Evening star., 1951-03-23

The only course we humans can take is
to pray like everything depends on
God, but work like everything depends
on ourselves" /. M.
At one time Martin Luther was pass
ing through period of great despond-
ency. Mrs. Luther stood it as long as
she could. and finally one morning she
appeared dressed entirely in black.
Luther was shocked when he saw her
standing before him. What has hap
pened that you appear in deepest
mourning?" he wanted to know, Well"
Mrs. Luther replied solemnly, from the
way you have been acting I thought
God was dead"
Are not we acting in much the same
way? Why are we so fearful? Have we
forgotten God? The atom bomb has not
made man absolute: neither can it make
him obsolete. Man did not make the
world, and man cannot destroy it. II
take great comfort in God said James
Russell Lowell. II think He would not
let us get at the matchbox so careleSsly
as He does unless He knew that the
frame of His universe was fireproof"
I say to George w. Goldberg: God is
not dead. Reach out and touch Him.
Put your hand in His. With your hand
in Gods hand, what is there to fear?
Elsie King Moreland.
A friend Of mine, D. A. Delafield. has
written in recent devotional volume.
Just for Today" short commentary
on this verse: Let not your heart be
troubled" He writes that God would
not have us abandon our fears COM
pletely. There is wise and provident
fear that has been called the mother
of safety and that rings in our souls
like bell, to announce the approach
of danger. . 1t is this fear that fire.
ouently saves us from physical dis
aSter.
Consequently, if the bell has tolled in
Mr.. Goldberg's home, our home and in
homes all over this Nation, we should
heed its warning of peril, and we should
set our domestic and national affairs
in order, so we may meet the inter-
national crisis with fortitude and vlgor,
as well as with fearlessness.
Charles Allen Rentfro.
The prodigal, having left his fathers
house in search of the doubtful joys of
self-indulgence and creature comforts,
has long ago forsaken his rightful heri-
tage of spiritual safety, and now feels
the unSatiSfled and fearful hunger which
cannot be stilled by the 'husks that the
swine did eat" The first step in the
salvation of this prodigal must be his
awakening to the truth that he must
first identify himself again with his
Father, and with the impregnable Sc
curity and abundance of his Fathers
house He must arise and go back to
his Father. Our present desperate need
will be met only when we start with God.
Vera E. Adams.
We are not so soft as you think, Mr.
Goldberg. For just beneath the surface
of our foam cushioned. automatic,
glossed-over existence, there waits
power. stronger than you or I or the
Soviet gentlemen can conceive of. Call
it freedom equality and justice for all;
call it the triumph Of good over evil;
call it anything-it is God.
There was a man named Paul, who
wrote nearly two thousand years ago:
Il am persuaded that neither death, nor
life, mol angels, nor principalities, nor
powers, nor things present, nor things to
come, nor height, nor depth, nor any
other creature, shall be able to separate
us from the love of God, which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord
I, too, am persuaded. So bring on
your A-bomb, Mr.. Goldberg. God will
be there, and we can still look to Him
for the dawning of a new day, the
brightness of which is beyond all our
imagining. E. S. Gilbertson.
The time has arrived for the people of
this country to stop and calmly survey
precisely what we possess. No other ma
ton, or nations combined, can equal us
in production. ingenuity, fortitude, OF
tenacity to one uniting factor: The
American way of life. Whether we real
ize it or not the other nations of the
world do.
So let us stop these inane babblings of
our defeat. downfall, or whatsoever
terminology might be applied. Let our
faith in our principles, our innate
strength, the strength of free and pros
porous people, come to our aid.
]. Parker Connor.
MI. GOluOer2 gloomy appraisal VI
Americas chances of survival is hard to
understand, especially at this time of
year when the robins are singing all over
the place, the crocus is out, and soon
the Spiraea viii be in full bloom. They
say the cherry blossoms will be more
beautiful than ever this year. All over
America, a new life is beginning again,
suggest to Mr.. Goldberg that he take
{. walk around the tidal basin when the
cherry trees bloom, Julia X. Poague.
If George w. Goldberg is of a de-
pressed frame of mind. he may perhaps
like to try an experiment of mine.
find abstinence from sugar helps me
pull my load American Mother.
When was a boy, sulphur and mo-
lasses was the accepted cure for George
Goldbergs condition. Reader.
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