| Show God and The Nations The president has called upon all aU the people of the United States to meet and with humble hearts to beseech the All All- Compassionate to stretch out His omnipotent hand and stay the work of destruction now SOing going go SO- ing on in Europe This is well because there is no other way that man has any communication with God save say through prayer When we look above us and see the blazing sun by day or the soft oft white lights of planets and satellites or the glow of the in infinitely infinitely in- in finitely far off fixed stars by night or when we look around usand us usand usand and watch the processions of the seasons the phenomenon of how the springs in the hills are me fed tides in the seas and reflect that hat all this is held in place without or the advance and retreat of the confusion or jar as the ages ebband ebband ebb ebband and flow then we know there must be a great First Cause Then looking in upon ourselves and noting what atoms we are in the limitless universe it wo would ld seem like presumption for us to dare to present our petitions to Him who holds all this universe in the hollo of His hand except we remember that our spirit inthy in inthy thy spirit shines as shines the 1 I IK Ii tr sunbeams in a drop of dew And yet we sometimes doubt ab bout about out God immediately answering answer answer- answer answer- i ja jais ing ng g prayers In an English illustrated paper is the picture of a baby boy just old l cl enough to lisp Jisp a few words ast and a nd the account says he is constantly con con- st antly callin calling daddy come daddy addy d come That father fatherree th three ree weeks ago was killed by a ashell sh shell sheU ell as he was standing on the g ridge Bridge of his ship directing the m maneuvers of a battleship in action ac tion No doubt there are th thousands ten and hundreds of th thousands such babies in England Eng Eng- la land nd in Scotland in Ireland in Belgium R in beautiful France in ho hoH hoth Germany German in Austria- Austria H Hungary and by the and ande the th e Don calling daddy come daddy la lafa come I calling though the fa fathers are fighting on the battle battlene li liin line ne or sleeping their last sleep in the bloody trenches One would think the Good God w would hear and and answer such u Drovers ravers sooner than any others There are others mothers ives vives daughters sisters sweethearts sweet sweet- hearts Carts i ii b bv millions daily and i calling to a merciful God Godat th that at the bitter tide of war may 3 swiftly pass Surely one would think that thatch u uni ch appeals would move Omnipotence Omnipotence Om Om- ni to pity A fearful civil war swept our a and nd for four years It made w very ery house a house of mourn- mourn ng n ng g. g Prayers for mercy went up b by y millions daily beseeching the thereat great g reat God to stop the carnage t md nd the tears At last the war exhausted itself S a and nd grew still but the wrecks t that hat it left along its trail w were ere heart But when the tears were partially part part- la lly dried and the heavy mists r rose ose and floated away the people c could see clearly they were forced forced forc forc- ed e d to acknowledge that behind all fl there was a 1 Divine plan A great wrong had been permitted permitted per per- m mn mr ms ms to take rot and grow in s strength in our soil that both the n north orth and the south were responsible responsible re re- re- re s for It had to be uprooted uprooted up up- rooted r and for that w work ork the north and th the south a alike like had to pay And because of the mIghty s sacrifice the sun shown fairer in inthe inthe t the he heavens on the earth was a anew anew tn n new th ew guarantee of liberty of h happiness and peace to mankind We Ve know not what the Divine n plan Dlan lan behind this fearful destruction destruction t tion ion in Europe may be but we m may ay be sure that it will be made clear lear c after a while The fhe tornado tornados cp ci i is s sent to clear a atmos atmos- p phere here A like fierce remedy is prescribed p when the hearts of n nations become so sordid and selfish elfish s and cruel that God in h heaven eaven becomes weary over the spectacle s ns Weekly 0 |
