Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-26

Speaks handwriting on the pages
70 Man. Of His rocks; astronomy
copies Gods handwriting
and Voice on the pages OF His stars;
j physlolosy copies Gods speech ut
4 tered through the human body, psy-
4 dhology--its Is a copy of the laws Of
the human Intellect: art--it is a copy
4 Of Gods beautiful thoughts; tools
4 they. are Gods useful thoughts or
]ganized into terms of steel or iron or
| wood, and they give us these MARVEL
4 Gus textures. This universe. of ours Is
simply a great wheel. a wheel fitted
lin another wheel, q vast complicated
| mechanism never q lever getting out
\ of place, never a wheel slipping a cog,
But at the back Of the whole stands
| printing-press there Is One keeping
| watch over His mechanism; at the
back of Rll%the flying wheels stands
the great Father God in the silence,
keeping watch above His own. These,
laws Of nature through land and sea
| through all that lends us beauty and
tr,lth--they are tho voices of God
lsspeaking to us, Then you find a man
that has visions like Moses, WAC takes
off his shoes when the acacia bush
flames In scarlet and burns like d
sheet Of fire, When Paul, with his
visionary power, looks up he perceives
that God is speaking to him. Tenny-
son understands that God Is nearer
than hreathing. and closer than hands
or feet. We never can escape from
Him. The angel of His goodness
cy follows after us. God is not a bum
die of thunderstorms; God is not a
sheath of red-hot thunderbolts; God
is not upon the track OF a sinner to
overwhelm him for his sins; God fol-
lows after sinful men to recover them
- 10, r,tr,,, VA. t,y
camped in the heart Of God; we set
up our tent In the midst of Gods
mind. We can no more lift ourselves
out of the presence of God than man
can lift himself out of this universe
by--excuse the expression---his boots.
from God is to flee into His arms.
This world Is so beautiful-this world.
STEPPED In Gods wisdom, colored with
His love, flaming with His beauty
it Is the voice of God. II we have
mind that Is sensitive to His over
lures of love, then the manifold voices
of God in physical nature is the mar
velous fact and event of human lifc.---
Newell Dwight Hills, d. D., in The
Homiletic Review (OctobeO.
"A Child's A great review Is being
Thrilling held in Vienna in the
Experience. presence of the Emperor
the flftleth anniversary of the founding
OF one of the principal military orders.
Thirty thousand cavalry, huSSars, Ian
GERS. dragons, glitterng in FURNISHED
cuirasses and Respondent helmets, and
arrayed IN gorgeous uniforms of azure
blue with scarlet facings, one pure
white with facings of blue or red. or
other Respondent hues, are drawn up In
line awaiting the order to charge.
Aides-de-c gallop furiously to and
fro as Is their wont, and the massed
bands OF q number of the regiments
present play martial airs, while around
the review ground, and pressing UP to
the barriers Is vast crowd OF on
lockers. The Emperor and Empress,
mounted on magnificent chargers, now
take their stand beneath the unfurled
royal standard; the army OF bandsmen
retire into the center of the ground;
an aided scamp conveys3to the gen.
era In command the royal order to
charge. In a moment the vast host
wildly sweeps EDWARDS like a tornado,
the pennons OF their poised lances tlut-
tering In the wind, and the rays of
the sun flashing from twenty thousand
| drawn swords, On, on they come, as ON
| the wings OF the wind and in a few
moments are saluting the monarch as
| they sweep past ~ royal enclosure.
But suddenly the Empress utters an
agonized shrek, and q cry of horror
surges up from the multitude. For a
pretty little child has run out In
| front of the advancing squadrons. and
| Is almost under the feet of the gal
| Looping horses. And now a stalwart
hussar in the front rank, without slack
| ing speed or spelling the align
| n,snt at the risk OF his life.
| throws himself over his horses
side. reaches down, seizes hold
| Of the little girl, and places her in
| safety on the saddle-bo Thunders Of
applause greet the gallant deed. the
halt is sounded, and the grave soldier is
I brought before the Emperor, who re-
moves a gllttering order from his own
breast and aff1Ses It to that Of his
gallant Representatives. afterwards
| promoting him to a commission--whiie
the Empress in broken tones sobs out
| her gratitude. And We, too, like that
| little child. madly straying into temp
tation, risk the imnlolation of our im-.
| mortal souls by disobeying the behests
! OF our Creator. But there Is One who
| not only risked His life, but gave it
| up, in order to rescue us from perdition.
1 For by dying for us He has satisfied
] the demands of Justice for all who are
I willing to become His servants, and
| has prepared for MI such a glorious In
heritance In the great hereatter..--A
| Banker.