The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-05-31
w SERM O N
BY REV. 7. J. SIMONS

with God. II is a fine thing for a
farmer to feel that he is working with
his maker. II gives him dignity. And
there is profit in it too. Says the
scripture Goodness is profitable"
The farmer must learn the ways OF
God in nature. Just as the fisherman
learns the nature of fish in order that
he may catch them. Likewise the
miner must know the way the laws
of nature have deposited the vein OF
coal or lead or silver or gold. The
blacksmith too learns the nature of
the iron in order to work 1t. Dis
covering Gods ways in nature is, IL
one follow them, trusting God. In
quiry into the nature OF things is in
q%uiring of God. Following their ma
ture is following the nature of God,
and that is following God, and follow
ing God is trusting him.
3. But man shall not live by bread
alone. One of the most important
things I'm national life is to council
correctly. TO do so requires guild
ance. Neither man nor nations can
unaided discern correctly or sufficient
ly. Changing conditions and combin-
atoms make the council of men OF
little use. Unless founded on Gods
immutable council the plans of men
gang aft aglee". What appears to
men the right thing to do is often
wrong, but not so with God. What
seems to men to be the best way to
do a thing often brings disaster. MY
ways are not as your ways saith the
Lord, neither are your thoughts as
my thoughts" God plans and exc
f, cutes with absolute certainty there
fore to him should the nation go for
g%uidence in it's affairs. Man is no
match for God and man. As every
w~orld-power found that attacked Is
rael.
IL. Jehovah is not the only God
a nation may have by any means.
Some have mammon or wealth, others
have pride or Imperialism, still others
have power or preeminance. But all
are Obstructive to true nationality.
Jehovah is the only fundamental con-
strUctive motive. True constructive
ness is always a blessing. A part OF
the constuctiveness of God is choos-
ing people for his own Inc choos-
ing is not an arbitrary one, but il
works according to the laws OF na-
ture. A chosen people OF God is the
people that is working out the choice
of God. 1t is like every thing else.
by their fruits we shall know them.
That is the only way we know my
thing that is thus known is spiritual.
The Isralites were chosen by God to
give to the world the true idea OF
God, not only in their CONCEPTIONS.
hnt a. x,~,I 10 nut Il, thai national
life. England was evidently chosen
to bring the ends of the earth together
and unity the peoples. And shall we
not inquire for what we were chosen.
For surely we are chosen. Woe to
the people that does not thus con-
ceive for itself. Whatsoever ire the
ideals Of a people for the working
out of them Is it chosen provided a
gain that they are the ideals of God.
/ cannot but believe that this ma
ton Is chosen to develop and give to
the world the finest civilization the
world has ever seen. Nay a finer
one than 1T has yet een 1t is now
making strides in accomplishing
things in scientific discovery that are
the admiration of the world. The
different foundations for original
research as we'll as the government
laboratories are bringing to light the
minuteae of the wonders of God that
shall be worked into a new, macro-
cosm. Conquest over once dreaded
diseases is now sure. BY more and
more efficient yet simple machinery
the labor of mankind and womankind
is made a lighter and more delight
sul. Instead of toilsome piodding ov-
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