St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-19

Job, it is to soar on the sublime alti-
tude OF the actual kingdom of God.
He that doeth good is of God" Good
ness Is then streaming of the devine
lie INTO this enigmatic world for a pur-
pose, that purpose being regulated by
the law OF evolution. In all the uni
verse nought is to be taken for granted.
eVeiythlhg Is for the crUcible of ex-S
pef1ence. We cannot plead for God. nor2
accept his person. THE word of the
Lord is tried. :" Good and evil. light and
darkness are the Titan agonists. and
When the vlctors are crowned all in
telngences shall declare Just and
righteous is the Lord"
Again, the goodness of time is not
only experimental, but illuminative. 1t
is not only submitted to the choice of
mortals, but they are required to eyer
clse their sagacity in the discernment
Oh It's possibilities. Let us ask: What
Is the ultimate form of goodness? Is
1t not love? Without love goodness is
not goodness. In what direction does
the energy of love act? The organized
aitectlon of the family, starting with
the single pair and utilizing ties of
blood, but spreading by a Ieavening
process, to communities, nations and
worlds ''
The fatherhOod of God. the brother
mood of man. temporal goodness and
the universal family, are interdepen-
gent thoughts. But we have a unity
ing principle. 1t is the Copernican
idea of theology. Holding the family
conception Of the Cosmos. revelation
becomes necessary thought. Mutual
communion is the law of the family.
revelation Will come first in vital.
forms: The heroic deeds, the prayers.
the lyric raptures, the righteous
thoughts Of goodness, will be the nri
n IRr..,
necessary relation to character. He
that doeth good is of Cod" The good.
who are nearest to God, and eniov
most of his spirit, have the broadcast
horizon. But the goodness of life will.
by the law of fitness, crystalline and
endure in the form Of literature. Such
literature will not be philosophic or
theological, but warm, plastic, poetic.
the very transcript Of the godly life.
Then, as the impulse of goodness. the
life of God in the world, is benevolent
and pittful, revelation will develop
more and more in the form Of redemp-|
tive love, and will find it's climax in
some transcendent life.
In a world of moral freedom and evolution
airy growth, the life of Jesus is what we
should expect The rise of the kingdom OF
God Is inevitable In the sequence of history
as the renascence. or the modern scientific
era. Yet, the reconciliation of God and His
children will not be sentimental but accord
a moral ideal which transcends his crude and
wilful mind. One thing only is ineligible.
the love that transfuses and gorihes the dis
cipline. The father is right because he Is
father and loves his son. Then later the child .
come to reflection, deliberately approves the
discipline till now sanctioned by love. Faith a
er was right" So the depraved heart Is first
transfixed and fused at the spectacle of the
cross Later in the process Of Christian de-
yelopment comes the verdict of conscience:
That thou highest be just and justider of
the ungodly.' The moral life Of the
world, receiving so mighty an impulse in the
gospel, will now embody itself in dogma rite
polity and conduct We need not trouble our
selves about the church. II she be. indeed
CT God, she will justify her existence. Other,
wise. we care not. The kingdom Of God ia
sufficient unto itself.
we close with the thought OF irrepressible
choice he that doeth good is of God Your
election lies, not between warning creeds but
the good and the bad. The good is precisely
what your heart, every heart approves God
holds up the respondent roster of those that
have blessed the world. The name of Jesus
heads the roll. All the rest are in organic
connection with Him. He is the first born
among many brethren. The goodness he Of
fers you is not academic, clustered or senti-
mental, but energetic. potent. social and
penetratiye. o, divided heart, God and His
family have need Of you. While you are
wandering In the forest, kingdom greater
than Alfred's awaits you.