The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-07-07

| there is stone, and one of two things hap
pens in relation to that stone,-either fall
| upon it and be broken, or it will fall upon
| you and grind you to powder. That 10 the
Bible of history, the Bible of prosaic facts
not a book of superstltion; but pages written
in the red blood of the cur ent time. He
who makes the end gracious will, could we fol-
low him, also make the process gracious. We
leave all that we cannot explain regarding
the servile or antagonistic races to him who
for a purpose created them. Bat there is
the chronological fact, that one type of hu-
mainly rises and cannot be put down, and
another fiutters in its weakness and expires
in its helplessness. All this is a part of a
massive and large education. 1t is the his
tory of every time. There are men amongst
rs who must go down; there are men who
cannot be put down. The sublime and ter
ity, the right kind and the wrong kind, and
it is one of two things,-either the wrong
must repent and be saved, or it must be
ground to powder. For right cannot stand
still. The light will slay the darkness with
its million spears of glory. and kingdom
shall be established that shall explain the
mystery of delay. GoD's great purpose
in all this advancement and overturniDg is
to make man in his image and likeness.
From that purpose he has never swerved.
We await the issue. Everything points to a
grand future. We calmly recognize the fact
one purpose never hating, never swerving,
mighty to destroy. mighty to save,--meant
to save, intended for good, and that will
never be satisfied itself until the wilderness
is blotted out by the garden, and the desert
is forgotten in the golden harvest. In this
doctrine We stand, feeling it to be strong in
philosophy, actual in history, and benefcent
in design. Parker, DID,.
BY DIVINE GUIDANCE.-It is declared
that when Moses entered into the Tent of
Meeting, which he had set up at distance
from the camp, that the LORD spake to
Moses face to face, as a man speaketh with
his friend'' (9-11l. This conversation be-
tween Moses and Cop is narrated in the
Lesson. GoD speaks only to the souls of
men. What is recorded may be description
in dramatic form of the devout meditations
of Moses in the sacred tent, or the narration
of vision which he had there, in which COP
appeared as a man, and with whom he con-
versed about the things of his great mission
which pressed upon his perplexed soul.
Having been called of COP to bring his cho-
sen people up to the Promised Land, he
eagerly desires to know the signs by which
his protecting and guiding Presence may be
recognized, and by which the Israelites may
be separated or distinguished from all other
peoples, and be known as the People of COP.
In reality, the same question is raised which
the disciples of JESUS long afterward asked
their Masters; "What shall be the sign of
Thy presence (Matthew xiv. 81. Moses
desired to know the ways of GoD's provi
dence with his people, and their meanings;
and he was assured, or rather, re assured of
the Divine presence and guidance in the for
tunes and destination OF the Israelites, of
whom he was the Providential leader. COP
in his providence would go before them and
with them, and establish them permanently
in the land of their promised inheritance.
GoD is always with, to prosper and bless, the
people who truly serve him and his kingdom
of Truth and Righteousness.