Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-04-18

els we see examples OF all sorts of spiritual
and intellectual combinations And as We
come into the new testament we see figures
cumbining the same qualities Strongly IN
,iiyiduaiized are the twelve men called to
declare the word % Christ But above ali
this wonderful crowd of percentages there Is
one nature 80 clearly eminent that we can
not mistake u-thaf OF Saul of Tarsus. He
was born with the studious spirit AMI
granted with the open eye from the begin
ming. Christianity had for him
a supreme fascination. He illustrates this
in his life. There was no philosophy but
what with his wonderful vision he could
discover is relation to the great religion of
God. He built on ordinary. experience and the
grand struetare becomes proof 10 Us of the
existence and righteousness of our Lord
But we see that there WAS one thing he de-
sired 10 know ~ jew he had his eve on
Jehovah AMI hal such a thought of God
that he believed that his people were in the
most supreme sense the commissioners of
God TO do his pleasure. Saul, this modern
Elijah. felt that he was to bring the
lhuniers Of t,0si's wrafh upon those Of his
people wlI1 WEIR untrue 10 the great King.
1T Il certain time came the great change
tAlf az " "a nj XVI Att" l4-ilts INV INV
ami hg now has one Of hi, prisoners. many
Of whom he hal condemned 10 death with
his hand upon hi, head and ont of the dark
me-, into which God had called him In
PASSED into the open mission that distin-
gui>hed Paul, the Apostle, from saul, the
jew. He was hot overcome with surprise
alone i common man who had received
the great blow thai va, given Saul would
have questioned and investigated the source
of tlr stroke ani nothing more. Bur in
this ease there was something more. The
stroke blinded him but it lifted him. 1t
sent him into darkness but il transformed
him and lifted him up
In the supreme moment of the change
love was born. With Us love Tor Him i
seldom born with the ordinary growth. We
have hal 10 be Snmttcn To the earth in order
to begin TO love Him Love il born OF
fear; peace is born OF war. Thp great con
test of The Christian soul follows the tumult
of the Christian nature. There came upon
Saul like dawn on the world, the vision of
the crgciied and risen Christ. Love fas-
ciEatcs and creates IN ~ the desire to work
for the object Of our affection. The world
is empty without Jesus. and life lllc with
ouf work for Him know of no
greater evidence of Gods power than in
the change of saul All things he once
dtspisri he now loves, The vision dawn,
on his mind the eternal vision fall, upon his
soul and his eye is fixed ,teadfastly ON God
until the Father calls him unto eternal rest.
When the words of Paul in our text are
rightly interpreted they Indicate the graciou,
Transformation of thrists love on his soul.
He had known Him before nth the same
intellectual knowledge with which
other Jews had been endowed. lie
had investigated Him and had de
cidcd that he did not wish to know thi,
God of Galilee. but God hal determined to
>mite man into love for Himself
We cannot understand what il was 10 be-
lirNe Christ AT that time. Ii was 10 he an
outca>t, to put aside all that was regarded
is knowledge, all prospects of advance
mert. all political ambition And vet Paul
counts all these things a, nothing for the rN-
crllcncc of the knowledge of Christ ,lc>u>
liz Lord. .! glorou>lv absorbed soul
The higher nature la, taken possession. 1t
Is no wonder that he became what he was
when NE became so absorbed in the Great
Itedccmcr of the world. The man | hat,
shall never know. If can 81
penetrate the man as 10 guess hi
character can then gain hi, love. The
world Ha> many examples of failure along
This line Take Walter Scutt'- life of Ma
polcUn. 1t is dead because. there never had
been bond of sympathy between the two.
tarlyles life of Frederick the Great is Il
bnok that will live for.,.r ha,.,u., iva va,
born in the SuIl in contnnnI,tiu,, .hr MN
OF whom he wrote. SO ii is with the rela,
lion of the soul In Chris Iir eric. ont
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