The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-02-18

N hen civil tnmuhs arise. the earthly
monarch j. reminded, The Lord Is
King. be the people never 40 unqulei
II is I'm the King Jehovah that the KING
,f The house OF David finds his strength;
receives the righteous judgment that
be- deals out TO his people.
And so with the King,
SOD with the great Captain and
leader of armies. Tie serves under an
invisible Captain, who guides him IN the
against the enemy. Tue f.
/ ord is man At war. lie knappeth the .
spear in sundcr: Tie hrcaketh the arrows .
of the bow. The shield, the sword and the .
battle" Yc drove out the two kings
of he Amortes." said Joshua, the son OF /
Nun. 90 Israel az Shechem, but not +
with thy sword or thy bow. " i'm
Ills own right hand and with His holy
arm" sings a warrior P-amist, hath
He gotten Him.clf the victory ." Will .
NOT trust ion my bow cries another;
" nor viii mY sword save me. And as
with the great general, so with the great
political leader Moses. the man OF God,
is Israel. representative statesman.
" Hear. q Israel he cries. the statutes
and judgments which speak in your
ears tn. day" liis Moses Who speaks
thc Jaw. hui 10 is God who gives the law.
" shall Doe righteousness unto Us II We
observe 10 do all thi, commandment be
fore the Lord our God, rs lie hath com
manded u.s." That deep humility which
Mr Lecsy marks as 'hc characteristic OF
She Jewish writers Was NOT limited io
thcm ONLY. II wa. to be- found in every
true jew in the Hebrew pOlity. whatever
mis- station and calling might be
SIR Lecky notes the absence OF this
humanity in the lie OF the Pagan In
pcror Marcus Aurclius If it was not To
be- found in him, it, absence is still more
conspicuous i'm those Pagan characters
which did NOT com. near Dis IN sanciliY
lf human abasemcli and The eAaliauon
of divine power lc 40 o.. of ihe jew, hu-
man .elfeAaltaiiOn and hcliiiling OF the
divine are notes OBJ tle Gentle. -. Lord
cod of Hosts. who SIS Ike unto lheen
saws the p-a.mist Arms and the man J
sing. writes the band o., Mautua The
Uomeric poems. that Gentle book OF
Psalms. have as their thence the Wrath Of
achulc-. the Nauderings OF blysses.
The great lyric poet of Greece hymns
the earthly glorics of tAe Emathian con-
gueror. The great lyric poet OF Rome
writes 0lcs iO the Emperor iuil of the
most hameless liatcry. Indeed. this dis
tmciion between Jewish and heather
characteris vivil.ypicturcd by the Bible,
la Daniel pOrfraya. OF Ne1ucneinezlar.
The king stands forth as am example OF
hla-tlu. and ins0.eut scli-conldence.
Wuuc,. the naughty pride and tyranni-
cal cruelty of his decree. Witness those
words that brought the anger of God
down upou him aud bcrett him of his
reason. d" Us not this great Babylon that
have buillcd DIS llc might Of my power
and for the glory OF ms majesty:
When cod converts him lle begei- DID
Dis heather soul that very humility
which was thc clO y OF the jew.
Now this Psalm is pcrmcaicd with the
thought that men depend ON God II is
uhnn. over another thought that
fhc God on whom men depend is
tue one whose Mercy cndureth forever
Do reminds men of many OF those crucial
moments of trial and sorrow, when hui
maniiy j. conscious of ii- own weakness
and nothnenc-s II reminds them how
many time they bad been taken ont of
those trials saved from those SORROWS.
litrli- them That Tie who rescued them
and saved them was God The t0ilwOrn
Wanderer. who have lost their way IN
the tmcklc-- desert the poor prisoner
who rroaucd beneath lis chains, the sim
ner 90. be lay on The bed OF sickness and
drew nigh t0 the gates Of death, the
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about 0n thc Wild waste sea. all these,
sings the p,almi-t "cried unto the Lord
in their trouble and he delivered them
out of their distress. Remember then,
Doe seems tO say. "vOur dependence, .
man. but remember. TOO how good the
God Is ON whom YOU must depend.
go. that men would therefore praise The
Lord for His goodness and for the Won
der- that he dOeth for the children OF
men
The Church. which has within it the
heritaEes which 10 received from jew and
Gentle. teaches the whole truth con
corning the relationship between man
and God. While She declares that man
lis free-wiIled being who must choose
and act for himself, be also declares that
De derives all that is good
iu him from God. and that apart from
God Doe can no mo- good thing We must
Christianity tells us. work out our own
salvation so The same time we must
never forget that it IS God that worketh
m us both to viii and t0 do for His good
pleasure The jew magniiied the power
of God aud minim.zed That of man. The
Pagan did the very opposite. Christ
taught men iAai while in one respect n
regard 10 his old nature, man was weak
and lrail in another respect, a. % par
ticipatJf in the divine nature man was
giorou. and great, iAe head OF all
creation God, iu tAe teaching OF Chris
tianity while He is the blessed and only
pOtentate. thc ruler of the hosts Of
Heaven. is also the God who was born OF
One Virgin Mary the God who Is known
in the small u.s. well a- the great II has
taken thc Church many long year 10
see this truth in an lbs entirety There
have been sons of hers. great men who,
seeing DO only from Jewish or the Pagan
side have for time given warp 90 the
ruth which her Lord handed down 10
her Augustine and Calvin unduly mag
nined the will of tod 10 the exclusion
of the freedom of mans will Pelagius
and Arminius in their battle for the
truth, that man Is free agent.
made fan too little OF the di-
vine grace and power All these men
erred from Catholic truth, that truth that
tells us that We cannot DO any good
thins without God. and set which looks
on us AS responsible creatures, who must
appear before the judgment seat OF
Christ to give am account OF the deeds
done in the body
Our Psalmist emphasizes his belief in
the proyidcntial care of God for the chill
dren of men lie gives YOU picture
after picture of persons in calamity, and
tells YOU that When they cried unto the
Lord In their trouble. He delivered them
out of their distress God s greatness
is not of such 70 kind a- 90 interfere with
his showing the keenest interest in
human affairs Yet have no doubt YOU
have heard people hiect to the doctrine
of a special providence, on the ground
F that the triyialitics of human life are be-
meath the notice OF God AS if God.
+ 70 is said. would trouble Himself about
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