Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-13

Let US learn lesson from the poets wise
philosophy:
| Human bodies sic fools,
| For a their colleges and schools;
| For when no real Ills perplex them
! They make enow thsmsel's to ttaem."
| Distraction is folly again, because many
against us are really working in our favor
l saw man once, in great haste making
his way along pier. He was making for
boat on which he expected to take passage.
| AS he approached the end of the pier he
saw the steamer plunging and churning in
the water, about eight or ten feet from the
landing. He thought the steamer was
leaving-Qn his distraetion). He made
run and jump, and barely escaped falling
between the steamer and wharf. to be
| crushed to death, when, to his folly and
| humiliation he learned the steamer was
| coming in. Joseph thought it was calamity
| to be sold a slave into Egypt; to be
| imprisoned there as malefactor; but
these were the successive steps in Gods
way of His exaltation to influence and i'm
| mortality. Morse thought it was a calam-
ity to have so bungled matters in Egypt,
| that he was driven to be an exile in the
desert; but it was Gods way of training
him to be the great prophet and emanci-
pator. David thought it was strange that
as Gods anointed he should be miserable
fugitive from the wrath of Saul, but it was
Gods way of preparing him for his exalted
mission. Mckinley thought it was hard
to be defeated by Thomas B. Reid for the
speakership, but it was Gods way for him
to >the presidency. The newspapers told
US of political coup in 1900 that would
shelve Mr.. Roosevelt forever politically
by making him Vice President-if the
rumor was true. There was an overrul-
ing Providence preparing the way to the
presidency of the United States. Have I
in mysterious way He leads US some
times through dark paths. What seems
to us life's greatest calamities, from
Gods viewpoint are unspeakable bless
ings. What folly, then, by anxiety, to
fall and cripple ourselves over the events
that God would have US use as stepping
stones to higher things. AS Gods chill
dren, we know, all events are stepping
stones toward the higher life. All the
ships of God are coming our way. "All
things are working together for our good"
Worry in our lives is the veriest folly.
+ have not said enough when 1 say dis
traction is folly. 1t is a positive sin. why,
YOU say, 1 never thought about 1t In that
wav, How is it a sin? Listen! God says:
DO not steal, do not kill and do not be
anxious" He uses the same language In
reference to worrying as he does IN regard
| to stealing. Distraction is sin in that
| it disobeys divine command. distrusts
Gods wisdom and power, doubts Gods
| promises binders our possibilities of use
| fitness and service, sours our temper and
destroys our happiness. Anxiety does not
represent the manly attitude of the soul IN
| the presence of LIES problems. 1t repre-
sents the soul as cringing, trembling cow
ard in the presence of its destiny. Physi-
ical and temperamentaI conditions may pre-
dispose us to worry, but do not excuse 1t.
There is escape for all. The text prescribes
a remedy What is the remedy2 The text
suggests It, in everything let your re-
quests be made known unto God" To whom
does the child turn in the hour OF danger?
II the child can get into mothers bosom
or fathers arms in the hour of greatest
danger 1t will have perfect peace We are
all children of God by faith in Jesus Christ.
In the hour of responsibility and perplexity
the native tendency of the soul is to turn
to God. If we can rest upon the bosom of
| the Divine Father His radiant face will dis
| pei every cloud of care. The text says:
Let your request be known to God" Oh,
| but, you say, you do come to God with your
| troubles When do you come? When you
| are threatened with locktaw, blood poison
| ing or drowning; when you are in the midst
| of a great calamity. That is not what the
| text teaches. "In everything let your re-
| quests be made known unto God" God must
enter into every experience of our lives
| God will be our constant friend. The joy of
His presence Will Danish care, land the
peace of God that passeth all understand
| ing shall guard our hearts and lives through
Jesus Christ"