St. Paul daily globe., 1892-10-17

Symbolic word that comes nearest our
comprehension, but when we 90 into
the philosophy of the truth we will find
that beyond this idea is still another
tnat must conc III when we try to eX-
plain-that idea is law.
If We believe that God governs this
universe by law aud that we shall find
His footprints in those actions of
humanity that manifest the working of
n HIS law in the heart of humanity it will
change many OF our views.
a.. Then we shall seek a study of the in
,fluences that were pervading the world
lprior to the Columbian epoch to find
what God was thinking about. We will
remember. too. the great unrest that
gave rise to the Puritan movement, and
the deep prevailing desire of men for
more liberty.
+ 1t was the morning of coming day.
1t was the first faint attempts of the
bird-song that finally develop to sue
cess.
: 1t was the muffied tramp of feet and
the rattle of wheels that tell the ap-
proach of a coming army.
1t was the return of the dove to the
ark-the dove that had long been driven
10y rude winds between rough seas and
stormy skies, but now brought sign of
land.
Within One Hundred Years
from the day Columbus left Palos some
of the greatest events of history showed
that God, working through the laws of
human progress. had made one more
forward step and introduced one more
change that affected ali time.
Within hundred years Luther had
nailed his thesis to the church door, with
the stroke of hammer that has been
heard through the ages.
Within hundred years the great uni
versities of England and others on the
continent were established, and it may
be truly said that the founder of Cam
bridge was right when he said: II have
set an acorn: God alone can estimate
the fruit thereof"
In this period Spain had risen to DOW
er unknown before, and the last Moor.
standing on an emineuce above his be-
loved Grenada, and looking down at the
Alhambra, wept to see his power vanish
and his race turned eastward.
Within a hundred years this Philip
ana his terrible associate, the Duke of
Alva, conceived the idea of utterly
crushing the hereSy which was rising at
the North like tidal wave. Within a
hundred years the men of the Low
lands. who had been taught to fight that
giant power of Nature, the sea, and had
ielt the call of the spirit to make the
larger fight for liberty, engaged in
that battle that will ever connect them
with the giant struggle for human
progress.
Add to this the development of print
ing and other Improvements, all too
numerous to mention. and you will see
this as the first of Il series of movements
that eliminated in the efinaldevelopments
or the scientific theories that are close
upon perfection in our time, and the
inventions that we see in their infancy.
Ii was the nearing of the modern day
And 1t all seems to me to teach that
God was working in His own way, by
His own laws Of development in this
present world.
In conclusion. let me say God favors
the man who acts in harmony with His
eternal laWs-no matter who or where
he is.
Minnesota is. in a sense, a person.
aifty, and she may be properly said to
have her ''fav orite son." Such one
Hives obedient to her laws. serves her
: interests and protects her privileges.
- SO the man who seeks to know the
moral laws of God and follows them,
who finds the Almighty nearer than
shandS and feet" as Tennyson said it,
} lin the heart and in the mind" as the
Bible puts it-Such man will enjoy
the. special favor that he appropriates
j by his action.
we rejoice then that all have their
opportunities, and believe that, as God
works through law, the one who will
9ila4e the most favor with H i'm is the
cone who lives nearest His law, and we
scout the idea that He is waiting for
convenient season to destroy somebody
or to confuse His enemies.