St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-07

| swOeps, and the cheek paleS and the eyes
close and the heart stops. Oh, to put away
garments that never will be worn again, to
gather up from the floor toys that never
again will streW the carpet, and to 90 with
sense of suffOcation through the desolated
household that once rang with childish
merriment! Oh, my God! who can stand
that without Thy grace to help, without Thy
grace to smoothe, without Thy grace to
comfort? Oh, you will want Christ in your
first trouble, and so beg Of you this morn
ing to take Him as yours.
Beecher ON Love.
Special to the Globe.
NEW YORK, Dec. 6.-Mr. Beecher's text
was John xiv, 81: ''He that hath My COM
mandments and keepeth them, he it is that
| loveth Me; and he that loveth Me shall be
| loved of My Father and 1 will love him and
will manifest Myself unto him." He said:
''The deepest emotion that man knows is
| love. It is like the air plants, its roots are
! upward, and love works with moral senti-
| ment 1t is divine and is that atmosphere
| through which the image, the ideal, the
| true thought of God is to make itself known.
1t is the great end toward which all crea-
| ton is tending. The discovery of that
! thought has been of inconceivable comfort
| to me- for have seen the human race be-
| ginning at the lowest state Of animalism.
grasping and cruel. l have seen the
animal creation organized for cruelty,
as the shark, the leopard the lion, as if
destructiveness was part and parcel of the
original creative design. Out of it I have
seen little by little emerging other quail
ties, love of cubs and whelps. With slow
steps have seen the animal creation reach
to the level of the human family, under the
same mystic influence, which we cannot
| call nature, for it seems to contradict nature
| at every step. l have seen
THE STEADY UNFOLDING
| toward intelligence, toward refinement to-
ward imagination. toward sympathy, to-
| ward love. The law Of ascent and the law
of unfolding at last eeeras this: To set the
whole of creation upon march from the
| lowest form of unorganized matter up
| through every variation of organization,
| through every form of passion, still seekingi it
knows not what, until later ages descry that
| star that all creation is seeking and around
about which it is revolving, and love is that,
| and is the final end of creation. And so
that we can account for the erroneous waste
intermediate, it is glorious thought of
Gods designs in the creation of this world
| that perish by the way. perish effectually,
having had their sunshine and their meas
ure of little joy, and simply stop and know
no more; if there is no ponderous prison,
| if there is no hideeus world of cruelty that
| shall enact again and forever all those
atrocious crimes that animals and men
| enact upon each other, l feel no more
| troubled about the time and the great waste
| that has befallen this world on its march
| toward
| THE FINAL CONSULTATION
than feel troubled when 1 see ship
master hewing the log and fitting it for rib
and keel or any other part of the ship. The
chips don't trouble me so that the timber
comes out right, and the chips of creation
may be multitudinous, but that don't bother
| me. 1t is the organized and apparently the
drifting tendencies Of animal life that have
obscured my vision and troubled my faith,
| and I have got over it. The day-star has
arisen Its name is love, and right behind
| it is the sun Of righteousness with healing
| in it's beams. We are seeing the early
morning. Other ages will see the dawn
| and the noon. I shall see it, too, and from
| better astronomical point of observation
| than this life affords. There are two forms
( of speech common to Christian
Teaching dS W 6uo lOf0 Ol OOu.
One is the love which He feels for
| for God. 1t is the second from that wish
| to speak of; the love we feel for God as
made manifest in Jesus Christ. The love
| of Christ is taught in the New Testament
as the foundation motive of human life, but
men say: ''How shall get that experience
that see in others? How shall l love
Christ? l have no power to bring before
my mind any personality when think to-
ward Christ Cannot love by the mere
DESIRE TO LOVE.
| Have demands substance, quality, entity?
l cannot rear God up out from behind the
cloud of invisibility by any effort of my
Imagination. I have prayed and the
answer delays. 1t must by my i'm
perfect prayer" No it is not your
| imperfect prayer, but it is your imperfect
practice. Some are superiority endowed
and come by reason and imagination early
and easily as to the ideal of Christ, but how
soon shall ordinary men gain this vision of
the qualities which excite love and bear
| them about and find their whole life winged
| by this consciousness of love upborne and
| upbearing? The text have selected con-
| tains the solution of this question, given
| by Christ himself. HE that hath Ny
commandments sdIlll hCCDlll Gllcll, Il6 IL Is
that loveth Me and he that loveth Me shall
be loved of My Father and I will love him
and will manifest Myself unto him." And
the commandments are all summed in one:
Love God and love your neighbor" And
the way to love God whom you
have not seen is to love your brother whom
you have seen. But again, we say, have
no love to commute into conduct How
| shall smite the rock and set the stream to
gushing? AS the emotions exerted by love
should continue themselves by being COM
muted into conduct, so ON the other hand.
and blessedly, conduct has the power of
rising into emotion. The keeping of
oHRIsT's COMMANDS
will transmute obedience into faith and
love. 1t will spring up into your mind
| clear revealed, an ideal, and if you be rightly
! and highly constituted, vision. Lastly,
such obedience to the injunction: keep
My commandments" induces emotions
cleared from selfshness and pride and fur
nishes those conditions of mind which
can receive the spirit of God.
! God comes to men through their Godlike-
| ness. He comes to them through those
elements in themselves which are like his
nature and mind and we come to the
knowledge of the glory of God through
that preparation which transmutes our life
into something divine and that atmosphere
Of conduct and <deyeloped experience
which ne philosophy can search out: that