my bow in the cloud, and it ball be for " takeo of a covenant between me and the earth. Genesis 1X. 13.
The choice of the rainbow as the aymbyl of God's covenant with Nob print arm passes away, and and his family is partcnarly appro: while la the rain falls, or the is' overcast, the bow is seen in the clouds. "The san overtakes the storm and God sets his bow. It not quite clear from the narrative whether the tradition was that the rain bow was created for this special purpose, whether the old phenomenon wasclothod with a now mea The question has some critical interest, bat for us to-day itis unimportant, knowing, as we do, that the bow is prodaced by e nataral causes, Given the conditions Yet once again, man is not merely the spectator, nor la he merely the servant of natare, in his highest being ho is also the master.
The firt man Adam becom atate and all became a quickening and controlling pow it is through this second a1 natare in man that the rainbow becomes the messenger of hope, the symbol of God's mercial covenant between Hin and the earth. Looked upon simply as phenomena of nature there is nothing to choose between the deluge of rain and the rainbow, each is the certain effect of certain causes, Bat looked poo, as we do look upon it, with the eyes of our spiritual being, we find the bow set in the cloud is fall of the bow will always be there, at any time, in any place. The symbol and covenant are universal and certain. beauty and of hope, and the fact that we are able to receive its spiritual message is the assurance to un that we too are On the day of our Harvest Thanksgiving we ostarally think chiefly of those blessings of God, which we generally speak of as temporal, as distinguished from those called spiritual. And the thought I wish to emphasize to-day is the thought of how mach we owe to the absolute conetsncy of the laws of natare, and how those laws, although at times they bring storm and darkness, yot always with an equal constancy bring the bow set in the cloud.
live ina world where law prevails. We see nothing, we know nothing that goes contrary to lew. Eveo when we of the quickening spirit, and that we have from Goda power to control, 8 power to direct those inexorable laws to which even we ours a souls are 80 02 subject. fet my bow la the dood, and it shall be for a token." Oar power, let as remember, is not to alter thee laws, bat the power so to control them, 89 to set one against another, that calamity diverted and benefit results. The deluge comes and the cattle are mostly drowned, bot man makes a boat and raves himself and some head of cattle well. The fathers st Bicawei cannot prevent a typhoon, but they can
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