The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-08
SUNDAY AT CAMP RAMSEY
REV. J. ]. LAWLER, OF THE CA
THEDRAL, CELEBRATES MASS

Chaplain Turner Later In the Day
Held the Regular Sunday Service
and Preached on the Subject ..Trt-
umphant In Temptatfon"-Ack
Post Visits the Boys-Address by
Maj. Espy-Good Base Ball Game
1t was more like a religious cam,
meeting than a field of tented soldiers
at Camp Ramsey yesterday. Two re
ASious gatherings We're held and som,
4. a. Il. veterans visited the boys anC
threw in some good advice.
Rev. j. j. LAWYER rector of the
Cathedral, went out early in the morn
lng and celebrated mass and preached
Tor the soldiers. Mr.. ]. F. Gehan ant
Mrs. +. L. HOFFMAN, furnished tht
music. 1t was beautiful sight to SCI
the boys in blue kneel so devoutly t
receive the communion service.
AT 1880 a. m Chaplain Turner hello
the regular Sunday service in front o.
the colonels tent. A larger number
than usual were out to listen to him
ana they were repaid by hearing one o.
the bes; talks heard at Camp Ramsey
Chaplain Turner's subject was "Trium-
phant in Temptation" taking as his
text:
There hath no temptation taken you but
such as man can bear; but esd is faithful.
that you able, but will with the temota-
ton also make the way to escape that Won
may be able to endure it. f. Cor. X. 1S
Chaplain Turner sad:
This is unlucky text, II 1t is the thir-
teerth verse. 1t Is the pledge that the weak
defeated forces of humanity shall be rein
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There are two declarations here. The first
Is that the people to whom these words were
addressed had IS yet endured no unbeara bic
temptations the second is that they never
should endure any unbsarable temptations.
Such statement If it be true, leaves
without excuse for sin in the future. The
ground upon which this great sweeping dec
laration is made is the fidelity of God
God is faithful" Man may be unfaithfui,
but GCd, never. Mans confidence may wayer,
his hopes rise and fall, but Gods is stsc91
as the flow of the gulf stream. AS well may
the ocean expect to find its granite founda-
ton gone when tho springtide brings it
back to its place as man expects to find God
gone when that man GENES back to the place
for which GCd made him. Have you ever IN
your life, long or short, known year
when the summer and the harvest came net ?
When the grass failed to grow; when rain
and snow were unknown?
God does net thus forget. Since the day
so long ago when He promised that while
the earth remaineth seed time and harvest
and cold and heGt and summer ana winter
and day and night shall not cease" all the
ages and al the hosts CT heaven have borne
witness to His fidelity. read few years
ago Of man who went up into an observatory
where they have one Of these large refract-
ing telescopes and asked If he GIT see
star. The great instrument was planted
where a particular field of the heavens was
sweeping before it. The professor in charge
said: Il don't think there is one now visi-
ble," but picking up book in which some
calculations had been published ten years be-
fore. he ran over page and said: Yes there
is one due at o'clock 20 minutes and
seconds" The man who wanted to see star
lay down upon his back, as they do while
looking through those Instruments; one pro-
fessor took up little mallet and held it
over table, while another held his open
watch and noted the flight of the seconds.
The minutes licked away, H. APO, 4:20 and 8
seconds; the mallet fell upon the stand and
the man upon his bsck, looking for the star,
shouted: There 1t isr Nature had not
failed: Gods laws had not betrayed the man
who ten years before had stakei his reputa-
ton a scientist upon his belief In His
fidelity, and had set il down in an almanac.
l remember an eclipse which occurred
few years ago. The almanacs had told us
all about it long before. They said on a
given evening, hour. minute and second
little film Of darkness would appear upon
the edge of an object in the heavens, 24O010
mites away. Then 1t would advance to a
certain degree, stop at certain second, re-
treat and wholly disappear at certain sec
ond. The evening came, beautiful moon
light night Millions of people lifted their
eyes to the heavens and inquired all IN
consciously perhaps 81 wonder if the some
thing which these men call nature is as sure
thing as they imagine?" And while half
wondering they gazed, the hour came, the
minute came, the second came-when loi upon
the margin Of the moon the shadow appeared
like the finger of God writing across that
sheet of silver in the skies. IT am the same
yesterday, today and forevern'
Sometimes our quesionings take on Just
that form. A trial lies before US A deep
II is going to be too great for We fly
TO the promises Of infinite help. We take up
the cd almanac of the eternities and read
down its columns. There indeed are the
promises: 10 l am with you always, even
unto the end of the EARTH" when thou
passeth through the waters l will be with
thee" We say these were mothers promises.
Here upon the leaves are her tear stains.
and she died saying God Is faithful. And
while we read and weep the hour of our trial
comes, the moment is here, the second is
here, but we feel out into the darkness and
10 God is herei
Every man dwells in a wonderland here.
We wonder If we are going to finally con-
quer. You will remember the vision of Mirza
in which man was taken to a lofty
across which was a bridge, each end Of which
was lost in an impenetrable cloud. The mil
lions OF earth were crowding out upon the
bridge, and as they journeyed along each
and every one stepped unawares or were
forced upon a little pitfaH and fell through
into the water below Far beyond the river
were seen beautiful island upon which
happy people walked to and fro or
you will remember that the man who saw
the vision wished for wings that he might
amid the islands, but the genius who had
shown him the vision and who stood by ex-
planning its several parts told him that
there was but one way to reach those
Islands, and that by going out upon the
bridge and falling through into the stream
below as did the others.
Sometimes we. too wish that We might
at once rise and pass beyond all obstacles,
or at least have the assurance that We shall
at last be safe; but no answer can come
back to give Us that assurance for the SIM
pie reason that the answer is within our own
breast The only uncertainty that rests over
this whole matter of our ultimate saliva ion
IS a self-imposed uncertainty. With God
there is none. He has made all necessary
provision, and If we fail it is simply bscauss
We refuse to use the resources. For ole
will not suffer US to be tempted above what
we are able" I once heard distinguished
lecturer say that no man lives who cannot
be broken down by some temptation. If YOU
talk of man 1t may be true; it may be al
ways true, but II you talk of man plus God
II Is never true, FOR you may rest down upon
Him with all your weight, ard the heayieT
you rest upon Him the safer you are
He will with the temptation make the way
of escape"
The one is not more certain than the 9TH
er. 1.-THE temptation the way of escane u
think of the beautiful balance here. Did YOU
ever sail uD river where there was slack
/ faced a cataract which seemed to absoiuta.
ly forbid my further progress, and ono unac.
Quainted with the nature of such improve
ments, seeing his boat steering toward 6
great waterfall, would say: tits no use VIZ
must stop here; we can never ride over tina
DAM" But didn't the engineer who planned
those improvements know what he wal
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