Character CrisisThe phone rang in the news room of the “Columbian”. A man on the line was so excited that his words seemed to stumble over one another. “I can see smoke and steam pouring out of Mount St. Helens, “ the caller fairly shouted. “Do you suppose it is going to erupt?”
Calls of this nature were not without precedent at the office of the daily newspaper in Vancouver, Washington. The answer was standard. Yes, St. Helens would no doubt erupt again; but no, what the caller had seen was not smoke or steam but most likely blowing snow or water vapor being whirled around by the wind.
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"But ask now the beasts,
and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee. . . Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this?" Job 12: 7,9 ›Nature by Design stories. . ._______________________________________
In early colonial times, the Quakers not only lived out this principle within the civilized communities, but sought to make it known to the savage Indian as well. Even at times when it would naturally be considered impossible to follow this principle, a hundred years of history attests to the fact that God honored his simple faith. |
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