Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-04

| since the war, as not before for
generations, all of civilization sub
scribes to the creed. II celievc IN
God" We hear the rcverent words
of General Foch, General Pershing.
General HaiG. Admiral Beatty, and
the other fighting men, and we agree
that this God has nightly displayed
his personal providence during
the world war. We see that he
lis God who fights for justice
| and righteousness ana ligerty ani
brotherhood. His character is re-
vealed by his works.
What we believe about God is the
most important factor in shaping
our own conduct and character
shallow-pated persons occasionally
say, 1T does not matter what a
man believes, so long as he acts
right" But history is one long tes-
timony to the truth that men act
only according to their beliefs. The
beliefs of Luthers Germany had to
he changed by the cult of material
istic philosophy before thera conli
be produced the monstrcsity OF
"kulture" and frightfulness. AS
man thinketh, SO he is" Given 4
holy God to whom people are loyal
and yCG will have a hoy people
Let our boys and girls grow up un-
taught concerning God, or in cir
cles where the will of God is not
reckoned with. and there will in
evitably follow a generation of self
ish and loose-living men and
women.
Collins. the free-thinker. once
met a plain farmer, and asked him
where he was going. ITO church.
sir" what are you going 70 do
there?" Worship God" rs he a
great God or a little God?" Both.
How can that be?" He is so
great, sir that the heaven of heav-
ems cannot contain him, and so lit
tie that he can dwell in my heart"
Collins said that this answer from
the farmer had more effect Upon his
mind than all the learned books writ
ten against him.
A Man ms n Mirror.
Once, in the city of Alexandria
in Egypt, 1 interviewed Abbas Eff
fendi, the head of the Behai cult
and his talk was all of manifesto
tions," Or of men who mifTored
God. He kept returning to thi:
idea of the prophets as mirrors. II
is a good one. In the greatest mod
ern telescope one does not look di'
rectly at the heavenly bodies, but
into a wonderful and perfect mir
ror. So to see God most clearly, we
must behold him mirrored in the face
! of Jesus Christ. We cannot compre'
hend God in his infinity; but we car
: behold him in the person and quail
tiles of his sent Revealer, his only
Son.
Every man is responsible for his
face at fifty," said distinguished
lawyer. Oar personalities do come
to reflect what we really represent
. Some men make us think or bast
things; selfshness. sensuality, sor'
didness or smallness of soul are
tamped on their faces. other mer
and women-it is oftener women
start us to thinking thought OF God
Their faces mirror spirituality. An.
whenever we look upon Jesus, we see
all of God that it is possible for u:
to comprehend. He that hath seer
me. hath seen the Father Chris
Is Gods looking glass.
The qualities of God, which Jesu!
portrayed were Father qualities
That idea was something new in re
| liEion. A God OF battles. God o.
fire, a God of nature. n God of ven
geance, a God of terror-all these
figures were familiar to the race
But in the mirror of the master mer
saw God as a Father, pitiful, patient
: protecting, providing and pardoning
1t is an overwhelming thought tha
, all the infinite and omnipotent quail
ties of God are at the service o.
his father heart.
That is a word for to-day. AL
over the earth men and women neet
to learn, above everything else, tina
God has a father nature; and tina
he sent his Son to say so I know
a woman of strong character, train
ed nurse, who is now employed by ;
few great physicians, giving her time
exclusively to this work, to visit theil
nervous and distraught patients anC
read to them the New Testament, anc
talk to them about God as Chris
made him plain. For these scienti
fcally trained doctors have learned
that it is oftenest the hearts of mel
and women that are sick; and tina
they need, more than medicines anC
surgery, to hear the voice of Jesus
say, Come unto Me and rest" NJ,
wise nurse friend has become min
lister to souls.
A Path to Peace
Our commonest ailment in th'
western world to-day is nervous pros
tration. We are fretting ourselves
into impotence and pain and JOY
lessness, because we are losing ou
faith in God. 1t is God that we nee'
most of all. A clear comprehen
sion of the truth that Jesus so beau
tifully expounded on the gently slop
ing hill by the Lake of Galilee, JUS
outside of Tiberias, is the sovereign
remedy for our days ills. He show
ed how the very Father nature of Coz
entailed exemption from anxiety:
"25. Therefore 1 say unto you
Take no thought for your life wha
We shall eat. or what ye shall drink
nor yet for your body. what ye shall
put on. Is not the life more thai
meat, and the body than raiment?
"26. Behold the fowls of the air
for they SOW not. neither do the!
reap, nor gather into barns; ye
your heavenly Father feedeth them
Are ye not much better than they
"27. Which of you by taking
thought can add one cubit unto hi
stature?
"2S. And why take ye though
for raiment? Consider the lilies o
the field, how they grow; they toi
not, neither do they spin:
"29. And yet 1 say unto you. Tha
even Solomon in all his glory wa
not arrayed like one of these.
"3O. Wherefore. If God so cloth
the grass of the field, which to-da!
is. and tomorrow is cast into tn
even, shall he not much more cloth
you, o ye of little faith?
"31. Therefore take no though
saying, What shall we eat? OF
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