Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-06-17

that; in the midst. Of human affairs
ways found. We think It is very Inn
portant what we do. We think it ts
Of the utmost - importance what
America may do, what England may
do, what France or Italy may do. and
what Germany may do. But after all
these are only secondary in impor-
lance compared with h chief mat
ter Of the universe. Gods purpose
from the beginning for humanity.
GAS we look back over history we
can trace the divine motive working
in. the affairs of nations. We can see
whittier God was going, whittier the
great divine purpose was Leading IN
the fall Of the Roman empire, IN the
fall Of the lGrecian republic, IN the
time Of the reformation. In all the
events of the years that arc past.
"If God goes forth as a mighty
man. He goes for a high and holy
purpose, and He goes not alone. He
goes as a great leader. and there is q
great host that follows Him. 1t Is
this that gives the personal meaning
to our text, and it Is of the host thai
follows Him, Gods ~chevaliers. n OF
the larger chivalry of faith, that l
wish to speak.
Faith Compared to Chivalry.
I'VE are prone to think Of faith
as intangible, but it is as much an act
Of chivalry as "a the going forth 81
a knight in the brave days OF old.
1t is the laying hold on God. The
spirit of chivalry is not in you II you
can have gallantry of soul. The mo-
ment you shut out the belief IN God.
you make yourself a plodding
creature of the earth. and your soul
is dead within you when you believe
that like a worm you will be crushed
out. The moment you lay hold OF
God by faith. that moment you be-
come a knight Of God. You have the
spirit Of Moses, and you dare venture
out into the immensely and claim it
all for yourself.
laid down in the teachings Of Christ.
They are the great belief in the Faith
erhood of God, belief in the Savior
hood of Christ, belief in the friend
ship OF the Holy Spirit, that eve
departing presence of the Holy Ghost,
which makes true manhood, and the
belief In the brotherhood Of man.
Another thing that blends into
the larger chivalry is the love OF
beauty, the ability to see the lowell
ness in fields and flowers. and skies,
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sic. and grandeur in Shakespeare, re-
alizing that everything of beauty in
the earth adds something to the glory
of God. For God touched the stars
and they sprang into light; He touch
ed the buds and they opened with
beauty and perfume.
Courage, of the Age.
ITO see with a clear vision the
meaning Of it all. Of all that life is,
the hard things Of the daily life, the
sweat. the toll. and the blood. and
to remain %steadfast in faith, that is to
De one of Gods chevaliers. This WIS.,
ion is something more than a knowl-
edge Of science, it is to look as
1t takes the spirit of a chevalier to
go through our factories and our
slums and see the unfortunate and
d~owntrodden and see in them the
pearl of great price.
SIN Gods host is the chevalier Of
the dare, who will look out into the
great adventure and leaving all his
comfortable home surroundings will
go out into the place Of unknown
dangers where duty calls. 1t takes
courage to go out into the modern life
low to get to the place where you
will say, 1T matters not whether I
live or die The great courage of
the present time is that which forgets
itself in the great issue Of the time:
to go forth to give our lives to stop
that awful thing that is trying to
fasten its manacles on all nations.
1T is this spirit that dominates our
soldiers. The spirit that goes forth
like the spirit Of Christ.
I'VE must add this to our thought
in the larger chivalry Of the TWEEN
tieth century, we must have that spir-
it of love and Of service that binds
all nations together. A little French
girl wrote an essay on the entrance
Of the United States into the war, and
she said that on either side of the
narrow river Yesr there lay two vast
armies Of men so close that they
could shout to each other and be
heard. But they were in reality so
far apart that nothing could bridge