Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1904-06-16
"DOES GOD CARE"
A Brilliant Sunday Sermon By Rev.
Robert Macdonald.
The Greatest Discovery Of the Twentieth Cen
fury viii Be the Discovery Of ded'

BROOKLYN, N. Y. "Does God Care"'
was the subject of the sermon Sunday
morning by the Rev. Robert Macdonald
pastor of the Washington Avenue Baptist
| Church. lie tool; his text from | Peter
vi: Casting all your care upon HIM, for
| He careth for YOU" Mr.. Macdonald said:
The greatest discovery of rhe TWEEN
teth century will be the discovery OF God,
and then it will be seen that God does not
care" Such is the latest assumption oil
science, if certain learned professor OF
one OF our largest universities is deemed
Trustworthy interpreter. He Wisely drew
the line between Christianity aud nhde
| ity as between believing that God cared
| for us and that He did not care. and
stated that the leading scientists were in
tide,s.
Lest such statements upset or weaken
| the faith of some of us, let us see what the
weight of probability is for the realizing
! of these presumptive prophecies. Let 1t at
| the very start be remembered that any
more definite scientific discovery OF God
| than we now have is unlikely. And this
is said not because we now possess SO
much but that we are possessed OF so ut
tie. Science will doubtless discover more
about God. Shame upon our developing
intelligence if it does not. Every dlscov,
cry is that. But that is a very different
''''ls lio ni n'''o ,.a oloar'u tr,ned Tho
Mo,h WI, III liz, ',U ,,,,no.oS mara deGn;, civ
moii;N'nR ~ b,t ,h;n hi re c," tru,I the In
| finite One to as successfully outwlt the
| scientific inqulsriveness OF the twentieth
century as of any that has soul, am
confident that 1900 years hence the eNcia'
| nation OF the human mind will be about
| 80 Gi EaIi" o,o If ;nhn;t, retrcatS Is not
a"a w" h ala, h., surn,;.e The secret
| - IL W .o,,''n u,;il' o,o, oludo ,bo d,scnv
on;a' nan rho mrstery nf His nrrson
| III .,n ,or,,;, ;nv;nI,to'
''" Ul' ,'' A. '"n,l ~. tLoroh Cod wcr, am
s w - hrr,am J;Snnyo,,r Rrr,use
t,h'nus III, ,o,rnoJ nrnnh,t whose state.
,,,, ~ ,ra onrS;derino 600. tho only
ii,e i' w "' So,or, 81 Gn5 to ho he
,".N w. ,,m onn,s nr human Lr,wI
pL,o ,a ,Lo i,,o,on, nam,;tv nf sr;cntitic
vusu any ~, MIN nj; ilIl no rened,oJ he
"N",' &C., ,i,, n,o,,rt c,n,nry rIo.os
! s'nal. ~ dn h.n,u.n / din NOT ike to
| p H. ,Lo,, ~, bnno, ,s Craa,nr and
Ia" ',io ,' '',,d as III n,Ys,o,y and rnhhed
Is IL al, i~,aI narro, md roferred 70 IA
vi ms .p,'.,'o"' ro",. "'' oh;aat;ro ct
.ou 1870 W ". I;snnver.st,rS and cont.
u,nts and se,, and l,ws and a GOOD many
- th;r,n Lu, i Jnos socr, - mo that
WJ u i9n ~" c,ll ! ro .nnnth,n, 70 snv
| ahout tho discovery of Himself More
H., 80 ,;rt+ 70 Lai;cvo tb,t God
III o m' o I;,oas'nrod h, any NAM save
Lr Hin, whom Goa ho. disrEvered lie
onlv finds GnJ whom God has found |
an STRIVING tn MAINTAIN rne integrity of
| tLn DIVINE rcycI,,ion as over against that
| NJ human Investigation We must take
| lad IN Ills own forms rather than on
o mu Theroforc be aniv discovers God to
u,hnn GnJ has rarc,IeJ Himself to whom
ia narm,ts .urh discovery W. need NOT
fe,,, tbst anv fu,ure discovery If God win
nog,tiva the revelation we now have
,hrnuah JnsnS Christ Scicncc j. MIGHTY.
| Lut MT ,lmi,htv Nnt moro mighty Than
| Cnd We weIcnme il in The realm Of we'll
Io6no5 dat, ~ the re,,r, If dnnonstr,.
tIon o,d nrnni mt ;ts advocates need tn
iaarn th,t tLn Etnrn,j ,r,n.renIs IFS srr,,.
inv and Tho Sunern,tur,l brnds NOT in its
Hnm,nJ. nr,..ure yonr heort that if van
,ra '.n f,rtnn,,e a.. tn hn , h,hit,nt of The
ra,In, Lnn"Ind nv, tha (lr;,t;,n rri,,on
th, c..nnca IF vnnr ,nitb cannot he
harmed F,ith's form A. also thp form Of
r"rnI,t,o, vii ha .c;nntitc,llv Questioned
Ivy ,',;roa E,;,h., cn,tn't 'oxnn;mc
and mnJ,6cd ncrrh,nce hui its essence
th,t s,,;,;tu"l tL,nr we cali tbo divine
Cr,ro that nrcr;nms conscinu.ness of lis
e,ro Co., ,nu ',nd th.t vnn are living in the
Iaht of liz I,nn j. zoo s,rrrd IN cver bond
~ w. .,,,',,r, ,,J 80, ,,,.,t,,,' -
~ ~ ,' W. 'i'''' a,,,.a': IS s,,,n.
,"sa tpn,,, ~ ''' WIZ
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lhere Is, LOT instance that s,uoooI"
thing caiien conscience to DE neai WIN:
lhat STANDS our as very "loiaI'ar OF
protest against the assel l!oh mat oou uotS
not care. In all the history OF mort9!s
conscience has been rGgardHa as "o9
handwriting on the wall, tPIllng man ne