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Through the wild'ring maze Of eternity"
and III the sense in which he thinks
thought is free. There is nothing of
which man may not think, whether it
belongs to the past or the future, the
realm of the material or the itnnlateral,
the visible or the invisible, tile distant or
the near, whether in the life that now is
or that which is to come.
Time nor space present no barriers
that cannot be o'crlcapcd by this mystc
ri"us power centuries past nor future,
continents nor oceans can hinder the
flight Of thought.
l!c who confines his vision Of humanity
to the body does not see a tlousandth
part OF humanity. What he sees is COM
mon to man and brute. "What he does
not see il common to man and the God
who made him."
Thought is only free when it reaches
out beyond the things Of time and phys
cal sense and graspS those which have to
do with the life OF the real man, the
soul.
If a man will permit his Thought tt,
soar untraminclcd. i, must lead him first
o. all out of himself, back, back to the
beginning Of all that is back to Him
Aho is the beginning of all things, to
Him who was before all things and by
whom all things consist to God him
self Hut however far the Thought Of
man may rise, he can never think bcvond
Cod. ln the beginning God created the
II avcn and the earth. The man who
thinks knows that there Was a begin
ming
This is the result of all free thinking
God rules TO this we must come nj
last or We will find no resting place for
Thought. Stop at any other point and
il,,.S # lao. ,,l
result Of the experience Of all men has
proved ii true that to believe in and trust
God is no, only dcvout, but philosophical
and scientific rs we'll. The fact, which
man has universally recognized. which |
have characterized as a terrible fact
grows out OF this Thought of God, and is
Tins tlla, man is not in harmony with
God, not in harmony with that which is
best III himself. He stands, if he stands
II All, i'll the presence Of the Holy Cod
sclf-iudictvd, self condemned. No man
looking at the race rs it IS or sobcrly at
himself can fail TO see the fact. How
did ii come to he SO? We will never set
tie th1t QUE ,lion. and il has little to do
with the fact. The mysteries attending
il do not set il aside or turn it into iic-
ton. There is the fact Of sin fronting us.
Ill Ill It's nakcdu,sH and awfulncSS, with
;,
who thinks must sometimes think Of the
fact AS he thinks, the old, old question
fronts hlm, "li"w shall a man he ust
with Gud?' How can the interrupted
harmony be rc-cStabii;hcd? How can
the true end OF mans existence be at
tai'l''l! To this question an answer has
h"c. given. And here again the man is
mistaken who calls himsrlf a thinker if
he has not taken that answer and worked
1t back into the problem OF his life until
he has found on, for himself whether it
hr true or false. it declares itself to be
the only answer. What if this DC truce
There is no other answer that man has
found satisfactory. Even in the face OF a
mere probability Of It's truth, what shall
say OF the man who refuses to think, in
lurucrd either hv his love Of sin, by
doubts ins,crcd hv n life Of siuring, or bv
CarvIrsSncsS or Indifference which !, fuses
To investigate? The answer to the uucS-
Nnn IS given i'll this old book that we call
the Hlirlv. What is the answer the Bible
gives? II IL all answer in which there are
many facts alleged. "Wondcrs on wou-
''"r% arise through Il long succession of
ages. until at lu,' the climax is reached
III the person Of DrSuS Christ" the son
of God the Son Of Man. The story OF
tins Christ from the manager cradle to
that w"ndcr0us day Nn Olivct, whose plo-
rirs we SO recently celebrated; the history
OF the Chris, on earth and in heaven, the
doctrine and the teachings OF this Christ.
presenting to MS his great "attrbutcs and
Ills great offices and acts Of love and
grace, niakr him the wonder OF all his
tory" lie has llu parallel. There never
was, and never will be but one Lord
Jesus Christ. Let your thought OF Him
be Ircc from this day forward. and think
] can assure yuu Of the result. He is the
answer that the Bible gives to all your
unCS'ioniiES. Thru take YOUR Bible,
that will hr your only aid TO true thought
ot Him. Read it. Not what Rcnan or
Strauss or even a Becchcr or an Abbott
or II Pcntrr' ST or Il Cuvlcr or Moody SAY
about him and the great question for
which He is offered as the only solution,
but read what lie says about himself;
read that which claims to be the Word of
Cod says about Him read not few
words to-day to be forgotten tomorrow,
but take down your Bible and read day
hN day, and year by year, yes and year
alter year II necessary, until Won have
come To absolute gertrude one way or the
other Read until the whole story of the
Bible Christ shall be transferred to YOUR
OWN soul, and need not speak of unccr-
tainiy of result. Thus Won will come in
some measure at least to understand the
glory and the grace OF that navelous one,
WHO bears the name Of Christ, and your
heart VIII cry ont with Gildcr:--
eff Jesus Christ were a man,
And only man, say,
That ct all manl md will clcavc to Him,
And Clravc to him alwav.
But since Jesus Christ is God,
And the only God, | swear,
Will follow Him through heaven and hell,
The earth, the sea, the air."
Without Christ there is no better hope
than this the hope that after a tlav of
storm and unrest, will come an evening
twiiEh twilight fading into the gloom
OF Il night i'll which there are no stars --
hut that true free thought of the Christ
that leads us to faith in Him, through
that faith enables us 20 say: Il hope that
the sons of men will pass away from
earth AS the morning twilight disappears
before the rising OF the sun
Here thcn, young gentlemen, are the
lour directionS i'll which make my plra
for free thought.
The first leads MS up to God, the Eun-
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