The age-herald., 1901-05-20

the world is that where the children are allowed the most unlimited authority to will what they shall and shall not have; what they shall and shall not dot and what they shall and shall not be- Ana the most unhappy inmates of that most unhappy home are the children thems- elves. They would will their own hap piness. The parents vest them with an- thority so to do. They exercise that au- thority, but fail of the accomplishment of their will because they lack the wis dom to observe, discern and understand how that authority should be used.
 "So it is in the world of the household of God. The most miserable man in the contemplation of the results of his action, among all the men comprising the world of religion, commerce or civics, in this or any other age, is he who recklessly disregards the established rules and au- thority governing the particular sphere of his action, and unreservedly exercises tho authority he undoubtedly individually possesses to act in obedience to his own morbid inclination, or according to the fancy of his distorted imagination.
 Our Great Need.
 .Our legitimate logical conclusion, then, in our consideration of the first generally ignored truth upon the part of those wno would exact this one authority and de- throne Gods in order that perfect hap piness might pervail, Is that, constituted as we are and with the environment that surrounds us, what we want that our lives may know more peace Is not so much more authority to will what we would be, as it Is more wisdom to direct the authority we now have to will what we now do. WhosoeVer IS Wlse VIII oo- serve this thing
 But let us now note the further com plaint of many: That complaint Is that God, whose will we have declared, domi- mates the universe of our habttation, mas not only the authority to will but also the wisdom to discern how he should will And if he be omnipotent. as well as omniscient then he must also have the power to accomplish according to the discernment of his wisdom. And yet possessed of the wisdom to direct vested with the authority to will, and exercising the power to accomplish, he does not rule for our happiness and peace. for sorrow and pain are our portion by day ana briars and thorns our pillow by night Therefore 1t cannot be, as we declared in the beginning, says this further com plaint, that it is best for us that the uni versal rule of the omnipotent will or God should prevail.
 We Pervert Gods Will.
 "The answer to this averment consists
 
 second truth we ignore when we mistak- enly suppose that were we vested with supreme authority we could will ourselves unadulterated happiness and perfect peace. And this second truth is that not only are the ills and evils of life not con- sequent upon the accomplishment Of the eternal will of God. but on the contrary they are the direct result of temporal, persistent perversion of that will.
 MT. Murray also spoke of the fact that God never intended that man should sui fer-that it was sometimes necessary that he should, and that it was mans choice, by disobeying Gods laws, that he should. That living in harmony with Gods will man would ever be happy That suffering with it's consequent weariness and pain may be the common experience of human life. but that it was not so because God ordained but because man has sought and still seeks to improve upon the purpose of the divine will concerning him.