Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-27

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Written for tho Times Republican.
When great public calamity occurs.
ment from the pulpit. Az might have
been expected the Galveston horror was
the subject OF many preacher on the
Sunday following the event. And with
our present system of religious philos-
| ophy 1t is not to be wondered at that
the preachers stagger, are stunned and
recoil when they run up against such a
terrible object lesson of the power of
nature. Somehow 1t becomes necessary
\ to quit for the time being the doctrines
LOT the Providential personal oversight
and control Of the elements of wind and
water To be cure He tempers the
wind to the shorn lamb" but how about
1.-THE wind that blew 100 miles an hour
over ill-fated Galveston? Moody has
told us of the effect of his and others
prayers during storm at sea, which
was prOvidentially Gained but what of
the thousands OF imprisoned prayers
1 that must have uttered during that ter
rible hurricane and flood in Galvestono
To this will come the stereotyped am
swer. 1t was not His Will. Then comes
4 the mercilegs. cold. logic He ordered
that storm. He directed its course, He
is responsible for the results. And now
/ religious reader. isn't this monstrous
doctrine? Do the South Sea islanders
have more superstitious one?
No one breaches such stuff these
days. But they do. Here is what Rev.
Frank G. Bruner, OF Chicago said on a
recent Sabbath morning: To the soul
fully consecrated to God blessings flow
Tout of adversely. The philosophy of
storms teaches us their divine utility
That of the great flood, Gods Judgment;
that of Jonah, a great lesson of disobed-
.lience rectified: that one that shipwreck-
4 ed Paul brought him onto a fertile field
4 of spiritual activity. The modern cata-
clyisms like the Johnstown, Pa. food
4 and the battle of the clouds in st. Louis
1 thatscut a path OF destruction thru that
1 city and the hurricane that wiped out
II Tex, have been promoters of gener-
Gus benevolence which will be a har-
sbinger to augment the Kingdom Of God.
4 Our storm tossed planet made imper-
4 feet by satan. will be made complete
by the coming of Jesus our Lord. When
that which is perfect has come. then
that which IS in part shall be done
4 away
From. the above It would seem that
the Lord ordered the Galveston storm
to bring out the benevolent qualities of
our citizene. Well. 1t has. Then satan
4 comes in for the blame of making an
simperfect" planet. In the meantime
other hurricanes will come, other thou
sande will meet the fate of the thou
5 sands at Galveston while waiting for
/ The coming of Jesus our Lord" Is ii
4 any wonder many intelligent people in
II the year 1900 are not anxious to go to
& church to hear such drivel as this?
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4 But let us listen to the words Of Rev.
II DIR. James S. Stone, also of Chicago who
II in a sermon on the same day, referring
a to the same subject says: 1t needs no
4 words of mine either to tell the story OF
n the calamity which has befallen Calves
sston or to excite your sympathies on be-
half Of its afflicted peope The world
4 has rarely known so terrible. 30 wide
Il spread or 90 lamentable destruction
y Thousandsof human beings We're swept
by those furious winds and waves into
4 DEATH and they who lived thru those
hours of ang uisl now find themselves in
dire necessity. The world res ponds. Ma.
81 ture is merciless. but humanity, being
] made in the image Of God, has pity
Much has been done, more must bt
I done. You are invited to have share
in the good work. l know that share
will be we'll done.
"a Again an exaggerated idea of the per-
!, sonality of God. Here's the logic. 4
g merciful creator placed in form mer-
CHESS nature Deliberately this Creator
the Galveston disaster. An yet thi.
preacher touches the outer edge Of the
81 truth Almost gets away from the Coz
mad has made. Bob Ingersoll para
phrased and said: IAN honest God il
81 the noblest work of man. If modern
thought would only create a reasona bl,
!, God. probable creator, endowed With
i attributes to harmonic with the greai
!; truths of existence, what gain for hu.
manity.
s Yes God caused the Galveston hurri-
Il cane. Yes. God created nature, and ma
|Sture is merciless. But, reader. stop ant
think: the creator of this world ha:
created millions of other worlds. HI
i created laws natures laws that govern
I all OF these worlds. In thie vast schem,
of creation our wars. pestilences. fam
ines. storms and floods are in relation t,
J the whole as an ant heap beside thu
4 wagon road. The black and the red an
y have battles, to them it's real genuin,
! bloody war. Disease attacks their tribe:
and pestilence reigns in the ant land
y Famine comes and they die by hundred.
l and thousands. Storms and foods com
! TO the ant family And in all probability
8 they have preacher ants, who figure on
,I5that the creator is sending them fam
/ Line to punish them for their sins. VIVA
j a gain for humanity. if come of our hu
! man preachers could only understand
I that they belong to the an, family. AM
; once more. We glibly talk of the great
! est good to the greatest mum er. Ye
this once understood, the Galveston hor
|, ror is an incident in the great plan o
= nature. God made laws to govern mil