Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-11-19

clouds, giving an opportunity to the
sun-even the Sun of Righteousness |
to pour it's healing rays upon us.l
This is our need, and without it we
cannot live as we ought. Without it,
the human race, nor its God, will not
be satisfied.
Saint Paul in his letter to the Ro-
man Christians wrote the following
words: "For those whom God has
known beforehand He has also pre-
destined to bear the likeness of His
Son, that He might be the Eldest in
avast family of brothers." These words
are pointed and full or meaning.
Their significance is our anchor. By
it we are made steady and firm, and
without it we have no hope in the
world. The Man from Nazareth is
the central fact of life, having in Him
every quality of brotherhood, and in
Him the vast family of brothers is
to be created. This is the will of our
Father. and the fact that it is the
will of our Father, is all-sufficient.
Our disappointment has become hope.
Our encouragement has become in
spiration, for, to quote the words of
John Steward Mill. "Whatever elsema
be taken from US by rational criticism
Christ is still left unique figure, not
more unlike all His precursors than
all His followers; a Divine person, a
standard of excellence and model
for imitation; available even to the
absolute unbeliever, and can never be
lost to humanity" At last, we have
found the anchor of our SOULS, the
anchor of brotherhood-Jes Christ
the Crucifed. In Him we find our
selves in the will of our Father.
From time to time we have heard
a great deal concerning foreordina-
ton, or the result of beforehand
knowledge, but the modern word for
it is evolution; and in this we see
what God has planned for US to be
It has been planned for the children
of men to develop into a brotherhood
in the Man from Nazareth-the Christ
and our Redeemer. He is the founda-
ton of the vast family of brothers
the family of the Most High. He is
the eldest brother of this family il
the merit of His character. He de
/, serves the honor. He lived every
quality of brotherhood in its perfec
, tion. The test of the ages has fail
, ed to find Him. wanting in any fash
ion. He is harmony incarnate, hav
: ing an exquisite balance of the passiv
( and the active. "He is indignant, bu
7 never boisterous; tender, but neve
: weak; firm but never obstinate; condes
Y cending. but never familiar" He j
! the soul-approving Ideal, and befor
Y we can successfully disprove it, ou
: moral constitution must be changed
;. We must be created along other line
< before we can set this Ideal-the So
r of God-aside. In Him we find our
o selves.
Then, we have found our basis an
: even though we know that the edific
f of brotherhood is incomplete, never
n theless, we also know that it will b
e completed without fail. We know ths
o such will be the case because such
O foundation would not have been lai
: to fail. The Desire of the Nations
i at the core of our souls, ready to PEI
d meate all our thoughts and feeling
|. and "He will not fail nor be discoul
II aged, till He have set justice in tt
= earth" 1t is the will of God that "
IS shall be brothers. and this is enoug
: to calm our troubled hearts, KNOWN
@ that the task will be accomplishe
e What he has designed will be pc
re fected. He is the master architect I
J. the building of brotherhood, and Il
re strife, the jealousy, the contentio
is the bitterness. which we now see
US and around us, are doomed to d
IS struction, They will be slain full
,r as sure as God has spoken to US
N these last days through His Son.