The Alaska citizen., 1916-08-14
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HOW MAN CONQuERS HIS ZINE
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HOW MAN CONQUERS HIS ZINE
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 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet" | Cor. l5:25
 Man linked with God is capable of all victories. A great destiny starts with a great beginning The oak cannot come from mustard seed Once thistle always a this tie The fig begins as a fig and the seed needs nothing but time and summer Everything that is in the victorious man was first in the babe. with a great ancestry behind it It is given to man Co know one grain of sand, but not the luf tc stdShgfe, to knO" one cup ,f water but not the wide ocean, can test the flame of the candle. but not all stars of infinite multi tude
 But what a mystery is nan, He is the only being that laughs, man is the only being that pities and organizes his forces for the aid of those across the seas. Think of him with his many languages and scores of dialects The bee and beaver build their houses and gath CT stores for mere subsistence and prOpa- tiun of their kind but man does this. as well as making en- zines and ships for greater com fort, while his Doul mounts to the skies and seeks out other worlds. Stranger than all is the voice of conscience. that voice that insures l,. k, ;t, hA h r.. ot his Maker. and that he will give an accountinl of the deeds of his life to his God who dwelleth in the heavens Great men of every call ing in life have been Comforted with the thought that they are drawn by force without them selves that lifts them toward the ski and that all things that op pose their struggles to rise must be put under their feet
 l. God has placed heredity b. meath mans feet Heredity is the key word that explains everything for the scientist. It represents the law by which the fig, the thistle the robin the horse, the man re peat themselves in their descend ants This law was discovered and stated b. Moses No man doubts that like produces like, No lamb ever came from the wolf; no camel has ever produced a tiger; the Saxon represents himself in color, figure and mental traits. After Samuel Wesley We know his success ors, John and Charles; after Sam uel Adams we know his son, John, and his grandson. John Quincy. Make the most of the ancestral gift and then you will need to let God into the scene. For if like produces like
 n lld still live in caves and tue sav@ges would continue their can nibal practices Men are what they are-plus God. You see nothing in Mary to explain Jesus It took a divine regeneration in Bishop Afr canus, with twenty years of expert ence, to bring him from a cannibal life before Queen Victoria as a preacher of the gospel, Some of the greatest financiers we know were once playing in the degraded parts of great city and known as wharf rats. Heredity does represent a great law. but progress means heredity plus God. To the wild rice comes man with a new birth and we have the finest of the wheat To the bitter orange full of seeds comes man with the new birth and We have the finest of the navel fruit. Yes, man is born for greater things and has placed even the law of heredity under his feet
 H. Man may be victor over en- vironment. The scientist is so sure in his deductions here that he can forecast the results if conditions are once laid down before him Buckle went so far as to claim that the character of individuals and nations is determined by the eli mate and rain, the sun and soil Ingalls, carried the law further, give the philosopher a handful of soil the mean temperature and rainfall and he can predict the man in ad vance Creeds and carrots, cate chisms and cabbages, religion and rutabagas, governments and grass es, all depend upon the heat point and the terms of rain, What man and a nation can do depends upon what it eats' This it may do with man without God. But Martin Lu ther came from miners hut to be victor over his circumstances. Italy's greatest artist, Giotto. comes from the sheep-cote to hold in his hands the plans for his tower, and the outlines of his seraphs and angels victor over surroundings. Car any good come out of Nazareth, the cesspool Of Palestine? Yes, tht Saviour of the world comes wear ing purity and holiness like gar ments to teach the people how tt overcome environment and be eter nal victors through grace. Paul tool up the thought and lived supreme midst gladiators, and vile men triet to lead him from his faith in God Social workers and missionarie: have lived midst the vilest of en vironments and scoffed at the ide; of defeat, conquering their enemies
 III He who considers the sou of man knows that it is victor owe diversity, poverty, punishment ant defeat. It is recorded of Horace Greeley that he grew bitter befor' he died, saying that he had don' men good and not evil all the day of his life, and yet he found tha fame was a vapor, that riches tool wings, that reputation was tor away, that enemies tried to fix upol him falsehood for a time the swee turned to acid. In better hou the noble editor recovered his faitl to prove that defeat must be caI tive under mans feet. Other me- have lost and won Witness RobeI