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CHRISTIAN OPTIMISM.
REV. .1. H. HALL, I) D.
“ And we know that all thing* work
together for good to them that love God,
to them who are the called according to
hi* purpose." Rom. 8:38.
God's Providential administra
tion does not please everybody.
It raises dividing issues. It cre
ates opposing parties. The stu
dents of Providence are the stu
dents of moral government.
They deal with ethical politics.
On the questions raised by this
study—questions as high as
God's throne, and as deep as hu
man life—men divide, they go
apart into two great schools of
thought. These are world wide
and as old as the ages. One of
these schools opposes the Divine
administration; attacks and ar
raigns it as evil—as misrule, en
tailing only misery. This school
looks only on one side of Provi
dence —the dark side. It makes
human life a heritage of woe—a
drama of unremitting tortures,
and unceasing groans. It asks,
“ Is life worth living? ” Its creed
as given by its foremost modern
representative- Schopenhaus,is:
“ Existence is misery.” “ The
world is a penal colony.” Its
ancient creed was summed up in
tiie Hindoo “Nirvana”—the hope
of nothingness in the extinction
of miserable being. This school
is called Pessimists —its doc
trines, Pessimism. It preaches
the gospel of despair.
The other school studies both
sides of Providence —the good as
well as the evil. It does not
overlook moral probation with
its disciplinary ends. It sees
life as universally diseased, soul
sick, and sees evil as a moral al
lopathic. It takes into account
the two great facts of human
history, without which no true
philosophy of life can be formed,
viz: Sin and Redemption. And
while admitting evil and its dire
work, it sees that work under
control and service—sees not
only present but future good as
results of its agency under God’s
great redemptive scheme. Its
creed, given by one of its ablest
thinkers —Leibnitz is: “This is
the best possible world.” This
school is called Optimists—its
doctrines,.Optimism. It-preaches
the gospel of hope.
From the words before us we
see Paul belonged to the last
school. He says: “ All things
work together for good to them
that love God.” But Paul was
inspired to write these words.
Then it was the Spirit of God
speaking through Paul. He
says : “All things work together
for good to them that love God.”
Therefore, the Spirit of itispira
tion teaches Optimism. Let us
study, as taught in these words,
< 'hristwtn Optimism.
I. ALL THINGS ARE UNDERGOD'S
SOVEREIGN I ONTROL.
The phrase “ all things” may
be general, or it may be univer
sal. It may include the many,
or it may include the whole. It
may be partial c r it may be ex
haustive. It has both applica
tions in the Scriptures. Here it
is evidently universal, all em
bracing. It covers in its scope
the entire field of creation, and
includes in its enumeration every
ooject of existence. It is
not only an exhaustive “ all ” as
to territory, but an exhaustive
“ things ”as to agencies. And
these agencies are exhaustive
not only of things inanimate, but
of things animate. Let Paul in
terpret himself. He applies the
term “things” to rational
agents. Hear him: “ All things
are yours,” he says to the Cor
inthians. Then he tells what the
“all things" are: “Whether
Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or
the world, or life, or death, or
things present, or things to
come: all are yours.” Then the
phrase “all things” embraces the
entire domains ami forces of
God. These may be summed up
in the material, mental and spir
itual worlds —all nature, men and
spirits. Now, all things in these
realms of nature, mind and spirit
—all the physical, mental and
spiritual agencies that exist, are
under God's sovereign control.
All physical agents are under
God's control. What are some of
the most destructive foes in
nature —those hardest to control,
and most dreaded ? Fire is one
of them. We have to watch and
guard it. We look out at night
for fear of it. We insure against
it. At times it breaks out, and
rages furiously, reducing for
tunes to ashes. It is right for
us to use every precaution, and
guard against this destroyer.
And let us remember that it is
ever and completely under God's
control. Not a coal, not a spark
burns but by his will and per
mission. The sweeping, and
roaring, and consuming confla
gration is doing his sovereign
will. “ When thou walkest
through the tire thou shalt not
be burned; neither shall the flame
kindle upon thee.” The Lord
not only controls its burning—
“thou shalt not be burned,” but
even its ignition—“kindle upon
thee.” The Hebrew children,
bound and cast into the intensely
heated fiery furnace, were seen
“ walking in the midst of the fire,
having no hurt.” God was round
about them. Their fetters only
were burned. The latent fire,
slumbering in the earth, the air,
the sea—for it is everywhere—
God holds in perfect subjection.
