The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1895-06-10

sin This wa the sum of the preach.
ing Of the L1IiI the meaning Of his
appearance on the earth, and Of his
work That the love Of God does not
decrease with the measure of guilt but
increases, that the greatest sinner
precisely as such IS the object Of the
greatest love, this Is the new, inc0nl-
pfehensible, wonderful revelation,
which not only the mouth Of the Lord
announced, but his person guarantees.
That God wishes with Godlike de-
sire to cancel the total sin OF humans
ity and Of every individual man for
Christ's sake and to ground in man
and through man new society be-
tween Himself and man as II sin had
never come III between them at all it
IS this which constitutes the centre Of
the gospel. His preaching as from
guilt, So also from the power OF sin
does he free us, because BY such faith
we are inWardly renewed and the poW-5
er OF hatred and opposition to sin have
been implanted in us.
Thus the Kingdom of God is first
separate from sin, and new fellowship
with God; Therefore the highest good.
But it is also vanQuishing evil,
outward to be sure, the world has re-.
manned much as 1t was and III the
church not less than out Of it, evil ia
manifold forms prevail. Nay, besides
the general evil which the christian
shares with all men, Jesus said that
he would suffer more for he would.
have persecution and hatred for His
sake. But for all this the kingdom Of
God is overcoming all evil. Not
simply because there is time APP
pointed when it shall end; not simply
because the Fellowship Of God makes
us obliyious to all ills and sustains us;
but because all things thea natural
man counts as evil we learn to view.
as good. AS a means in the Fathers
hands to train and ripen us. We call
that evil which brings us injury.
But ia the kingdom of God there is
nothing that can injure us. But
everything Is ordered OF God for our
healing and holiness.
Out upon the high seas ship was
snlitten by a storm. All on board
despaired Of life except the captains
little boy, who looked out in Joy upon
the fury of the waves. why do you
not fear?n shouted a passenger.
There sits my father at the helm, !"
was the boys reply. The child may
even have looked for the ocean voyage.
that he might see his father at his
best as he battled with the storm.
So 1t is with him who has found the
kingdom Of God. There sits my
Father at the helm. Nothing can
come to pass which he has not known
and which is not gopd for MP. We
glory in stribulations also, for what
we call evil is nothing except the pro-
motion of our inper man and the near
est way to our salvation. So there
is no evil in the kingdom Of God and
therefore it is the highest good. #
But the kingdom Of God is also vic
tory over death. It is here as it is
with evil, outWardly the dominion Of
death has remained, but only its form,
not its essence, only its shadow, not
its substance. InWardly He who has
called himself the, light has broken
the scepter Of death. Through the
death Of our Lord he has become the
lord Of DEATH. sI am the resurrec-
ton and the life. Y Never more die,
for death is the commencement Of
life; but what for the natural man to
die signifies for him the & Saltation
and perfection of life. lam the
life, what Paul, Peter, Jam&, Matth-
eW and John meant is external life.
To have fellowship with God is to
have eternal life. A plant draws its
life out Of the earth from which it
springs, the natural man out OF
ground and atmosphere of the earth
what constitutes the contents of his
life, is that in which he in peculiar
sense of the word lives as formed out
of the soul of this world. But the
new man draws his life out of the
world OF eternity. Gods thoughts,
aims, power is his, SO he lives from
the world Of eternity and by means of
it here below.
To sum up then, in what does the
kingdom of God consist; inGod giving
us a share in his own blessed eternal
essential life SO that the content of
Gods life shall be ours. In the full
ness of life we have the highest good
not as single boon with more than
all others but as the one good which
includes all others; so that all thugs
In the world becomes to us a great
kingdom of grace and Of good.
Now If the kingdom is such boon
how may we come to possess it? This
is the question for few moments;
the answer is simple in the first place
through faith. A man has a three
fold eye; his bodily eye fol the sense
world; his mental eye for the world
Of finite spirit; his spiritual eye for
the world Of eternity. For the natur-
al man this eye is closed and must be.
opened, world Of eternity not.
How does the eye open; not through
reason and force. God himself must
make the world Of eternity a reality
to him. Not always like Paul, but
gradually In daily life where God,
makes the. wind his messengers and
the flaming fire his servant. Then
does it come about that / may win
the kingdom Of God. Since God
through his leading inwardly prepares
US to appreciate the gospel Of Christ
through faith and this faith is par
ticipating in the kingdom of God.
But the question is not vet fully an
severed IF ono hos Tins tgainnd rnna