, PROLOGUE.
! A young man and a beautiful
young woman, lost and alone in
a wilderness for months, half
starved and in daily peril of
death from wild beasts and still
more savage Indians this is the
central theme of the most fasci
nating romance that has come
from Emerson Hough's pen.
Read and you will learn how
love came to them; how they
conducted themselves in this try
ing, unconventional situation;
how the man's chivalry and the
woman's purity held them stead
fast to the ideals of civilization,
and how the strange episode
brought tragedies, estrangements
and happiness.
CHAPTER XIV.
Till Death Do Part
POOR Indeed In worldly goods
must be thono to whom the dis
carded refuse of an abandoned
Indian camp seems wealth. Yet
such was the case with us, two repre
sentatives of the higher civilization,
thus removed from that civilization by
bo more than a few days' span. As
soon as I was able to stand we remov
ed our little encampment to the ground
lately occupied by the Indian village.
iWe must have food, and I could not
yet hunt Here at the camp we found
some bits of dried meat We found a
ragged and half hairless robe, discard
ed by some squaw, and to us It seem
ed priceless, for now we had a bouse
by day and a bed by night A half
dozen broken lodge poles seemed rich
es to us. We hoarded some broken
moccasins which had been thrown
away.
For myself, weakened by Bicknejs,
such food as we had was of little serv
ice. I knew that I was starving and
feared that she was doing little better.
I looked at her that morning after we
bad propped up our little canopy of
hide to break the sun. Her face was
clean drawn now Into hard lines of
muscle. Iler limbs lay straight and
clean before her as she sat, her bands
lying in her lap as she looked out
across the plains. Iler eyes were still
brown and clear, her figure still was
that of woman. She was still sweet
to look upon, but her cheeks were
growing hollow. Unless presently 1
could arise and kill meat for her then
must the world roll void through the
ether, unpeopled ever more.
I know not what thoughts came to
her mind as we sat looking out on the
pictures of the mirage which the sun
was painting on the desert landscape.
But finally as we gazed there seemed
among these weird Images one colossal
tragic shape which moved, advanced,
changed definitely. Now it stood in
giant stature and now dwindled, but
always it came nearer. We realized
at last that it was a solitary buffalo
bull, no doubt coming down to water
at a little coulee Just beyond us. I
turned to look at her and saw her eyes
growing fierce. She reached back for
my rifle, and I arose.
"Come," I said, and so we started.
We dared not use the horse in stalking
our game.
I could stand. I could walk a short
way, but the weight of this great rifle,
sixteen pounds or more, which I had
never felt before, now seemed to crush
me down.' She put her arm about me
irmly, her face frowning and eager.
Can you goT" she said.
"No," said 1, "I cannot but-1 must
and I shall." I put away her arm frerj
me, but in turn she caught up tho rifle.
Even for this I was still too proud.
'"No," said I. "I have always carried
my own weapons thus far."
"Come, then," she said, "this way;"
and so caught the muzzle of the heavy
barrel and walked on, leaving me the
stock to support for my share of the
weight Thus we carried the great
rifle between us, and so stumbled on
until at length the sun grew too warm
for me, and I dropped, overcome with
fatigue. Patiently she waited for me,
and so we two, partners, mates, a man
and a woman, primitive, the first went
on little by little
THE WAY
OF
A
By Emerson Hough
Copyright, 1W7, by the Outing Publishing
Company
"Uo," said I, motioning toward the
rifle. "I am too weak. I might miss.
I can get no farther."
She caught up the rifle barrel at its
balancing point, looked to the lock as
a man might have done, and leaned
forward, eager an any man for the
chnsp. Lithe, brown, sinuous, she
crept rapidly nway. and presently was
hid where the grass grew taller in the
flat beyond. The bull moved forward
a Uttlo also, and 1 lout sight of both
for what seemed to mo un unconscion
able time. She told me later that she
crept close to the water hole and wait
ed there for the bull to come, but that
lie stood back and stared ahead stupid
ly and would not move. She said she
trembled when at last he approached,
so savage was his look. Even a man
might be smitten with terror at the
fierce aspect of one of these animals.
Rut at last I heard the bitter crack
of tho rifle and, raising my head. I saw
her spring up and then drop down
again. Then, staggering a short way
up tho opposite slope. I saw the slow
built of the great black bull. lie turn
ed and looked back, his head low, his
eyes straight ahead. Then slowly he
kneeled down and so died, with his
forefeet doubled under him.
