The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-30

Its own work in its own sphere, fulfilling its
destiny We need to get hold and keep hold of
this vital truth that Their, Is pot TO be ore idle
soul IN the entire organization. II there are 500
or 5000 souls, there should be ius. that MANY
WORKERS. Every mouth mus, be ready TO speak,
tSesy nano 10 work, every foot to walk for the
Aot"- Every person should be ever praying the
PRAYER. Lord, wha. wou.dst thou have me to
ooE 50 God ordains. So by the mouth Of his
servant ne has spo ken it,
n recent caapier on tropical Africa has given
US rare insight into the system BY which the
tefmites, or white ants, pulverize the subsoil OF
the neios BY their cease,ess and multiplied
AeliVities. The ant has TO work under cover to
escape the danger of death by his enemies and
SO wherever be works he taxes with him the
ground hear the tree. For example, il a tree Is
70 De attacked for the sake of some decaying
branches, theSe termites build on the bark OF
the entire tree tunnel of earth which they con-
stfuci pellet after pellet, cemensing them as
they advance, and then working inside this
wal. IL is sad some forests are eucased for
miles. To do this work the entire community
10 thoroughly organized. There is in each soci-
etF queen, neuters, workers and soldiers. To
every 100 worker in a community there are two
or three soldiers. The workers are blind
anu uasrmed. good for nothing to
WORK, Dui Il attacked these soldiers armed by
nature move 70 the help and fight. while the
unconscious workers keep on at their work.
The Others have their work which they do aud
90 veil. The result is that great quantities of
earth are plsstsred over these trees, and when
the heavy rairs OF the tropics come down these
earth tubes cvumb C and are washed away to
fsrtilzs the valleys OF the region. 1t is said
tina, Ii takes bat few years for all the soil 10
be thoroughly renewed.
Go 70 the ant. thou sluggard; consider her
wsvs and be wise" Whist lesson on perfect
equalization we would learn. How each ono is
to stand in his place, and BY prayer, 10y word,
by work, help along the great end OF the coming
Oh the son OF GOD, the soldiers of the Cross to
DO the hard fighting; the workers to raise pellet
10y pellet the hardened soil OF humanity. Others
may be forced TO stay at home, but even there
are serving the Lord Jesus Christ in truth and
IN sincerity. All al IL ana 1T ii all the time,
would make the desired coming OF Christ u
thing speedily obtained.
Ine church is an organization formed around
one central thought. some organi cations
multiform in their aims, We are simple in our
ambitions. That one thing is, we are possessed
with the mystery of faith held by pure con-
science. When that is stood by. the church is
strong When IL is deserted, we are weak,
sheley's great ambition was to subyert the
divine order, and found q new church upon the
one point, love. The attempt was a failure, as it
always will be. The brotherhood of love is not
strong enough principle upon which to build
great cathedral which is to Fill toe whole
mereites are allowed % spring up for n dav, but
they last no longer. The evening OF their brief
existence marks them as ruins. How many
such are scattered all along the coast OF years?
But the old organization founded upon the sim
PIE idea of the my terry OF faith held in purity
has outlived them all, and with every year
grown more beautiful In its bearing.
Mistakes have been often made in thinking
that something could be carried with this one
thing. | remember to have once seen a great
rock poised on its apex. The supports about it
were but slight, and the touch of the hand could
set II rocking within certain limits. there was
the perfection OF poise in that rock. "Our rock
Is not as their rock, our enemies themselves be-
Ing the judges" And the organization OF Christ
Is ike this rock, in standing upon what at the
first seems a very insecure support That 20 sed
rock interlered with but in the slightest ii it
had weight added at one part, or if it were
Clipped at another SO as 10 destroy the equilib-
rum, must have fallen and become as other
rocks about IL. We have sometimes made Just
that mistake about ourselves, and have added
various weights which have DESTROYED the SYM
metry of truth and put Us prone alongsde less
glorious organ cations. A creed founded upon
love has ever gone down until, instead OF
thinking OF God love men have thought of
love as God The libertiue and the sensualist
have as good right then 20 the benefits pur-
chased by Christ as the purest person who ever
trod the aisles OF the church. Hope has been
set forth as the supreme emotion upon which
religion ia to be built. The outlaw followed by
the rifle OF the incensed community has
much right to expect the presence OF the Un-
seen to meet him in the unknown as the nobies,
OF the sisters OF the trilogv, whose bright pure
face is turned toward the door whence is to
come the BRIDEGROOM OF heaven. We have made
mistakes, but our mistakes have ali been cor
rected and the church has been again placed
upon the same old point-tAe mystery OF faith
as held by pure conscience-and the rock has
been again se: swinging to the movements OF
the mind OF God.
But the great glory of the church 10 in none
OF these things yet mentioned but is chiefly 10
be found III the fact that she Is the church OF
God. God gave her central thought; God Or
ganized her; God keeps her, and she is Coos.
There are names back OF certain forms OF
work which ia themselves make that work
famous. We fud it in politics Labor organ
izations lay great pride upon honored mems
shoulders, who. because possessed of the eve of
prophets, did formulate doctrine and set forth
principles which unified thought and simplifed
action. Benevolent societies rejoice in the same
thing. But the church rises above these things
She was founded by God, inspired of God aud
cared for by God and Will eventually be blessed
by God. You heard the ringing of the trowel as
the corner stone was laid. Where is the ear that
heard the ringing of the golden trowel as the
chief corner stone was laid? for was IL not pat
down before the foundation OF the world? You
have heard the ringing of hammer and chisel as
men fashioned stones for buildings. but who
has heard the least sound as this great cathe-
dral has gone up without the soaud OF hammer,
or saw, or chisel, or trowel? We want a name:
we have Ii. 1t is the name above every name,
tile name before which politicians, laboring
men, benevolent leaders, presidents OF humane
societies and founders of religious orgauiza-
tons all bow. IL is the name OF the living God.
All honor to the church. for she has that which
Is above rubies--she has in her founder and
builder the Lord our God.
Except the Lord do build the house,
he builders lose their pains:
Except the IoIt the city keep,
The watchmen watch IN vain.
It's vain FOR You To rise betimes,
Or late from rest To- keep,
To iced on SORROWS breai; 50 gives
lie His be loved sleep"
The apostle conceived the church OF the liv-
ing God 70 be the cOnserver OF truth. Not truth
relatively as applied 10 any one age, but truth
absolute, watch is adapted 10 every age and all
peoples. The church is the possessor OF the
truth OF the living God. As the temple OF Old
had IN It the visible presence of God Himself.
20 the church 81 il is in Christ is the possessor
of the mystery Of godliness These things the
church has done IL stands s tact that we
may so elsew here and fad things which may
he said 10 belong - our time, or watch may be
one-siied views Of great questions But the
church, If she te what he ought To be. knows
no pasI, no present, future bnt Ike her
I'LL or Hra"