The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-14

It is to all men Fhat the family is to the new born babe. Into it We are born; under it we must live If We obey We 1 live and prosper{ If we disobey we de- generate and dx. All man-made gov lernments are o5Iy weak institutions of lGod's governnssnt They change and bass away. They never satisfy us. They always letter our liberty and add new burdens to our lives. But Gods government never changes. If our | lives are domestic, economic, social, re- ligious. customs agree with these of Gods kingdom. we shall have perfect peace and endless prosperity If they do not they will hurt us, and at last will pass away.
 So if We wish to live we must adjust all our ways to it. It is absolutely right. It cannot change. God is infi- lnitely merciful in the administration of his government He permits millions of disobedient people to finger out their miserable existence in His world in hope that their suffering may lead them to give up their folly and bring them to obedience. All the sorrow, toll, pain, disease in the earth comes from failure ito submit to Gods good government for linen.
 l Gods government is not something lthat is to come. Ii is here. It was al- lways here. It is only to be discovered, observed, obeyed. 1t comes to him who begins to obey. It will be the only government on earth at least when men weary of man-made kingdoms, repub lies and monarchies; come back to it's Ieternal and gracious rule, In this Kingdom of God everything is adninis-
 tered according to the one unchanging law of what science calls evolution. That is the one law for the earth and tevery creation in it. Evolution is a never ending process of birth. growth, lripening and reproduction. This is a l universal law. Nothing comes into be- ling except in that way. The earth it. self was born. It is growing. It will ripen. It will reproduce itself in that higher form of a new heaven and earth. Everywhere in sea, air, earth and sky in the vegetable or animal kingdoms, you observe only this amending process going on. Birth, growth, ripening, re- production. It is the same law that governs in spiritual affairs, Buddhism, Mohammedism, Confucianisin in. the ichurch all have come to their present Ishape according to this law. The disci- lple is only child of his masters spirit. He is born of His master and grows as His master, ripens and reproduces him. self. So Jesus grew into church, of which His spirit is the life or soul. It is called his body.
 What men make is artificial. It is
 manufactured. What God makes is natural. It all comes in the way of gen eration, birth and growth. In this you
 can always distinguish a work of God from work of man. The one is born a living creation. The other is manufac- tured and is dead. In obedience to this law you will observe these things:
 l. There is enlargement Growth is enlargement The seed of corn grows
 into an ear, the ear into hundred ears, so the process of enlargement goes on; one acorn can grow into a forest The child grows into a man, the man into family, the family into tribe
 the tribe into nation and race. The WHOle human race Was Oilce oily oHe tman. It is still he, Adam, man, the race The whole church was once only
 Jesus Now it is 6O0,OO0,O0O, but it is
 still He In it is His spirit. It is His
 body
 2. There is improvement. Ripening is
 also improvement The flower is better
 than the leaf and the ripened fruit is
 better than the flower. Youth is better
 than childhood and manhood is an inn
 provement upon youth.
 The first man, Adam, cannot be com
 pared with his great descendant, Jesu:
 Christ Progress in obedience to law is 1 written on every object in nature. The
 finest wheat is but the seed of grass
 improved The choicest fruit is the re.