St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-04

will, but for an infinite and an eternal
being upon which it can rest. But
in all our experience of matter, there
is no such thing as permanent person
atty. In nature all things ebb and
flow. It's history is a constant birth
and decay. Organic bodies desolve
again, and no material order endures.
In nothing material can we find rest
We dare not dwarf God.
In order to worship, therefore, we
must think of God in the terms of
spirit. For an infinite spirit
No Task Is Tho Hard.
no waiting too long, no danger too
hazardous, and 10 burden too great
The great prophets of the Hebrews
Jesus and His disciples, believed in a
God great enough to worship. The
One Who is SO infinite that there are no
bound to His being and His power
After summing UP all that nature
might do or hold, the greatest poet of
all times added, 10, These are parts
of his ways, but the thunder of his
power, who can understand" So re-
ligion never stops in any" mere world
arguments about God. And when man
finds out that he himself is a spirit,
though finite, it is not difficult to under
stand that God is a spirit, though in
finite. 1t is thus that the revelation of
the nature of God is fundamental to
the structure of the nature of man,
and we find out God when we find out
ourselves. But religion is not so much
concerned in the being of God, as a
speculative question, as it is concerned
in the character of God as a moral
being. very small part of the Itera-
ture of religion is taken up with an
explanation Of the statement that God
is spirit; but nearly all Of it is con-
cerned with the other statement God
is love.
The statement God is. spirit gives
rest to the mind, the belief that God
is love-" gives comfort to the heart
AS man comes to know himself as
spirit, it is easy to find out that God
is spirit, and as the race rises toward
goodness, it is becoming easy to be-
lieve that God is love. Human in
situations more and more have for
their aim
The Good of Society.
Sometimes these institutions destroy
evils with iron hands, as when pauper-
ism is Uprooted by hardship, and
through these methods Of human ad-
ministration we are learning how God
may also seek His ends of goodness in
the darkest facts of life. 1t makes life
worth living to believe that one day
society will reach it's goal and that
poverty and injustice will be done
away; but it fills the mouth with
laughter and the heart with psalms to
believe that one day this universe of
ours will be TRANSPORTED, even as
Jesus was on the mountain, and that
the common garments of life will shine
white with the loving glory of God.
1t is mans problem in doing the duty
that lies next him to seek to make
goodness conquer. 1t is Gods problem
to enthrone goodness, royal, radiant
and triumphant in all His universe.
And is not this the meaning of that
one who said, '"The glory of God is
seen in the face of Jesus Christ?''
1t is in the supreme man, tender, help
full, healing that God finds his truest
revelation. And Jesus was not only
the greatest worker and teacher, but
also the deepest and truest worshiDer
this world has ever seen. Well for US
in meeting in his name we may learn
his secret and may come to worship
God in spirit and in truth.