The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-27

enormous extent and tremenduss foli. =
we're grown and made to absorb n,rion
sases from the opce hot and deadly ~
,h spnere; those earlier forests wer
mvwn Gown and buried in the soil An
ana 49,. 20 Immense heat and pressur
sna tnus transformed into great coal hsd
ioc mans future use rough. rocky NOM
.sH masses were worn dlswn by the attri
.lon OF rains, snow masses. frosfs ri.a
svurses, and melted Into the fertile so,,,
vi upland and meadow; wholesome frnit'
were planted and propagated: pleas,ns
variation OF flowery prairie and shad,
LIVES, picturesque woodland and cattle.
tSteu piain. medicinal herbs, even play.
ana a. IN ,ne form Of gems and pearl,
G IT, VIC perfumes OF a Thousand shrubs nd
lowers were provided and laid away Ths
rivers ana seas and land and air war.
stocked with game pleasing TO tho nsists
" luis coming child man. Useful metal
mere poured into the crevices Of the rocts
.or sa1e Keeping and fragments az them
were scattered loosely about where in hi.
INFANCY he could find them more readily.
u' you say, probably--it is a common
Iorm OF infidelity today-it Is poetry IN a, :.
tribute these facts to the provision y,
you, they turned OUT that way IA ths
course OF evolution, and man grew irto
.hem and wrought out this kpowlelpe ara
Tue use OF them in the normal deyelonmen,
| Vi MS brain. No man doubts ti,at 7
answer, but the case Is not altered. So
.ne young man grows into tho ose Of the
% %ea..n ana resources which his proyident
49, nas lad up. So you young men
nave grown into the advantages Of thi,
institution which was conceived and es-
sapnsned years ago, and perfected through
eAperience for you and such rs you. Do
not you owe as much gratitude to those
men whose pictures hang there tHouston
ana y. f. Austin) for their anticipati. N
OF your wants, as though you had lived In
I ,i era OF San Jacinto AMI the Alemo!
Even so, though you grew into your sur
roundlngs bodily and morally. they were
surroundings made ready to your hands.
uoo put the lightning in The first place
Wnore you could grasp Il. with your In
suiated fingers; He whired The savage
winds and tempests In cyclone waves such
as you can study and watch ami predict
and prepare for; He hid .he roisons OF
earth In such suspicious matrices and lurid,
io"ers that the cautious man LOOKS out
ior them; He gives you warning by chills
ana fevers and aches of the bones that a
certain marshy district or tropical climate
IL not good for you: lie runs to meet Won
IN pfovidences without number; He en-
bodies Himself. his own jus ice and SUI
preme goodness In laws such as no analys
is or telescope or microscope or logic has
study OF such laws you go.
From nature up to natures God" and
you are convinced that that God Is your
pest friend. Even His seeming severity at
Tunes. HIS holding you down to the strict
letter Of the law and permitting the pen
atty to fall II you show carelessness. even
TINS Is evidence OF benevolence supremacy
KIND; by 10 He educates you, gives you
experience; by II He runs to meet" the
intentions OF your higher nature, shapes
beforehand your immortal destiny.
We call these things Gods proyidences,
and they come to us In numberless multi
tudes. Why he has anticipated your hap
piness, young man, by endowing YOU SO
richly with good things, that you are mad
II you do not see in them His fatherly call
to live. and act, and strive, as becomes
the heir of immortal resources. What He
mas predestined you and you. and you 10
tween knowledge and ignorance, between
the battalions OF righteousness and the |
nosts OF sin, do not know, but | am |
sure OF one thing---that In view of your ad- |
vantages over all who have preceded you
IN the conflict, yOA are preferred sons,
tavorite children, select agents You grew
INTO these things! Yes. you did. You are
rattenng and drawing sustehance from
SOIL enriched by the life blood of the brave
and true; you are living peacefully and
unmolested where forefathers had 10 watch
q deadly foe while toiling around their do
mestic hresides: you are using natural
forces to perform common servlce-steam,
electricity, etc.-in harness such as your
ancestry OF few years back never
dreamed Of; you are making daily trans
formations in yonder chemical laboratory
such as would have been called the BLACK
art" the devils own trlckery.' a few
generations ago, and would have con-
demned you to the stake: you are reaping
where you never sowed. Your histories tell
you Of the terrible years-years of de-
struction by fire and sword-when your
ancestry In fierce barbarian hordes rushed
like a wild tempest from the North and
East over the countries Of Europe. tramp
ling and burning as they passed You,
their descendants, inherit all their Arion
independence and enterprise, together with
the Christianity which nodded them into
citizens and trained them in peaceful ayo-
cations. 1t Is a law Of Gods universe that
the creature which does not utilize its
environment perishes and dies out root
and branch Under that law you live. II
God runs to meet you In these opportuni-
ties and blessings, forestalls your needs.
and points with His finger to fields Of
honorable industry in which you may CO.
operate with Him and exalt your race,
why, you are unworthy OF your birthright
that is all of tiff you do not assume the
work. II. on the contrary, you thankfully
seize each blessing, recognize the giver
and put it to account. start 1t as legal
lender currency in the great whirl of hu-
manity about you, make 1t double and
treble and qradruple itself as, under
your supervision, 1t passes on its mission
OF righteousness, God will reveal Himself
more and more in blessing to you, He
will give you a conception OF the meaning
OF that wonderful passage. "All things
are yours, whether Paul or Apollos, or
Cephas, or the world or life or death, or
things present or things to come. all are
yours. and ye are Christ's and Christ lis
Gods. Il Cor. Ill, 21-23.)
Zorocaster, the old Persian Magus, says
with a true conception of the idea have
been presenting: God appears in our
hest thoughts, in our truest speech, in
our sincerest action. Through His pure
Spirit, He giverh health, prosperity. de-
yotion and eternity TO the universe. He
Is the Father OF all truth"
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