New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-10
ATTRIBUTES OF GODS LOVE.
The Reu John Gteldenning The Prospect IUens Peb,
tsrinn Chnrch Lersen Hiln

The Reu John Gldenning The Prospect AUsn~ Presby
trtan Church, Jersey CITY.
The Rev. John s. Glendenning of the Pros
pect Avenue Presbyterian Church. in Jersey City.
preached yesterday from Romans, ", 8: &" God com.
mendeth His love toward US. in that while yet
sinners Christ died for u.s."
Dir. Gendenning began his sermon by showing that
men always more readily impressed by the moral and
emotional episodes of life than by ply steal phe-
nomena intellectual appeals and that God
has met this tendency of human nature
by an incarnation OF His own moral and emotional self
in Jesus Christ Ills This love revealed in Christ ia,
in the first place Divine in its nature. appears in s
spOntaneolisness and in its appropriateness While
human affection has its origin In conditions and its oug0
within limits strictly personal and local. God and God
alone is the and reason the motive and the end of
His love to our fallen world. Unless We have under
stood this, We have not learned one-half the full
which, even in this life, may belong to
our conception of the love OF Coda love
that called forth by regard to His creatures
once but lies wrapt In the secrets OF His Divine
tre The spOntaneOusness OF this love is matched by its
appropriateness for it provides Precipitation for sin.
than which nothing can be more appropriate to the
wants OF our fallen Gazing out upon society vast
csuldron of seethng sin lies before and for world
thus stepped In sin what can be more ncedfu than
great overwhelming love- which ceanscth from all sin.
This need the love OF God in Christ supplies.
And If the love revealed in Christ DC thus Divine in its
nature it is no less Divine in its pcrmamence 10 remains
changeless amid all changes AS the earth changes In It's
relation to the sun. causing thereby the attenuation
OF day and night, men may change in their relation
to Divine love- but this love never changes Obsourity
and eclipse are only in the mind and heart OF man IL
moreover remains patient amid AL proyocaton 1t 10
n aSs SaS eSd viii VI ny man faithful TO US IN
sin The nobleness which creates the possibility OF
such friendship is shocked by the discovery OF mean
wickedness in ts object And then IL remains
pleading amid all resistance God stands ut the door OF
each OF hearts and knocks for entrance
His matchless overture OF Divine compassion is
urged upon by the most impressive motive.
Nor is the love revealed in Christ less divine In its
The measure of this love is indicated by It's emo
onal intensity. Wonderful instances OF human herosm
and sefsacrifce record the result OF merely
human love. Patriotism has prompted sacrifice; 40 has
personal friendship and domestic love. There is only
instance, however in all history Of Divine Man yield
ing Himself victim To an ign0miDious dcatl for
purely spiritual ends. No human emotion mpolled Him
10 this sacrifice patriots heroism, family affec
ton personal friendship, no lovers passion IL
emotion tIanscendng all these, and standing for
the deverancoo OF the and the ideal OF efdeyo
ton among mankind The measure OF this love Is in
Dictated further by its redeemng power II Is equal TO
To the work which IL has to performa work of redcmp
ton and reconciliation. Herein Is love equal TO all
human needs The very wrecks of humanity, washed
by the waves Of life stripped OF every hope and lost 10
every yirtue-all have place IN the infinite heart OF
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