The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-25
God Reveals Back View to Us; the Present Only You
 Can See," Said Minister
BIBLE REPLETE WITH
 HISTORY OF NATIONS
"I Feel Like Saying Today, 'Hurrah, Old Earth, Stay With God and You Will Win,'" Said
 Dr. Stuart

.swhy the Future Is Hid" was the subject of a powerful sermon delivered at the First Methodist church yester- day morning by pr. George R. Stuart the pastor.
 "When you have the key it is very easy to get through the biggest kind of a door and we are going to try to give you the key so that you can go through this morning." said pr. Stu art
 If you will study this great book you will get the key to why the future is hidden Moses spent 40 years III watching and guarding sheep. watch tug them nip the grass, and he knew every rock and every sprig of grass in the mountains where he sojourned, but God hid his future from him, just as He has hidden it from the eyes of all of His people. The present you can only see and understand as God moves His hand and shows it to you. God Almighty's open book is re- vealed to all-study it and know God and His reasons for the things that He does
 There is your picture, God reveals only the back view to us, Moses dis obeyed God and was never allowed to see the Promised Land It was nec- essary for God to reveal to Moses Ills laws, and He did it. The beauty and glory of the book of Isaiah is read from the past and not from the future.
 That is where Christianity excelS all other religions, it has prophecy of hundreds of years before Chris. that was fulfilled. Fortune tellers and soothsayers who would tell you Gods nturs are only acting in sacrilege, for God has shut the door against your heads against it.
 My boat is on Gods waters, and with Him at the helm, say, Where He leads will follow
 There was wealthy man who lost his little child He was heartbroken. One day while riding in an elevated train in New York he saw some ragged little children playing and running up and down the street-little waifs- and he cried: Oh, why didn't God take one of them and leave me my child. so that I could do everything on earth for it. while there is no one to do for those little children. One day later he stood in mission in New York and told two girls who came forward and confessed that they had sinned. to go and sin no more. and they answered him, Where will we go-no one wants us? It's either go back to sin. or where we don't know. and he began to think about it. Today you will find in every large city In the United States Florence Crittenden homes for girls who have reformed. or girls who are homeless. That was why God took his child away from him. perhaps, in order that he might see lis way to do the things that he did for humanity.
 God gives you blessing and you are so shortsighted that you want to cry for more. just like the baby with his arms full and cries for something else. hut God says, now you have had your blessing-get out and walk. If you know what God did yesterday, you know what He will do today. Cod s biography Is here in this book You never got into any place in your life that some men in this Bible have rot gotten into. and God led them out.
 If you are discontented, a student, or an apprentice, and are anxious about the future, study the Bible and see for yourself, and think of Moses. who spent 40 years in preparation for his leadership.
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