The Red Cloud chief., 1884-06-06

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everything. instead OF recognizing the
all-prevaiiIng and sovereign influence.
or power of God rs determining all the
affairs of che world. This is SD much
| the case ut present as to render it nee
essery to furnish Il few hints I'll his
head such as may be both corrective
and rcguiative. The management of
| the world and all its affairs are ever in
| the hands of one who numbers all the
hairs of our heads; who provides for
| his birds, and determines the time
when each one of them shall die; and
who is acquainted with every flower i'll
our gardens, and every one i'll the will
derncss, and they all receive from HIM
their beauty as they are painted by him
to the minutest tint.
Knowing this to be So, it is painful
to hear it 80 frequently asserted of the
phenomena of life and growth, SO con-
| stantiy and universally witnessed, as
! being due to nature. Just rs if nature
! were IL potential and intelligent entity.
1t is no being at all. But it is the pub
lie manifestation or expression of him,
who is in essence invisible, made by
| himself the all-powerful, the all-gOOd,
and the all-wise. 1t is the public his
tory of God written in time; and this
| history, for the wan ola better express
| sion OH my part, l regard as the partial
and external rendering of the more real
and enduring history stereotyped in
| eternity. This history is more impOr-
tant than that written in time, as in the
| eternal archives are contained much
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| ed in Creation.
The assigning to nature the power.
! that only belongs to God by the use of
such language implies a principle not
similar to that implied in the the using
| of language merely p~henomenally, or
| such lis we use in the description OF
| what is only apparent. When We say
| the kettle boils the real meaning is not
| obscured by the metOnymy, nor is the
science astronomy injured i'll the least
when we say the sun sets or the impen-
| atrability o fmatter contradicted by our
| driving nails into boards. In such uses
! of words our meanings are as clear or
manifest as the facts described. There
is herein no danger to either science OF
morals, such language Is well suited
for all common purposes and uses; and
| AS well adopted to the tongue of the
| philosopher and theolOgian rs it is to
that of the most illiterate.
Most of us knows that we are all de-
| linauent, and that our faults and sins
will sometimes upbraid us, but Judging
! from the nature of the case we think,
To some extent at least, cOrrectively;
and hence We may learn that it is well,
| perhaps, to have them occasionally, if
not ever before u.s." SO that We may
| sin less, even if not mo more"
But | think we are not all aware that
we're it possible for us to live without
even infracting q moral law, or
| that we have SO lived that it
would he no proof of being guiltless Of
| the awful sin of atheism. But We must
| have Il God known, or unknown, as was
proved more than 1900 years ago by
| the highe st human culture in Athens.
1t is dangerous to obscure the unOb-
| scurable, or to try to manufacture a
| substitute for him who is competent
| and who only is competent, to do all
| things, and well al that.
The RELOCATING of God to the back
ground of thought Is an attempt to
| eject Him altogether and this we fairly
prove by assigninst the conducting of the
| world and its affairs to any other agent
| imaginary or otherwise, and also by
| eliminating Him from speech. And
to say that mere material things of
| themselves functionally bring to pass
| the results or effects We daily witness.
| if possible is worse han eve atheism
| And it is Satanic to recognize God and
then try to dishonor Him, this is anti
| theism, and opposes God.
Nature itself is just as much a priv
! alive, or nothing at all' in the univer-
sal universe of God, as any other idol
is nothing at all in the world"
In conclusion | would say of the ex-
| istence Of God, that none but fools in
their hearts" ever said there was none.
The first sentence in His word secures
His existence to us. I'm the beginning
| God created the heaven and the earth"
And He ever sustains them and all
| things, or "worketh hitherto"
1t eyer gave me pleasure to look at
monuments erected in honor of good
men and women, and am glad to find
| the practice becoming yet more COM
mon: and l may remark that In the
inconceptive centre of the infinite uni
verse God has erected and unveiled a
monument of His own, 90 great, and
go gloriously conspicions that it may
be seen by every intelligent creature
in a universe replete with such intelli-
gences. 1t is visible from the bottom
less depths of Tartarus us welkas from
| the unreasonable heights 81 heaven,
| and from all around at difances no
less. To it are attached all things and
around it are arranged and c~o-Ordinat-
ell all the affairs ofsthe universe. 1t is
erected to the Wisdom and Power of
| God" and is itself Christ Crucified."
And indeed the human peryersion
must have been astonishing that could
| find either ::"Stumbling block" or
"FOolishness." ARCHD THOMSON.