Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-03-16
THE CITIZEN
Gods Love and Mans.


And now sbideih taith. hope. love, these
three: Lut The greatest OF these iS love-
Corinthians, Kin. IL.
A man cannot live in such IA world as
this without having his curiosity excited.
He sees the cloucs floating above his head,
and the stars j the iIl.mitable ether beyond
AT one period the earth springs into ne"
life, and tue fields aad orchards break into
blossoms; later ou the sun pours out his
torrid heat end blossoms are magically
changed into iruit; with the passing OF the
months the chilling frosts stay the flow oi
sap IN the forest and nature acts as though
she had dOue her days work and was Prt
pairing for resi-; then the SHOWS fall, hAe
warm c. ctverfd, and hills and valleys siHs
into profound slumber.
1t is all a M stery, and man cannot rest
satisfied until he has partially explored II.
He gathers q countless multitude of facts,
arranges them in logical order, draws IRON
them a host of inferences, the most cOnspie-
uous among them being that the arrange
ment of the universe indicates plan. Ae-
cident and chance are at once abolished,
and in their stead is established universal
law. Chance, cries the student, is to be
found nowhere.
At the moment when accident retired
and law stepped to the front the key TO
creation was found, and thenceforth science
off
guess the puzzles which We're hidden be-
hind.
But the thoughtful took another step
and declared that where there is plan
there must also be Plsnner. Ifyou look
at the intricate mechanism ofa watch 1t
is impossible to believe that it made itself.
The watch presumes maker; the universe
presumes a God If there is Being be-
hind matter, they said boldly, if an obvi-
GUS arrangement leads us back to One who
must have made the arrangement, then 1t
b comes important to know what relations
may possibly exist between US and Him,
what His plans are respecting u.s. what our
manifest destiny is and on what conditions
that destiny can be achieved.
At that moment religion was born, and
its mission is to go hand in hand with SCI
ence on a tour of constant discovery.
Shoulder to shoulder the two can solve he
great problem. Working apart, with dis
trust of each other, they are comparatively
powerless ard can achieve but slender re-
suits.
One step more and the divinest impulse
that ever thrilled human nature entered
the soul with its transferring power.
When religion stood before the assembled
hosts aud announced that the relation OF
this Planner to us was one of encouraging,
plying, forgiving and consoliug love, that
as gravitatiou is the omnipntent energy of
the physical. 50 love il The all conquering
force in the spiritual world, we were at
once equipped lor the battle with varying
circumst anccs and changing fortune.
Religion. when reduced to its last anal
ysis, therefore, puts just these facts before
you, and appeals to your common sense for
strict bedience-namely, that there is a
plan, and you are conspicuous part of it;
that the Planners sole desire regarding
you is that you shall be all yon can be, and
the best you can be; that in the Nazarene
He has furnished you with a standard of
moral measurement; that in the Bible He
has given you certsin rules which will
make your task easier, and that in His un-
bound love He has prepared 8 place Tor
you when lifs's fiIful fever is over. Relig-
ion is thus simplified aud put within reach
of tha humbieSt miu t. Shni:i the creed o!
the Cra' ch may be a puzzle aud dissp-
pointm-nt God'S way AT snyins the suul
is one thing; mans Theological amend
ments and addenda tu that Way are very
different thing.
Take love away and lifs wouil MT be
worth living. Hlnr out the sun and our
System would fall back into chaos. In all
its various forms our human l".e Is the
dynamic force ot progress and civilization.
The marty dies ut the stake for lore of
truth; TIE patriot dies on the field for love
of country. Men become heroes when ,hey
love, and liehds h,u they hate.
The young man Is il the swirl of passion,
careless of moral recti'u ude and Indifferent
to the demands of personal honor. Love
comes, pure emotion, aud takes possession
of his soul 1t rtstralns him, gives him
only the noblest aS!ir tIons, makes tie
former life dista.toful. because the music of
the new iif- is better than any song the
sirens have sung. De has purpose, an
ambition The fijries have visited him, and
like Cinderella he is clothed in new gar
mentS
No man can be his best self until this en-
trancing mystery bas "vershadowed him.
Not all the world can give him the equivs-
lent Of one true and l"yai woman's love.
for they only serve /" emphasize the fact
that the ane thing needful is not his With
that sublime pusses>iun, however, he
bdllsis h"in-, btcuIIrS Tho custodian of
grave responsibilities, hr"adens into
higher conception rf cirz 'nship, listens To
the cla ui charity and il ambitious for
that inf"yrrA Which will he the chief in
heIilauce al his children.
G.,d'S lore is our reig ion; human love is
all There il Il: happiness, while it is also the
prnph-ry al % hereafter. The grancest
picture which III. imagination eau con-
ceivr j. that ni tie cr">s, with the legend
above il. "Gnd 50 ltved The urld that he
sent his only begotien sun;" and the next
grandest is that of an earthly home in
which the same kind OF love draws father,
mother and children around the hearthstone
to live their little lives in mutual helpful
hess and look forward to another Home,
where th-re are m tears, by whose door
no hearSe ever rumbleth. in whose vicinity
is no ct.urchyard, but where the departed
wait tor tho coming of those who have not
yet been Summoned.
he inds it "a wonderful cure for
bad cough" Mr.. +. Audersnn, 34l Water
S., New York City. n. Y. gives this in
dors, ment: II have found DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup The wonderful cure it is reI-
resented to be. 1t is just the thing for q
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