Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1917-09-09

Psalms
If the sun is the tabernacle of the Lord, then is
Arizona very temple in the desert for the sun shines
brighter here than in most places upon the earth Ou
sunkissed morns are a miracle and sunsets pas
description. 1t all seems to be part of the Masters
plan For every recomrense there is a handicap. HIS
law of balances is mmutable
The sum- which David declared was His tabernacle
decides the ease and hardship the joy and OF
every nation
In the tropics the sun is lavish with its gifts Beau
tiful flowers and abundant fruits there But also
there sickness and deadly vapors and steamng jun
giles and every species of poisonous insect and reptile
all enemies of man. And than these is the las
sude and the languor and the weak minds and bodies
of tropic peoples.
In the north country the sun is pale and cold. II
the feet of these people to hard road and refuses
to help them in their sowing and their reapng But
its cold rays have nerved them great effort They
are hardy and strong and strung tense to great re
solve They build nightly and for all time.
In the temperate the sun is tickle like maid
She smiles one day and frowns the next. Her people
petition for rain in season and for fair skies in
another. Often she denies their prayers But year in
and year she maintains an average that is in &C
cord with the scheme of the universe.
Here in Arizona we look at the bare, brown earth
the speckled desert sands and the gallant efforts OF
the mesquite bloom and wonder why these things are
so. But if we will only look upward will that
the Lord hath set tabernacle in the skies From no
where else can one such enhancing blue OF
spotess white or SO many shades of pink and yellow
and red and avendar and purple All the flower gard
ems OF all the world look dull and dowdy beside the
hue of the Arizona skies.
1t saws in the Psalm that the earth, with its trees
and lakes and grass and flowers, declare the handi
work of God but the heavens declare His glory And
this glory is before our eyes day by day. In other
states and climes the eyes of drawn easily
from the pale monotonous, washed out skies to the
beauty of leaf and water and grass and bloom. "How
fine and grand it all is" they exclam. How we pity
those poor people mountain peaks and the desert
sands; no trees. flowers, laughing waters, nc
vistas of beauty"
But God has declared His glory unto His taber
nacle blazes in our skies. The compelling beauty 81
it all more than compensates for the transient bloom
and the fitfu green of other lands The spell Of the
desert that we feel and understand is the pres
ence of God hallowng silent places stealing fortf
from His tabernacle in the skies that His benefcencf
hath placed in flaming splendor above us to compe.l
safe for the absence His handwork the earth
The Masters scales weigh to hair. For every
homely face he has given brave heart. For ever,
day of toll he has given nights of sleep most sweet
For every laughing bay blue and beauty there is
winter tempest For every Eden serpent. For every
desert an oasis. For every life death And for ev
cry death life beyond the grave.
There is nothing hid from the heat of the sun, de
clared the inspired song of the psamist. More pes
ple die from heat and in New York and Hi
nois than in Arizona Pneumonia claims as many vic
tins in this southern desert it does in the bitte
cline of Michigan away to the northward The Mas
ter's scales are immutable. Nothing is hid from Hi
tabernacle Its rays bring equal joy and equal sorrow
TO the children of men the world every year.
Look upward children of the desert, for joy comet
| from above You are fortunate indeed. Bright ant
clear is the glance of who look towards high ant
distant places Beyond the gates of the Eterna
CITY Mayhap it will be given to you to see them frs
because YOU have lived closer to God in the deser
than YOU would had your dwelling place been in tn
cities built by
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