The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-01-08

we are taught In respect 60 the divine nature. tho
Bible reveals to US Goa with infinite depths OF
feeling--a God OF pity ana love and nepfulness.
In the New Testament we lnd all figures exhausted
70 show how good God is, now tender and loving.
The elevation OF Christ in giving his life for the
world as compared with anything In
material nature Is simply astounding. In
the outside world there are blood and
tears and SEPARATIONS yet In the Bible God Is called
the
What is the meaning Of this contrarietys The
solution lies In human life IN own souls, In In
dividual experience Nature means all the outside
world ana all that is in men. We have no right to
completed in man. The highest part OF nature l. in
man. All the tendencies. me drifts and CROWNS.
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aud the stars. Is not the fire that flames IN genius
matter, ana NOT from mind1 We are yet so Imper-
feet that the whole OF what God means docs not ap.
TO the inner, to mans interior nature, that we uu.
derstand anything Of God. By direct analogy our
savioHr taught US to understand God son ASK
give good sSinss to your curea now ps uoh more
Spirit to them that ask linn 7 Jesus stands and
SAYS. "f0ur Father Is ineta5y more father than
great racts OF human experience ana saying, .shis
which exists In you In miniature exists In God In
TRANScENDANr POWER
ana beauty" II we have the products OF the tenn
perate zone from our lukeMarm nature, God Is
tropical and intense in love. We are At liberty. them
mans works. but man himself. Neither monarch
nor magistrate. but the individual heart IN its
highest perfection, must teach us OF Goo. You say
more tender and helpful than an earthly father
Men mink they caniOt carry the little troubles OF
In tDe universe ana all your individual experience
There IL the little sparrow IN midwnter with Moth
Ing 70 protect It. yet 1t sings ana says TO as ..God
Why Is 1t SO difficult TO lind God God must be found
by thinking OF HIN like the best In 0urself II God
IS mimic generosity a, ana love lie Is 70 be known
you in material form. Our knowledge OF Him de-.
ponds upon our having some
OF HIS QUALITIES
In us. / don't believe any man was ever lifted
TO any great sel-denIal without seeing God. We
are In dull state, clouded In our higher faculties,
prets GCd Is dim and clOuded? The man IN an
Italian dunge0n knows nothing OF the bounty OF
an Italian summer The man that lives In the dun.
ReOn OF sensuallty knows nothing OF Il sunshine or
In, but shall not be able.r WhyS How shall hatred
enter INTO lover How shall sedshness enter into the
be In the mood that God Is ia II we would under
stand Him. Has not need ever interpreted
to your Have there never been interpreting
moments with youy You may have called these
moods poetic, but they were the truest moments.
In the great realm OF God there three great a0sO
lutte pernanences-Faith, Hope and Love, and the
greatest OF these Is Love. He that rises
INTO these moods Is in recipient state and
God can aud does communicate with him. God
SHINES all the time, but he shines upon the shut
door. When we open the door we see the light.
the higher states that we can perceive the divine
presence, Interpreted by these higher MOODS, God
Is love- The neart Is greater than the head, ana they
are the most orthodox who love the most and keep
nearest to God.