Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-04-16

first part of the first chapter of Exe-
kiels prophecy. He said In taking up
the thought Of the prophet: Men
must take world view of events II
their conclusions are to be true and
their faith sane. The difficulty with
many folks Is they are imprisoned by
microscopic conceptions. They cannot
see beyond ono little event. hence they
are frequently pessimists. In every
time of trouble or calamity or war
there are a lot of people who use these
events as starting point for the con-
struction of fantastic, irrational and
crassly materialistic theories Of God
and his plans. They see In the dis
aster Of the hour sure proof that tho
divine processes are failure and that
the movement of all things il to the
scrapheap.
GOD WAS NOT DEAD.
What must the men Of Rome have
felt when the imperial city. that had
sent her eagles to the Danube and the
Thames, that had brought law and
safety to savage tribes along the Tig-
ris and the Rhine. was sacked by bru-
tal ignorant races from the north, and
down upon Europe! What must the
men Of Constantinople have felt when
that city that represented the best in
thought and art and law, accumulated
through thousands of years, fell be-
fore the destroying hosts Of Mahometl
What must the men Of that time have
felt when the very churches conse-
Grated by the blood of the martyrs.
churches that had echoed to the voices
of the apostles, went down before the
merciless hosts of the Saracens! Yet
God was not dead. He was never
nearer to his world than in that hour
of travail. For the scholars Of Con-
stantinople fled to the west and they
carried with them the Greek manu-
scripts and literature. and out of ths
renaissance and the reformation that
these bred have come all the precious
things of liberty. democracy and re-
ligious freedom which we enjoy.
What must the men of ancient
Jerusalem have felt when they saw the
holy city and the temple Of the fathers
ravaged and burned by barbaric hands,
when they saw the awful slaughter in
the streets and the uncomfortable at
rocities perpetrated upon the chosen
people! All this Ezekiel had seen and
the irony of it had entered into his soul,
and the bitterness Of it filled his
thought. There he was an interned
prisoner Of war in q far away land.
AS he walked UP and down in the sand
musing upon the awful things which
he had witnessed, he had a vision of
God, vision of God in his world. In
the graphic language which he en-
ploys to describe his vision, one sees
many things, but 1t is really a world
sweep of thought.
THE WORLD IN MOTION.
I'm the first place he sees a world
in motion. Everything is moving. Not
only suns and planets and solar sys-
TENS are in motion, but even in the
atom there are systems as complicated
| as solar systems, and they are all in
motion. Everywhere energy, pulsing,
throbbing energy. What is energy? In
the last analysis energy Is will. All
this world in motion represents will.
over all this sweep of wheels and
winging of creatures and forces the
spirit broods. Everything Is shot
through with the intelligence of God.
The forces of this world are not blind
irrational forces moving to uncertain
ends. The forces Of this world are
directed by nationality and are NOV
ing toward intelligent ends. History
and science both confirm the vision
of the prophet.
"One notes that these forces which
the prophet saw were ravenous forces,
the eagle, the lion and the awful
wheels that moved SO fast that one
might not see them go. That is true
for the forces Of the world are raven
GUS forces. Nature has no eyes of
sympathy, and no heart Of love. When
our lives are Swallowed by grief unut-
terable, the sun will shine and the
birds will sing and mat and the spring
will come as at other times. o, some
times nature seems like a wild raven
Gus thing, heartless and cruel. But
you will observe that at the front
there was ever the face Of a man.
That is the story Of Gods evolution.
Man is ever coming to the fore. Man
is ever controlling the british and the
savage. The history OF progress Is in
letting the ape and tiger die There
is a man at the heart Of things, there
is a man at the front of all the move
ments Of nature and history. The real
man, the divine man, the prototype Of