TRUSTING THE WEAVER

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 13, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 15.

TRUSTING THE WEAVER.

"God moves in a mysterious way," says Cowper's immortal hymn. Sit down by an Old World lacemaker for a few minutes. Fifty or a hundred bobbins, or spools, hang around a cushion in which there is a forest of upright pins. Every bobbin hangs by a thread that runs toward and among the pins. The onlooker sees the worker throw one bobbin over another as tho she were playing with them. But how she knows which bobbin to pick up, and where to toss it, is a mystery. Out of the great complex of threads and pins comes a wonderful lace pattern, orderly, regular, beautiful. So the divine Weaver takes one and another of us, ordering us here and there, but keeping us always attached, like the lacemaker's thread, to a definite purpose. As we look back over the past, we can see the wonderful pattern and perfect work of the Weaver. Just what He is working out, for us, and with us, now, we can not discern. But the lesson of the past is that the future will be good, and we can trust the Weaver of the infinite to do all things well.—S. S. Times.