The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-01-01


levels to the higher.
Our world is such busy one that
it is easy. for one to become absorb
ed in the field of sense. We live
admist vast panorama of exciting
drama which oetracts out attention
from the reactions of our soul life.
We hurry from one thing to the
other absorbing each of their inn
mediate reactions without stopping
to catalogue them, and we are UNI
aware of Just what our souls are
becoming. We are sometimes brought
face to face with ourselves by some
emotional crisis and we are at loss
to know how we got that way.
At such time as this we need this
vision of Isaiah. Turn to it and
read if often. There are many of us
who are at this very moment passing
through great emotional crisis.
With some this crisis is accompanied
by physical pain and suffering. 1t is
hard for us to watch our strength
wane and pass away whether it be
strength of body or soul. Oh! How
we set our hearts upon the good and
| make il the enemy of the better.
With what misgivings do we look
| upon the future when our props are
| suddenly snatched from under us.
There comes to my ear, daily, the
wall of broken hearts or there is
brought to my attention the almost
silent swapping of delicate reeds that
bend over into the marshes of life
! to die. And in almost every case
there is too much insistence upon
clinging to some forlorn hope. de-
sire for the glamour of Uzziah and
too little looking away to God. Let
us look away. Let my shut-in-for-
days look away. Let your distressed
THRONE HIGH AND LOFTY.
THERE is A GOD WHOSE Ma
TURE is HOLY; THERE is A
REALM WHERE SPIRITS ARE,
FREE; THERE is A REFUGE FOR
US WHERE LIFE IS AT IT'S
FLOODTIDE.
Shall the churches sit idly by and
let the material develop of men out
strip their spiritual development ?"
We cannot escape such an end unless
there is an awakened spiritual en-
phasis on the part of those who love
the Lord and His cause. Our organ
lied church life will reflect the
spiritual ineight of its leaders and
members. AS with the individual,
so with the church. As with the
church, so with society. Any luke
warmness, any Indifference will soon
find its way to the surface. 1t is
not my purpose, to discuss the place
of the church in this crusade but | do
wish to emphasize, that any effort
to reach the heights to which we
shall lift your eyes; being outside OF
the church, will be serious handi-
cap to your progress. Join some
church. Surely there is some group
with whom you can work and where
you can live radiantly and at your
best. You have responsibility here,
that you must not ignore. But in
church or out we do well to sit
down and take retrospective view
for the next few weeks. We will
meet together in spirit with the Wis
ion of the supreme good before us
and by a consideration of the home,
the school and the church we shall
seek to shift our emphasis from outer
to inner values.
In closing, NAV we not pray for
definite conservation, during this
and all other days. to the highest re-
vealed good? Let us pray in the
spirit of favorite hymns.
Have thine own way Lord, Have
thine own way,
Thou art the Potter, am the clay,
Mould me and make me, after thy
will,
While | am waiting, Yielded and
still.
Have thine own way Lord, Have
thine own way,
Hold DER my being, Absolute sway,
Fill with thy Spirit, till all shall see,
Christ only always. Living in nae.
Amen. Amen. Amen.