Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1920-01-07

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and their foolish hearth are hardened,
they win not listen. They viii moi
quently this gift of faith that animated
this>littlc band OF sisters rs years ago
that animate us all and drives us Ia
our knees in humble acknowledgment
of Gods supreme dominion over us
is not found in their hearts. But II IL
" gift and God will give 1t to those
who ask 1t humbly and TO those who
are willing to make a sacrifice to show
that they appreciate 1t. What Is the
sacrifice that God asks OF YOU and
me and of all mankind IL we would
have this wonderful gift Of faith
Surely it is not martyrdom. The DAYS
of martyrdom are past. But God asks
of us the submission of our intelli-
gence and our will to His will and
His revealed truth. Why should VIC
not submit our intelligence to AL
mighty God? Is He not the creator
and we the creatures? Is He not in
finite and we finite?
SUBMIT TO CREATOR.
IT follows as logically as day fol.
lows night that there are depths in the
cannot fathom and heights so sublime
that human reason can never scale
God might have created us differently
He might have created us that we
might understand these things, but He
did not. He put us here with certain
limitations of intellect. He wants to
try us. He wills us to believe. In re-
turn, some day, He will draw aside the
ven that hides His .wondrous beauty
and unveil Himself to us in all His
majesty and splendor, if here below
we are content to believe that He is
behind the wells, our God, our Father
ana our Friend. Yes. He asks us to
believe, to submit our puny intelligence
to His. While He asks this of us He
tells us that He is our Creator. that
He brought us into this world and that
He watches over us with such care
that not even hair of our head shall
fall without His consent. He tells us
He loves us with love so tender that
the love of the fondest mother is but
the faintest shadow of it, and yet while
He tells us those things he strikes us
down to the ground until our hearts
beat with anguish and He wants us to
say as Job of old, God giveth. God
taketh away; let the will of God be
DONE.
The sacrifice Of the intelligence is
no doubt great, but the sacrifice Of
the will is greater still. God has his
martyrs in every age. Heroes and
heroines, who shed their tears in Sc
cret, but like the sisters who followed
Him 20 years ago out into the wild
ana woody west, SO too today you find
men and women all over the world who
are making sacrifices just as great for
the sake OF that same divine Saviour.
They have unbounded faith in Him.
But let me tell you, friends. that to
talk of faith and TO live by it are
things entirely different. How easy
1t is for us on Bonded knees to say,
Our Father who are in heaven while
everything smiles upon us and all is
bright and gay about us. How easy TO
say, Give us this day our daily bread
when we have plenty, but when the
saunt form of want is at our door
when the children cry for bread, when
the arm that earned 1t for them lies
helpless upon bed of sickness, 1t is
then that that divine faith that ami
mated the sisters of whom am speak
ing sustains us, reminding us of F'a-
Their in heaven who feeds the birds of
the air and who clothed the lilies of
the field in such beauty that even Sol
as one of them. 1t is easy to say, For
give US our trespasses as we forgive
those who trespass against u.s. but
when friends are false and our best
laid plans come tumbling about our
ears, il is then that divine faith of
which | speak strengthens and sus-
Lains US and enables us to say like our
divine Master in the garden of Geth-
semane, My God, Thy will not Mine be
lone
FAITH OF THE SISTERS.
This, friends, is the faith that the
sisters. possessed. This is the faith that
hey received at the font of baptism
rom the divine Master whom they
lave SO willingly and selflessly served. |
That is why they needed His call and
money in their purses, without |
wealth, without influence. they came TO |
serve Him here in Boise SO long ago. |
That is the first cause of their sue |
'ess, because they knew that they We're |
LONG His work and they knew that the |
'eward was sure. The second cause |
vas the welcome and announcement |
hey received from good Bishop Glor-
eux and from the people of this place |
Who, according to the newspaper ac-
counts, We're generous helpers. II |
ound no trace of il in the newspapers,
would know it anyhow, that the peo-
,le of Boise and vicinity of every class
md creed and color welcomed them
md sustained them and helped them
n the work. That's the second cause
# their success.
Boise has been blessed and not only |
Boise but the whole state of Idaho, and
hese good sisters cer:ainly deserve
heir reward. They deserved every
you ever gave them.