The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-10-28

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sesx sssg feafewsnr 80 god treats every
errSrs- assd ssgssssixg ere.
tssssts mercy xhows itself. also. In the
form ~ rztls.see ard forg suffering The
Lord + moi slAek concerning hss promise.
as s.sfss court ssscknezS. nssz Is long suffer
ing toward geo, nos wishing that any
skssussi Perish h.a. thai all should come To
repentance uftenftr1eS 9s get impatient,
Ike James and John vi.o wanted 20 call
dOMFs fire from heaven on the sama-5taFis
Ban tod. although He marks the smallest
sin and although he hates ssh xith an IN
finite hatred. set he never lets anything
move Him 70 haste or Inrassenee. We
may wDztsey. why God does not strike down
the iYssoIess lisersiae ard break 10 pieces
~scsesl systems. and disferze 10 the four
winds tie banded sects af error and unite
lei. He knows why. He IS waiting. wait
sng TO see II sill another uanderer viii not
return.
The cries 81 those who have suffered
while The pleasure seekers have been wan
ton hare entered into the ears Of the God
OF sabbath lie sees the fyranis, the
traitors. the hardened profiigste living OF,
thesr many days. and some of them dying
natural deaths IA their beds. He sees the
Aivas and TorquemasaS Of every age, but
stiiI he waits. waits TO still give opportunity.
Gods mercy shows itself. also. in the
form OF forgiveness. IF We confess our
sins he is just and faithful To forgive Us our
sins. and 20 cleanse Us from all anrigh.eous-
ness
This forgiveness is not for giveness that
allows oar sins 10 be continually Haunted
in our faces after we have been pardoned.
II will forgive their iniquity, and ! viii re-
member their sins no more" When our
sins are forgiven they are buried some
thing as the body OF Moses was buried rot
only was his body buried but his grave and
the graveyard were buried also, so that
mo man knoweth his sepuIchre unto this
day."
Third, the perfection OF Gods way in the
moral world is shown by his faithfulness.
dis justice might be perfect in the quail
iiy OF it, bat II IL were only administered
occasionally Gods way would not he per-
feet. Gods mercy might be perfect in the
quality OF il. but If ii were shown only At
irregular intervals, Gods way would not
be perfect.
But we find combined with these attri-
butes OF justice and mercy the attribute OF
faithfulness. This completes the trinity of
his Projections. His mercy endureth for
ever "Tby faithfulness is unto ali gener-
atoms" My loving kindness / will net
take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness
to fail. "Thou Lord art great and ready
TO forgive" God is always ready to forgive.
Abraham Lincoln gave standing orders to
his doorkeeper that. no matter how great
might be the throng, If either senator's or
representatives had to wait, or be turned
away without an audience. he must see
every messenger who came 10 him with
petition for the saving OF life. So God is
never too much engroSsed with the mighty
Affairs OF the universe To listen TO sinners
cry fo- forgiveness. He stands ready TO
hear any man, and at any time. Whose
ever will NAV come -