Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-01

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 came where the disciples were, stood in l their midst, and said, "Peace be unto l you.o Then he said unto Thomas, 'sReach 1 hither thy finger and behold My hands aud l reach hither thy hand and thrust 1t into l My side and be not faithlessIbut believing. g.p l To the faithful Peter, who had denied Him 1 thrice, Christ was as gentle and tender. l The only reproach to Peter was in asking Peter thrice if he loved Him. And when l Peter repented He commanded him to go 1 and feed His sheep.
 Ia sorrow aud trouble the loving Savior | is equally as tender and gentle. When our | last great trouble comes, when death over | takes us, we will find the loving Christ | ready to gently bear us to that home in l Heaven which He has gone to prepare for those who love and serve Him.
 CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN. Rev. Robert D. Wear, pastor of ths Cum berland Presbyterian church, took for his text yesterday Psalms 24, X: "Who is this King of Glory? The Lord of Hosts, He is the King of Gory.'
 ..glory'' aud King of Glory? King of Glory must mean the source of all glory, while glory is the manifestation of the devine presence. It is the nimbus of the devine character. It is the word aud works of God uttering the perfection of His being. Gods character, and hence- His glory, is greater than can come within the review of the human mind. How great then must be that character and that glory, for the glory of God as we see it, is sometimes aweinspiring and overwhelming. Among the several words translated into tglory" and its synonyms ws use that of the He- brew s'addereth, adornment, and ''hod,'' meaning .'glory," ''beauty,D "majesty," and we ask who is this King or Beauty, Majesty, Glory and Adorned with all this as with a garment? We say all nature answers, "God, He is this King of Glory.' The scriptures proclaim Gods glory.
 How can we prevent the manifestation of Gods glory in our own lives and in those things over which we have certain degree of temporal con trol? By defac1ng his work in our souls, and by thwarting his purpose h our creation and by not allowing the image of His Son to be formed in us? By disobeying Him we are serving the devil and do not show His glorious handiwork in our creation, and by allowing evil to get possession oi us to such an extent that all traces of the divine purpose are eradicatad, and Instead Of showing forth the glory or dod, and making sour lives meadl of praise to His infinite skill, love, goodness, power, etc., we instead find ourselves be- coming walking opponents of the devil. | We wrest natural law from the plan of its | operation. We mark upon the face of nature and write across it the signature of sin.
 We can, however, become refectors of Gods glory and character, as all things else in nature are, and we can do this by our intellectual development, by our moral development, by our physical develop ment, and, above all, by our Christian lives, which reflects Gods glory when the nature is washed and the love made capa- ble of rehecting. l see Gods glory in the face of childhood. We behold it in the beauty of womanhood. It can be seen in the robust strength of manhood, in the achievements of science. h all human achievements see more the glory of God than of man. In the song of birds and bloom of flowers, in the thunder storm, the earthquake and the starry heavens we see Gods glory and the record of his nature and character written in eternal let ters upon the vaulted sky. look behind Edison making the phono ograph and be- hold Edison's God making Edison. see God behind, above and over all things. The making of Newton was a more gIo- rious thing than the discovery of the laws of attraction and gravitation. Let us en- deavor to see evidences of God in all things. Let us seek to bask in the glory of His presence. Let us look behind creature to creator.
 REVIVAL SERVICES.
 There will be preaching at the Cumber. lend Presbyterian church, corner of Eighteenth street and Fifth avenue, every evening this week and next at D. m. and s p. m. The pastor will conduct the ser vices himself, and in so doing asks the CO., operation of all who are disposed to join with him in winning souls to Christ, and urging all to higher plane of Christian life and duty. The subject for tonight will After Man.'' The slogan will be, .'The religion that fails to make. a man an hon. est man, good citizen, good husband and father, is failure for that man through time and eternity. If it makes one as above stated, it is a success in time and eternity" !" Ali are invited.
 ST. PAuL's CATHOLIC CHURCH.
 In St. Paul's Catholic church, Father O'Reilly read the Gospel for the day John viii, 46 59 verses.
 He spoke substantially as follows: To- day is called "Passion Sunday,' and as the liturgy of the church in her office aud prayers treats of the Passion of Christ, the Gloria Patri is omitted as we'll as every thing which speaks of joy or gladness. To- day the crucifix is yelled with cloth of purple, the color indicative of penance. There is only one call which resounds throughput the whole season of Len, t @ season of penance and fasting and prayer; 1t is call for an amendment of life. The :veiled crucifixo reminds us of the hidden life ot Christ, and of the time when those amongst whom He labored pressed hard upon Him with stones in their hauds to stone Him to death, but His hour had not yet come ito suffer and die.'' He hid Himself and went out of the temple. The ct2.ca iorciby calls to our minds this event in the lie of Christ by covering with purple veil every crucifix today.
 Christ defied the malice of His enemies to ? convict Him of sin. He would stani every other imputation, but to be called a sinner He would not: '.Which of you can convict Me of sin3' What is more reasonable l. than the belief that He was without sin, since His mission was to take away the sins of the world? In Him-the Holy of [ Holies-there was not the shadow of i'm ! perfection to darken the spiendor of His g lory. Sin is departure from the attrib- utes that make up the Divinity. The na- ture of sin is a transgression of the law of God, or deed committed with knowledge