She came running back to me, full
of savage Joy nt her success, and put
her arm under my shoulder and told
me to come. Slowly, fast as I could,
I went with her to our prey. We
butchered our buffalo as Auberry had
showed me, from the backbone down,
as he sat dead on his forearms, split
ting the skin along the spine and lay
ing it out for the meat to rest upon.
Again I made a fire by shooting a tow
wad into such tinder as we could ar
range from my coat lining, having
dried this almost into flame by a burn
ing glass I made out of a watch crys
tal filled with water, not In the least a
weak sort of lens. She ran for fuel
and for water, and now we cooked and
ate, the Jresh meat seeming excellent
to me. Once more now we moved our
camp, the girl returning for the horse
and our scanty belongings.
Always now we ate, haggling out the
hump ribs, the tongue, the rich back
fat; so almost Immediately we begau
to gain in strength. All the next duy
we worked as we could at drying the
meat and taking the things we needed
from the carcass. We got loose one
'horn, drying one side of the luvid In
the fire. I saved carefully all the sin
ews of the back, knowing we might
need them. Then between us we scrap
ed nt the two halves of the hide, dry
ing it in the sun. fleshing t Mth our
little Indian hoe and present I; ivtiJng
into it brains from the bend of the car
cass as the hide grew drier in the sun.
We were not yet skilled in tanning as
the Indian women are. but we saw
that now we would hove n house and
a bed apiece and food, food. We broil
ed the ribs at our Ore, boiled the bro
ken leg bones In our little kettle. We
made fillets of hide to shade our eyes,
she thus binding back the long braids
of ':er hair. We rested and were com
forted. Each hour. It seemed to me,
Bhe rounded nnd became more beau
tiful, supple, young, strong there in
the beginning of tho world. We were
rich In these, our belongings, which we
shared.
Hitherto, while I was weak, ex
hausted and unable to reason beyond
the vague factors of anxiety and
dread, she had cared for me simply,
os though she were a young boy and
I an older man. The small details of
our dally life she had assumed because
she still was the stronger. Without
plot or plan and simply through the
stern command of necessity, our inter
ests had been identical, our plans cov
ered us both as one. At night for the
sake of warmth we had slept closely
Hide by side, both too weary and worn
out to reason regurdlng that or any
other thing. Once in the night I know
I folt her arm across my face, upon
my head her hand, she still sleeping
nnd millions of miles away among the
stars. I would not have waked her.
Itut now behold the Btrango story of
man's advance In what he culls civ
ilization! Behold what property means
In regard to what we call laws! We
had two pieces of roho instead of one.
fVe might be two creatures now, a
man and a womun, a wall between,
lnstend of two suffering, perishing ani
mals with but one common need that
of self preservation. There were two
houses now, two beds, because this
might be and still allow us to survive.
Our table was common, and that was
all.
During that first night when we slept
apart the wolves came rer? close to
our meat heaps and set up their usual
roaring chorus. The terror of this she
could not endure, and bo she came
creeping with ber half robe to my side
where I lay. That was necessary.
Later that night when she awoke un
der (b shelter of her .half bide she
MAN
found "rue sitting awake near flic open- i
ing. But she would not have me put '
over her my portion of the robe. She j
made of our party two individuals,
and that I must understand. 1 must
understand now that society was be
ginning again and law and custom.
At night, in front of her poor shel
ter, I sat and thought and looked out
nt the stars. The stars said to me that
life and desire were one. that the ,
world must go on. that all the future j
of the world ivsted with us two. But j
at this I rebelled. "Ah, prurient stars'." ;
1 cried, "and evil of mind. What mat- '
ters u mac you suiter or mat i suuer: ;
Let the world end, yes, let the world
end before this strange new compan
ion, gained in want uml poverty and
suffering and now lost by reason of
comforts and health shall shed one
tear of suffering!"
Prom now, day by day, night by
night, against all my will and wish,
against all my mind and resolution, I
knew that I was loving this new being
with all my heart and all my soul, for
saking all others, and that this would
be until death should us part. I knew
that neither here nor elsewhere In the
world was anything which could make
me wholo of this no principles of
duty or honor, no wish nor inclination
nor resolve!
I had eaten. I loved. I saw what
life is.
I saw the great deceit of nature. I
snw her plan, her wish, her merciless,
pitiless desire, and, seeing this, I smil
ed slowly In the dark at the mockery
of what we call civilization, its fuss
nnd flurry, its pretense, its misery. In
deed, we are small, but life is not
small. We are small, but love is very
large and strong, born as it is of the
great necessity thot man shall not for
get the world, thot woman shall not
rob the race. Tor myself I accepted
my station in this plan, saying noth
ing beyond my own soul. None the
less. I said there to my own soul that
this must bo now till death should
come to part iw twain.