The wind is another agent.
How we dread it. It is called
lawless. It brooks no restraint
of its wild freedom —it heeds no
mandate. It is a striking em
blern of human passion, that
knows no bounds, and that sur
ges the more furiously at the
very touch of law. How fearful
the aroused and enraged winds !
Where the maddened tornado
has swept, the people’are left in
trembling dread. But God is
absolute governor of the winds.
It is written that, he “walketh
upon the wings of the wind.” As
a captain walks upon deck giv
ing direction to his ship, so the
almighty Captain of nature rides
upon and guides the storm. We
read of the “stormy wind ful
filling his woid.” The “stormy
wind”—the maddened, furious
wind obeys him. And it is writ
ten: “Who hath gathered the
wind in his fists." Here God is
represented as holding the storm
in his sceptred hand—repre
sented as gathering the black,
ominous funnel cloud in his fist,
as David took his sling, and
thence hurling the destructive
cyclone on its way.
But the most destructive agent
of nature is the lightning. How
terrtic it is ! No man can bear
the look of its Hashing face,
much less stand before its swift,
death-dealing bolt. But the
lightning—wild, and dreadful,
and restless, leaping in fury
from its thundercloud, and
sweeping fetterless upon its
deadly mission—the lightning
never gets out of the hand of
the almighty God. We read:
“God thundereth marvellously
with his voice:” also : “ Hear at
tentively the noise of his voice,
and the sound that goeth out of
his mouth. He directeth it un
der the whole heaven, and his
lightning unto the ends of the
earth.” Here the thunder is rep
resented as his natural voice,
and the lightning his natural
thought. Certainly God con
trols his voice and thought—he
“directeth his lightning.” So
complete is the subjection of
this agent to God, that he took
it and put it under his feet on Si
nai, and made it the flashing
symbol of his glory. So securely
is it in his grasp, that Satan
must obtain permission of him to
use it to destroy the property of
Job.
And disease and death, two
hand-in hand foes,are under God.
How we fly in consternation from
the one, and start back in terror
frwm th» other' ..£.~ we swßtiot
fall before the plague without
his permission, we cannot die
without his direction. “The
pestilence that walketh in dark
ness" obeys him, and the “ king
of terrors ” is his messenger.
Though they be like the lawless,
prowling thief of the night,
choosing darkness, deepest mid
night darkness, and moving with
stealthy, noiseless tread on their
fatal work, yet the Lord God di
rects their steps and appoints
their bounds. Raging disease
and heed less death mind our God.
But these references are only
illustrations of God's universal
dominion over nature. He rules
“all things,” not only around us,
but above us. “He sitteth upon
the circle of the earth,” ruling
below; he sits upon the “sap
phire throne of the firmament, ”
ruling the worlds above.
2. “All things” in the mental
world are under God’s control.
He is absolute sovereign in the
domain of mind. He reigns over
all men He is “ King of kings,
and Lord of lords.” He declares:
“By me kings reign, and princes
decree justice. By me princes
rule, and nobles, even all the
judges of the earth.” But is not
the mind of man free ? Is not
thought fetterless ? Yes; but,
yet, God reigns in it. Man can
not rule without interfering with
the liberty of the subject. He
rules the bound only. God is so
good that he can rule without in
fringing on the liberty of the
soul—rule in its liberty ! This
is unparalleled, marvellous, God
ruling the man while the man is
doing as he pleases ! This tran
scends philosophy. God en
throned in the liberty of thought
is too much for the wisdom of
man. Indeed, in this wondrous
realm of mind, which no sceptre
can invade, and w’here no fetters
can bind—here in this unap
proachable azure of thought
even here, “ there is no wisdom,
nor understanding, nor counsel
against the Lord.” They all
work out his sovereign purposes.
Notice:
God rules all human thought.
It is free, perfectly free, yet
under the sovereign throne of
God. All of its exercises are
liberty itself, yet liberty under
a throne. Every thought, how
ever free,has the sovereign bridle
of God on it, reining it as it sniffs
the air of its freedom. Who is
like unto the Lord our God? In
every intellectual field of every
age, he has ruled the clash of
arms. In all tae currents of an
cient and modern thought he has
directed the winds and waves.
