The Mena weekly star., 1921-01-27

| Now this is not only the blessing of
 the student and the housewife and the
 mother and the father and the min
 iser and the typist, but a like con
 sciousness and helpfulness is also l the blessing of the agriculturist--
 mind of his master, bringing all good things to pass.
 God gives the soil and the grain. Man prepares the soil, sows the seed and
 man and God together reap the har-
 vest. The chemical laboratory can do
 many wonderful things, but it can
 not produce a grain of wheat that will grow. The chemist can put in all the | ingredients-th oxygen, carbon, ni- trogen, hydrogen, and the rest of the
 elements that belong to it. He can have the same form, correctness, dens- | ity and naturalness which is like the 1 original grain, but it will not grow.
 Just the chemist is in that grain. He
 has no Silent Partner. God is not in | 1t as He is in His grain of corn or wheat. The carpenter and the archi- l tect has the same consciousness It is a wonderful thing my bretheren and sisters when you come to cosider the
 mind of man.
 A few years ago l was making a visit to Pittsburg, Pa. Having been there you will notice peculiarity of the streets being on a semi-circle. But in going around these semi-circular streets my attention was attracted by the wonderful heights of the build ings. On one of these avenues one finds the highest building in the city. Being of curious nature of one that loves to look upon architecture walked into the great building, took the elevator until he last floor above and then l visited all the floors going down, noting how it was made, the materials used, the marble, the steel, ! it's composition, the mechanical grand eur. The artist had done his very
 best 1t seemed to me and when land- | ed on the first floor again this thought was in my mind-this entire building from cellar to garret in detail, out lined material,with every angle was in some mans mind before it was--not a single shovel of dirt taken out from the basement. nor particle of mater ial upon the ground, And l said,
 How can this be- The immense task-it could not be save for the Silent Partner of man by his side. I am thinking of the great ships that plough the seas, every ship has | two pilots-one standing with his hand upon the wheel while the Other stands with His hand upon the wheel cf the universe.
 I would like for you to come aside with me for a few minutes now from the material side of life to the spirit ual side of man, to the soul life of man. The man whose soul thinks the thoughts of God feels the emotions of God, and feels the volitions of God. To my mind this is marvellous thing.
 Man in his weakness, man in his in- sufficient mind as he is in the flesh coming to the joy of the privilege in his life of thinking God thoughts. God | thought-the worlds were made; God | thought-the sun shone; God thought and the heavens were taken from His finger tips; God thought and the beasts of burden were formed and the fowls of the air; and the flowers bloomed; God thought and the tradi- tions were accomplished-that of the creation of man, with mind that was
 to live and look like God, man | that was to look like God and a man that was to be like God
 In the holiness of His field you reach the climax in your speech and in your thinking. We have great men and women who want to rob the re- ! ligion of it's emotions. When you rob the religion of emotion you rob it of 1 its definiteness. The emotion of God.
 It Is an emotion of pity. It is an emotion of sympathy. The character I T T 1la fssrr of his followers is love.
 1 And | want to say to you this morning that in the material world this partnership has to do with the transformation of the product, but in 1 the spiritual field we have to do with the transformation of the producer
 This is my closing thought this morning. God is not Silent Partner with the anarchist. God is not a | Partner with the nihilist. God is not partner with selfishness. God is not partner with unchaste thoughts and selfish desires. God is a partner with the useful of life. All the progress that man makes from the cradle to the grave is made side by side the manifest Partener.
 Life is a struggle Everyone of us is acquainted with life's struggle. It is a struggle for political prestige. It is struggle for social notority. It Is struggle for business success. It is struggle for moral courage. 1t is struggle for spiritual life. 1t is a struggle for every legitimate accom- plishment It is a struggle for life in this world and the world to come.
 There are those before me this morning who will say today, Brother Green, what courage can you give me that | can succeed? 2" The business
 man looks me in the face and says, | What assurance can have that 1 can succeed in business and be a chris tian ?" That man that is down and
 out in the lime and debaueh of life looks up and smile thru his tears and says, Brother, what assurance can
 you give me that I can overcome the l flesh, and the blood and the devil ?" | And I point to the words of the Son of God who was both Man and God,
 and say, Brother Man, Jesus says, I"Lo. I am with you always, even unto the end of the world" Get us pray.)
 
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