White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-12-17

was founded upon II must likewise
vanish.
| prefer to believe just as ii is told
to us.---that in ourselves is the max
ing of Heaven, and that His kingdom
begins when our eyes first open to
the light. I believe we may enter
that realm without the taking of the
other journey and that we have en-
tered 1t whenever we do or behold
that which is good in ourselves or in
others. We may have of it as much
or as little as we fit ourselves to
take, as we have the right through
courage to assume. as In the good
ness of our hearts we may justly
ask. The very sunshine which warns
the brooding earth and whose glory
floods it with life must be a part of
His great scheme of things, unfold
ing, as 1t does, with each recurring
day, wonders and beauties never
made by man. His must be the vast
domain of good in every form, and
this we see all about us,---in the
fields where another life, but still
His own, stirs under the touch of
Spring, or sleeps in the white robes
of winter. ultimately to give forth
their harvests to sustain humanity =.
We see his Grace in the mighty tides
of the sea subjecting themselves to
our dominion and use, and linking
together far distant races into one
common Observation-Disclosures com
mon brotherhood.
What but good in those great
movements of commerce which bring
to us for happiness the works which
they have done and take to them fol
their comfort the results of our toll
What but good in this welding to-
gether for a common use by mans
). labor and intelligence of the fruits
of every climate and every soil, Of
every fabric in His vast world II We
have doubt of this great blessing
think for a moment of the centuries
of war and bloodshed, of struggle
of victory and defeat, of the toll Of
/, life out of which this condition has
finally emerged.
We see His kingdom in the uplifI
: of mankind, in the spread of a be
{ nevolent civilization. in the rapid
: growth of education. learning and in
: %telligence. in a charity UNIVERSAL,
: practiced, in higher ideals of public
! and private duty, in a better concep
| ton of rectitude and honesty. in th'
q greater obligations of wealth, thu
Q more even and the purer administra
o ton of justice. in the subsection o
Q religion itself to the analysis of rea
q son
: operation of His purposes, even dur
I. ing this time of conflagration an
r destruction, when we hear from tn
warning nations their fervent prayer
: hat this may be the end of war, AM
e that hereafter before one draws tn
: sword his cause must first be sub
5 mitted TO the Judgment and opinion
n of mankind. God never lapses, Blu
I men lose their reason in the stupid
: ity of a system which makes then
] pawns in the senseless quarrels o
I others and theirs is but to pay tn
n penalty when questions of policy ar
solved, not by reason but by tn
death and suffering of multitueds o
r their fellows. II is they who hav
strayed from His law to wander IA
beyond the boundaries of sanity an
e Justice, 10 throw down His imas
that they RAY wo, ship the false ido
! of brutal force. The sermon on tn
I mount applies to nations as it doe
a to the individual. Thou shalt no
I kill is a condemnation of war. Their
t is no exception TO it but that of nee
essary defense. When men lear
D this. when they are taught the futil
r ity and folly of aggressive self glorl
e fication whose realization spells DIS
e ASTER to others, when they kno'
= that which force creates can be un
v made by force and that destruction
/ breeds destruction, mentally. moral
e and physically. their eyes will turI
r again to His kingdom and they vii
= see a new and a deeper meaning Il
v the command Love thy neighbor a
e myself :"
+ We can see the promises of on
Q own growth in the reverence III
e world pays to those great souls who's
e spiritual influence has descended t
g succeeding generations Those lof
d ty characters breaking down the bar