The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-01
THE woRLD'3 CHRISTIANITY.

How like light in dark uight shines
good deed in wicked world That was
good thing which the American miliers and
the people of Minnesota New York and
Nebraska did in sending ship load of food
to the starving millions Of Russia; and it
was a very graceful acknowledgment
which the Czsrowitch made in sending fer
Mr.. w. e. EDGAR, secretary of the Ameri-
can commission for distributing the wheat
and -four, in order to return personally the
thanks of Russia for tho generous assist
ance in the hour Of adversely 1t is said
that the CZarowitch received Mr.. EDGAR
with great warmth, and declared that all
Russia was deeply affected by the noble
spirit of warm-hearted feeling which this
ship load of food showed OF the part OF
Americans. 1t strongly proved the good
will which existed between the two coun-
tries, aud the Czarowitch expressed the
hope that this spirit of brother-feeling
between the two nations would never cease
to exist but would increase and become
stronger, if possible, than it has ever been
before
When the greatness of Russia's calamity
is taken into account, it Is matter for as
constituent that there has not been a more
general movement to go to the relief of her
people, not only throughout the United
States but throughout the world. A dis
trict of Russia populated by thirty millions
people, is smitten with famine, thou
sands dying daily of starvation, and yet but
little is being done to relieve their distress
mi,
lines and rapid ocean travel; in world of
plenty, where we talk of the overproduc-
ton of our fields and gardens? This speaks
not we'll for the worlds Christianity. the
special mission of which is to succor the
distressed and administer to the unfortun-
} ate, Something OF that spirit Of brotherly
} kindness enioined by the gospel seems yet
} lacking among Christians, and there is an
abundance of evidence that the world after
nineteen centuries of acquaintance with tbs
/ precepts of the God-man-Christ have moi
; yet drank very deeply into the spirit of hii
teachings.
7 Apropos of this calamity that has over
Q taken Russia, 1t may not be out of place tt
: call attention to the fact that il is suci
: circumstances as these that convince som.
= men that there is no infinitely good Coz
8 who brought this world into existence, o.
= who is now controlling its destinies
9 Surely, say they, if there is Con of in
Y finite goodness and infinite power, who sit
: enthroned in the heavens and is cognizan
n of all the suffering, the woe and the miser
o here below-as we must believe he Is,
5 we believe the teachings of the churchme
q surely his heart would be touched by tn
=, SORROWS Of the wretched, and he would Q
v to their relief. Or, what to them is NOR
IS reasonable still, an all-wise, all good. all
n powerful Creator, in the first place, woul
d have made world SO perfect that no sue
TT thing as sin or sorrow would have bee
II known; and such things as earthquake
10 tempests. cyclones, destructive hail storm
10 sickness, disease, famine, pestilence {
IS death would have had nc place in I'll
economy of nature. The fact that no sue
at world has been created is sufficient ey
dence to their minds that there is no il
k finitely good, or all-wise God standing BAG
u of this world. This line of reasonir
j. has perplexed the understanding, to
g. of many a stout-hearted Christian, ar
d, they lind the miseries of mankir
n almost irreconcilable with the idea of tt
in existence of an al-merciful and omnipotel
Id Con, who directs in the affairs of me-
a But where the sincere Christian fnt
st things too hard for his reason to explai
his faith bids him trust; and he finds
Id many evidences all about him, In Il
" phenomena of nature, in the tradition
he the human race in the revelations
de Scripture, but most of all iu the testimor
I'D of his own heart-all combining to ma
en- the existence of Con SO strong q prob
W, bility, that faith stands secure in spite
re things hard to understand; and in respe
"a to the things which the theist cannot g.
O. plain, he says ~ will trust the wisdom al
of goodness of COP in these things, and 0