The Denison review., 1899-09-15

rake my lips and let them be
Filled with messages for thee.
Take my will and make it Thine
1t shall be no longer mine;
Take my intellect and use
Every power as Thou shalt choose
So that all my powers combine
To adore Thy Grace Devlne,
Heart and soul q living fame
Glorifying Thy great name.
It God has given SO much for me,
eternal life. more than all my life owe
to him. But again, in noticing this
great gift we may consider, third,
IT'S sMEDIUM-THROUGH JESUS CHRIST
THE LORD.
It is Of infinite worth and hence must
have infinite source. Only God could
furnish such gift, and that only after
an infinite price is paid for it. So God
pays for it In the life of His Son. Thus
He is able to make the gift through
Him. To Him we are indebted for the
hopes that animate, for the enjoyments
we experience. For this end the Re-
deemer was given, to put men in possess
sion of eternal life. For this He labor
ed and to this end He suffered. II we
consider the love Of God as infinite,
this is not an improbable conclusion.
We must believe it true. This belief
seems irresistibly forced upon US.
God seems to make all nature q
revelation of this truth. All the in
tultions man are prophecies of it. De-
spite his endeavor to be infidel man is a
theist, and not only so but believes in q
vicarious sacrifice. He will build an
altar and lay upon it an Offering. He
involuntarily believes that without the
shedding of blood there is no remission
of sins. He knows himself q sinner,
and feels his own inability to save him
self from his sins. Nations who never
heard of our SAVIOUR are found Offering
sacrifices for sins. This principle is
God-implanted and must be answered.
And not only SO but man naturally
yearns for immortality.
You may have met men who denied
it-who did not believe it, but you never
met one who did not desire. Rev. DIR.
Thompson, prominent minister in
Connecticut. said he spent the whole
night with skeptic, a man who said
he honestly doubted the Immortality
Of the soul trying to convince him, and
in the morning when they parted he
asked him if he did not wish it to be
true? Whereupon the tears came in
the skeptic's eyes, the only time he had
ever seen them, and he answered.:
"Most assuredly / do" Why all this
yearning it it is not to be realized?
Man has no other demand in his nature
which there is not something TO satisfy,
and so we must conclude that God has
provided SOME way by which he will
answer this demand. Man is a sinner,
consciously so. unable to save himself,
yearns for removal from this condition,
none but God can extricate him, God
leaves no real demands unsupplled in
all the universe, hence God will furnish
eternal life, SO it is through Jesus
Christ the Lord. What glorious state
this will be. 1t will &c the passing ill.,
to the liberties and glories of new
world as much more glorious than this
as the contrast between the world of
the creeping worm in the dust of this
world and its new world in the form of
the beautiful liberated butterfly.
Farady, the great scientist, relates that
while travelling in Switzerland he visit
ed the beautiful cemetery in the village
Oberhofen. There are many imposing
monuments with Inscriptions declar-
ing the hope in the resurrection, but
not one of them interested him more
than the casual work of nature herself
on humble grave, writing prophecy
OF the resurrection of the one within.
The relatives of the deceased we're evil
IDENTIFY too poor to buy a grave. stone,
but they did what they could. A rough
log had been driven into the earth at
the head of the grave. On the top of it
was nailed board on which was pencil
ed the name and age of the dead. There
was q crevis between the board and the
log. A catapillar had crawled into it
to undergo the change in chrysolis, and
had flown away, leaving only the she'll
1T had occupied. There in plain view
lay the discarded habitatiOn of the but
terfy, and in the grave below lay the
discarded habitation of the human soul.
So my friends, we stand today in the
presence of the discarded habitatiOn of
the soul of our loving friend and worthy
neighbor who lived life among us so
worthy that we can but believe him in
the land of liberty enjoying the life of
Immortality, which is the gift of God.
For know whom have believed, and am
persuaded that He is able to keeptha which
have committed unto Him against that
day." For we know that II our earthly
house of this tabernacle were desolved we
have building OF God, a house not made
with hands, eternal'in the heavens"