The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-01

' The Bible Is more it's own . . witness than We like often . . times to admit. . , . . . . c c . . . . . .
 GOD CALLING TO MAN.
 And the Lord God cal sd u1t Adam. and said unto him. Where ar, thou' Genesis 3:9
 No man need be told that this sentence Is in the Bible, and is the word of God, Every man has heard the question asked, and some answe' has been given. and every man real izes such a question ought to b. asked. It comes from the midst O. that awful story of the first siu and it's immediate consequences. That same story Is acted over and over agGin ill every marked slN that is ever done by any man. II is the same mode of temptation First, inward questioning. Yea, hath God said? is this thing wish to do really forbidden" Sec ond. Hardship; God knows that this is ( '-iraDlc. and now I am deprived of it." Third, the growing confi- dence, T shall not surely die for it Fourth. the advantages, good fer food-pleasaBt t. the eyes-te sired to make one wise, happy. i'd dependent" Fifth the act itself Sixth, the consequences sense of leanness entering into the very soul And last. its summons; Where art thou?"
 The speaker of these words i the Lord God The nearer Of these words is Adam, the first man-the father. the likeness. the representa- tive of US all, The nature of the address Is a summons that must he heard and obeyed, for it is big with meaning Where art thou?" This ap- peal comes to each man, to every man, to all men; it has come to you
 I would scarcely occupy your time to say much about the speaker. There are those who profess to daubt the existence of God, anI on the other hand. there are those who profess to prove it. l shall not suspect you of one. nor shall I endeavcr to do the other. l. your innermost heart you do not doubt His being, and if you do ] cannot prove 1t to you. 'The be iHS of God is not a matter of argument it is a matter of instinct" The doubting or denying of it may pass muster with SC l1iug men WI, are in robust health and prosper ous, circumstances, but nine o'; Of ten 0? them. finding themselves in sudden danger, by land or by sea, or In air, from accident or di sease, will be heard praying; they may conceal 1t, they may disoWn it afterwards ds-but they did it ana that prayer was witness against their doubts, that down in the'r hearts they believed it all the time; in their words and works they may deny Him, but in their inmo5t souls like the very devils, they believe and temble. Men know there is a God. Happy are they if they be. lieye He is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
 In God speaking to man we find an individual and a universal call How easy it Is, when sitting under the power of the message, to wish that so and 30 had heard that ser mon. instead of saying Thou art the man" The call of God is for someone, nc doubt, but not for ma What a fine warning and timely that thought was for MT So and So.' we say, realizing not that 1t is Gods voices to, ones own sell Nevertheless, Gods call is an in- dividual one. It's only use is to be so. Where art thou? Not where is he, and certainly not, generally, where are they?
 As we'll as individual, so univer- sal is the call of God. The call of @I l,1 .l> sal. His rain and sun is shed upon the just and unjust. It is to His creatures, Ills race. This is the Adam and said unto him." If it had been a call to Abraham, Moss or to David, it might have been definite, to person, or it might have been limited to race; bus when the call is made to Adam for he is the father of us all, and in him we are each included, all sum moned.
 But how does God cali Us? Tine call comes in three ways: from Wit in, from without, from above. He calls within-in conscience Can you tell what that thing is within
  seems not a part? That sits in juds- ment, in warning, in encouragement, Is 1t not a strange thing? Man car ries with him at once the whole machinery of judicature, a witness. jury, judge, yes, an execution CT, too; and strange to say the court is most active in youth while We are most ignorant, least reflecting least logical in our judgments. It Is the work of many men to stifle the voice within, and many almost succeed; but you will not say that you have no voice within; you vii. scarcely say you have never had in no uncertain tones, Where art thou?"
 God calls also from without-in providence. This method Is doubt less the most persuasive and most authoritative of all the methods Goo uses to call men to themselves. Conscience may be practically stiff led. but providence grasps us very tightly-we cannot escape from it Tell me who has managed your cir cumstances since you had a being Who gave, and continues to give you vigor of mind and body, your power of enjoyment, your experience of kindness, your principles of judz ment, your instincts of affection Who took away that friend you have loved so dearly-that parent, that