New Britain herald., 1919-04-28
n SERMON ON DERS OF NATURE
. N. MiSSirian Breaches at
 lnley Memorial Church

Memorial church, preached a @ sermon yesterday. on Mature x Silent Preacher. speaking
 crying need of the hour for x ople is clear understanding
 word of God. in the midst ot |HsS aiversal turmoil and perpleNity
 q may come to know ou1 # in his true relation to our @ Among. the many helps in
 g us to know God, as he has
 l Himself to us in His word
 areful study of nature.
 # natural world is mirror of x ritual world. If we understand aright- WIG will also, through M Int that comes to us from ila-
 rasp as never before, the hid x pths of meaning in Gods word, # me to love God more ardently, #rve Him more devotedly. As
 rn to the study of nature We AeTtain truths that are written # letters of fire upon sky and
 lig sea, and it is to these truths
 wish particularly to direct your
 lon this morning.
 x First, the forces of nature arc
 .ible. It makes little differ
 There we turn. this message of x ibre might of natures forces
 nly in evidence. Consider for Nle, the wind. How playfully it #bnr cheek. How gently. it
 Bs among the tree tops. How & it touches the grasses in the |ws. and caresses the flowers
 in the garden, Little does
 Eream of it's terrific power, but #tine to time men have been Fit to realize that the wind pos the strength of million times Zion giants. #ag centuries ago the vast em- Elf Persia arose in her might, Nrcsolved to hum ble Greece. #otus. the great Greek historian #s that she marshalled an army Zoo. GOO men and sent this force Mt Greece. Tn addition she fitted N2oO war vessels and sailing As the earth trenbled before #award march of that mighty Ss the waters were darkened by Sncoming fleet of Persia's 1,200 SesseIs, it seemed as though the for the doom of Greece had N. Hopeless seemed the task of < back the invader, But God Bn his throne and God sent mighty wind that lashed the Ito a fury and dashed the proud sof Persia to pieces upon the Si rocks of Greece. Persia stood led, not simply before little #e, but before all the world and B God. -...--.,
 \ Ie forces of nature are powerful In to do their work. They do Bld will not fail The wind when |vs will bring to us the life-giving In and sustain the life; it will
 tho clouds across the sky and bitate the moisture; it will strip lees of their old, dead leaves and .r them far and wide and make
 for the new leaves, new blos-
 and new fruit: The sunlight To it's work. It will most surely
 the earth; it will ripen the
 in the field, build the oak in the and redden the peach upon zee. The sea as 1t comes roaring d the coast rushes into our llar- lot in vain. It gathers into itself Ith and refuse of the nations and salty depths all the rivers of arth are purified. and when, by un's action the vapor rises from urface of the sea and is carried I'd and formed into clouds and nds again in refreshing showers,
 drop of rain is as clear as cry every snowflake that falls upon ltain top or green hillside is so , as to remind us of the angels ertain--so absolutely certain--is that the forces of nature which as set in operation will do their lnted work that He says: While earth remaineth seed time and est and cold and heat and sum- and winter and day and night
 not cease
 Iet as natures forces will do their given work, so also will the spir-
 forces of His kingdom do their :. Jesus says: T will work and shall hinder it?' Jesus is not a | onlooker but a ceaseless, tire worker in the midst of mankind. ing with perfect love and guided herring wisdom, He assures that equal to the worlds needs. My shall supply all your needs ac- ng to His riches in glory by he iinit1ess resources found in arc all sufficient to enable Him 7erthroW sin and seIfishness, to sll war, to purge the nations and ryc in integrity and uprightness life. As St. Paul. tri- lant in faith. exclaims: T am per d that He is able to keep that I I have committed unto Him st that day and again he says: n do all things through Christ strengtheneth me- The favor .sus is 'rcsistib1e-but We have om of choice.
 The second thing which inn as us about the forces of Nature SIT unirersality. Go where we e and we find Natures mighty s operating. We may stand in the
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