The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-01-14

about you, evrrences II at COD spirit
is living in all life, evidences that the
1eaven is fulfilling it's mission, evil
dences that His eternal truth is
marching on.
This world of ours is not so bad, if
we don't fix our whole attention on
the badness and refuse to recognize
the silent working Of the leaven Of
eternal goodness that permeates it
all. Seeking Gods kingdom or seek
ing the kingdom of the devil has been
exemplified for us in the present po-
litical campaign Mud-slinging and
the kind of argument expected at
reunion of the Kilkenny cats has
seemed to be the policy of some, with
the result that upstate citizens be-
lieye New York is worse than Sodom
and Gomorr&7, That hungry beasts OF
prey roam through the streets and
that the only safety for a stranger is
to tightly grasp his bank roll in one
hand and his watch within the other
when he is welcomed to our city.
And yet how much of truth there Is
in the lurid eXaggerations of our
cities sinfulness may be gagged, per-
hapS, by the uniformity of compli-
ments paid to us by our host of visit
ors during the late celebration Vel
low Journalism is always looking for
the spots and blemishes; it refuses to
recognize the good and by perverse
suggestions hampers more than any
other element the working of the
leaven of Gods eternal righteousness.
The kingdom of the living God
must come first of all in Individual
hearts, for there the 1eaven has been
placed by God. His kingdom will not
come in any outward way until the
inward man is pure.
Don't wait and pray for the last
trump on earth, don't wait and pray
for final judgment day. Gods
trump is sounding in your heart and
your judgment days are with you
every day. Look for Gods kingdom
in your own heart and seek to mani
fest it in your little duties every day.
Seek to attune your soul to the divine
melodies of goods that are echoing all
around you. Open your eyes to the
good within yourself, and that you
find in fellow-men. Shut out from
your soul the discordant clangor and
refuse to share the discord selfish
hearts have brought on earth. Fix
your eyes upon Jesus and feel the
leaven in your Utmost heart.
How to find Gods kingdom? It's 4
plain and direct road. Simply pub
fish peace and bring good tidings; al
WAYS and forever bring good tidings,
and if you can't bring tidings that are
good then keen quiet till you can.
Refuse to publish discord and strife
and hatred. Refuse to muck-rake or
bring up the ghosts of outgrown En-
rors that clog the wheels of eternal
progress toward perfect Righteousness.
All! but some will say, "Your dream
Of perfect righteousness on earth is
but a dream, fear 1t can't come
true Even SO when our ancestors
clothed in skins were roaming through
the forest aisles, perhaps some one Of
them was blessed with glorious v.
ions of days when they would no
more rend and tear each other. And
undoubtedly all his fellows said, cts
but dream. We shall always be
governed by the law of tooth and
claw" But Gods leaven worked in
quietness and power until at last men
walked at peace among the race, for
ever emancipated from their brute
ancestry. And shall it not be so with
us? Although we refrain from ply
steal violence to each other, yet we
war and scheme in milder ways. But
who shall deny the power of the for
ever working leaven of Gods truth
to work for us emancipation even
from the necessity for competition in
our race? Who shall deny the saving
power of the immortal spirit of the
Christ? For as in Adam all die,
even so in Christ shall all be made
alive" For He must reign till He
hath put all enemies under His feet"
and when all things shall be sub
dued unto Him, then shall the Son
also Himself be subject unto Him
that put all things under Him, that
God may be all in ALL