New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-29
AN INFINITE UNIVERSE.

Is there ANYTHING OF value taken away? In tn,
place OF the little. petty universe Of Hebrew
dreams what have we now? This magnhcen
revelation of the Copernican students. universe
Infinite in it's reach and I'm its grandeur; uni
verse fl at last to be- the home OF an infinite God
a universe grand enough TO clothe Him and ex
press Him. to manifest and reveal Him; a universe
boundless: "A universe that has grown through the
and more OF the divine beauty and glory for ever
more Is there any loss in this exchange! -
,ss GU the W Son Of S, fa
Justice that means Justice: power that means
love: God who Is eternal goodness; a God not
off somewhere in the heavens. 10 Whom we must
y we need q than we know ourselves and is more
ready to give TO Us than fathers are to give good
into modern thought Not the broken fragments
lectually that. as they have been telling. us for
centuries It was mp9ssbIe for , him to end The
kind OF man. but z man who has been on me
m Of who S has ben
NAL. who has been cruel but who at every step
has s to and the
evolved ali that is and finest In the his
tory OF h the h"s Sommed no end Of crimes but
who has learned through these processes. ana az
sibie by way Of development in Abraham and
Moses and Elijah and David and is, isa All ana
ment time not perfect. but magnificent types OF
actual men. r,or,
Is not T passage in it or line Tor which we need
to apooFze there Is nothing nSTea os and an r eS
II is the truth that has come to men In all ages,
matter spoken by whose lips no ont a un5cv Whe
conditions or in whatever civilization or uhaer
Ss4t SKY s al h9 '%f s9d H9s
children and makes up our Bibie' when Is not
II In my old days when preached in the orthodox
Church Jesus was meyer hhr 20 dear t 10 all y
was Obliged to think OF Him as somehow second
God. who stood between me and the tirst one, ana
and the Justice OF the first | had TO think Of Him
as part OF a scheme that seemed to me unjust ana
most OF the race But now / think Of Jesus and
His cross the most natural and at the same same
Jesus reveals to me to-day the humaneness OF God
and the dvineness OF man And s r ,akss ,s
those who have wrought atonement how? Through
faithfuness even unto death
FAITH AND FAITHFULNESS.
There Is faith and there Is faithfulness. and He
shares this with thousands OF others Tnere are
thousands Of men who have suffered more than
Iesus diving for his truth; thousands OF
martyrs who. with His name on their lips have
gone through greater torture than He did. All
those whoever has been faithful, whoever has suf-
fered for the right. whoever mas seen trus, has
halnad IN work out the atonement, the reconciia-
ton OF the world with God. showing the beauty OF
truth and bringing men into that admiration OF II
that helps them to come INTO acc''u VIII" '"'
divine life $4,000, ., 81. ,u -, IN.
damned that is never through all eternity for one
moment hushed in silence We place the song OF the
redeemed an eternal hope for every child born OF
Inc race We do not believe It Is possible for hu-
man soul ultimately to be lost Why Because We
cannot II He can and will not. then He Is not
God IL lie would and cannot. then lie Is not COG.
a. ma reyerentIy say a. He is under an Infinite OBJ
LEGATION TO His own self. to His own righteousness
10 His own truth. His own power HIS own love.
His own character TO see TO II that AL SOUS, some
time are reconciled to Him.