DAILY READINGS by Charles Spurgeon
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EVENING:
August 4 How destructive is the hail to the standing crops, beating out the precious grain upon
the ground! How grateful ought we to be when the corn is spared so terrible a ruin! Let us
offer unto the Lord thanksgiving. Even more to be dreaded are those mysterious
destroyers--smut, bunt, rust, and mildew. These turn the ear into a mass of soot, or
render it putrid, or dry up the grain, and all in a manner so beyond all human control
that the farmer is compelled to cry, "This is the finger of God." Innumerable
minute fungi cause the mischief, and were it not for the goodness of God, the rider on the
black horse would soon scatter famine over the land. Infinite mercy spares the food of
men, but in view of the active agents which are ready to destroy the harvest, right wisely
are we taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread." The curse is abroad;
we have constant need of the blessing. When blight and mildew come they are chastisements
from heaven, and men must learn to hear the rod, and him that hath appointed it. |
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