The Denver star., 1917-04-14
Mans Mistakes,
Gods Opportunity
DOES GOD Use WRATH OF mEn TO SHOW MS LOVE ?

No than today the lines of that famous hymn
God moves in mysterious His wonders perform.
He plants His footsteps the and rides the
storm No applicable any of facts than to
those now making the worlds situation. Why has
benighted savage Altrstc and pagan Africa and MAZDA
been compelled give her strength power
and all in this civilized fare Christian brother
Why have the Negroes been affected in the United States
that their unfavorabe condition the South has been
touched thru European bullets? Why did American Ne
Multeers Seamen and Soldiers alike have give
their lives in the modern Christian warfare when Amer
ca was being threatened with dismemberment? Why are
being weakened and destroyed and democratic
and republican forms being IN their
places night it seems? Why the oppress
ed peoples being touched by Governmental and economic
circumstances before? Why In short does God
know what is best for and did Christ make mistake
when He stated Gods laws for man?
world catastrophe great the present of
necessity produce results unexpected We read with
quill mind perhaps OF the great wars of the In the
light of the preceding and following they
seem not strange unusual In fact reasoning from
cause to effect almost such changngs and
tuninGs unavoidable But when we live in the midst
OF such time OF terror and distress when the brutal
stincts Of by burst forth
in all their and horrid nakedness when honor which
even thieves supposed respect found be
known quantity then questions begin arise and
begin to doubt those eternal vertes which they
thought were founded their faith in God and ltis
one thing read of fight the death quite another
thing to be participant in such a struggle
All who sympathze with the weakness of human
ture feel the need of exercising little charity for those
who proclaimed glowing faith in Gods goodness and
love- and who find that their faith wavers that the
light OF their hope dimmed that cruel doubt of the very
existence Of God who constantly and whose
lapse into pessmsm is serious stumbling block Others
All attempts understand the mystery of suffering will
end much like the attempt understand the of
original SIM the mystery will remain mystery still But
suffering like sin be accepted undenabe fact just
the phenomena of accepted undenlabe
facts, although they are but partially understood Even
o
there truths related that denies and
which may be found in their have bear
ing the almost staggering problem of the
Since the time when first broke the law of God sut
serlng has been the experience of the
AIR we breathe Even the holy Son of God endured calmly
bravey patiently suerings beyond the of any
OF the of men. Now do find doubts be
cause sin and sorrow and suffering have been and
lversa We this fact something dreadful indeed
and to great extent in view of Chrs cleans
blood, but do doubt the goodness His
wondrous love to man because these things Ra
ther faith in Him and love for Him
deepened since withstandng sins and consequent
suffering His love prevails all peace o,
through acceptance of His marvellous gift.
Now why should faith stumble, when the SORROW
suffering and agony multiplied the terrible
portions due to this WARP No principle has entered
into the problem. The factors the 1t two
times two equals four there truth stated when we
say four times four equals sixteen? If sin drove Adam
from Eden. and il the death Calvary, should
wonder that sin by twenty of the
outrageous neglect of Chcsts another should
result in such WARP No factors has entered no the
problem Reasoning from effect, such cat
acysm seems to have been vtabe. Surely the
quence of sin be Questioned. The history Of man
kind leaves loophole escape conclusions the
wages of sid is de ath."