Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-16
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 rible war, in any great moral catas- trophe of nations or individuals? If Fl God were to do sthat-if He were to Fl
 interpose. the. scepter of omnipotence
 every time king were unjust, or a or merchant dishonest, orsa eeducer II
 plotted the ruin of woman or a mur-
 derer whetted his knife; if He were | | to wipe out the Neros and the Tor E quemedas, the Dukes of Alva and the Bonapartes and the Kaiser WilheimS, |
 as fast as they gave ofense to the con
 science of the world things would l happen: z s<s zs
 I i. Every one of us would ssbe wiped i out, and the; world would be left ten 1 antiess and d1bares Not one of us could hope for amnesty, For we are all sinners and guilty, in much or in little, of the same rebellion, the same law l lessness and the same cruelty to the | irest, as these conspicuous transgressors
 of the way Of the worlds progress. | According to- the magnitude and enor- | rnity of our sins. we are all in con | f1ict with the Divine VIII and ob- l Structors% of the moral order and ad- l vance. Practically, if we had our will
 and prayer, and God stepped in to foreibly stop every iufractiou of His I WlSS anu nOiy -idWt. the rsWuOl6 .lluu1eIl , race would have to be annihilated. 2. The whole moral order and plan ! of the Almighty would be wrecked and ! His purposes brought. to naughs. For [ that plan has conferred liberty upon : the human will, and trusts the safely . and final good of the universe to mans , free use of that power. To forcfbly
 check and destroy those who. choose | the wrong, would be to violate the N s,s- s+of
 ness. 4.i ,.;
 In a word, that method of Divine a procedure would Prussianize, the moral
 universe. Precisely such an order is
 what, the Teutons wish to create and
 make the dominating force in the po-
 litical world. They believe in a social
 and civic order. in which the will is at
 the top and works downward; The d citizen is controlled, s automatized, o without a will of. his own. The will of e the Kaiser must be the will of the sub d ject This is the public and direct IS the rest of the world. It is to resist It this imposition as the sum of all that -' is bad and intolerabie, in government l. that we are at war It is for this that is we are sending the finestsof our youth y Ito the trenches and wounds and death. of It is tue very worst type of moral con T. d troL and iss all that. God is seeking to ,e educate us away from
 or This, is the public and declaration at of William II. himself, There is but ie one will in the realm; it is the will of it the Emperor That is autocracy ir III it's extreme; and it is what Germany pr wants to impose on all. -. ot Yet that is just, the plan and policy a which some of us want to see adopted
 by High Heaven. Whoever asks why l. God does, not stop this terrible bus Tn mess, practically asks God to abandon ss His plan and adopt that of the Ger i'll mans. He would. like to: see Est.n' d. freedom over-ridden, his will paraly. he zed and his training ended by brute ve coercion. To raise that question is t h. indict the whole counsel of God in tht IT, moral order of the Cosmos. But Goo r. is more wise and patient and far es sighted and sagacious than. we,. ant
 evidently still has confidence in Hi sr, own ancient method with the spirits o r. men. Also He is more experienced he than we. He has seen many a work IS. tragedy like this end in the victory o n- the heavenly fotces. Think of tn by wars and the convulsions of states, ant in empires from whose dark furrows hay e. sprung the harvests of a nobler life as Think of Pharaoh, and Herod, ant nd Philip of Spain, and George the Third cd and Napoleon Bonaparte How the, ng made the world tremble and bleed : only to find themselves and their e1 ay ecrable works condemned and destroy gs ed by the providence of God.
 The real truth is, our own dem st ocracy is made after the pattern 70 an Gods own government Its faith i Iss expressed in that saying of MT. Boan
 c Law in the English Parliament:
 free government is better than a goo
 government'' Fhe American idea i E? one with the idea of God Hnnsel
 that the way to. the highest, good an he joy for man is to set him free, and le him learn, in the hard school Of ex
 perience and discipline, how to ltv m his own life under tself-control > in costs enormously; but it pays beyon ss all. estimate, Let us praise, and nc ble challenge, the wisdom and the bene in eficence which have made man ire
 is that he might become god-ike. sr. Free to conform his life-work to h rid t dream; rs~ ,'l-, .sss-s
 bIe ie To frame his inmost thought in feal less speech; .- ., 4. nat To bend the knee in worship uncor : a strained.
 the To strive, perchance to fall, to Tk
 is again; --s q ii To tread with tired feet the dus1 ,ndJ road; ,.-
 Ice. .,.5 : = ... an For this, our spirits find their powe
 divine; lz'-s.' ni- Not by the prop of lengthening, al no cestry,
 on ,ru Nor by the whin and edict of son its king,
 ac- M Nor customs. habit. hardening throui the long years; ; "a a But simply showroom and right sin way,
 at, at. Chance to be foolish. feeble, cen :
 of sin, ..-. ---. gh- And learn thhe path by going C
 astray"
 ces That is democracy, and that is | out way of, Gods theocracy. If you b ;gle nye m the one TOT ene h.nsoonls osIa. . her tnls eaFtn, HIly not ID tne sotnet moi they are fundamentally, the same.