The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-22

some secondary cause as the source
Of cur good, and, to forget that the
mysterious and DaradoXical workings
of personal providence are all about
us, operating we know not how nor
why; thus, we forget our true bene-
fa ctOrs and sometimes become su-
premely Indifferent to our sense of OBJ
legation and defer until later day the
service and homage which is due to the
glver of all good. But the devout soul
today as did each ancient worthy hes
itates not moment to ascribe unto
God all the honor and glory for bless
ings special and general The eter
nal Wcrd of God Is replete with such
aCknC nCN,edgcments to the great author
of al good; prophets, priests, kings
and apostles, old men and maidens,
young men and children all join in one
grand doXology i'm praise to God. Even
nature has learned to thank the bene-
ticient father and to this end day
unto day uttereth speech while the
heavens declare his praise. The ma
tions are beginning to see God, not
any more as a judge, stern and i'm
placable, but as tender, loving Faith
er, .abounding in mercy, who wills not
the death of any but would rejoice
In the salvation of all men. God is
good; let the mind of man forget it
never; let the soul cease not to confess
the warm hearted love of God be
brought to every clouded cheerless
heart; let the echo of this rythmic,
dulcet chime drown all discordant notes
of woe, and mingle with every sound
of gladness and ripple in its melodious
course. until joy shall flow in every
| heart and home;. until manhood shall
| he redeemed from the curse, and wo-
| mGhhood shall attain unto Madonna
| like purity; until laughing children
and cooling babes shall wonder at
| mothers cheerful face, and all the
world shall know that God is good.
| and that in His love he has come to
| save all men.
WHAT does the world owe Jesus
| Christ, Gods own unspeakable gift?
| Dark would have been the world in
deed had not the morning star arisen
| upon it; lost would have been the best
| of men had not Jesus come to save
Compare the ancient and effete civili-
2htion with that OF today; place side
| by side the world of yore who knew
no Christ and whose ideas of God were
crude and the world of today knowing
as 1t does much of Christ's doctorine
and practicing as it does much of this
system, the comparison will afford
many an interesting and profitable re-
fection, which may not be discussed
here at this time, but we cannot pass
| without noticing some of the great
changes which have come to us through
| Christ. Observe the condition of wo.
man today. Woman was not in ancient
| days as she is today, the queen of the
| home, the honored equal of man, anC
the constructor of our highest anC
holiest interests. A world who knew
not Christ could not see the value OF
the treasure which God had given II
primeval Adam. Drudgery. ignoming
slavery, and worse than slavery was
the lot of woman then. and, indeed to-
day, the nations who know not Chris
have not advanced, as regards theil
treatment of woman. The kingly mar
of Nazereth has raised woman to hel
present position as queen of the home
and idol Of the heart. Christ ha!
made possible a Florence Nightingale
a Francis Ridley Havergal a Harrie
Beecher Stowe, a Frances f. Willard
and Lady Henry Somerset Oh
mothers, wives, daughters sisters re
1oice and thank God heartily from tn,
deep of your soul.
What does America owe Christ
Gods hand has been over our natior
from its earliest period until the pres
ent. Our destiny is with God alone
was the honoring hand of the omnic
ent God that guided the three Spanish
cockle-shells across the main four hun
dred years ago. it was the hand o
Almighty God that rested on the helm
of the Maytiower, and moved the arm
and enthused the hearts of those Pill