Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-08-14
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HELP FOR ALL IN GOD.
Bv Rev. Edwin w.

Bv Rev. Edwin w. Caswell.
The one hundred thousand spectators
witnessing the Olympiad at Lonooh
were filed with wonder when they saw
a mere boy, from New York City, the
smallest of the ffty-fve competitors,
win the great Marathon race
Littleness was better than bigness
quality than quantity That the I'M
seen forces OF the will, purpose and
faith are mightier than visible prowess
was proven when David met Gollatn
when the japanese defeated the Rus
SLAMS and when John Hayes won the
wCAty-six mile race. Consciousness or
weakness means preparation, discipline
progress and development and these
mean victory. Necessity is called the
mother of invention, therefore II the
Young man of wealth feels no necessity
he will fail of the greatest achieve
ment.
Carnegie and Rockefeller struggled
up from the weakness Of poverty to
the summit of wealth and influence.
Dante. Ruskin and Carlyle fought
against the weakness OF bodily HIS I'LL
they attained the climax OF intellectual
greatness. The handicap Of blindness
enabled Milton of England, M1lburn
and Mathewson Of Scotland to behold
visions of thought and beauty beyond
their fellows.
Hardships, depfivations and great
difficulties in early life lifted Lincoln
and Grant into their loftiest seats OF
power. Prisons have palaces proved
to minds like Paul and Bunyan, where
they were inspired to produce pen pie
lures that have delighted and blessed
| mankind in every land. Is it not a
sublime truth that there is pathway
upward for every one? No wonder
| that Paul gloried In his intirmities, per-
solutions and distresses, for he ex-
| claimed: when l am weak, then am
| T strong, for the power OF Christ will
rest upon me-"
The little child becomes strong be-
| cause it stretches out it's hand to the
| parent The father is n0bler when he
! bears his child out Of danger into
| safety. SO the sinful and troubled soul
| that stretches out it's hands Of faith
| TO the Heavenly Father feels under
meath the everlasting arms and nestles
in the bosom of forgiveness and father
hood. and who shall say God is lot
happier and mightier because or his
| embrace Of helplessness?
Do you feel crushed by the law OF
"the survival OF the fttest' or that
"the weakest go TO the wall?"
| Heavens law of grace creates fitness
and meetness for the highest inherit
ance.
DO you agonize in the commissions OF
pain? 1t is the divine hand leading
you to greater riches as earthquakes
reveal the gold in the rended rocks.
If God in nature can produce the
diamond from the black carbon, the
white lily from the black earth and
| bulb. the great tree from the tiny seed
He can bring purity out of sinfulness
strength out of weakness and HEAVIER
out of hell. His power will enable the
soul that trusts IN Him to overcome
dangerous hereditary tendencies, unto
ward env comments, unspeakable diff
culties. so that you may become The
| author of opportunities and the creator
| of circumstances, and, though. at last
| like John Brown, you go down to ig
nominous death, your liberty-lovlns
soul will go marching on" through
all millenniums, in blessed companion
! ship with Him who arose from the
weakness OF the manager the cross anG
the sepulchre to become conqueror anC
ruler OF all worlds.
- If we put out little crosses at the
| foot OF His great cross, He will lift
them up until they become tranfguret
into crowns Of glory forevermore.