Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-06-20

emancipation learned Of God as Isaao
and Jacob did not dream 50 you ma,
see a brighter light even than the fair
dawnings of the past.
Therefore. ii any question and doubt,
would say. the matter Is not a problem
OF the study It is the trial of the met
cause we do not live. We are not sure,
as was Moses. Of the great I AM. be-
cause we are not engaged like Moses
In the emancipation of race. Abraham
Lincoln, on this common American sod
proved that man could not DO Moses
sort OF work without arriving eventually
at Moses sort Of faith, even though at
the beginning he was not much preds-
posed to II. Our real faith. our creed
az God sees It. is the testament of our
daily deeds If our hearts were all for
a cause. If the pitiable needs of the
boys in our upland valleys who have not
one decent chance at large and worthy
life so weighed on our hearts that from
the mountains yonder we could not re-
strain feelings like those Of the Master
over Jerusale then we also could defy
Pharisees and lift men to a revolution
In behalf If holy right.
WORLD No DOLLS HOt Sc.
There is no neel of the present day
| which equals the need of positive.
we'll grounded conviction in the real
ity and might OF God. TIE spiritual
| life of our churc hes goes hating be-
cause Of the lack If it. and the morals
of the time are disheartening because
so little vital faith rises to their re-
! buke. II we really believed the things
that are written in our creeds, its ar
| ticles on sin. on heaven. and on eter-
nal punishment, we couldn't play wit !
more nearly true than perhaps you
think The world isn't dolls nursery,
AMI the men who have written a seri
Gus creed have come nearest the truth.
A little doctrine, NOR or less is not
such serious affair. but grip on
things as they are N matters which
have to 10 with the spirits of men is
| of prime importance We need Just
now belief in the great God OF reality,
the spiritual power tina, reaches every
moment down into these lives % ours
that curses them II We are false-yes
l repeat it. compelled To the utterance
by the myriad wrecks of humanity
( that stagger the streets of every ham
let in Christendor the God that
curses ana bliShts these lives of ours
| If are false to rur duty and dis
| obedient to His laws we need belief
| also I'm the God who strengthens an
enriches and cnlarEes the souls of
those who put then trust in Him. who
blesses them with gentloness of spirit,
with courage of heart with strength
OF attack upon achievements that make
life great. You have come across
these realities. You have known men
who by the might OF their faith in the
eventual goodness AM Justice of God
have shone forth magnificent manhood
to the world You have seen before
your ewes the effect of their faith, in
their devotion to duty, their loyalty to
honor, their unyielding strip on tho
principles that keeo men brave and
| clean. You have believed in them
then believe also in tGe God WAC made
them what they were. The Col OF
your fathers. the God Of the strong,
| clean men YOU have honored and al
mired. summons You II catch the fra
that burne / within them for the bull l.
ing of better worlG and the hringi1 Z
OF all men to the nobility and large
ness of life which tho heroes Of
achievement in the past have iemon-
strated as the proper life Of all men
God il not the God OF dead philoso-
PIXIES. but Of living men. The men
who have lived by Him declare His
reality beyond the shadow of cues
ton.
"Thy voice is on the rolling air;
| hear thee where the waters run;
Thou standest in the rising sun.
And In the setting thou art fair
But. on for words Of equal measure
10 interpret his voice In the mighty
leeds Of the men who have made th'
world. to declare his goings In tbs
souls OF the vast multitude OF brave
spirits who have fought their figh
and kept the faith. All history is th'
Iinspired book of God Every human
achievement is His word, Think o
the progress Of humanity from saw
lagery to now, the creations or heant'
and Of thought ResistiesslN trutf
has risen above error, cruelty has CIV
IN way before mercy ans oppression