Soon now we would be able to trav
el, but whither and for what purpose?
I begun to shrink from tho thought of
change. This wild world was enough
tor me. None the less we must travel.
We had been absent now from civili
sation some three weeks and must
have been given up long since. Our
party must have passed far to tho
westward, and by this time our story
was known nt Laramie and elsewhere.
Turtles were no doubt in search of us
at that time. But where should these
Board) in that wilderness of the un
known plains? How should it be
known that we were almost within
touch of the great highway of the
west, now again thronging with wagon
trains? By force of these strange cir
cumstances which I hare 'related we
were utterly gone, blotted out. Our
old world no longer existed for us nor
we for it.
As 1 argued to myself again and
again the laws and customs of tuut
forgotten world no longer belonged to
us. We must build laws again, laws
for the good of the greatest number.
I can promise, who have been in place
to know, that in oue month's time civ
ilization shall utterly fade away from
the human heart, that n iuw state of
life shall within that space enforce It-
nelf. so close lies the savage lu us al
ways to the skin. This vast scheme
of organized selfishness which Is call
ed civilization shall within three weeks
Im forgot nnd found useless, be re
scinded as a contract between remain
ing units of society. This vast fabric
of wuste and ruin known as wealth
shall be swept away at n breath within
one month. Then shall endure only
the great things of life. Above thoso
elnill stand two thlngs-a woman and
a man. Without these society Is not,
these two. a woman and a uiuu.
So I would sit at night nodding un
der the stars, and vaguely dreaming of
these matters, and things came to me
sweetly, things unknown In our Igno
rance and evil of mind, as we live in
what we call civilization. They would
become clear underneath the stars;
and then the dawn would come, and
she would come nnd sit by me, looking
ou. over the plains at the shimmering
pictures. "What do you Bee?' st)4
would ask of me.
"I see the ruins of that dome known
as the capltol of our nation." I said to
her. "where tbey make lawa. See, It
la In ruins, and what I see beyond is
better."
"Then what more do you see," she
would ask.
"I see the ruins of tall buildings of
brick and Iron, prisons, where souls
are racked, and deeds of evil are done,
and iron sunk into human hearts, and
vice and crime, and oppression and
wrong of life and love are wrought
These are In ruins, and what I see be
yond is better." Humoring me, she
would ask that I would tell her fur
ther what I saw.
"I see' the ruins of tall spires, where
the truth was offered by bold asser
tion. I see tho rums of religion, cor
rupt because done for gain.
"I see houses also, much crowded,
where much traffic and bartering and
evil were done, much sale of flesh and
blood and lore and happiness, ruin,
unhapplness. And what I see now Is
far better than all that"
"And then" she whispered faintly,
her hand upon my sleeve, and looking
out with me over the plains, where the
mirage was wavering. ,
"I see (here," I said, and pointed it
out to her, "only a garden, a vast,
sweet garden. And there arises a tree
-one tree."
This was my world. But she, look
ing out over the plains, still saw with
the eye of yesterday. Upon woman the
artificial imprint of heredity is Bet
more deeply than with man. The com
mands of society are wrought Into her
SOUL
(To Do Continued.)
ONENESS OF THE
GHURCHOF CHRIST
Everywhere Hade Prominent In
ilie Scriptures,
BIBLE STUDENTS' CONVENTION
Pastor Russell Says Sects and Parties
Are Nowhere Recognized In Holy
Writ There Is but One Church, and
Jeiut It It Head Sectarian Di
visions Arose r rom Neglect and Lost
of Faith An Address to Bible Stu
dents. Washington, D.
C, July U-Blble
study must be
coming qutte Into
vogue if we may
Judge by tho Inter
est manifested by
the thousands
gathered here for
a ten-days' Con
vention. Nothing
boisterous or' lu
dicrous has mani
fested itself. All
day. and every
day, appears to be spent In searching
tho Scriptures nnd in quiet, spiritual
rejoicing lu the promises found there
in. The testimony of our citizens is
that we never before had such a Con
vention in our midst.
The people are from the middle walks
of life poor rather than rich. They
have no outward badge of special
clothing, but seem to be adorned with
a meek and quiet spirit- The entire
Bible is their creed and they truly
walk lu Its light, which they tell us
is growing dally brighter ns we near
the Morn of the New Dispensation of
Christ's Kingdom.
