The Alaska citizen., 1916-08-07

l uS tHdl POu u"tlIS IdI lIOIu tue scene. God dwells ever in the idea that there is no sin or sickness, pain or death God dwells in the idea that there Is pardon for sin. healing for the sick. comfort for those in pain, ana translation for those who believe in Jesus Christ. Every portrait of God must paint Him pure as the dew-drop. sweet as the smile of child, allurng as are the arms of mother-"Our Father who art in Heaven"
 Isaiah was so struck with his portrait of God that he exclaims How great is Gods goodness and how great is His beauty" No thought of God can be true that is not filled with lines of alluring beauty. He has created all things we'll He keeps the grasses and the flowers in their respective families. He tells the sower that the wheat will lIol Dl HIS lOl LII blLlolItH' ilt lIoId1 the fruit to it's own so that the hor. ticulturist can tell from the bud what will be the kind of harvest
 He is so good that into the world He sends broadcast his universal ! law: Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap From the first moment that man starts away from his mean self he departs from ugliness. He cannot look into the heavens without beholding the beauty that God has there created Man may find the diamond hidden in the earth and uncover it's beauty, but God covers every blade of grass with diamond dew-drop each morning and at sunrise paints the rainbow in each glistening globe, then when the sun has fulfilled his course and dropped behind the gold en hills He hangs His heaven with a million sparkling worlds. It is this Identification of the God of na- ture and strength with the god of beauty that explains much nature worship. In the Far East where men dwell in the open sky they wor- ship the sun. by reason of his beau. ty, this sun that is the great lover and the first artist. It is this | p1n nrh hnt hpiy, ,,t, ,,rr to the hut and to the palace, that shines on the good and on the evil, vieing in his goodness and strength and beauty to make the good better and the bad good. When the work man comes home at the close of day and looks at the departing sun he realizes that so great are his gifts of service that from his own soul comes the desire of worship
 Sc God has given the sun that men might know Him the better
 And now with goodness and puri- ty and beauty is added strength and i gentleness. Often men are moved l by the things on the earth that are represented by power. The earth l quake and the thunderbolt and the | tidal wave who can withstand? Ye' the greatest forces are the silent 1 forces. There are forces that move | the souls of men, for like as a father pitieth his children so the 1 Lord pitieth them that fear; for he remembereth our frame, that we i are dust" Surely they are my people" so He became their Saviour. | Strength alone can be gentle, all | feeblenesS is roughness. The bur den bearer staggers and the wound ed soldier carried is given another paroXysm of pain. The giant lifts great loads, but in the hour of sick ness he carries the little form of his child suffering in pain; as ten derly as the mother he looks with dimmed eye and gentle voice until the crisis be past. With aching
 head pillowed upon the arm of l father the child rests until nature brings the new strength. So does the Heavenly Father, who creates worlds and lifts the isles as a very little thing, hover over his children to give them peace and comfort from the tolls and cares of life, nor does He leave them in all the so, journ of earth, but guides them gent ly all the way.
 The upward march of history is slow, but it is sure. No true con
 ception of God will omit the propo
 sition that God is God of Love
 With God day is as thousand
 years and thousand years as 8 day, and with Him the time propo
 sition is fully eliminated. The world
 has been a long time in the making
 and is not yet finished but the on
 ward march of history does not fail
 to show the student of history that the world is growing more rapidly
 than most think to time when mel
 will recognize God as the guiding
 force, and that He guides in love
 It is not prudish love, that destroys
 His laws and true science. but g
 love that never fails in that it re
 vealS to the laWbreaker that he vii