El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-03-07

with grief. Jesus was cruciied aut
had been buried. With their plans. al
they thought, all broken, the disciples
went back to Galilee to get down the
old boats and fishing nets to go back
to their old business. Some old wise
acre tainted them with 81 told yot1
so,' but still the disciples may have
as Jesus had told them. One morning
in the gray of the dawn a. they rowed
| ashore their resurrected L" I'd called
to them from the shore. 1t was too
much for Peter. He was in ecstaces.
He leaped into the water to go to
Jesus. 1t was then that Jesus put to
him the question, "Lovest thou me?'
Peter could not appeal to his friends or
to the past for the denial was fact but
he cried out from a sincere heart,
Lord thou knowest all things. My
denial, my impulsivenes that though
my friends have no faith in me, thou
knowest tina. my mistake was not Of
faith but from impul siveness. Thou
knowest that 1 love thee.''
How often Christs knowledge of our
betterselves helps us. You are trying to
lead a Christian life, your faith and
sir certify Gre doubtedi but you can say
Il ,rd thou knowest my sincerity"
You often do through impulsiveness
what your heart never prompted.
You want to help some one to God but
you fail in your plans How comfort
ing to know God knows that in my
heart I want to be true to him. We
are living in an ungentle AEGEAN age
of suspicion. Everyone seems to sus-
piciou the other. What refuge is
''thou knowest." How many have
been slain by hardness. Poor Keatz
when bis first work appeared was so
criticised by English reviewers that
he died at one and twenty years. His
sensitive nature gave way under rain
of slsnder. Dante got exile. for his
matchless poem and Milton was
threatened with Imprisonment for
writing Paradise Lost. Today no
cause is SO clean and holy but what
the mud Singer and cynic is ready to
throw his cruel weapons. Arnold of
Rugby once angrily reproved a dull
pupil. 1t hurt the boy to the core. He
came to his teacher and said ''Sir, why
were you so angry with me, l was Going
my best.'' Arnold learned lie. 500
which made bin afterwards one of thu
greatest instructors of all time In all
this hardness of life how comforting
tbs thought lord thou knOwest all
things thou kpowest my sincerity"
Jesus rested all the future of his
cause on lowest thou me-" He did not
draw up set of rules and take the dis
ciples to Zebidee's house and have
them sign a document. Over agairst
love, the world has set wealth, power,
genius, brains. But all have gone
down before this one weapon with
which Jesus has conquered the world.
To those who can say, "Lord I love
thee;" TO these Jesus says, feed my
sheep" Scholarship, wealth, power.
genius, all without love are powerless
in advancing Christ's kingdom. Love
today is taking harshness out of theolo-
gy, drudgery out of service. cruelty out
of laws. Love locks with compassion on
the starving, the inmo, ais, the lost
Love will die for the object of his af-
lection. Yes, Jesus was right; it is the
secret of life. He made no mistake in
resting his cause in the hands of those
who loved him, and can you not hear
falling down frcm heaven through the
painless air to you this morning SLOW
est thou me?' Ard blessed are they
who in rapturous sincerity can say
with milling Peter, Lord thou
knowest al things; thou knowest that
[ love thee" Drop anchor here. Go
no further. IN this you have the Sec
ret of life, What is it do you say? II
answer; Working in love conscious of |
Christ's knowledge of you sincerity.