A peculiarity of these Bible Students
Is that during the entire series of the
meetings. In which more than forty
speakers have participated, no appeal
has been made for money; it has not
even been mentioned from tho plat
form. Asked why this is, tho answer
was that euch tries to give to tho serv
ice of the Truth what ho Is able ac
cording to his ability as unto the Lord,
And so far as is known there is no
lack, because the expouses of the prop
aganda are kept within the limit of the
offerings. The Convention closes to
duy. Extracts from Pastor Russell's
Sunday address follow. His text was,
"But ye are come to the General-
Assembly and Church of the First
born, which are written In Heaven."
(Hebrews xll. 23.) Ue said in part:-
The oneness of the Church of Christ
is everywhere made prominent In the
Bible. Sects and parties are nowhere
recognised Nowhere is it Intimated
that Christ has various Churches for
Instance, the Roman Catholic, the An
glican, the Greek. Presbyterian. Con
gregatlonal. Lutheran, etc. On the con
trury. there Is but the oue "Church,
which Is the Body of Christ" and that
Body of Christ has but the one Head,
Jesus.
We not only find that Christ und the
Apostles established but the one
Church, but we cannot think of any
reason why these should have estab
lished more than one. Nothing is plain
er than that our sectarian divisions
arose from our neglect and loss of "the
fuith once delivered unto the saints."
(.lude 3.) As the divisions came In,
the errors came in with them; und, us
the errors go out bo also will sectarian
ism pass away.
Th General Assembly of the 8aint.
As we are ussembled here today, not
under any human or sectarian name,
and not divided by secturiun creeds,
but united as one people through our
consecration to the Lord, through our
desire to know Ills will by the study
of Ills Word, we well represent the
Scriptural or Ideal Church of Christ
Regardless of nationality, language,
caste and of all sectarian creeds and
bondages, we are here simply and sole
ly as children of God, and Bible stu
dents in the School of Christ to loam
of Him to be fitted and prepared for
glorious Jolnt-helrshlp with Him in
Ills coming Kingdom, and meantime to
learn at Ills feet the lessons necessary
for bo great a coming service
Let me correct myself and say rather
that our little home classes very fit
tingly represent the Lord's Church ns
ft was In the daya of Jesus and the
Apostles. And our Assembly here to
day, far away from those classes, in
these beautiful grounds, Is a picture
rather of whnt the Apostle describes
In our text namely, "The General As
sembly of the Church of the First
born" from every quarter, as It will
be by and by, but gathered on the
heaven.y plane by the chango of the
First Resurrection,
How many of us bive during the
week said with reference to our fel
lowship in spirit with the Lord, "It is
good to be here! But oh, dear breth
ren, I am sure that I voice the senti
ment of everyone present when I Bay,
It will be better to be there! oh, bo
much better! When by God's grace
we shall reach that Heavenly shore
and participate In tho joys of that
greater and better Convention. "Tho
General Assembly of the Church of the
First-borns," It will be bettor than
this grand Convention; and I will seek
to enumerate some of the reasons why
I think It will be so.
Enter Into the Joye of the Lord.
(1) The Joys of our present Conven
tion are merely a foretaste of the per
lip
fect glory we will experience when we !
enter Into the Joys of the Lord be
yond the veil. Now we know In part
the wondrous things of our Heavenly
Father's character and Plan, and of
our Redeemer's love and sympathy,
and of each other's love and sympathy:
then we shall know even ns we are
known, is the guarantee of the Inspired
Apostle.
Now we see as through an obscure
glass the things which the natural eye
cannot see nor hear, neither can enter
Ititp tho heart of the natural man, but
which God has revealed unto us by
Ills Spirit. But they are still more or
less obscure to us. We cannot weigh
nor appreciate the wonderful glories
which God has In reservation for us.
but then we shall see lllin face to
face, as St Paul declares.
(2) As we meet hero today os New
Creatures lu Christ, we seek to know
each other as God knows us, not after
tho flesh, but after the spirit. But for
all that we experience difficulties. It
Is often difficult for us to entirely over
look tho flesh of our fellows, as they
no doubt have difficulty lu overlooking
our blemishes In the flesh. But oh.
what will it be to be there! All the
imperfections and weaknesses of the
flesh, against which wo must now fight
all these will then bo gone.
