The news & observer., 1905-12-01

press of a divine intelligence is a world
tcontemptible i'm the sight of intelli-
gent men. Man cannot think
Of the sun as much as God can
thlnk about sparrow. H.
does not let a sparrow die without
going to its funeral We VIII stand by
line Hible God who handed out the
suns ana the stars and breathed life
Into organized things who called out
| Abraham. m.and stood by Jacob and Jo-
seph who sent ravens with bread to
iced a hungry prophet, VINO stood by
| our mothers when He gave as fife;Who
| stood by us in our desolatlon, and ouf
| last request will be to make US bene-
ficiaries with the saints above, in the
region where He is, where we Will
know personally Him and see Him
lup oS Cewe helys. pros geh tVho
! face to face 1hen SHAH we be lifted
up into eternal dignity and heavenly
exaltation The sublime thing about
our religion is that we have got God
| and He is available. If He were in
accessible He might be dead so far
as / am concerned The great anchor
of our faith is: God reigns The ten
dency Of students is TO ignore the dl-
vine factor in history, but he cant
do it. for history leaving God out Of
| il is a lie Evolution failed because
they had to have inVOlution, and to
get that they had to resort to the su-
pernatural. Darwin could not make
God out OF a monkey.
The Hebrew accounts of God are
not intended to be monopoly OF the
history Of God. The Bible leads and
prompts. God must be in all history
There Is an undercurrent OF history
that moves forward To some mighty
achievement
There is absolute assurance that
God reigns, and whatever we have
got in this country ii came because
GOD reigned, and we keep it because
God reigns, and we VIII suffer ire
parable loss when we move away
from the purposes OF God
1T is said that religion should not
interfere with politics. We must run
this government in sympathy with the
knowledge that God re1gns. and God
will work his way in this world If II
takes 0,00O,U00 years; God has plenty
of time. 'fne American Government
| has challenged Almighty God; He Will
accept the challenge. Mind you. II
we resist His purposes God viii make
this country a home of bats and
Owls, a desolate place. like He made
Babylon. Ii this republic gets in
Gods way He Will make short work
| of it, "rhe one great spirit God
wishes to stir in the hearts OF HIS
people is that of joy and thankful
ness and happiness. for God is a COD
of good humor, good cheer. hope1ul-
ness, gladness. Our God is an optl-
mist; pessimism, has no place In our
religion Christ was always optimis-
| tic, hopeful. and our religion IS nope
ful religion
Dr. kligo then remarked that the
| object of his sermon to this point was
to show the basis upon which the
American people should lay their
| thanksgiving. God is not dead he said
land has not gone out OF The redeem
ing business. Everything is not out
of joint, the world Is not sinking, as
the heralds of the world would pro-
claim. No. more unchristian utter
ances can be made. God reigns' ana
the country is not going 10 ruin un-
| less it deserts it's God. God reigns;
let us not be afraid AS long as the
birds sing and the flowers bloom
know that God will take care of me.
| want to stay here as long as God does
and when He leaves i want to go too,
but God is not going To quit. In less
| than SO years we have pulled this
country out of the tomb and the ash
pile The New South is built up a
new empire, and a race OF imperial
| men, who will mount to greater
| achievement. You complain of the ne
gro; but il was a compliment that
when He took this black man from
his darkness, He bestowed upon you
the office as the negoes' teachers. God
has preserved our AngloS Saxon purity,
and has matured us here as He has
on no other portion of the globe.
| "The foundation quality of our sal
| vation and the basis of our hopes is
our faith in God and with the eyes
! of the prophet l see this glorious,
lofty Southland a mighty agency sec
! ond in worldly place and honor to
none in the world. Our God seems TO
| like a warm climate to work in, and
| Alexandria Athens, Rome - all
these seats of learning, art, literature,
science are i'm the same latitude with
our cities of the South. The Lord
reigneth:' Let all the people rejoice,
God is not dead. He has not gone
to sleep"