St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-08


tells him that there is that deep nature
but how many men there are who go
all the way through life and never
once have uncovered that nature, have
left it in its sWadiiiilg clothes and
bands. still an infant, ungrown, until
it enters that other world to grow.
And how many there are who dwarf
it and SO bind il up and 50 smother
it with other things that it is deformed
diseased, almost dead, as near as il
can die-it cannot Gle here or there.
Now and then we see a man who
has such a power OF moral energy
that we look to him in any community
as man who cannot be shaken, III
any disaster we trust him, in any time
of chaos in business We are sure hs
stands firm; il any time Of sorrow We
are certain that he stands with God
in peace and in the light. And when
death comes we take it for granted
that the storms of death have not even
shaken him, but that he lives on
through it all into that permanent
life which is of God. And so Christ
seeks to get into the life of every man,
and to dwell in him, to give him
this marvellous strength.
The apostle prays that we all may
come up to that point where we shall
be able to see. to comprehend" to
take in its fuljnesS the love of Christ,
what it is, what it has done, all the
marvellous beauty of it, and all the
is its most marvellous characteristic.
Men have done for the
LOVE OF CHRIST
what they never could have done from
any other motive. 1t has taken multi
tudeS OF weak ones and made them
strong, of foul ones and made them
clean, of degraded ones and lifted them
up until they stood among the saints
OF earth. l come, upon a tOilsome
journey, over some alkali plain and
strike a dusty mountain side. Almost
consumed by thirst, l ind a little
spring working its way out from uIl-
der that great mountain. l drink and
my thirst is assuaged. l am renewed,
my life is again secure; without it |
should have fallen. l know one thing
about that water: that it is just what
| wanted to Stake my thirst and give
me new life. l do not know all the long.
course by which it came down from
the clouds and drifted through the air
and worked it's way down through all
that great mountain and found the wa
ter course until it united with other
drops and came out at that particular
spot in my pathway where it come
and refreshed me and gave me new
life. l only know that it has done 1t.
l may not know how it is composed; I
may not know what it is in water that
does satisfy this demand OF human
nature. All 1 do know about 1t is that
it does it.
l cannot know the love of Christ. I
cannot know why God in his marvel
Gus providence so loved me that he
sent a stream of the water of life to
flow where l could drink, and lift up
my eyes, refreshed, and start on new
life 1 only know that he has done it.
The apostle prays (and he prays in
accordance with the wish of Cod that
God would put the fuliness of his
nature into every one of his children
that they may not fail, that they may
not have these disasters, that they
may stand out always as successful,
always true. always growing. THAT
ye may be filed with all the fullnesS
of God" What is fit for heaven is
BEST FOR EARTH.
For God would have us live the one
life here, the childhood heavenly life
here and the manhood heavenly life
here; and this is prayer for this
business, for your own affections, for
your own thoughts, your own magma
tons All, what a blessing it is to a
man to feel when his affections are
all low things, degraded things, when
he has never had a strong, rich, pure
affection since he was a, child, that God
with His divine affections is coming
down into these low, shameless affec-
tons of a degraded man. And when
He sees his conscience all distorted,
lying to Him. through his wrong train
ing of it, and realizes that GOO, the in
finite just one, is coming down to in
habit his conscience, that He can do
it, that He will do it-a man whose
mind has never had a great thought in
it, thinking of himself, his own petty
pleasures, his own advantages, sud
denly to have revealed to him that
there are thoughts that are eternal,
that are worthy of God, that are as
beautiful as Gods own character-if
anything would inspire a man to rise,
it is that! And nothing short of that
will make a man at his best. It fits
the life of the lowest and of the highest
and of all between.
To see the glory of the Master we
must partal<e of His nature. But he
that hath in him this might this gift
of strength, this increase of the spirit
Of the great Father of Us all, shall
come in likeness with Christ into the
fullness Of the stature of that perfect
man. That is the ideal that Christian
ity offers to US all and the help to at
tain it.