Have we not the promise, "We shall
be like Him, for we shall see Him as
He Is?" Have we not the promise
again that Sown In weakness, we
shall be raised In power; sown In dis
honor, we shall be raised In glory;
sown an animal body we shall be rais
ed a spirit body? nave we not the
further promise respecting that glo
rious resurrection change, which shall
lift us completely out of the human
and into the divine nature, that "We
must all bo changed." "for flesh and
blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of
God?" (I Corinthians xv, M, 51.)
Further Trials Further Battling.
(3) Another difference between this
Convention and tho great one promised
In our text Is that we shall go from
hero to our homes to engage o fresh in
warfaro with sin within and without
to continuo our warfare as good sol
dlers of Jesus Christ under tho Cap
tnlncy of our Redeemer. We shall go
from here realizing that our trials nnd
testings are not yet ended, that the
"cup" which tho Father hath poured
for us we have not yet drained.
We shall go forth from here remem
berlng that we "have not yet resisted
unto blood, striving against sin" and
fighting "the good fight of faith." We
shall return to our homes with tho
thought that we still have need of the
Scriptural exhortation, "Watch", and
"stand fast"; "Quit you like men"; "Put
on the whole armor that ye may be
able to stand In the evil day, and, hav
ing done all, to stand."
We will go from here realizing that
in all probability this season of refresh
ment we have enjoyed bos been a part
of the Father's good providence for us
whereby we shall be the stronger, the
more courageous, the better prepared
for further trials, besetments, dlfficul
ties and conflicts with tho world, the
flesh and the Adversary.
But w hen we reach the glorious Con
vention mentioned by the Apostle, all
the fightings and trials and testings
will le In the past For us, therefore.
there will be no more sighing, no more
crying, no more dying, no more fight
ings, no more crosses, no more Buffer
ings, but Instead, life eternal, Joy
eternal, glory, honor and immortality
at our dear Redeemer's right hand of
favor. Well do I know that this hope
of sharing in the General Assembly of
the Church of the First-borns strength
ens your heart and nerves you to loyal
ty nnd faithfulness to the Lord, the
Truth and the brethren as the days go
by. '
Let us console ourselves with the
thought that whatever Is the will of
God concerning us must necessarily be
for our highest welfare and best Inter
ests. If, therefore, It is not yet time
for ub to pass beyond the veil, it Is
becauso our Heavenly Puttier and Re
deemer have a work for us to do In
the present life either a work of fur
ther polishing upon our own charac
ters or a work of helping the brethren,
for we remember the declaration that
the Bride Is to make herself ready for
that event We are to build oue an
other up In the most holy faith, en
couraging, strengthening, synipathlx
Ing with and assisting one another in
running the race for the great Prize.
A not h or happifylng thought we
should tnke with us to our homes
is the lord's promise, "I will never
leave thee nor forsake thee." And
again, "My grace Is sufficient for thee,
for My strength Is made perfect In thy
weakness." And again, "We know
that all things work together for good
to those who lore the Lord, to the
called according to Ills purpose." Ro
mans vlll, 23.
So then, dear friends, we will not re
turn to our homes like an army corps
in retreat but rather as a company of
good soldiers who have been well fed
ind refreshed and encouraged and
stimulated; we will return to our
homes full of good courage, full of
Joyful anticipation of the coming Great
Convention of the Church of the First
borns; full of renewed determination
that by the grace of Ood. and with
the assistance of our great Advocate,
wt will make our calling and clectlo
Bure by bo running In Ills footsteps aa
to obtain the great Prize which He has
offered to. us.
The Context In Agreement
Let me detain you a llttlo longer that
I may point out afresh that the con
text confirms our glorious hope re
specting this Great Convention of the
future, and shows that It Is nigh at
band. St Paul pictures before ua the
fact that God's dealings with Israel,
In bringing them out of Egyptian
bondage and to Mt Sinai, pictured
the work of this Gospel Are, In the
calling of Spiritual Isrsel out of tfie
bondage of the world the bondsge at
sin and death. The Apos'isthus show
that the giving of the Lsw Covenant
to Israel at Mt Slnal typically repre
sented the giving to them of the New
.aw Covenant In Mt. Zion In the en4
of this Age.
The Law Covenant was gtvea
through a mediator, Moses, and the
New Law Covenant Is to be given
through a mediator, tho AntltyplceJ
Moses, Jesus tho Head and the Church.
Ills Body. It has required all this
Gospel Age to gather out of the world,
and to try, test. Kllsh and fit the
members of tho Body of Christ, who,
under His Headship, will be the Anr
typical Moses, who will be the Antt
typlenl Mediator between Ood nnd men.
