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Poverty - by James Platt

Job and David speak of the wicked as "the chaff or stubble scattered by the wind." In the days of Elijah, after three years and six months without rain, according to his word, "The heavens were black with wind and clouds." Hosea says, "Ephraim feedeth upon the wind," that was in vain hopes of deliverance by Assyria; and in the Sermon on the Mount the closing passages contain, " And the rains descended, the floods came, and the winds blew." And those who are wavering, not firm in their doctrine and Christian faith, are " Blown about by every wind of doctrine," not firm or certain. The Psalmist speaks of" Bringing the wind out of His treasuries," and as "gathering the wind in His fists." Xerxes, the Persian king, invaded Greece with the largest fleet and army that is recorded in history, and although he whipped the sea and put it in chains, he could not subdue it. His immense fleet was scattered, and he was compelled to cross the Hellespont in a little boat to get back to Asia.

The Spanish Armada sailed from Lisbon three hundred years ago, under their celebrated admiral the Marquis of Santa Cruz, and soon after were shattered by a storm, and obliged to return to repair