The Scriptures give us some
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1896.
glimpses of God in men’s
thoughts. Here is a great king
upon his throne, thinking of the
affairs of his kingdom, and be
thinks of the captives of his
land, and that they ought to go
and build the house of their God
in Jerusalem. He issues a proc
lamation to them to go. Now
the inspired record, that goes
back of the visible, tells us that
“the Lord stirred up the spirit
of Cyrus, king of Persia,” to do
this. Cyrus did it himself, and
yet the Lord was in his thoughts.
See another king. It is Ahasue
rus. It is night. The king can
not sleep. He is thinking, think -
ing. How strange that he should,
at such a time, “command to
bring the book of records of the
chronicles.” And how strange
that his attention should be di
rected to the service of Mordecai
in reporting a plot to assassinate
the king! God was in his
thoughts to deliver Mordecai and
the Jews from the wicked Haman.
David says: “O Ixird thou hast
searched me and know me. * * *
Thou understandest my thought
afar off. * * * There is not
a word in my tongue, but 10, O
Ixird, thou knowestit altogether.
Thou hast beset me behind and
before.” God is behind and be
fore and over mind, engirdling it
in his wondrous greatness. Not
a thought is born in the world of
mind that is not in his almighty
grasp.
God rules the human will. The
will is the royal power of the
mind. It chooses, determines,
decides. The will is free. After
all the discussion over it in the
ology and philosophy, it is cer
tainly free. It is free, or men are
not accountable. But men are ac
countable God teaches it, and
the conscience attests it. But
free as it is, God reigns in its
decisions. We have a remarka
ble instance of God’s sovereign
dominion of the human will in
the case of Pharaoh. Moses is
commissioned to tell him to let
Israel go. He refuses. Judg
ment after judgment is sent upon
him. While the judgment is on
him he decides to let them go—
when it is removed he reverses
his decision, and will not let
them go. Now it is remarkable
that we read after one plague,
that “the heart of Pharaoh was
hardened,” and he decided not
to let Israel go; then we read
after another plague, that “the
Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart,”
and he would not let them go.
Still, again, we read after anoth
er plague, that “Pharaoh har
dened his heart,” and would not
let Israel go. It is now said that
“the Lord hardened Pharaoh's
heart," and now said that
“Pharaoh hardens his'.heart.’'
God was reigning in the vacilla
tions of his imperious will “to
make his glory known.”
God rules in human counsel.
Men have always been in the
habit of putting their heads to
gether, and debating important
questions. Upon great national
and international issues leading
minds assemble and take counsel
together. Artful, astute diplo
mats put their heads together.
In schemes of evil the Hamans
and Talleyrands will be drawn
together to plot. God, in his
sovereignty presides over all
such deliberations. He was in
the issue of the counsel of Hushai
and Ahithophel. He was in the
counsel of the old men and young
men given Rehoboam,that result
ed in the dismemberment of Is
rael. The Lord said, after it was
over, “This thing is from me.”
He ruled in the counsel of the
young men, and in its it fluence
upon the king. Then we see
that all human agents, good and
bad, are under the scepter of
God.
3 God rules all things in the
spiritual world. The invisible
world of spirits —angels and de
mons—is under him. We know
angels are subject to him. They
“do his commandments, hearken
ing to the voice of his word. ” They
are “ministers of his, that do his
pleasure.” Angels are perfectly
obedient to the will of God. But
what of demons? Do they in
their lawless, infernal life, do the
sovereign will of God? They do.
They mean evil, but God uses
their evil to effect his purposes
of good. Ahab is to fall in bat
tle at Ramoth-Gilead—it is thus
decreed. But he is free to go or
not to go. He must be persuaded.
The prophets all “declare good
unto the king with one mouth.”
Micaiah tells him, “ I saw all Is
rael scattered upon the hills.”
