The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-29
walk as did the blind beggar his long outer
garment, and come, follow Christi
GOD KEEPS HIS PEOPLE
FOR A Definite PURPOSE.
The Reverend jeremiah Cromer
Declares That to Be Kept Away
From Harm Is Not Sufficient.

Fountain Park consresa.io Church. had
kept By e Sf God through h
unto salvation ready to be revealed in the
last tine sn,Ia Peter ne preached he'd on m
part:
These are times of separations. Families
go away from home into new conditions
of life. Dangers to life from travel are
more than matched by the moral and spir-
i5na pers into which Christians away from
upon the keeping power of God.
Gods keeping power is thought of too
often in a negative way. friend keeps
ing it unframed and as good as the day he
souls You ask God to keep p'i You. and What
every pleasure. to ward off every storm and
danger? Must he keep you ss hat is kept
in bandbox?
something. not SO much from something.
Before his mind there is an ideal for you.
He keeps you unto salvation. It is not the
heart to-day and fails to stimulate right
action in life tomorrow. 1t is some glorious
thing ready to be revealed In the last time.
If this perfect salvation can be realized
best through calamity or trial or death,
even then these things must come. We pra,
ninety-nine times to be kept from some evil
or calamity while We pray once to be kept
unto something; It is easy to pray for rain.
II is more difficult to pray tina, God will
hSSP great TlCn Hal-On nunlDle before
him and obedient to all his laws. If the
drought means that We have boosted too
much over the balance of trade in our
of forgetting God. then our prayer for rain
is very much misdirected. 1t would seem
as If. through the labor strike in the steel
heat and drought God would speak to us
Of the lack Of faith in him and the failure
TO nave brotherhood among ourselves. 1t
that he has filled our granaries and given
us the markets of the world. But 1t is that
we might become nation whose God is the
am.G Thiz m Kaen,nr mower ., e., on.,,,.,
through the channel of faith. The keeping
the same way. The child believes in the
lathe ~, What the father says the child
names tG hs truth aSd What the parent com
keeping power Of the parent flows into the
nd t Tssn We get Away from the
Is like that. Gods power lows into his
cnllo ~ many ways. The spiritual infiu-
enee Of God surrounds us Ike the light. 1t
comes TO US as through glance OF the eve
smile or frown on the face. 1t is vital
With personality.
Some would have US take reason for our
reason points the way. and where She halts
We must stop. We must look where she
she Is s eyes: but cease our striving where
insists that the only way to get correct
view Of the Rocky Mountains is by looking
through his little eyeglasses The man
with sense will climb the loftiest peaks
breathe the fnvigorating air, follow to their
sources the mountain valleys and streams
VIII go down into the mines and so through
eyes. ears. the feelings Of pleasurableness
ana disagreeableness. the appreciation of
the grand and the beautiful from many
points Of view. will he learn to know the
ROCKY Mountains. Not least among the ad-
MANAGES OF vacation is the opportunity
II anords Of viewing God from some differ
ent angle of vision. We commit ourselves
los 10 some vessel on lake or ocean to learn
NOV nov helpless we are in the grip Of storm.
no society but that Of nature and God. We
lake lax ourselves away from life's care and
aul. duty to find some new use for our
powers OF thought. Happy the man who.
as one OF the results OF vacation, can bring
PACK with him a new sense of Gods snss
tanning power In everyday life ;, -