The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-01-11

> and the giver of
a life 70 all who
l=s@zs@.sxgA ~ walk therein.
While there are
many voices in the world and none of
mem without significance. as Paul s,v4
IA HIS hrSt letter to the Corinthians,
'here IS one voice greater shan all 9TH
ers' ana yet one to which few listen
the voice Of God.
lt takes more firmness 10 keen one,s
balance in these Days than ever be-
Iore. The voices around us ore sn
many, so insistent and so varied. that
one hardly knows where he stands and
WHIT 10 believe. The voice of events
Is such that few men are making pre-
ulcuOnS any more. The world was full
Oh prophets of the Immediately i'm
pending golden age five years ago. but
thelr occupation is gone. 1t seems IN
Deilevable that in a little more than
SIX months the victorious central now
ers nave been broken to pieces by the
entente allies, but it is so. Sir George
Adam Smith said TO President Wilson
quite recently: "FOr four years | have
been schooling myself in the incredi--
ple' I'LL 1t has become terribly familiar
TO me-"
we can believe almost anything
these days, and the reason Is that man
mas lost trust in his own fOrecastings.
III man has lost this trust, is there any
being in the universe that has not done
so! We firmly believe there is. and
that one is God, who sits "On the cir
Gle or the heavens" and calmly looks
upon the connections of this planet
ana the interests of thousands much
greater. Is it not wise, therefore. to
listen to his voice?
God speaks in creation and nrovi-
dence. THE heavens declare the glory
of God and the armament showetb his
nandlw0rk." Eclipses occur TO the
second. and not jar is felt in the rev.
buttons Of the innumerable worlds
ABOUT US. In the study Of our every
Jay lie God speaks to us in law that
never for a moment gives I'D its domj-
nation. His prosperity calls for our
gratitude, his infiiction of adversely for
our penitence, and his faithfulness for
the years gone by declares that be-
cause he is Interchangeable that faith
fulness will continue.
. But God speaks TO us through his
Son as in no other way, for the Son il
the express image of the Father"
Many quickly accept the proposition
mat God thus speaks, but the voice of
Christ Is married, because their Christ
is mere caricature. They have ac-
cepted what man has said about
christ as true picture of Christ
Some conceptions of Christ are drawn .
from the paintings that are exhibited;
some get their ideas of Christ from de-
'crlptions found in popular literature.
especially fiction; some get their ideas
even from such agnOstics as Renau and
strauss; and some get theirs from
Nhat they see in those who profess TO
owe him, this picture often being
alse.
"here do we get the right picture?
We have no hesitation in saying in the
loiy scriptures. There we have fore
Teams or him in the Old Testament
nat are trustworthy; there we see IL
what he says and in what he does
4 that wonderful life which ended ON q
ne cross; there is made plain the
reat plan Of redemption that he came
D give to men, with the whole future
glow with his coming glory.
Ihere is no subject that most con-
ems men on which God has not
Doken. This statement is made
ioughtfully. 1t is not meant that
very detail Of mans life and experi-
Ice Is met by specific word, but that
10 the principles that should guide
an, touching even the minutiae of life.
ere Is nothing missing. The Bible
lis man where he is going. what he
In himself, his standing before God;
lat he Is sinful; that there Is no hope
'cept in simple faith on Jesus Christ:
at heaven is a reality-and hell as
ell; that his only guide in this life
the Word Of God, which is put into
hands in the form that he can read
d study.
Has single word that God has
~ ABOUT individuals, cities ana ma
ms In the past failed? Is there
ything in the great pictures
zen in Isaiah, Ezekiel, Zechariah,
iniei, the Gospels and other Scrip
res that is untrue? As his Word in
past has never failed, it is reason
lie to believe that his Word as to
future will not fail. Find out what
d says in his Word and act on IL,
God will have the last word.