The Washington herald., 1922-04-17
FLOWERS PROMISE
LIFE IMMORTAL,
PASTOR DECLARES
Rev. Fulton Says God
Speaks Through,
Nature.
SYMBOL OF PRAYER
As Tulips Spring From Bulbs,
So Man Rises to Heaven,
He Says.
SYMBOL OF PRAYER

~ REV. HUGH KERR FULTON.
Faster Nsrthninster Presbyterfan
D Church.
God speaks to men In many Ian
Euages. not only in Hebrew and
Greek. Latin and English-artin-
cial devices Of words and sentences
but also By means Of the more
perfect languages Of nature. the
stars and the storms. the noun
tains and the sea, the music Of the
forest and the silence of the will
dsrnsss. Before books were writ
ten men Locked up into the heavens
and found God. they climbed ths
mountains TO feel His presence and
, learn His greatness. they watched
the mother eagle training her
young and saw the parent-heart of
Jehovah. Wherever man builds his
hut there he sees this message OF
his Heavenly Father.
What IL this message?
Flowers Represent the Soul.
II IL . call for beauty OF life and
beauty Of soul II Is q sign that
God loves the beautiful and abho-s
uEliness, whether that ugliness be
on river bank, N city life, in
mans speech and conduct or in his
thoughts and Imaginations. Sin is
ugiinees and God hates II. He Is
keternally working to remove all
the ugliness from the world and
put the beautiful In its place.
What a call to prayer there is in
flower, II were a perfect
pagan. dwelling in a lodge in some
vast wilderness and knew nothing
at all of civilization, religion. the
Bible or any Of the thoughts of
men, but before my door I saw a
flower lifting its appealing face TO
the heavens for sunlight and
moisture. I think I should lift my
face upward in a mute appeal for
a blessing. too A flower is a per-
feet symbol OF prayer and faith.
ne depends on the powers above for
It's very life. its daily bread. No
wonder we place flowers on our
\ affairs They are Gods eternal call
to faith ana prayer.
A flower Is Gods assurance OF re-
where were they a few days ago?
In the BLACKLIST muck and dirt i'm
aHinabls. Can il be possible that
such beauty and purity have come
out of such Nth? And can any
purity Of character come from hu-
man slums OF vice and bestiality?
shows Man Can Rise.
Yes. God Is bringing out from
just such soil some of the purest
ASpuls the world knows II is an
Evidence OF mans divine inheri-
lance that. In spite of his human
Iheredity. circumstances and teach
ings. he can rise by Gods grace to
purity and nobility of heart and
j life.
All nature was dead a little
w lille ago and now Is alive again
And can we possibly mistake the
Fneaning Of this message? II shouts
aloud to US of the resurrection of
the soul-of the life to come. OF
the world above. The tulip bulb
dies in the ground. but the tulip
lives. The acorn dies but the oak
rises from its grave and in its
beauty and strength testifies of the
power OF life over death. The bulb.
1.-THE acorn and the body of man go
the way OF all the earth, but the
flower. the oak and the man live
on. The soul Is immortal.
Evidently God has q place for
the beautiful in His universe. He
needs II. and man needs IL, too, for
that which feeds the soul is more
useful than that which feeds the
body. The hearts hunger is
greater than the hunger of the
flesh. And God has flooded the
world with beauty to speak His
heart and to unbosom His soul that
His children may know Him and
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