The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-07-29
IN The RELIGIOUS WORLD
What The Church Folk Are Thinking
About and Doing.


While we watch Jehovah welding
great natural visitations, as q swords
man yields his weapon we remember |
the Of God. He has many
arrows in His culver. song
IS true. "A mighty fortress is our God"
Peer closely into life, and read on ey-
cry page, the Lord God OmnipOtent
reigneth.'
We miss the meaning Of this great
connict unless we perceive that God
is arrayed against wrong. Injustice
tyranny, greed. cruelty, all have to
contend with heaven. This is the
firm foundation upon which every
worker for truth n for man plants
his feet. Except Jehovah keep the
city, n waketh but in
vain" God makes cause
with the wronged and the sufferings
everywhere. Pharaoh was not fight
ing a hundred thousand slaves: he
was fighting the Ruler of the uni
| verse.
This is the explanation for the
greatm oral victories that stand as
milestones down the centuries. clus-
tering thick in our own day. 1t was
but a few weeks ago that the Congo
Reform Association officially disband-
ed, it's work accomplished. Societies
for the abolition of slavery have no
longer any mission. The foot-binding
society formed by foreigners in Chi
ma has gone out of existence. counting
itself no longer needed. The Anti
Opium League has done its work.
Prison reform has won it's great vic
tories. Temperance has made such
strides that we who are in the thick
Of the battle need to detach ourselves
to understand how epochal is the
progress hat has been made. The
world is growing better a God is
on the side of truth and mans welfare
for Right is right, since Cod is God
And right the day must win.
To doubt would be d~isloyalty,
To faiter would be sin"
The Plaques Of Pharaoh.
There were ten plaques success.
lively visited upon Egypt over a pc.
Rod Of many weeks. They were i,
an ascending scale, and varied j,
, form. They affected Egypt in per
sonal comfort. in property welfare
5 in national estate. n then in th
: very structure OF the family. TIL
: plaques in order we're:
/. Water turned to blood
2. Frogs.
3. Fleas.
s. A murrian on the cattle.
a 6. Roils on the persons Of tn
: Egyptians.
t Z. A devastating hail.
? 8. Locusts.
S 9. Darkness.
Y 10. The death of the first-oern.
d Some have alomst doubted tn
: Justice and mercy of God, in readin
d this list of frightful visitations upo
e Egypt. The plaques carry us bac
to the truth, which is fnndament;
to h structure of the universe. TIM
IF the sovereignty of God is the s,
d preme consideration, and that nothin
al is SO serious as sin against Him. -
g hovah will go to all lengths to e
TT tablish His truth and His supremac
ir In the individual life and III societ
D God insists upon being God.
ir The Passed By.
n After the first three plaques II
m chosen people were exempted. II
A. peculiar p~Oignancy Of h visitati<
s lay in the act that Gods peep
a. were passed by. The calamities we
e. not natural universal they we
laimed directly at Pharaoh and h
people.
1t is true that 1.-The rain falls upt
the just and h unjust" Neverth
re less, there runs a line Of diVislo
which touches character :
er the life of h cody and h u
of cody. 1t is the alcoholics who fiji
ed | fall in war and disease A Phiiadelph
a. surgeon a the other day that Qua
nv ers always make the best recoVe
nd from operations. Tha physioio8ie
tn fact runs stranght pack tot he fai
ut of thep lacid folk. The lowest Ia
ne anybody can secure in life lnsuran
is given to ministers. whom all COZ
u panies count the best risk. There
a sermon in that fact from the act
in arial tables.
it Visitatipns of nature do come up
lot the godly as upon the ungodly; 3
re- in the bearing OF them We see n
III a line is drawn. And in plague a
err in poverty and in many kinds OF {
es- larity, the righteous escape Wh1
"a the wicked perish, because the We
it: nature of righteousness is a Shl'
Use and a defense. a weapon and a NlcIo
no Gods own are the peculiar object
lie. Gods care.
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Sin Its DOGGED AS DOES TT"
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ute TerSe Comments Upon h tmf0
III Evavo1. ANofiutr Tonic. of the HOH