Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-11-27
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Rev. Charles e. Griffin in his sermon,
spoke in part as follows:
GIVE THANKS, NOT BOAST.
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GIVE THANKS, MOI Boast.
This is a time when many give
themselves to Boosting of our great
nation, her resources, our Puritan an
cestry, our share in the recent war.
Strangers in listening to our money
crazed pleasure intoxicated, vanity
filled Americans, would think we built
the mountains, dug the rivers, scooped
out the lakes. But today let boasting
be excluded and as nation and as
individuals may we come humbly be-
fore our great good God. When riches
and success come our way we often
forget their source. We forget that OPP
portunity and genius are the gifts of
God. More and more we need to bring
our wealth and culture and kneeling
before our great, good God ac-
knowledge Him as the giver and gra-
cious benefactor of us all.
GOD is GOOD.
God! Jehovah! the covenant God.
You can't define Him. No argument
can satisfy us. You can't crowd God
into a syllogism, but He does find His
habitatiun in a yielding human heart.
So the truth of God comes as revela-
ton. When we think of God we wish
for the spirit and power of a Massillon.
the French preacher who in just pro-
nouncing the name God could bring
his audience to their feet. There are
no measurements OF the mind to de-
termine his personality. The prophets
and sages overawed by the Divine have
sought in vain to express in words his
greatness. Solomon in terms of space
| cries out, The heaven and heaven OF
| heavens cannot contain Him. An
/ other in terms of time exciaims, God
| inhabiteth eternity Isaiah takes his
| brush and tries to paint a picture of
the Almighty as he writes, Who hath
measured the waters in the hollow of
His hands. and meeted out heaven with
q span, and comprehended the dust of
| the earth in q measure and weighed the
mountains in scales and the hills in
a balance 1t is this great God the
Psalmist declares is good. Only true
greatness can be good. And he who
is truly good is really great.
| THE LITTLE OF SOUL.
| There are those who say God is
not good. II is because they are
vision that they question and rail
against God. They forget, il they
ever knew, that God is love and
1 just at the Same time, and that He
always does what is fit and right
for all, always. All questioning
and railing against God reveals a
sinful ungratefui heart.
mot only is God good. but always
good. Not mostly. there is no modifi-
cation, no exception. In the sunshine
and in the darkness, in the bitter and
the sweet in success and failure, In
victory and In defeat. in the abundance
and in the withholdings, God Is good.
Yes. even In the affliction. A deaf
mute pupil was asked IL she thought
God was good to her In allowing her
to suffer affliction, and how she ex-
planned that she had thus to suffer and
her companions did not. She replied
with tears and q smile. Even SO 1t
seemed good in His sight
sWEETEN THE BITTER
TN many homes Is vacant chair
that was filled last Thanksgiving by
= loved one now gone to the great be-
.lyond. They are free from suffering
and temptation present with the Lord
l-whloh - far better. Heaven II rich
Or ana earth to you mAy seem poorsr
i hut not 20. for after ~ there - nc
wealth outside Of the foul and q life
that molds ittelf into praise cannot b