The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-25

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Christ and him crucifed. He
made converts there and established a
church, and wrote these two epistles
TO It. Paul had a way of throwing in
pei
For We know the grace of the Lord
Jesus Christ" Paul understood and
remembered that at Corinth he had
| preached the attributes of Christ.
When asked for church members to
rise, the thought came to me that l am
| Speaking to men and women to whom
Paul's sentences We're true and are
true. For We know the grace of our
| Lord Jesus Christ" Grace, as we use
the word, means undeserved favor we
| are receiving. What blessed thing it
| is to have our birth in this land of re-
| ligious freedom, and undeserved fayors
have been coming from God all our
| lives to us. The word grace involves
pity also. When there was no eye to
see and no arm to save, the Lord
looked down with infinite pity on this
sinking earth. There is nobody in this
world that Jesus doesn't pity. l some
times feel that the doomed soul who
finds his home in the depths of hell is
an object Of pity to God. But There is
no hope of post-mortem probation. I
thank God that half the Chinese are
saved, for half Of them die before they
reach the age of ten years of age, and
children who commit no wilful sin are
saved.
Compassion is another attribute of
| the word grace, How it helps us to
have a true friend whose heart beats
in unison with our own. This place is
the gateway of heaven to many a soul.
but you know we shall go from this
place out into the rough pathways of
life and find the way hard Would it
not be blessed thing to have Christ
with US all the time, to share with us
our sorrows and burdens? Will you
not take the compassionate Christ with
you?
There is love in the word grace.
There is no measure for this love. There
| is no human being who has lived that
Christ does not love. He loves the
worst wretch in Worcester; those men
who sell rum near the depot l don't
| see how he can. He loves the worst
man in all the world. That love with
| infinite yearning to save is going out
| to those who seem most distant from
| all possible love. want you to say.
Il know the grace, the pity, the com
passion, the love of Christ
| What did Jesus sacrifice in order that
we might be rich? He sacrificed the
wealth of eternity of existence for the
enrichment of the human race The
Lord Jesus Christ, the theos- anthropos
the God man, the second person Of the
Trinity, somehow in his incarnation
limited his existence to less than &c
years. He laid aside the divine power
Of creation during the period of his life
He laid aside the scepter of authority
III the exercise of dominion over the uni
verse Paul tells us that Christ rules
the universe by his own divine right
Christ surrendered the service and fell
lcwship of Gods angels. They came to
rim only on rare occasions during his
| life on earth. But the angels never
failed to love him. This quality ALWAYS
adhcres to true love. You can't make
mountains high enough, nor oceans
b. DAD enough to limit love.
He became poor, so poor that his moth
er could ind no place but stable in
| which to rest His cradle was a man.
ger He said that the Son of man had
no place to lay his head. thank Hin
| tor this, because I never see a soul 81
ab1ect in poverty that l cannot saw that
the Son of God was born poor and vel
ms loving arms reached around the
world. It isn't poverty to be stripped
OF earthly wealth; it isn't poverty to &c
to the poorhouse, but 1t is poverty TO yc
ST. nd out and be scourged and to have
no friend in the wide world to lift 4
hand in your behalf. This was Christ's
lot All how different from that mr..
pie robe, that broken reed, that crown
OF thorns, is the robe Of light, the seen.
| ter OF dominion, the crown of glory He
wears now!
For our sakes he became poor that
We might become rich. Immortality Is
the inherent quality of the soul; and Il
you are faithful for little while YOU
VIII step oul of the earthly tabernacIe
INTO an eternal existence of glory. You
are going to live forever AS long as
GOO lives. Won't it be magnificent tc
i've forever in sight of Jesus? TT
stand with Him and see Him throu
worlds out into space There is no rea.
son why creation should stop-there is
81 much space. We couldn't help Hin
very much, but we could be interested
spectators. If we are Gods children we
shall share in the government of the
universe. l. expect to have a world
and the five talent people will have five
worlds to rule over. There are heights
and breadths and depths of intelleci
which the finite mind cannot conceive Of
we are going 10 snare the love and fell
ioWship OF the angels. / have spent
hours with many great and lovely mer
on earth, but I'd rather sit down in the
presence of the youngest angel they've
got IN the king ION of glory than Spend
Dretlme with the greatest men or
earth. We shall go arm in arm wifi
angels from wall to wall of Gods king
dom. l can't help feeling that angel,
are hoyering around us now, unper
ceived in the throng, and wondering 4,
the grace. If you are faithful to Jesu,
Few years lorger, the warm touch q
IRE angels hand will grasp your out
stretched hand and lead you to glory
Win you go with me to glory?
At the close Of the sermon the bishor
called on all penitent sinners to come
to the front, and nearly one-third q
the throng moved forward at his re.
quest, and short season was spent
in prayer
At s O'Clock services were held II
Rev Mr.. Sanderson's tent and in The
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