Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-02

eous plans. We can do nothing against
the truth, but for the truth, says st.
Paul. Our foolishness may bring us trou-
but God is not going to permit our fool
ishness to SO disarrange His plans for
the final good of His family that it can
not be overruled. He makes even the
wrath Of man to praise Him. Hence we
can rely, as we look into the future, upon
two supreme facts-first. God is the
Ruler. and II we trust in Him we shall
be taken care of: and second, the shad-
suggestion of the futures good or Ill.
God has in store for us just what He
sees Is best. and His treatment is as full
of variety for His children as it is in the
than day in the year; there is no more
cloud than sunshine in the life of Gods
children.
have been led to write this because 1
have been impressed by the growing spirit
of apprehension among people in these
modern days. 1t is seen in general, when
eager questioning about events seems to
suggest portents and dangers until men 5
hearts fail them for fear. The tail of
Halley's comet, they say, is to sweep the
earth, and the scientists are keeping the
time hidden lest panic seize the people!
There is danger of fierce war when
some great power shall rebel against the
other powers of Europe and plunge the
nations into conflict, or when new ma
ton. flushed with some little success, shall
start out to master the earth! There Is
an impending conflict between classes!
The socialists are secretly preparing TO
upset the existing order of things. and be-
fore we know it we shall find ourselves
fighting for our lives in a civil conflict!
Such are some Of the EXPLANATIONS which
we hear or read everywhere. in gather
ings of men and in our magazines. and
while we try to laugh we are half In
clined to believe there may be some truth
in 1t all. And the same apprehension is
felt in this nerve-strung age by individ-
uals. We face so many new and horrible
deeds as we glance in our five-mintte
reading of the daily paper over the
events of the whole world given with a
startling personality that we are almost
afraid to look day i'm the face. not
knowing what may happen. We trem-
are afraid of poverty: we lose confidence
in every one and brother half suspects
brother. what next?" the man cries.
as he quivers under some trouble. "Trou-
bles never come singly: another will
surely follow And peace and calm fly
away. and their place is usurped by an
unreasonable and irreligious dread which
weakens the heart and makes the hands
feeble and the knees tremble.
Beneath all the apparent lightness and
among us, and behind the seeming in
difference and calm of the toiler and the
wOrshiper there crouches an uneasiness,
as when the cattle. before storm. raise
their heads from the pasture to sniff
the air. 1t is an unhealthy and an I'M
natural condition, and yet it Is prevalent
today. and is the cause of much physical
and spiritual weakness. The same trou-
BILE enters the realm of religion. and
while there is great hope and promise
for the future advance in missions and
in the growth of the church. there is an
apprehension, caused by man. things-a
fear for the future of faith and of mo-
rality which is not worthy or loyal Men
are ready for anything of strangeness
in modern Christianity. whether it be
heresy, or scism. or denial. or advance
ment. We cannot go into this here. for
it would mean much quotation and much
Of lengthy statement: but every thong ut
full minister knows the fact l mention.
And the saddest part of it all is the ef-
feet it has upon the personal faith and
upon the peace of heart of the Chris
tian. We are not getting all the JOY
and strength out of our Christianity that