Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-02-19

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mothers in lhs W0fidf HiuspoW-
sf being alaHmed, da net these tWo
woTdz convey The great promise
oil Immortality aAd q general 70
suFaclion, 81 8 manner 20 eQnvine-
ing e words addressed 20 the ras-
con could never dot
tt was g beautiful conception Of
the ancisnta, that god, however
disguised and however otherwise
he might appear like 4 man, could
be known BY his movement, his
walk and IRestuFe-"incessu pa
tuit.S But here is a better evidence
Of q present deity, something in the
moral action, and In every aspect,
something In the smallest as in the
greatest things that speaks to the
heart Of men who are lovers Of
man, In a voice replete and musical
with the evidence of divinity.
st. Paul IN q previous passage Of
the Epistle In which we find
our text, declares that to know the
the love Of Christ is to be "flled
with all the fullness Of God"
TO know the love Of Christ is TO
comprehend the breadth and length
aud depth and height Of his nat
ure; the truth and fact he
means, Of his deity, not its myS-
tery-for we must thus complete
the sentence left abrupt In that no.
bic burst Of devotion, in which the
Apostle, IN the same connection,
prays for the Ephesians, In order 10
their knowledge of the love of
Christ (which passeth knowledge"
and to their being filed with the
plenitudc Of God, "that being root
ed and grounded In love, they may
be able, with all saints, to compre-
bend what is the length and breadth
and depth and height" Rooted!
we must take root downward In
our human relations, before we can
reach upward. and spread outward,
aud expand our branches, and
bear blossoms and fruit in that d.
vine atmosphere Of the spiritual, or
even the ideal life Of the soul. Men
must be rooted and grounded in the
love OF mon ere they eau know the
love of Christ, and apprehend,
| do not say comprehend, the great
mystery Of Christianity - God,
manifest In the flesh"
There is an inference that will not
permit inc to leave this subject
without directing your attention to
II.
It Is the difficulty Of speaking the
truth In love--the fact that the
love ofonr fellow men is not, even
In those who love them best, so
spontaneous, so uniform and per-
manent rs we would will
lingly flatter ourselves It is. II is
q thing in which we arc TO be root
cd and grounded at some moral
pains, not without some labor and
effort, and at the cost Of some sac
ritlce and denial TO ourselves.
Love that IA manifest and
maintain the truth must be no sick
~ plant of mere sentimental
growth. II must be roDted in the
deep soil of charity, aud grounded,
with it, upon the underlying rock
Of a true faith. Thus Il will not
be overthrown by every rough
wind that passes over 1t, in anger,
nor blighted by every dry breath
that blows from the desert upon the
hearts of those whose love forms
its atmosphere nor perforated
and destroyed by every insect and
worm, bred in the suspicion aud
difidencc that infect human ma
lure !; nor blasted by the perpetual
miasml arising from all the decay
ed friendships, and broken vows,
aud corrupt alliances and dead be-
liefs, aud moral treasons In the
world.
But even our frequent intldeli-
ties to the love Of man can but
serve to give Christ o grander pre-
eminencc. He only, Of all men.
loved all, Without an effort and
without an interval. Other men
have thus loved, their friends,
their children, their race, theiI
countrymen-their own blood
flowing I'm the hearts tina
loved them again. Some perhaps
like a Howard or Lavater, havi
loved men as mon but none buI
Christ, and those who share hi
spirit, ever loved man as man -th'
universal mani And It is thi
universal sympathy in which he !
I divinely solitary /; II is this willing
condescension in which he Is absO
lutely supreme. COnceding tina
other men have In q lower sens
. loved their kind, none like Hin
T has so impressed that love upon al
bis actions aud conveyed 1t Int,
r every word for even IN his ex
posture OF the Phansecs, those pu
/ ~trifying members Of society VIII
r required the actual cautery @
truth, Judged by the analogy Of hi
\ own views and sayings in regard t
r the object of his mission to earth
+? he testifies deep tenderness by I'll
exclamation, GLOW shall ye escap
: the damnatiOn of He'll" In non
r but Him Is the love Of kind a sent
mcnt that cannot be separated, !
idea, from the man. In none bu
Him does IL burn, n pure, unmixeC
2 unfIlckeriug, steady fire, withou
: ashes and without flame ; for in hit
, alone il was lighted at the YER
: source Of that sacred fire, evel
p burning, but unconsumed, which
in God, created what in conceptio
, he loved, and which is therefore !
, realization the love of that whic
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