The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-10-18

preme. Perfect harmony, perfect ser
curity, perfect justice prevail there
No concentration of wealth. no COM
bines to force up the cost of living and
make life a burden, no selfishness and
greed to take the bread out of tho
mouths of widows and orphan chill
dren. no low-lived passions to tester
and rot and spread the disease Of per-
verted desires and appetites, NO cor
ruption in public Office, no oppression
by those In power. no Inconsistencies
and unreasoning passions Of working
men, no hasty, ill-considered strikes,
NO mad mobs to destroy life and prop
erty, no anarchy, no socialism, no any
thing that would work evil or wrong
to anyone. Don't you want to go TO
Heaven where the perfect will of God
is done? do. Don'tyou want to stand
with God and try to bring as much Of
the will of God to pass in the earth a.
you can? / do. Do you want your
prayer, "Thy will be done in earth, AZ
1t Is in Heaven" to count for some
thing? Then strive to learn what tho
will Of God is, and begin to live II out
in your life as n practical demonstra-
ton, as David did. There is more pow
err in the living, practical demonstra-
ton Of Gods will than all the precepts
you can crowd in between earth and
the blue Of Heaven.
We know It is not Gods will that
over $4,000 miners should be idle for
over five months, bringing untold hard
ships upon over 100000 women and
nearly 100000 children, and driving the
miners into habits of conduct which
are demoralizing to home and destruc-
tive Of the welfare of the state and ma
ton. We know that it Is not Gods will
that an army Of soldiery should be
obliged to guard the property Of tho
capitalists because the workingman,
grooming under burdens, IL driven to-
desperation in his efforts to secure
what he considers his rights. We know
ii is not Gods will that over SGT ,000, 900
in wages should have been lost by the
miners and that the operators should
see their losses mounting up towards
the $70,O00,00O mark. We know that IL
is not Gods will that merchants should
suffer and in some cases be bankrupt
and that mills and factories in many
cases should be Obliged to shut down.
entailing hardships on the workmen
and their families by the enforced idle
ness. We know that 1t is not Gods will
that the employer and employe should
have each other by the throat striving
to strangle the liberty and even the life
which they are entitled to. What q
of capital and labor so inseparably
linked and yet in SO many cases at
such bitter strife. To those who are
not party to the strife that is now
shaking the state Of Pennsylvania to
its very foundations and disturbing the
entire nation and creating comment
and concern abroad, what a terrible
spectacle it is! And II earth is shocked
by the struggle, what must 1t be in tho
light of Heaven? AS God looks down
upon the scene He knows, but earth
forgets, that reckoning day is COM
ing, and, that the capitalist and tho
workingman must give an account of
the deeds done in the body. That IL
capital sows greed and hellish selfish
ness and labor sows unreasoning pas
sion and bitter hatred, they will both
reap the whirlwind Of destructive con-
ditions. And as God looks down upon
the strife what does He hear?
Prayers! Prayers that Gods will may
| be done in earth, as 1t is in Heaven
| Prayers from lips that are stained
with the bitterest acrimony towards q
fellow man or towards capital or labor
| Prayers by men whose hands clutch
the glittering gold that has been
ground from the helpless laborer, ana
prayers by men whose hands arc
stained with the violent deed and even
with blood, as the property of tho
employer has been attacked and the
| lives of the men anxious to work have
been imperiled. What blasphemyf
That we should pray: "Thy will be
done in earth as 1t is in Heaven" and
that we should go on living and doing
our own will and preventing God from
doing His.
Gods will on earth! What 10 Il?
Man cannot determine II for God, but
God reveals IL to man through His Son,
Jesus Christ, Who came into the world
to do His Fathers will and show men
how to do the same. The world has
been plunged into sin and iniquity, and
Il is Gods will that man should be lift
ed out Of that condition. And Christ
came into the world to do that very
| thing. He did not come into the world
to be great reformer as some so glibIy
claim. He did not come into the world
to try to patch up the miserable wreck
and failure of human nature, but He
came into the world to give man Gods
nature, to make Him a new creature.
| He knew that the natural man could
not do the will Of God Had not man
kind been trying the experiment from
its creation, and how miserably II had
failed is set forth in human annals and
in Gods Word. But Christ came into
the world and did Gods will. Gods
will is that righteousness shall trf
umph, and on the cross sin was pun
| ished, the Judgment of God was sat
isfied and His Righteousness was tri-
umphant. And now the way of Gods
will stands revealed to man like an
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