The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-05-08

| Son suffered them in the flesh. And
yet, while loving the Son with an in
finite love, He steadily looked at
Gethsemane and Calvary. at the man
ger and the cross, at plate and the
Jews and said to that beloved Son, Go,
go to- yonder planet. Take up your
abode among men, and become man
yourself. Die in mans stead
81 may further say that Gods great
gift was further intended to confer ev-
erlasting life Not life in the low sense
of continuous existence alone; not lire
in the ordinary sense Of living in this
world; but life in the grander sense of
the intellectual, the affeCtional and the
moral, unmiXed with grosser elements
and free from all encumbrances. The
life here promised compared with the
life that we now live, Will be as bright
est air compared with clods of earth, as
sunshine compared with darkness. Such
will be it's pure and refined character,
and it will never end. The spirit of
man raised to everlasting life in the
kingdom of our Father, need feel no
premature arrest of it's enterprises by
the decay of age or the power of death.
Nor need it fear that exhaustion of in
terest that sometimes makes life bur
den here. With infinite vitality in its
immortal organism and q boundless
universe to explore, it will never come
to the end of it's researches or weary
in its flight. Everlasting life! The pros
pect Is a sky without a cloud, land
scape with no dry stalk or withered leaf,
a spreading lake, clear as crystal,
with no wreck on it's shores or death
drift on its waves.
II must add, by way of caution,
that faith is necessary to the attain
ment of these blessings. God gave His
Son, not to make a compulsory rescue
of the whole race. but to make salvation
possible to all and actual to as many as
would believe. That part of mankind
that fails to exercise true faith in Christ
will still persist by its own act, as Ger
tain as the whole world would have
persisted through necessity had Christ
not died. And let me tell you that the
faith that saves is not merely an ae-
ceptance of orthodox theories respect
ing Christ and redemption. l am very
much afraid that souls are sometimes
lost whose intellectual beliefs are as
orthodox as the Westminster catechism,
the thirty-nine articles. the apostles
creed, or the Methodist discipline. Saw
ing faith IS of the heart rather than of !
the head. To believe in the Son of
Gcd is to come to Him. abide !
with Him, receive Him in |
to the heart, study His words, accept !
His promises, fear His threatenings and |
show that we love Him by doing His !
commandments Do you believe In this |
way? If you do, the spring buds of
everlasting life are already swelling in
your hearts If you do not, you are
condemned already you are dead in
-respasses ard sins; there is mo life in
YOU
And now what shall be our recogni-
ion of Gods love in Christ? What
sign of appreciation shall we show?
What manifestation of gratitude shall
We make? What gift shall we offer in
eturn? 1t will not be too much if orr
hearts melt into tenderness; if our eyes
low with tears; if our lips grow elo-
luent with song. 1t will BE- far too IT.
lie II we fail to consecrate to God our
liver, our gold. our fields, our f1ocks.
ur sons, our daughters, ourselves.
Were the whole realm of nature mine
That were present far too small:
owe so amazing, so divine,
Demands may soul, my life, mr. all"