The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-02-18

more noble in his own soul in the struggle,
but mad done his share toward the solution
1ound oy this greatest and last. VINO waa
also "born under the law that they might
receive the adoption OF sons"
So, tell you, is this restless search for a
condition that snail answer to our coucep-
lion; this fascination. which comDeis Us
to search cut the elliptic OF providence,
The geomerric certainty underlying the
20 find this certainty; ever, endeavor to
plumb the deepest causes of the iiscn-d
between what the nature bears anG wa::1
the soll believes; every striving 10 ind
the God OF our loit:est faith in ou- da:%eSS
day, WILL in some way, aid the GcmoaStra-
tioa, until, in the full time, some Newton
of the soul will come and, gathering the
result o. all these struggles between OUR
conception OF life and our condition
in life, will make it the base OF some
vast generalization, that will bring the
ripest conclusions OF the science OF provl-
dence into perfect accord with the grand
apostolic revelation. I'VE know that all
things work together for good TO them that
love Cod
We wrong the deepest revelations OF
life when We are not content to let this
one little segment in the arc o. our exist
ence stand in its OWN simple. separate
intention, whether it be gladness or g,oo:n;
and trust surely, II we are faithful. the
full and perfect intention must come OUT
in the full range OF our being. God seldom
perhaps never, works out His visible pur-
pose in one life, how, then, shall He in one
life work out His perfect Will! The dumb
poetry in William Burns, the father, had
to wait for Robert Burns. the son: Ber-
nardo waited to be perfected in his son,
Torquato Tasso; William Herschel !eit
many a problem in the heavens Tor John
Herschel to make Gear; Leopold Mozart
wrestled with melodies that Chcysostom
Mozart found afterward OF thernse.ves in
every chai-ber OF his brain, and Raymond
Boaheur needed his daughter Rosa to come
and paint out his pictures for him. DR..
Reid has said, that when the bee makes
it's cell so geomericaily, the geometry is
not in the bee, but in the geometrician that
made the bee. A,as, if in the Maker there
is no such order for US as there is for the
bee! If God so instruct the bee; If God so
feed the bird: if even the lions. roaring
after their prey, seek their meat from
God; if He not only ho.ds the liunet on
the spray, but the lion on the spring, how
shall we dare lose heart and hope!
So, then, while we may not know What
trials wait on any OF U.s.. we can believe
ClaC as C0e Gays Ill WHICH tllS HAL
wrest,ed with his dark malsdies are the
only days that make him worth remem.
brance, and but for which his name had
never been written in the book OF life;
so the days through which we struggle,
finding no way, but never losing the light,
will be the most significant We are called
to live. Indeed. men of all ages have
wrestled with this problem of the differ
ence between the conception and the con-
dition. Life is full Of these appeals. from
the doom that is on us TO the love tnat
is over us-1rom the God we rear to the
God we worship. The very Christ cries
once: my God! Why hast Thou for
saken Me-" Yet never did our nobiest
and bese, our apostles, martyrs and con-
fessors, finch finally from their rust,
that God is light; that life is divine: that
there is way, though we may not see it;
and have gone singing Of their deep con-
fdence,, by fire and cross into the shadow
of death. It is true, nay, it is truest of
all, that "men who suffered countless ills,
in battles for the true and just" have had
the strongest conviction, like old Latimer,
that q way would open in those moments
when it seemed most impossible. Their
light on the thing brought a commanding
assurance that there must somewhere,
sometime, be light on the way.