The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-01-06

'N.f Htf uhillllH InUSciiiigS, llcl
darts under them as their tiret
wings refuse to act--and bears then
} safely unon her broad pinions unto
tlie most This Ii done. seemingly b
cruel process that the yoilng may
learn 70 iiN 10 explore the vast fields
81 ether around ami above them.
Srfdom IN Egypt.
So God does With US, his children,
iGlnder the shadow IL the pyramids"
tle pesteiiiy e Abraham wore III Az.
sohite bondagc mt ID hove Win az
God through Masses stirred them
.,tI 70 aspire after freedom aud 4 pure
imonotheism and they were cousc-
iqrently disciplined for future seAica
By that long historic march Of all the
ages The desert the Wilderness:
shoes and raiment lasting forty
years fed by miracle" the guiding
cloud by day. the pillar OF fire by
night God mapped out the line Of
imarch for these serls. was their spirit
tual star ami the shallow Of great
rock in a weary land" But the call
! from Egypt would have proved of no
avail if God lad not first stirred Up
! the nest.
Sins 5iohtinq Power"
Recall the prodleal son SO long
as his boon eompanions-sum
Ifriends-remaned true, for what they
could get out Of his patrimony he
ireger thcueh of his fathers hous
Ali the mothers prayelful tem were
forgotten Old restraints were shat
tered, religious letters broken Had
the voung mans money lasted. he
world have remained in the gilded
nest OF sin: bit his dire necessity
drove him home at last Yes, reforma-
ton came, but no tuntil the nest OF
"self-indulgence" was stirred and the
prodigal flung out.
Each soul, of course, is cognizant !
of sin as principle, in a general |
sense; but one must become con
seious that he Is sinner. Until the |
shining soul is convicted that Jesus /
Christ is life eternal, hopes orts /!
are closed THE soul that sinneth !
It shall dies il the handwriting on /
The wall OF each ones life 10 you |
believe it? We are recording angels |
II ones words and very tones can be
to, and reproduced I
from man-made monograph, it IL
evident that God-from the soul--can !
evoke at judgment orr forgotten
words and deeds. There is a life be-
lond earths sunset, not dim aud
but real and clearly de-
fined. Ii life's great spiritual reali-
lies are dim to the souls vision we
are subject to the slavery of material
cause and effect Sin mans unrelent-
ng enemy, digs many a grave, breaks
hearts, blasts hopes, and lulls into
ianeied security on the precipiee of
leath eternal I
God has often stirred up the nest Z
or our good. There are many les {
sons to be learned from the sublime 1
rhe unknown power back of the I
.hrone presses the button of destiny y
IS multiplicity OF changes come {
inon orr moral brethren Bear in a
mind. All things work together for i
rood to them that love the Lord =" i
souls are harps. touched by Gods h
INNING fingers. that mother-earth i
ray be filed with harmony. n
Gods Love and Care.
The eagle-mother loves her brood. a
howing il by supplying them with 6
God and also in teaching them to t
H." If she did not subject them to &
his ordeal apparently most danger =
US, quite likely they would never Z
now what wings are for. AS this <
ird protects and schools her young, y
. God does with his children. The s.
anne God that conversed with Moses g
ON out the burning brush" the "
ame God that walked with Enoc for n
20 years and then took him because a
c loved him. the same God that was o.
lie refuge of Israel's sweet singer,
10 same God that fed Elijah through s.
iendly ravens there at the brook al
herith, the same God that led Abra- n,
am from "Urr OF the Chaldees, into ii
e promised land is still your God Itl
ID mine, and Jesus Christ the g.
lviour, our elder brother" is still hi
S son. e
With the lessons of the text en- til
'ayed upon the tablets of memory, 81
us move forward. with the loftiest So
18th and trust in the Divine hand W
at stirs up the nest to cast into q
mes disciplining arena, yet bearing -
up lest we fall &c
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