The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-13
God In All Things.

(Selected for The Advertissr)
 He sendeth the springs into the valleys which run among the hills. He watereth the hili from His chambers
 He eauseth the grass to grow for the Ps. civ. 10. IS. IA.
 Where does God come in? Everywhere. perceives God in all history. all phenome- na. all experience. and the unfaith that sees Him in none. we can see no middle shattered Lisbon. no less truly than in that which destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. He is in the cloud which hid the escaping Am the battle of Long Island, no less than in the cloud which hid the Israelites from Sea His presence makes the pine forest of our mountains as sacred as cedars of
 As He is in all physical phenomena. so is He in all human experience. He is with the prophets of the twentieth century af- the m % centuries M before Christ iH '" He who ,nt M spired BezaleeI with wisdom and under standing and knowledge of all manner of also the inspirer of Michael Angelo and Christopher Wren.
 The God of the glowmasn whom Isaiah Sl artght and doth teach him., is no less the companion and guide of the American farmer.
 It Is as true now as it was centuries ago. when the Book of Deuteronomy was writ ten. that the word of God Is not in
 
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 If Cod were not in America today 1t would be of little service to us that He walked the hills and pisins of Palestine and in all. or-He is not. He is every where. or nowhere. He Is the force that dominates all forces-the life that gives and Is in all life. All the natural Is also supernatura
 humanity that there is of God in nature The unity of design ifs as true in the one as in the other History is not a number Though ali the ages the increasing pur- new-ereated world out ot chaos of con tradictory and conflicting purposes
 rrsat oonposton an unGsr the ssdership of one mestsr mind The he musicians music ms !h.v are ssp qs wiltul. perhaps. and will not read the score. And yet. even now. there is some hsTmony hsTTory ,n 1hG the future Thus 1t is made clear to the thoughtful observer that there must be a wise leader. and a full score be a grand completed symphony. Yet even in this epoch (which Is but a poor. dis tointed rehearsal)' every note played srishs harmony is divinely inspired; every noble diseentent Is a divinely ordered dissonance,
 The desire for peace is divine and the peace which follows is divine The prayer is divine. and the answer is also divine. The noble resolve is divine. and the effect i've achievement is divine
 But, you ask May nots the mind alone do that2" Yes. but what the mind does God does No man has power apart from God for "in Him live and move. and have our being' This Is no new theology. IT. is the old theology of the Bible. Pow err says the Psalmist. "belongeth unto God" and He giveth power to his people
 The electric currents are His-but He intrusts to men their direction The nerve currents are equally His, and equally their direction He ntrusts to men All activity of mind body or health has but one dy- namo-God Man Is only allowed to d. rect the current
 Blessed Is that man who knows that hs ts living in a divine world, and so uses the divine forces of the wsrld of society and his own soul in divine fellowship and for divine ends.