Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-18
PROMISE OF ALL THIN GS
SERMON BY REV. GEORGE P. VIII.
SON YESTERDAY.

Rev. George p. Wilson in his morning
sermon yesterday at the NorthminSter
Presbyterian Church on N street between
9th and 10th streets northwest, preached
upon the Apostle Paurs far-reaching
| promise of "all things in his letter to
| the Romans. In the course of his sermon
the minister said: I'VE are all pre-emi
] nently conscious of the presence of power
| as a working force, permeating every
| department of this organized aggrega-
| ton of material forces we call the world
| These are all capable of and destined to
| develop. Many have existed through all
| the centuries behind us. and the watch
| word of this century in Il higher degree
| than ever before is Progress, Unfold
| mentH
| For this process of broader and
! grander attachments God has specifically
placed us here and given US in charge
| He was just as familiar a thousand years
| ago as He is today with the mysterious
| atmospheric conduit stretching away
| through the environing ether ready to
1 bear the electrical messenger at man s
| commands; but the Almighty left man to
| work over the problem and call it his
| discovery.
The old, old question often looms up
as it was asked in the far distant past
art mindful of him?' Today as we broaden
our gaze and throw a mental searchlight
over the debasing passions and selfish
/ wickedness Of the man who was made
but little lower than the angels we
still ask. Is there anything in the man,
\ even the believing man. that is worth
| while before God" 1t Is as applica BILE
| now as it was 6.0O0 years ago.
| You may begin at the lowest form of
| vegetation and circle round and round
| through all sentient and all created life
full structure the browning creation-the
| human soul. Beyond this one may rise
no higher. Upon this principle of power
| God has placed a human soul to control
| all on which he may look down in his
broad domain. To fit him for so vast re-
sponsibilities He has stamped the di-
| vinity upon him and upon him alone
sometimes Understandable. smirched
| though not wholly effaced. thanks to the
| fountain flowing out of the hidden rock
! with cleansing power!
| Then there Is immortality given as
part of God himself. Death cannot change
| all nor end all.
| Yes, the Almighty One does find the
human soul worth while. and guards,
| watches and surrounds IT with devr y
| ing influences as a mother lowering over
| her first born.
Reliance Upon God.
| eff felt that God was too far above me.
| and so preoccupied with the systems that
! gyrate through space or with some Olympus
| buried in self-indulgence than He was for
| my smallest needs, I would renounce and
| denounce my allegiance and break away
| from Him. Nay, he counts every heart
| throb and tenderly succors every need!
"All things. not only those Paul has been
| writing about but all things in an abso-
| lutte sense that the mind can grasp, never
idle. working in complete harmony for the
| good of whom?-no restriction but for him
who ioves-the golden key that alone and
| always unlocks the treasure house of God.
| $50, claiming the promise that cannot
| fail, rest content that all these things
| are operating tremendously for our highest
| good, and, what should give us greater
| satisfaction. for Gods glory also, and all
will be WELL"