The king is wroth. Then the
prophet said: “Hear thou there
fore the word of the iflrd: I
saw the Lord sitting on his
throne and all the host of heaven
standing by him on his right
hand and on his left. And the
Lord said, who shall persuade
Ahab, that he may go up and fall
at Ramoth Gilead? And one said
on this manner, and another said
on that manner. And there
came forth a spirit and stood be
fore the Lord, and said, I will
persuade him. And the Lord
said unto him, Wherewith? And
he said, I will go forth, and will
be a lying spirit in the mouth of
all his prophets And he said,
Thou shalt persuade him, and
prevail also: go forth, and do
so.” (1 Kings 22:19-22.) Here
a demon, as a lying spirit in the
mouth of false prophets, works
out the sovereign decree of God.
Our Lord met a man with de
mons. He commanded them to
come out. “ And they besought
him that he would not command
them to go out into the deep.”
And “he suffered them to enter
into a herd of swine.” They
were subject to him. Is Satan,
the prince of darkness, under
God’s control? How instructive
are the first chapters of that
wonderful book—Job. There we
learn that the great adversary
could do nothing against Job—
could not destroy his property,
nor his children, nor afflict his
person, till permitted to do so.
God rules him in his infernal
work. He “ entered into Judas”
to have him betray the Son of
God. But while doing his own
wicked will, he was fulfilling the
sovereign purpose of God. He
had the Lord of glory crucified;
and in that great and awful
achievement he carried out “ the
determinate counsel and fore
knowledge of God.” There is
not a device nor work of this
arch enemy that is not under
God’s supreme scepter.
We see “all things” are under
God’s sovereign control. Verily,
the Most High “doeth according
to his will in the army of heaven
and among the inhabitants of
earth; and none can stay his
hand, or say unto him, what
doest thou?”
(Continued next week.)
Not Easy to Serve the Devil.
A good brother said in a
late Index, “Not easy to serve
God,” and assigned as reasons
the fact that the devil claimed
ownership of the world and is
the god of this world, and there
fore those who serve God must
expect to ’meet all the epposi
tion which the devil could bring
to bear upon them.
This is all true, but yet there
is great comfort in the fact that
while he claims ownership of the
world the claim is false, he does
not own it. While he may be
god of the world he is a false
god, and is in no sense the god
of Christians and has no claim
upon their worship or service.
While we have the
devil, the world and the
flesh against us when we
would serve God, w’e have
God. reason, common sense, the
Bible, all the good and our tem
poral, physical, intellectual, mor
al and spiritual well-being
against us when we would serve
the devil.
Al) of these forces which op
pose our serving Satan are more
potent' all powerful than
those wljKantagonise us when
we woura serve God. So with
these potent forces helping in
his service, we find it easier
than to seqve the devil in opposi
tion to the|e forces. So while it
is “not easy to serve God” it is
much easier than to serve the
devil. Crucifixion of the flesh is
demanded in this service, but this
is better than the reign of un
bridled flesh. Mortification of
the deeds of the body is better
than destruction by the deeds of
the body. Self-denial in God’s
service is required, but this is
better than self-gratification with
ultimate detriment to self. Self
denial means only good to self
and to others. The truly selfish
are a constant injury to them
selves and a perpetual menace
to others. To serve God is to be
unselfish; to serve the devil is to
be the opposite. The service of
God brings peace, satisfaction
and permanent good; the service
of the devil brings unrest, dis
content, present and future evil.
It may not be easy to serve
God, but it is less easy to serve
the devil. We have opposition
when we serve God, but greater
opposition when we serve the
devil. J.G. Gibson.
The Ocean’s Wealth. -Sel
dom or never has the enormous
importance of the harvest of the
sea been more forcibly represent
ed than it was by Professor Hux
ley in the address which he de
livered at the International
Fisheries Exhibition some years
ago. An acre of good fishing
ground, he pointed out, will yield
more food in a week than an acre
of the best land will in a year.
Still more vivid was his picture
of the moving “mountain of cod,”
120 to 130 feet in height, which
for two months in the year moves
westward and southward past
the Norwegian coast. Every
square mile of this colossal col
umn of fish contains one hundred
and twenty million fish, consum
ing every week, when on short
rations, no fewer than eight hun
dred and forty million herrings.
The whole catch of the Norwe
gian fisheries never exceeds in a
year more than half a square mile
of this “cod mountain, ” and one
week's supply of the herrings
needed to keep that area of cod
from starving. London might
be victualled with herring for a
year on a day’s consumption of
the countless shoals of uncaught
cod.— Ex.
