St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-02
MINNEAPOLIS.
THE CRY OF THE SOUL.
DR.. Shutters evening Sermon at
Church Oftho Redeemer,

Church ofthe Redeemer.
Rev. Marion d. Shutter spoke, taking
for his subject 1.-THE Souls Cry for
God" He said: weighed down by
cares and sorrows, men have asked
whether there was anything or any one
behind them or above them. The de-
NAL of God is mostly a denial of old
conceptions and revelations. Man is
born to look upward and to search for
God. From Him we come, and we are
disQuieted till we rest in Him. God is
revealed in Christ and IN all noble
souls aud in the highest quail
tiles of all souls. 1t used to be
supposed that God was manifested in
only one form of religion. That if one
of Christ's maxims could be shown to
have come from the lips of some other
teacher Christianity would thereby be
weakened. 1t used to be thought that
it the ''golden rule" had been taught by
any one eles so much was taken away
from Jesus. We now see that the
authority of the ''rule'' itself is greatly
strengthened by every book in which
we find it. The source of truth is one,
A shower has fallen from Heaven. The
rain drop that lodges on the rose bush
has no right to upbraid the drop that
fell in the wayside pool. There
are no vast areas left desolate
by the God of truth. He has
always been in the world, and he
is in the world to-day! He is not out
side and only operating upon it now
and then i'll special cases. Modern
science teaches us that He operates al
ways and is present in every part of the
world: that it is His power which holds
the plants and paints the rose; that He
DreatheS in the life of the tree and
heaves the pillows of the sea. Depend
upon it, God is always in the common
place. Not alone in the councils of the
nations. but in the kitchen and work.
shop. We may be assured that the CEN
trail principle OF the universe is good.
The larger idea of God teaches that
His plans embrace the lowliest and
rudeSt nations of men as we'll
as those who are on the higher planes
of civilization. Not savage or bar
barian has lived and died anywhere but
his life has contributed something to
the upward and onward trend of events.
This is growing universe. Evil is but
one OF the incidentS-n0t final part
OF the upward Struggle-Only good in
the making! The liability to sin is the
condition of moral development. The
world is not ruined, but incomplete.
1t is Oh the way; it has not yet reached
its goal. When we shall be like Him
and see Him as He is, the results
wrought in cur souls will justify every
struggle and every temptation that de-
veloped our moral power. The system
in which we now live is the best for us.
And the paths to God ''are more in num-
Der than the breathings of created be-
ings." While we find Him in nature
and history. perhaps the most direct
route is through ourselves. TO believe
in God is to believe in truth and justice
and love. Love of God is love of good.
1.-The pure in heart shall see God"
Put into the word G cd the best you have
ever thought, and felt and hoped, and
then know that its limits are infinite!
To such an use we can trust ourselves
in life and death: and there is TO sea in
the universe where God is not our guide
and pilot!