The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-24
HEALERS
MODERN
REV. LEVI VI. WHITE SAYS THEY
ARE ALL GREAT FRAUDS.
Sermons by Rev. j. 4. Milburn at
Second Presbyterian Church.
Services mt Other Churches.

as ne discussed with great clearness and
force the strike of coal miners in the an
thracite region of Pennsylvania The min
lister also added few words TO his recent
deliverance upon the Chinese situation,
which created considerable of sensation.
Taking for his text the words. 1.-The Sea
Also Is His Mr.. Smith spoke substan-
tally as follows:
1.-THE rapt seer makes bold TO bring both
earth and sea within the realm of law. AS
to the first. the task was easy. The flow
ering meadows and wrinkled mountains
and greening verdures are all eloquent in
their tributes to law. The sea is not at
first glance, but is on second thought. Ev-
cry wave. as il rises and curls, and every
submarine current and every typhoon that
sports upon the playground OF maddened
whirlpools and every pearl shaped in ray
less caverns are chained 10 law The
meaning of the first is clear. 1t means
law, and law means God-not Pantheism,
that makes God all at the expense of His
personality: not mechanical creed. that
makes God wind up the clock and then
trust it to run on, but glorious Power
all-controlling and persuasive, the Ruler OF
star and Lover of men. The calm, land no
less the storm, are His. The rapture and
the agony. the emancipating law and the
SCATTERING tragedy are equally His
BIG WITH FACTS.
1--WE must confess that the present hour
is big with facts. Every cloud trembles
with a strange electric force, and every
But there can be no logical division of
he Itch thin
then God did not make the cloud. Then
there is no God. You are atheists at one
stroke The war with China has been
scheduled in the timetable of eternity. 1t
comes with urerring precision from the
civilization that entered China 1t Will
cease only when China rises TO the atti-
tude of consecrated, Christianized thought
and effort. The other powers Will also rise
by the same law to the same height. A
century may elapse before the races climb
to the glory of manhood illumined by God s
love, but time is nothing to the Eternal
Bancroft has affirmed that history is as
reducible to great laws as are crystals or
clockwork, and the periods. billowy and
bloody play their part as clearly as the
epochs serene and shining with order
1.-The strike now on among the miners is
another disturbing factor. Two are foes
that ought TO be friends. Capital needs
labor, and labor needs capital. Both sides
concede this point. Indeed. all quarrels
would cease this moment III the TWO parties
found they could be of no use to each 9TH
er. However, while both sides feel that as
a fact, they are crippled and useless If
apart, both sides differ as TO the fair
share OF the product. This being the cause
at bottom, IL Is clear that the conflict will
last while ambitions last. Cooperation will
only partly solve the trouble. We only de-
plore violence and anarchy as a method of
determining the just distribution of profits.
Strikes seldom succeed, except in throttling
trade and infiaming the savage passions OF
our nature.
THE PROPER TRIBUNAL.
1.-The proper tribunal is intelligence, and
this is coming. Consecrated intelligence
can settle anything, for II is the instrument
of God. Increase the intelligence under
the grace of God and you can welcome
greater problems 1t is just easy for
a steam engine to pull freight train OF
fifty cars in length as for child to draw a
toy car. 1t is just as easy for Shak-
speare to produce the drama of Hamlet
as for a tenth-rate poet to work out a
jingling newspaper rhmye. II is as easy
for God to control the planets as for a
stage driver to curb his teams. 1t is as
easy for an intelligent community to carry
out noble measures OF mutualism as il Is
for village of savages in Africa to obey
a black and bullish ruler. IL is not the
presence of thickening problems that viii
cause despair. but 1t Is the question
whether there is enough intelligence tc
match the problems. We believe solemnly
and profoundly that the world will be
equal to its problems only and solely be-
cause We believe that God is behind the
best men and within the best men, Let
the atheist be pessimist; the believer n
God Is compelled 70 optimism. The out
| look can be lurid IL the last analysis &c
men who have blotted out God working n
men. The best men are yet to be The
best explanations OF the Bible are yet tc
be. The best homes and the best laws and
the best schools are yet TO blossom out
| We are far advanced, but relatively we
| are only in the raw days of early spring
| we rejoice in the few modest blooms thai
grace the edges of melting snow and W.
! greet the songs OF the newly arrived buds
| in the leafing wood: but IL is only tbs
! early immaturity OF the springtime thai
| gladdens every sense, and weeks mus
pass before the luxuriance of golden sum
mer enriches the scene. Let US work witt
] all the more might because the futur,
/ glows with divine progress.
A NATURAL RESULT
| IF the best men really govern our prog
ress. then il would follow that the bes
| government would be conducted by tn,
chosen best men, and so 1t would if ",
| could discover some standard by which al
would consent to gauge the best men. bu
we cannot; hence, the seeming hopeless
ness for the present of all our politics
| The elective franchise levels the seer witt
| the ass. The citizens of base blood ans
muddy brain casts as large vote as TN,
man led by God. The only cure for thi
| is to learn that politics is trIfie com
! pared 10 the educational influence of oul
/ lofty men; that political caucuses ar,
/ farces compared with splendid citizen,
| who possess the property of characte
| and create opinion. We are spending TO,
much money on political campaigns ans
too little money on homes and schools an,
bchurches. Why below so loudly agains
| bosses when the people do not know
enough or care enough TO crush them
| Why blame ships for floating so low whe,
4 the tide itself is low? The one remedy 10
| our evils Is revival OF Christian purity
| O return OF Puritanism with its lofty Am.
/ austerc standards and its emphasis al
| human responsibilities to God as the Ike,
/ TO ideal government"
/ Mr.. Smith made feeling allusion 10 IN
| deaths which have occurred in HIS churcl
| since he departed on his vacation tour
| At the close OF the services, several hun
| bred OF the members went forward TO gree
I the pastor and congratulate him upon hi
| physical Improvement.
|
/ DIVINE HEALING.