-Jeremiah xxxl, 31; Acts ill. 22, 23.
As Moses went up Into the Mount to
commune with God ln'fore the Lave
Covenant was, completed, so the entire)
Church must go up Into the Mountain,
into the Kingdom, with our glorious
Head and Redeemer, by tho change ot
the First Resurrection. As tho time
for Moses' going up into the mountain)
drew near, there were great manifes
tations of the dignity of tho Divine
Government. And Just so in the clos
ing of this Age. Tho Apostle Inform
us that the world will have terrifying
experiences on a still grentcr scale).
He says that then the mountain trem
bled and smoked and that the Divine
voice was heard. The people were M
terrified that they entreated that they
might not hear further, but that Moses
would net ns mediator, nnd he did so.
So It will bo here: There will be
such manifestations of Divine Justice
and opposition to sin nnd ail iniquity
that it will cause the "time of trou
ble" mentioned by tho Prophet and by
Jesus, "A time of trouble such as never
was since there was a nation; no, nor
ever shall be" after. Dnnlel xll, 1;
Matthew xxlv, 21.
The result of this great time of trou
ble upon the world will be a realiza
tion that they need a Mediator a Me
dlatorlal Kingdom. And this Is Just
whnt God hns provided for them
through tho arrangement of the New
Covenant
The Shaking Already Commenced.
Contrasting the experiences at the
Inauguration of tho typlcnl Law Cove
nant with those to be expected at the
inauguration of tho autltyplcal, the
New Law Covenant St. Paul says,
"God's voice then shook the eorth, but
now He hnth promised, saying, Yet
once more I shake not the earth only,
but also heaven." And tho Apostle
explains that tho expression, "One
more," signifies that this second shak
ing will be bo thorough that no further
shaking will ever be necessary, but ev
erything of injustice and unrighteous
ness which ought to be shaken loose
will be shaken; and this. Bays the)
Apostle, implies everything except the)
Church and the glorious Kingdom
which we shall then receive: "Where
fore we, receiving a Kingdom wbieo
cannot be moved, let us have grace
whereby we may serve God acceptably
with reverence and godly fear."
Can we not see the shaking already
beginning? Let us remember that this
time It will not be the shaking of to
literal earth, as In the type, but the
shaking of the symbolical earth the
shaking of society to Us very center.
Do you not already hear tho rumblings
the rumblings of discontent, anger,
mallco, hatred, strife? These forbods
the "great earthquake," which we
symbolical of the great Revolution,
wherein the present order of things
shall collapse and give place to the
New Order of Immanual'B Kingdom
of righteousness, Justice, equity.
And, says tho Apostle, God Intends
this time to shake not merely the
earth the social fabric but also the
heaven the ecclesiastical powers of
tho present time. Not the truo Church,
will be shaken, but tho many systems
which moro or less misrepresent ths
true Church and "the faith once de
livered unto tho saints."
Do we see premonitions of this shak
ing? Yea, verily. In all denomina
tions there are foreltodlngs of coming
trouble. Wo may even fear that some
of the attempts at Christian union are
not made with the proper motive, bat
through a realization of tho shaking
which the Lord is about to permit to
come upon the ecclesiastical systems
of this present time.
"Wait Ye Upon the Lord."
My dear brethren, in these coming
days of trouble, which may be very
near, the opportunity may come to yos
and to me to be either strife-breeders
or peacemakers. Let us see the will
of the Lord In this matter, that we are
called to peace, and that the declara
tion of the Master Is, "Blessed are the
peacemakers, for they shall be called
the children of God."
Let us seek rather to subdue and
calm the passions of men in the com
ing strlfo, and to do nothing to aug
ment them or to kindle the fires sf
passion which we know are about to
consume the present social fabric. Let
us point out to thoso with whom we
bare any Influence that tho worst form
of government in the whole world is
better than no government better than
anarchy, a thousand times. Let us re
mind them of the fact that In God's
prorldence we hare tho best of all
earthly governments.
Let us remind thorn, too, that the
Lord has told us to wait for Him and
not to take matters Into our own hands.
His words are, "Walt ye upon Me.
aalth the Lord, until the day that I
rise up to the prey; for My determi
nation Is to gather the nations, that I
may assemble the kingdoms, to pour
upon them Mine Indignation, eves sH
My fierce anger; for all the earth shall
be deroured with the Jin of Uf esl
OMiy, For then will I turn to the two
pie a pure language (Message), that
they may all call upon the name of the
Lord, to serve Him with one consent"
Zephanlah ill, 8. 0.