The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-06-06

exist, and so must care for our con-
tinued welfare. The old Hebrews de-
clared that he was God that worked
for rig hteousness. 1t is this power
that keeps us, that works for right
eousness, working through you and
me. We may rest in the thought of
an immanent God as child rests in
it's mothers arms. He is believed in
today with more tender and reason
able faith than was formerly possible
to men, and he is God that works
for righteousness.
The immanent God that works for
righteousness is my God. He helps
when the right thing is being sought.
When the battle is for the right, he is
battling with us; and sometime, some
where, we shall win.
There is wonderful deal of good
in the world, mighty amount of ex-
cellence, much as we are given to
abuse of it. While | say this, you
are thinking of how Christian Armen-
mans are hunted like cartridges on
the mountains because of Moslem
intolerance and hate, who are killed
and tortured, while all the civilized
world stands still and locks on, and
seems likely to do so, until all Ar
menians are exterminated. You ask,
How can such things be if there is so
much good in the world? I cannot
answer. The explanation does not
explain. If the good that is in the
nations of the earth could be banded
together, it would end this wicked
persecution, whether the allied powers
approved or not. The great heart of
the world rejoices when good pre-
walls. People rejoiced when Clara
Barton went to Turkey,-a woman al
ready past seventy, who did a mighty
work during the war, has continued
it since it closed, and who now under
takes to care for a starving people.
The world will rally to her support.
There is still another thought that
helps us in the battle of life. All of
us who have reached adult life have
lost friends, who have left us and
gone over on the other side. Are
they dead? Have we lost them? Ten
thousand times, not. There is no
death. They have passed out into
that other chamber Of the King, larg
er than this and lovlier. They are
still our friends, the safer guides, the
mightier helpers, than when with us.
When we are encompassed with
trouble, and find our way dark before
US, there will sometimes come to us
an illustration that dissipates the
darkness; and we pass from anxiety
and sorrow into infinite calmness,
and realize that we have been aided
by unseen friends. "Are they not
all ministering spirits9" They make
but one family, those on earth and
those in heaven; and, if they have
loved and cared for us when with us
here on earth, their interest will not
cease when they lift the latch and
pass beyond our vision.
When is this great battle to end?
1t is never to end. We shall get
through this phase of it by and by,
and shall come to time when for us
the earth will fade away, and we shall
be lifted to higher plane of being.
But do you think with the old lady
that you are then to sit down in
rocking chair, with a clean white
apron and a fan, and "sit and sing
yourself away to everlasting bliss?
There will be nobler tasks assigned
us and grander lessons to be learned,
and the discipline necessary to the
evolution of what is best and highest
in us will continue forever.
Twenty years ago found an illu-
minated text, believe in God" l
framed it, and hung it on the wall at
the foot of my bed, where my eyes
would rest on it the first thing when
awaking in the morning. By COM
mon consent of all peoples and ages
the great Creator of the universe is
called God the Good. If he be the
Good, then he means good to us. No
matter how severe the battle of life
may be, it has not been made so by
malevolence. Beneficence underlies
all Gods dealing with us; and, if his
divinest agents of help to us are him
drance, we can believe in him, and
trust in him through it all. We shall
never know despair. We shall never
shirk our part in the battle of life,
but war a good warfare" in all
things, and come off victorious.
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An officer with Gen. Robert E. Lee
tells how, when one day in conversation
with him at the door of his tent an or