The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1915-07-01

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ed dealing Jacobwho was by this God
of all grace finally and by means of
hisselfproduced troubles humbled and
developed into a princely mar of
! prayer and righteousness.
Jehovah of hosts is with u.s." and
therefore will not We fear though a
little human host encamp against us
Ours is the God of all hosts which in
clude the powers of nature and nu-
seen agencies.
BY the plaques on the Egyptians,
by their drowning in the Red Sea, by
the desert leadership, by the crossing
Of the Jordan, by the falling walls of
Jericho, and by many other events in
their history God sufficiently showed
that He is a very present help in time
of trouble, and that they could depend
upon Him to maintain their cause so
long as they maintained their alleg-
lance to Him.
"Come, behold the works of Jehovah
what d%esolations he hath made in the
earth" :ssfdm.
The enemies and oppressors of
Gods people and the opposers of His
work should survey the past and
learn from the increasing demonstra-
lions of history that however mighty
they may think themselves to be, in
due time God will dash them to pieces
like the clay vessels of the potter.
Let the individual christian and the
whole church scar the pages of his
tory and See that "No weapon that is
formed against thee shall prosper"
and let them be courageous and trust
full.
"Be still, and know hat l am God:
l will be exalted among the nations,
l will be exalted in the earth"
The nation which forsakes Gods
ways of reverence, righteousness, pur-
ity and justice isfighting against Om-
nipitance and omnicience with very
feeble human flesh, and the inevitable
destruction and desolation ought to be
~foreseen as a foregone conclusion.
At the present time the whole hui
man family r in suspense waiting to
See what God is intending to do with
the fratricidal nations which have so
far gone from his holy ways of love,
and mercy, and purity, and justice;
but it is certain that He will humble
their arrogant pride; and their boast
full assumptions of the greatness and
sufficiency of their modern material
ism which thought to ignore God in
His world, will be seer to be idle
prating Of ignorance and braggarts.
Even some misguided preachers
had begun to talk as if man were not
the sinner the Bible declares him to
be, but rather they boosted and fiat
tered man a supremely great and
good, and not in need of the deep re-
pentence and great salvation which
Gods word declares him to be.
But Gods old gospel of repentance
and salvation from selishness and sin
is as much needed today as it ever was
among hte lowest savages.
The ruling and the teaching classes
in Europe have grossly sinned in for
saking the real heart renewing christ
ianity of penitence and faith toward
God, and of justice and brotherly love
toward all men; and this worst cata-
clysmeof all time is theeinevitable- re-
suit.
Ifmen come to believe themselves
evolved beasts without any spirit in
the image of God and the universe a
fortuitous material organization with
ont any God, what wonder that they
practice their creed like beasts in un-
christian competition with the motto,
"The fttest must survive"
But millions Of the fttest are hur-
ried to the grave while the unfit often
are left to propagate a still less fit
p~osterity.
The creed of much Of the modern
world tends to silence the song of
hope, it tends to cause men to suicide
and women to commit infanticide in
despair, and it tends to blight the
world with moral filth and u~ncleanli-
ness.
Let all men look to the exalted
Christ who leads the way, teaches the
truth, and imparts the life which is
the n indispensable need Of the
world.
They that follow Him shall not walk
in the morally dark and wrong ways
which have misled the world till many
millions crowd the cemeteries weeping
over the massacred millions Of loved
ones.
May Christ be so exalted in. the
earth that He may speed the day
when the wal drum shall throb no
more, and when "Man to man, the
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