Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-04-05
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GOD EVER READY TO HELP.
By Rev. Charles E. Jefferso


Blessed be God, even the Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ the Father OF
Mercies and the God of all comfort
II. Corinthians i, g.
This is Paul's name for God. 1t is
a name which has healing in it. DIS
enlargement is an experience when
comes to all. If We are not dlscour-
aged to-day we have been, or II we
have not yet been we shall be.
To every discouraged heart the re-
ligion of Jesus comes with words of
comfort and good cheer. Let not your
heart be troubled so it says, when the
skies are gray and the case seems nope
less. 1t wipes away the tears by re-
yealing a God who pitieS and forglVes'
The New Testament gives large
space to the sins of Simon Peter De-
cause it is book inspired by the COO
of all comfort. Christ picks out man,
weak, laundering, sinful, ana pullus
him as the first stone in the edlhce
of an institution which is to save the
world in order to teach us that even IL
we are frail we can serve divine eiios'
that though we are imperfect anu uh-
worthy. nevertheless we may nave
place in the rising walls Of the temple
which shall be on earth the shrine or
the eternal glory.
If we are depressed by our sense OF
weakness Christ reveals to US Goa
Of power. If we cry Impossible" we
are at once reminded that when the
human will is linked with GOD all
things become possible.
The wind is blowing and the sea Is
rough and many a man to-day cries out
in terror, but he who believes IN the
onnipotence of God can look undls-
MAYED into the teeth of the fercest
tempest.
The earth is filed with human
wrath, but God can compel the WRATH
of man to praise him. In spite OF all
appearances, Righteousness IS stronger
than iniquity, truth is stronger thah er-
ror: love will finally conquer nate.
Even when truth is on the scanold ana
wrong is on the throne, the CHRISTIAN
heart is not undone knowing that some
day, somewhere, all will be we'll.
In growing world like this process
of development cannot be completed
before sunset, nor can all wrong things
be righted before life's course is run;
but in the fathers house there are
many rooms, and what is left unhn-
ished in one room is completed in the
next. Earthly failure should never dis
concert or daunt a man who believes
in the life everlasting. Failures are
prophecy of the glory yet to come.
Failing short of ones highest aSplra-
tons is evidence that there is another
world.
The failures OF earth point to the
victory beyond; the night which comes
upon us when we have failed in our
best efforts is proof of the boundless
dawn; the sense of imperfection and
the consciousness Of laundering are in
tended to lead us onward and upward
to the throne Of the eternal.
Robert Browning tells it all superbly.
Paracelsus begins life with vast ambi
tons. He determines to master all
knowledge. Years are given to the
quest and he comes home defeated. He
then determines to become master of
the Kingdom of Love. He gives him.
self to the great enterprise and at last
sinks down defeated. The time arrives
when he must die, but though thwart-
ed and baffied, he dies with the shout
of victor. His last words are:
eff l stoop
Into dark, tremendous sea of cloud
It is but for a time. / press Gods
lamp
Close to my breast. It's splendor soon
or later
Will pierce the gloom
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