Make it a point to see that your
blood is purified, enriched and
vitalized at this season with
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The 1 lie
Best. Rest. lest.
® There are two kinds of sarsaparilla: The best-and the
® rest. The trouble is they look alike. And when the rest
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® And the taller the tree the deeper the root. That’s another
® test. What’s the root, — the record of these sarsaparillas ?
W The one with the deepest root is Ayer’s, dhe one with the
richest fruit, —that, too, is Ayer’s. Ayer’s Sarsaparil.a has a
® record of half a century of cures; a record of many medals
and awards culminating in the medal of the Chicago Worlds
W Fair, which, admitting Ayer’s Sarsaparilla as the best, shut
its doors against the rest. That was greater honor than the
(S medal; to be the only Sarsaparilla admitted as an exhibit at
® the World’s Fair. If you want to get the best sarsaparilla
-of your druggist here’s an infallible rule: Ask for the best and
you’ll get Ayer’s. Ask •for Ayer’s and you’ll get the best.
Still have doubts? Send for the “Curebook.
It kills doubts and cures doubters.
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The advocates of low theories of in
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Inmates of My House and Garden.
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“The Crowning of a Czar" is the jour
nal of a daughter of Sir Edward Thorn
tor, the English ambassador at the
court of Russia at the time of the coro
nation of the late Czar in 1883. The
approaching coronation of the present
Czar makes this a specially interesting
article. Other articles of peculiar im
portance are, “Impressions of South
Africa.” by James Bryce, M.P., in
which he describes the country and its
conditions; the continuation of Sloane's
“Life of Napoleon Bonaparte,” dealing
with his fifth war with Austria, and the
victory of Wagram," “Photographing
the Unseen," a symposium on the Roent
gen rays, by Edison and others; "The
Election of a Pope,” telling the story of
the voting for the spiritual monarch by
the conclave of cardinals. Fiction of
more dignified, and of lighter grade is
plentiful, and art and current topics are
not ignored.
The pleasant face of St. AicAolas pre
sents itself on time, and is enjoyed by
young and old. “The Ballad of Betty,
the Bound Girl,” is a story of the quiet
heroism of a young servant girl of rev
olutionary.times, who stood at her post
when all others fled, even the big boy
who “bullied” her. Nature receivesat
tention in the animal kingdom by an
article on the “Porcupine,” and in “A
Stroll in the Garden of England" we
touch trained nature, with literary at
tachments. “Shooting Stars that .Reach
the Earth,” are treated by Oliver C.
Farrington, and “The Children of Chi
natown in San Francisco” brings to our
attention a strange child life, very in
teresting. Incident and fiction are fur
nished in abundance. “Some War Cu
riodties” gives a number of interesting
instances where courtesy and kindness
overcame hatred and even soldierly dis
cipline in the midst of strife and battle.
Literary News and Notes.
The American Sunday school Union,
Philadelphia. Pa., will issue a hymnal
tor primary classes. It contains recita
tions and exercises as well as hymns and
tunes. The purpose has been to give to
every hymn, exercise or recitatiorf.
Scriptural truth for the children.
R. H Woodward Company, Balti
more. Md., announces a new book,
' Story of Spain and Cuba. ” This book
is written by Mr. Nathan C. Green, the
well known author and former resident
of Cuba. It is beautifully illustrated
with nearly 100 engravings, and is sold
by subscription.
Macmillan & Co. have in preparation
a History of American Literature, for
use in secondary schools, by Prof. Kath
arine Lee Bates, of Wellesley College.
The book consists mainly of the literary
narrative, but an appendix presents a
scheme for study and class room work.
An interesting coincidence, or an ex
ample of mental telegraphy, is that just
at the time when Professor Roentgen
was perfecting his discovery of the
X-rays, but before the results were
made known, there was published in
Stella, by Charles S. Hinton, a romance,
the plot of which was based on the fact
of the permeability of the human body
to rays of light. Stella was published
in November of 189.5, and it was not un
til some months later that the condition
stated in the book, and seemingly so far
beyond any likelihood of conjecture, be
came a scientific and demonstrable piece
of knowledge.
No one in ordinary health need be
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sible treatment. We advise cleanliness
of the scalp and the use of Hall’s Hair
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