In Memoriam, Hon. James A. Garfield, the Twentieth President of the United States

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Excerpt from In Memoriam, Hon. James A. Garfield, the Twentieth President of the United States: A Discourse by the Rev. Thomas H. Robinson, D.D., September 25, 1881It is as natural for us to turn to God in any sore and sudden troubles, unless by our willful sins the track heavenward has been lost, as it is for us to seek the sight and help of human friends. There are times, indeed, when we turn from all earthly faces and earthly arms to crave the smile and rest on the arms of the ever lasting God. We feel the need of a greater sympathy than any that lies in human kind. We feel that there must be, there is, a Mightier One than man, the Mightiest One, and that He will be a refuge for us.We do not pause to argue the matter, we do not hesitate at all, we do not need to, in our extremities of trouble, or of grief, any more than do our children, when they cry to us, their parents, who are to them in God's stead. What is the cry and ¿ight to us of a hurt and sorrowing child but a divinely implanted instinct leading the child to the right and true source of help? It is swifter than intellect and surer than reasoning.We are but the children of the infinite Creator and Father. It is a primal instinct of our nature to cry unto the Lord in every night-time of trouble. See how this human heart of ours beats in our Bibles from the first page to the last. The patriarchs and prophets and saints of the Old Testament and the New, are one with us in this cry of the human to Heaven. Whenever personal burdens grow heavy, when the clouds gather over our households, when common calamities fall upon a people, when the nation seems to be in the grip of doom, or to be stumbling amid the dark shad ows of disaster and death, men cry unto God - they cannot be hindered from it, they feel sure that God hears them, and they grow strong to bear their burdens or fight their battle.So has it been in every age. So is it now. Even among the nations that knew not the God of the Bible, there has been this same instinct to cry in every time of calamity to their gods. With them it was a perversion of the old and true and undying instinct of our created nature to seek the favor and help of its Creator.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.