The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-11-22
Good Neighbors
BY s. T. McCants
Seeing God In all Good Thing.

with the old question, How can we
believe in a Good God In n World
like ours today? This most impor-
tant inquiry is the uppermost
thought in the minds of men
throughout the world today We
ponder in our hearts and try to
prove the impossibility of a good
and loving Father, creator of all
things, who allows such awful wars
and distinctions of human lives
in the higher conception that many
of us who profess to be represen-
tatives of this good God, the more
perplexity we face. Many of us
doubt and denounce this good Fa-
Their to find that we have simply
jumped from the frying pan into
the fire. For who can imagine
world with so much good in II
without a good God? l agree with
you that it is difficult In world
with so much evil to be able to
explain the presence of this evil,
in the world of a good God. But,
when we look back on Golgotha's
Hill and there behold the son of
this good God dying for the re-
demption of sin cursed world, we
are forced to acknowledge that
there must be a good and loving
Father to produce such loving be-
ings who willingly lay down their
lives, for those they love.
Again l ask the question, what
are we going to say about all the
goodness in this world on the basis
of no God?" We must of neces-
sity be able with our eyes of faith
to see God in all things. We often
Sc human beings seemingly cursed
by being born blind, and others
who spend their whole lives in
wheel chairs and we wonder, how
a loving God could allow the souls
that he through love had created
to suffer such Affections.
AffIiction No Curse
Then we turn to such afflicted
persons as were Fanny Crosby and
Helen Keller, who were deprived
of their physical sight, but their
spiritual eyes that this same good
Cod of ours had created within
them have startled the world. By
faith and the spiritual sight, Fanny
Crosby gave the world it's most
glorious Hymns which go to prove
that Affections as we see them are
not a curse, but is often used
by our creator to bring out the
real good in us. I personally am
a witness to this fact. What about
Helen Keller whose affections were
deafness and blindness. You know
OF her wonderful accomplishments
IN spite of these major handicaps.
Her faith, her courage, her victory
stand out as a living testimony of
a God of Love. Darkness of sight
and the silence of speech fail to bar
the progress of the immortal spirit.
When we reflect and bring to our
memory such souls as Fanny Cros-
by, Helen Keller and many others,
who though afflicted have made
w n d err flu contributions to the
world that they never had the op-
portunity to see with their physi-
cal eyes.
We must of a truth, be able
through our spiritual eyes, see and
appreciate Gods love and goodness
in all things that concern us. Gods
way is not our way and the only
way to see his way is through the
inner eyes of faith. When we are
able to do this, all doubts as to a
good God and loving father is re-
moved. Our failure to seek and to
learn more of Gods love and mer-
cies to us bring about our souls
worst handicap, and will eventually
destroy us. only wish that in
some way I could explain to you
the readers of. this column, the
great joy of loving God and all
mankind, with all your hearts. Yes,
this same loving God whom we
serve always looks after his own
and all this hate, malice, discrim-
ination placed on the Negro
Throughout the world will make of
him leader to be cherished.
Let's close the physical eyes and
through the eyes of faith see this
great and loving Father of ours
lifting us through all our difficult
ties of life to that of spiritual
leadership.
No Cross No Crown
Our early Christianity started
with tragedy, it began with a
cross and on it man crying my
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