Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-09-04
GODS PLACE IN
TIE GRfA! war R
Long Island Pastor Believes That
Despair Of Present Is En-
tirely Uniustified.

Stony Brook, l.. l., Sept. 3.-"We
are treated to frequent letters in the
daily press, asking, in view of the
terrible losses of the war, Where is
God?' The same question might,
with the same %propriety, have been
asked at the field of Gettysburg or
| Waterloo. We are persuaded that
the results at Gettysburg were in the
interests of. freedom, and Victor HUI
go says that Napoleon was conquered
at Waterloo, not because of Yelling
ton or Butcher, but because of God,
and then the great man made way for
the great age.
When. the war is over the results.
will not finally be settled by the
sword, but by the pen, for a dozen.
elderly gentlemen will get together
and divide territory and nations.
When the guillotine finally falls the
number of royal heads that will drop
into'the basket will depend upon the
length Of the war. God and human
ity are marching on and the crisis of
a century of protest against militar-
ism and %autocracy may come in a
day"
These are the words of the Rev.
DR.. Charles L. Goodell, pastor of St.
PauIs M. E. Church in Manhattan,
long pastor of the Hanson Place NJ.
e. Church, in an address in the Audi
torium Of the Stony Brooklyn Assem-
bly,, under the auspices Of the Bible
Conference, before a large audience
last night. The subject Of DR.. Good.
ellis address was "The Supreme Task
of the Church"
DR.. Goodell began by saying that
he knew the church was declining,
that men were, saying it had lost its
power, that the day of the church
had, in a measure, gone by, and there
were everywhere evidences of indif-
ference to it., but there were many
hearts who were loyal to it because
it was founded by God and is the
church Of the Living God and would
Hast while the world lasted, for it
was builded upon the Rock, Christ
Jesus.
Church Will outIast All Earthly
Things.
1T will last" said DR.. Goodell,
when all other institutions have dis
appeared like stars burned out in
their sockets. You pride yourselves
on your parties; you spend your
time seeking political preferment;
but all that will pass away. The po-
litical parties of q few years ago are
now forgotten relics, like empty
birds nests on tie boughs of time.
You pride yourselves on the ameni-
ties of social life. You join lodge
after lodge and club after club. There
seems to be something fascinating in
it all to. many minds; to approach
with trepidation the outside guard Of
some social holy Of holes; to lit
ones lips to some little wicket door
or to speak through a keyhole the
reverend name Of George Washing
ton as a password and then to enter
and doff ones chapeau before some
great and mighty potentate who has
names OF dignity which would make
an American chief turn pale with
envy. But even this shall pass away.
The one organization of holy fellow
ship which is to abide is the Church
of the Living God"
DR.. Goodell dwelt upon the theme
that the church, although 1t had been
mighty to mar as we'll as to bless
men, was the only institution that
stood for the uplift and help mater
tally and spiritually Of mankind; and
that 1t was her supreme task to mag