The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-06-22

were God to
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accountable. Such
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means ruin to the individual and to
the community. Amidst the accumu-
lation of the ordinary cares Of life and
its pleasures and the frequent extra
ordinary calls made on man as men,
Der of society. he often becomes so
overwhelmed that he does not appear
to have time to get God in his thoughts,
and it seems as if man everywhere in
these awful times is thus troubled and
deserves our kindest consideration.
The first suggestion is that God is
what he is. In the text he is represent
ed as having purpose and that 1t Is i'm
possible to change that purpose; every
thing he purposes goes through to the
end. God himself claims that his coun-
sci shall stand, and he is the first and
he is the last, and besides him there is
no other God. He asks of men that
they be still and know that he is God,
and he will be exalted in the earth. He
takes up the islands of the sea as
a very little thing. All nations before
him are as nothing and vanity, and he
stitch upon the circle Of the earth
and the inhabitants thereof are as
transformers. Paul chided the intel
Iectual Athenians because they seemed
to think God like unto gold and silver,
and Job said in ancient times that
man is foolish who strives against God,
for he does not give account of any of
his matters, and again and again does
the Bible represent God in his infinite
creative power as speaking, and ma
terial things, worlds and universes
even spring into being.
The proper thought of God will take
away the despair that often comes to
men as they contemplate the world
about them. Never in the history of
the race were the affairs of men in
such ruin as today. The world seems
af1ame Material things seem to be
dissolving and higher things held dear
to man seem to be going down in a
universal crash. Millions of men are
dying or are mangled in battle. Mil
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ing, and there is chaos everywhere, but
over it all God rules. In the dark mo-
mentS when President Lincoln was
stricken down by the aSSaSSin'S bullet,
Congressman Garfield, afterwards pres
ident, said in New York, CLOUDS and
darkness are round about him, right
eOusness and Judgment are the habita-
J.; aS1on0
when the bullet of Booth crashed into
the brain of the president. Gods
throne in the midst of the clouds and
the darkness did not even feel a
tremor.
Furthermore, God is in all the affairs
of life, whether man recognizes his
presence or not. When Victor Hugo in
Les Miserables' was seeking an eX-
PLANTATION of the battle of Waterloo he
asked. "Was it possible for Napoleon
to win the battle?" We answer in the
negative. Why? On account of Yelling
ton, of Butcher? No, on account of
God. Napoleon had been de-
nounced in infinitude, and his fall was
decided. Waterloo was not battle;
it was the transformation of a uni
verse"
Gettysburg is considered the pivotal
battle of the Civil war and 'ff' occurs
very frequently in the story of that
three days conflict. If General Lee
had attacked Towards broken corps
on July 2; if General Warren had not
dfsobeyed orders in occupying Little
| Round Top: if the Confederate general
Johnston had marched in the darkness
a half mile farther, the issue of that
battle might have been very different.
How explain? The only explanation
is, God was in it. Suppose the mighty
army of Germany had not been sudden
ly stopped at the Marine, what would
have occurred? Some say angels in
tervened, but whether they did or not,
the explanation is-God.
We should think of God because
thereby the highest ideals of mans ex-
| istence, whether as an individual or as
q member of a community, will be real
| lied. In these days when the individual
seems lost in the general turmoil, it is
well to remember that God has always
! dealt with man in communities. The
! families of Noah, Abraham, Jacob and
Israel in all its national history had
| Gods recognition, and God has given
| the warning to such communities or
| nations that forget him that they shall
| be cast into hell, which has always
| been true There is to be realized
| Augustine's hope Of a real Civitas Del,
or city of God This will not he real
! lied by the development of the national
| life of today, but when Jesus Christ
| shall become king of kings and lord
Of lords, but preceding that realiza-
| ton it is we'll for each individual as a
member of the community or state to
think of the relation of God to such
| communities, and especially is it true
! in these times when people are imagin-
| ing vain things.
Back to God Through the Bible.
| Never was the door back to God so
| open as today, because today his word,
| containing the best rules for any kind
! of true life. in some sense is the cheap
| est public commodity. These are the
/ thoughts of God concerning individual
! man and of his needs as a member of
! society.
The 15-foot motorboat Bliss i'll New
/ York challenged Il steel net and a
/ United States destroyer. The boat
won't do 1t again. The destroyer
/ fred.