The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-11-05
Go to Church,
Ireland Tells Why

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Inc are falling far short Of the rich
ness and fulness of our human birth
right. 2 = - The methods of, sci
ence are not the only way, though
they are our way, Of arriving at
truth And SO, when physics and
chemistry have been explored to the
deepest core, when all the ~potencies
of matter to satiate heart n mind
nave been scrutinized to the utmost
limit, we are not satisfied, and farther
and above must we turn our wistful
gave We harken to the deep and
persistent music of the human soul,
the vibration within it of echoing Of
the voice Of a Superior Being, Creator
and Master, from whom alone, it in
s~tinctively feels, relief will come to it's
needs n quietude to it's aspirations.
It is the voice of the eternal God. And
we hearken to reason, the princely
faculty of the human soul, which
makes proclamation Of the invisible
why and wherefore of the things we
see and touch and reason gives out the
lesson. that to all transient things
there is a cause, absolute and ever
lasting. in whom in degree superem-
inent, reside all truth, all beauty, all
goodness scintillating in the works of
His power and love, that "the invisi-
BILE things of Him, from the creation
OF the world, are clearly seen, being
understood by the, things that are
made" that the life of things visible.g
the sublime order of movement and
action within them bespeak a Creator
al-powerful, a Mover and Ordainer
all-Wlse, all-perfect - an ever living
and e~ver-acting Personality. 1t Is
God Infinite and eternal. God lives
and reigns; the fool only it is who
saith in his heart: There is no God.
The denial Of God, Creator and Mas
ter, is not the evil we complain of. The
evil Is the forgetfulness of God, as If
we could confine, Him to the .far-away
regions of eternity, as if we could for
bid Him contact with immission into
the affairs of revolving time, where
man lives and moves, where man. the
creature. fain would %arrogate to him.
self h authority and the indepen-
dence Of the Creator. The evil is the
cauterization within us of the sense
OF our dependency on God, of the
sense of our need of God.
Men>do not go to church; they have
lost the idea, the sense Of divine wor-
ship. Yet, divine worship is mans
first and supreme duty. Justice and
gratitude demand that We make acts
OF worship before the eternal and AL
mighty God. " ..'S' "
AN SduSS ~ We OW0
what we are, what we have. The
heavens show forth the glory of God,
and the armament declareth the work
OF His hands" ".All things were made
by Him, and without Him was made
nothing that vas made" Amid what
was made Is man, in the Masterpiece.
fashioned a little less than the angels
crowned with glory and honor, Gods
image and likeness, set over other
WORKS OF divine power as monarch and
chief beneficiary. Yet while knowing
this, every chord of his being throb-
Ding with life and motion received
from the Author of all life and mo-
ton, all things else set to his service.
from the blade Of grass in the field
n the rosebud in the garden, to
the mighty armies of suns and stars
arrayed in majestic through measure
less armament, proclaiming in, the
laws by which they are, governed. in
the comellness of which they are
adorned, that they are the outpour-
n 6 OF divine love and wisdom; while
knowing all this, man refuses to
speak to God a word of alteration in
acknowledgment of his dependency
upon GODS sovereignty, refuses to
send towards God a chant of praise.
a, signal of love and gratitude! That
mai sbe silent before the males
ty OF the Most High, is the mystery of
blindness Of eye, and" of hardness of
heart; yet this the blindness, this the
hardness of heart of him. whose ears
are deaf to the appeal, Come. let us
praise the Lord with joy: let us 10y
fully sing to God, our Saviour. For
In His hands are all the ends Of
/ earth, and, the heights of the noun
talns are His. Come, let JUS adore and
fall down and weep before the Lord
who made us" 4, ~ 49, ~ H.,
Were sun, moon and stars suddenly
made into; conscious beings; al once
they should dip their glory. to Him
from whom their glory was sprung.
n man., conscious by nature; through
special gifts of divine predilection is
silent; heart never moving in graft
tuqe, lips eve trembling in salute.
RATHER, a hundred times rather. the
soul or the ~untutored Indian hearing
In the fiuttering of forest leaves the
Whisperings Of the. Great Spirit. orrthat
OF the turbaned, child Of Allah, knneel-
ing at noon-hour in the dusty high
way. than the soul of the proud, sonsof
poasted culture, who, whatever his
service to fellow-rnen, never lifts, his
voice towards the skies, to say in rev.
erence n love: Our Father who art
In Heaven: hallowed. be thy name:
thy kingdom come!
Man is mindful of Justice and graft
tude to felloW-men. To be thus mind
full is his first-born instinct. The babe
In the cradle smiles to. mother or
rather, and reaches out to their EN-
prace. Friend gives salute to friend;
the recipient of favors thanks the
glVer; the citizen bares his head to
the symbol of-}the nation that guards
Ire and property. Alone among faith
| erS and mothers. amone tofrfands opd
~penefactors, among saviors and guar
dams, God is unheard, unhonored for
gotten! The mystery it is of blind
ness of eye, or hardness of heart!
Above all creatures reigns the Cree
ator; above all other duties primes.
the duty Of divine worship. Master,
said a doctor of the law, which lis
the greatest commandment Of the
law? And Jesus answered: s.Thou
shalt love the. Lord thy God with thy
whole heart, and with thy whole. soul,
inc with thy whole mind. This is the
Egreatest and the First commandment
Other commandments there are; the
greatest and the first Isl that which
PIG us worship God; other duties fall
into secondary place. More vet, the
greatest and the first thrown to the
winds, the foundation crur1bles be-
meath other duties. Why, We logical
ly ask, the observance of secondary
duties, when the chief duty is deemed
undeserving Of attention?
1t is of no avail to repeat: Smith
is the best Of fellows. diligent in bus
mess, a kind husband or father, and in
politics anxious to vote for what he
believes to be the best interests Of the
country. Smith may be all that a
hundred times W. The fails i'm the es-
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