Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-04-24

Was The City Razed
Because Of His
Wrath r

the NJ r. church Sunday night The
pastor spoke on the San Francisco
calamity. A free viii Offering was
taken to Be turned over to the treas
urer Mr.. Butler for the benef,t Of the
sufferers. Rev. custer said In part:
Tho lesson tonight 10 taken from
the words Of Christ. They have come
true IN history and we are now think
Ing about very perplexing problem
for one to think about who thinks be-
meath the surface Of facts. sodom
was blasted by fire and earthquake.
Jerusalem was destroyed when over .
million were within its walls. Pompeii
was buried beneath the scoria Of We
suvius. Rome was burned. Lisbon
went into the sea with her sixty thou
sand victims. We ali know Of Charles
ton. Galveston. Martinique and now
San Francisco goes into history ~
having experienced one Of the great
calamities Of history.
II you take al these great catas-
trophies and consider the time and
place carefully you win have fund
OF facts to think about that win -
tonish you. One age sees God - :
God Of Justice ana sympathy y lack
Ing. Another age sees Him only a. !
God Of love and reason n driven from
the throne, Now undoubtedly the Goa
Of nature II the God 81 revelation. He
u Just - merctful On this side the
grave = he u On the other side the
grave. His severity Il Just a. great
beyond time = during times duration.
Whatever else we may doubt this
We cannot doubt that God could have
held back that terrific calamity. That
~ ala allow It to take place We IN
must admit. why Ne may not be able
- ~ but this 10 know that when
Nohammedaniam with cleaning sword
put 20 death IL hundreds Of thousanda,
sweepin9 with flre ana death every
thing before Il from Bagdad to Spain
and liks m army OF humiliation
threatening Christian civilization itself
upon the borders Of France It was
when the church was Forgetting God
more than II any time before or after
that until the time Of the black death
when nearly 45.0te. 900 people persisted
" that terrible visitation.
This also came when the people
were farther away from God than they
had been since the conquering Moham-
msdan swept everything before him.
Now X the God Of nature IL the God
~ the Bible cannot - my object
tion urged against the destruction Of
the Canaanits 20 ruthlessly BY ancient
Israel. that does not apply against Al
lowing the queen city OF the Pacific
~ - to ruin % quickly. ! think Ne
had better Be little careful about
supposfng that God II altogether such
: one - We ourselves. for there IL no
doubt but that one OF III would gladly
have exercised the power had 1t been
placed In our hands. ana held back this
terrible scene Of desolation.
Nature II filled with suffering. Men
say there IL hell here Tor sin ana that
Il y the only he'll there Il. All, perhaps
there = he'll hereafter for sin ,and that
Il the lasting he'll that shall forever be.
Il one IL At only for he'll perhaps he
Will 80 to the place he Is fitted for.
Those ghouls who cut on fingers from
hands Of fair ladies grim in death in
order to get little jewelry certainly
did not ascend to take up the harp OF
angels and sing the song Of Moses and
the Lamb when the leaden messenger
Of the officer OF the law sent them ont
into eternity. Yet this is what the IL
logical universalist would have US be-
lieve.
God will be reasonable enough to
work according to the eternal fitness
OF things. II you are ut for heaven
and love the things of that blessed
realm God cannot send you anywhere
else. Such calamities call q halt. We
are money crazy. We are going In.
sane commercially. Then they give
opportunity for sympathy and increase
Il BY such opportunity. A tide OF SYM
pathy and good win expressed In CIV
ing, will go toward that III fated city
for time to come Then such thinss
loosen our insane grip on things that
perish and cause US to look above and
come to see the city which hath foun-
whose builder and maker u
God. for when this structure shall melt
with fervent heat and AL things dis
solve here below. all can have that
home ON high and that place where
never come and whore
death that great destroyer il never al
lowed to enter.s
Was Net asvsngsanes From 0od.
Chicago, April 24.-The evolution OF
The idea OF God was manifested atrik-
ngly Sunday in the fact that few. II
my, Of Chicaso,s clergymen ascribed