Show fiOD'S 0 S ST STRENGTH EN 61 II SEEMINGLY WEAK i The Rev Dr Buxton Employs I S Paradoxes to Teach Strong Lesson The Rev Hc Dr Albert Buxton pastor of or the Central Christian church preached at the Iliff M. M B. B church Sunday Sunda morning in exchange with their pastor the Rev Rc D. D M M. Helmick I Dr Buxton took for his text 1 Cor 1 27 21 God hath bath chosen the weak things j jot of ot the world to confound the things that are mighty Dr Buxton said In part I This seems to bo he a contradiction contradiction- that weakness is stronger than might But ft II Is only one ono of ot the tho paradoxes dear to oriental thought and Is only on the surface The Tho statement Is a profound truth what truth what man esteems weak Is of or the real strength of GodIn GodIn GodIn God In the physical world this Is true Freezing drops of water aided by tho the sprouting seed rive nyc the rock that wedges of man will not cleave cle l e Little fibres of ot tree-shoots tree by the tho quiet law Jav of capillary attraction draw up tho the juices of ot the earth and anti pile sky high African jun jungles les beside which the Pyramids of or Egypt are pigmies The rho simple steam of or the teakettle has been coaxed Into engines to do the work of oC the tho world This para lox Is no less true in national achievements There Is one man In Delaware with tho the fortune of ot ofa ofa ota a millionaire and the political machine machine ma- ma chine at fit his back that believed ho could force his way into the United States Senate Repeated trials have taught him that ho Is the one man In Inthe Inthe inthe the whole state that ma may never represent represent sent the tho state In congress the congress the weak things of or God are stroner than men Yet i- i the boy that quietly n worked his way through Hiram college and another another another an an- other lad whose wife taught him tho the letters both b by obedience to fundamental fundamental funda funda- mental laws of oC merit and by laying hold of ot unseen virtues became presidents dents of the tho United States This Is the law of ot power amon among men One quiet law sneered at by men men 1 Ol er of Goll sub subr dues dis s 's the b horse that fire will not budge the tho stubborn boy that tho the rod will not subdue and wins tho the maiden that wealth will not capture What That is I this law Must lust I name It Look Into your our o 0 on n victories and you shall shaH name It yourselves ourselves It Is the law of ot love And this Is the law that God himself himself him him- self has ever used The thunders of Sinai and the threats of or law could not force his favored nation to obedi obedi- ence Then He brought to bear his quiet silent hut irresistible law Ho TIe said said- saidI I I will ivill love men into loyalty God so loved the world that He gave I His only begotten son that whosoever believeth In Him ma may not perish but have everlasting life I |